The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-14
GOVERNOR FAVORS HIM
HIS WASHING DONE AT FRANK
LINTON, AND HE Is ELIGIBLE.
STATE COMMITTEE TO SUBSTITUTE HIM
For R. 7. Edwards who wss Recently Nomioa
ted. Republican Politicians here Yester-
cay 10 Arrange aboutit. The
fusoqists in Trouble,

The passage af the days is not taking
On the contrary the highway to that
charmed area Immediately encircling the
pie counter becomes rougher and rougheg
for the pie-bald sprinters on the bifur-
Gated ticket.
The latest obstruction has sprung up
in the Senatorial district of which Frank
lin county is a part. In the Republican
convention which met at Nashville re-
Gently one r. r. Edwards was nominated
for the State Senate. 1t was learned on
the authority of Republicans yesterday
that the nomination was not altogether
satisfactory and some of those scenes
transpired that are wont to present them
selves in the Radical convention when the
colored brother and sweet harmony do
not dwell in unity.
This was expected before hand ana
Lee Person, the negro spell-binder from
Edgecombe. and j. G.. l.. Harris. the
Wizard of Wake, were there to bind and
charm. SO great was the concern of
His Excellency that everything should
go right that he is understood to have
stated that if nothing else would suffice
he would go down and appear in proper
and awful person.
Things did not go right, despite Per-
son and Harris and the Governor has
been more or less exercised about it ever
since. He is said to have declared that
there was no man on the ticket who
could assume the place of leader and that
such man must be found and put on.
Edwards also was not over-anXious to
hold on to the nomination. He was
willing to be substituted for Crudup, who
had been nominated for the House by the
Populists of Franklin, and endorsed by
the Republicans.
In this emergency it was proposed to
refer the whole matter to the supreme
council of headsmen known as the Re
publican State Steering Committee. Ac-
cerdingly on yesterday Rev. ]. A. Haw
kins (colored). r. 7. Edwards. Rev. vs..
III. Green (colored) and J. T. Harris
journeyed hither to have the crooked
ways made straight, in accordance with
the wishes of the Governor.
Edwards being willing to be trans
planted and Crudup being dumb before
the shearers, it only remained to find a
liidH ol SlalWdTb W ltau the
ticket and do battle for it. The man
was found in the person of the Rev.
Baylus Cade, the tried and truly good
secretary of His Excellency. The Rev
erend Bayius has his washing done at
Franklinton and therefore was eligible
as a Senatorial nominee from that dis
trict. 1t is also understood that the
Reverend Baylus is not in the clutches of
an inyincible repugnance to nomination
for State Senator since he could not get
Strowd's old shoes.
And thus the scheme stands. Heads
man Holton was away, but the pilgrims
saw and held lengthy converse with
Secretary Hyams. What conclusions
the worthless reached and what the event
will be will appear later. Behind all this
scheming and shuffling in regard to the
Senatorial nomination is an ineXtricable
confusion of fractional fights over county
places and unless something is done there
is likely TO he no end Of knitting. OF
course the sanity and mellfluous Bay
lus will sweep all this away if he is put
II.