The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-06-06
Pietriots Painting for Power to
Push the Procession.
PlNcHED PERIOD APPEARS
POUTING OVER SOME PROBES
SIGNAL PREFERENCES.
POLITICAL POT POOhh'
Presenting the Present and Prospee
tive Poverty Stricken Condition
of the Penitentiary
Pietriots.

Rumor has it that the pentltentiary Is
n little short of funds and, as the COM
mercial agencies would put it, is asking
for extensions.
The last Legislature had bill before
If making a contingent appropriation 10
tho institution. but it had been SO long
self-sustaining under Democratic man
apement that the members of the Legis-
lstura decided to shut off the contingent
air valve and declined to pass the bill.
Now il is rumored that the new man
agement is casting about somewhat like
the cotton farmers used to do IN quest OF
somebody to run it, until "getherln'
time" comes. Available cash is said to be
getting down to the small change and ar
engagements are being made with some
Raleigh folks or some other folks Tor
some advances ''endurin' er de summer,
with the understanding that the pay
shall come from the first ''picl1in' out
next fall.
The Pietriots that got "relief' from the
new board are casting shy glances at lhe
zflabby penitentiary purse and wondering
if they will have to wait until picking
cotton time comes Such a contingency
as this might probably bring about
more meeting at the pen" and cause
such remarks as What are we mere
for?n Where are we at?' I'VE demand
our relief" and other like expressions.
For these reasons, it is said that the
penitentiary managers are arranging not
exactly to give crap lien,' but to get
a sort of a "lean'' on some outside parties
who can and will help keep the BAN a.
rolling until harvest time again, aad then
it is rumored, too, that all is not serene
among even the penitentiary pletreats'
1t is limited that His Excellency and ms
erstwhile fast and staunch supporter, j..
c.. Logan Harris, V. g., (Which means
Vice Governor, are not warming up 10
each other as of yore. The V. ". mas
been giving out some lamenua-
tions about town because IN
the Burke-McDowell cmandamus
case the Governor ccalled in other
counsel than the V. 6. and instructed
John r. Smith to pay them their retain
ers Now the V. u. Is quietly
doing a little kicking against the
Z Governors employment of Democratic
lawyers, and it is rumored, TOO that the
finance committee of the Penitenuary
Board took several swallows before they
could get the retainer expenditure TO 60
down and that the V. g. suggested 10
Chairman Dockery and perhaps others
that he didn't think they ought to swat
low it at ALL J. c. l.. H. V. U. thinks
that he should do all the LAWN" Tor
the pen. and rake in all the retainers and
this is kernel in the hickory nut. but IT Will
not do yet to bet ON much or an es-
arrangement between his Excellency and
Logan III. for it was whispered yesterday
evening late that Mr.. B. n. Duke had
resigned his place on the Blind Asylum
Board. and that Loge had secured from
his Excellency promise that he would ap-
point Deputy Sheriff r. c. Rivers IN has
place and that he had also
secured the place resigned by
X. W. Merritt for his Dem
Rep-Pop., friend Deputy Superior court
clerk Geo. l.. Tonnoffski, and over all
these things some of the RAIDS are talking
mighty ugly. Rivers they declare was not
!, even born IN hearing of the flop of the
American Eagles wings, but came into
being away over in Canada and now
he must have half a dozen or so posi-
lions while the old died in the wool,
regular E. Pluribus Union RAIDS, must
stay outside and keep on cooling their
heels. Its all funny ight-this Radical
fight. and as the spoils get scarcer the
G,ht oatc funnipr