The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-23
THE POLITICAL POT ABOIL
This is to be a Lively CamPaign-Mak-
ing 4. Hot for White Republicans and
PopaItsts on The Negro Question-Set-
Ties Friends Trying TO Buy the Con.
gresslonaI Nomination "A Budget Of
Political Gossip.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n c., August IL

has filed with the railway commits
sion a petition asking that interchange
able mileage books be required to be
sold at s25 for 1000 and $40 for 1000
miles on the Southern, Atlantic Coast
Line, Seaboard Air Line, Cape Fea.
and Yadkin Valley, and Atlantic and
North Carolina railways. Some
months g there was fled a petition
to the same end. In the new one some
new matter was introduced
The rains continue daily. The re-
mark is made hat there is now a
rainy and dry season as in Cuba.
The republicans are scared at the
political outlook. Of this there can
be no doubt. Some of their leaders
admit that the prospect is not bright.
One said: THE chances are about
even" Several of them are greatly
worried at the failure of their State
Chairman A. E. Holton to arrive mere
and open headquarters. It pea
that Holton does not particularly de-
sire to come to Raleigh, where news
| paper men ask him too many ques-
tons.
Fred L. Merritt, newspaper CORE
spondent at the camp of the First
North Carolina regiment at Jackson
vile, returned here today n says
he will not go back. The regiment is
we'll equipped and fed. It's camp is in
a bad location. He say the greatest
cause of complaint is the division
hospital. The real cause Of the
trouble there is the incompetence of
surgeons, due to political influences
which brought about their appoint
ment.
Judge Purnell %adjudges S. J. Bar
tholomew, of Nash county, a bank
rupt. His liabilities were Sc, 900. He
lost his property by fire and had no
insurance. 1t is known that many pc
titions in bankruptcy are being pre-
pared in this district.
Captain A. J. Crawford of Company
X, First regiment of volunteers, has
rendered his resignation. His COM
| pany was the Governors Guards, of
Raleigh. 1t is said the resignation is
due to a furlough he recently obtained.
The democratic primaries will be
held in this city tonight. Not in
AloIy Col hoo OCSh ~ olN"S.
The primaries are to nominate dele
gates to the county convention.
The populist Office holders here are
making the statements that those pop
ulists who favored fusion with the
democrats last May are now more bit
ter towards the democrats than any
others. This statement has 10 fOun-
dation at all. The fact is the pOpu-
lists know hat the Office holding pop
ulists are now mere republican pup
pets. The latter make little or no Sc
cret of their mastership.
Republicans go so far as to say that
Hal Aver will in all probability be the
fusion nominee from this COMPRESSION
al district. Aver expects the populist
nomination and Of course counts on
republican aid.
A populist state committeeman says
the division of congressional nOmina-
tions-ive populist and four republic
can-will this year remain as in 1896.
Revenue officials made three raids
yesterday and captured a still in Wake,
one in Moore and n in Orange.
A populist state committeeman says
that Senator Butler was in earnest
in proposing fusion with the demo-
Gratis, and hat he would have gone
in without his party; hat he wanted
to be the Tillman of North Carolina,
and that this is what the pOpulist
state committee had to fight him about.
There are now only six men in the
military hospital here of the Second
regiment. Five men of the Fayette-
vile company went to their command
at Tybee, Ca. yesterday, convalescent.
The New York Journal says hat
10Th the Second and Third North
Carolina regiments are among those
to be at once mustered out of service.
Captain A. S. Peace of the populist
state committee says it made a great
mistake this week in not adopting
strong resolutions. He says it's silence
shows lack of boldness.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, N. c., August 20.
The reports so far received from the
democratic primaries in this county
Indicate thai Bailey P. Williamson will
be the nominee for treasurer, William
NJ. Russ (now mayor Of Raleigh), for
clerk of the superior court, and eX-
Sheriff NJ. w. Page for sheriff. The
democrats are working like beavers
" SdlIy Xix So01ty oAlU OoSN IAN AO
sionists.
The state granted a charter to the
Lippard and Shealey Cotton Manufac-
turing Company, Of Concord, capital
$50, 900. Among the stockholders are
w. P: Shealey, J. c. Lippard n D.
B. Coltrane. The company will build
a cotton mill.
Major James w. Wilson, ex-chair-
mar of the railway commission, who
has been quite sick with malarial fe-
yer, is now convalscent.
The rains in this section Of the state
yesterday and last night were very
heavy. Two washouts were the result
on the Seaboard Air Line; one near
Osgood and one neal Moncure. AS a
result the vestibuled trains could not
get through and today many of the
passengers stopped here, the Seaboard
Air Line being their host.
The owners Of the Cape Fear and
Northern railway say they will push