The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-24

weather and other drawbacks, and we
rejoice that everything is peaceful and
serene"
Hon. Frank |. Osborn: II am happy
because old Mecklenburg, God bless her,
rolled up great big majority for White
Supremacy and maintained her position
in the front column of the great process
sion of triumphant Democracy"
Mr.. Thomas Pescud: 81 am thankful
because we are all living and happy, and
because we can feast and be merry over
our Thanksgiving dinner
Mr.. j. Hal Bobbitt: Il have just re-
turned from New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore. and am thankful that
am back in old Raleigh, the best place
ON the globe"
Mr.. II. Il. Barbee: 81 am thankful.
because we are all hale, hearty and hap
ny. and | shall rejoice when cotton
alimks up a little higher, so that our
Southern Thanksgiving turkey will be II
little juicier and swecter."
Mr.. Jno. r. FerralI: II give thanks
because our Thanksgiving dinner will
he made palatable and wholesome, since
our great victory of November the Sth.
Hon. Jno. s. Cunningham: Il am
thankful, because the people of our
grand old State gave us the most sue
cessful State Fair that we have had in
years, and then went home and gave us
the grandest Democratic victory ON
record.
Il am proud of Old Person, and shall,
on Thanksgiving day, feast on fat Per-
son county turkey and return thanks for
all our blessings"
Col. A. NJ. Waddell is thankful for
the peace and good feeling that has
been restored to the city of Wilmington,
over the destinieS of which he presides
as Mayor
Mr.. c.. M. Busbee: I'VE have enough
in North Carolina to be thankful for.
am not giving thanks for national de-
velopments. l am not thankful for our
great war debt and war taxes, nor of
our tendency towards an imperialism
that takes in great masses of incompe-
tent negroes and half breeds, of which
we have already enough to spare
These snap shot interviews constitute
an index to the thoughts of our North
Carolina folks.
There are hundreds of others who
might have expressed themselves just as
freely could they have been seen.
Senator elect Whitaker, of Wake coun-
ty would probably have said that he
was thankful that he was to be one of
forty Democrats to compose the next
State Senate.
]. ID. Boushall, Castor Powell and
w. Ii. Holland are thankful, because
Loge Harris, Thad Ivey and Lewis
Rains will be ''small potatoes and few
in a hill, when the legislative roll is
called"
Mr.. Armistead Jones is thankful be-
cause, as chairman of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee, he placed
old Wake in the grand Democratic pro-
cession.
Old Man Joe Blake is thankful, be-
cause he helped to pull all the other
boys through, but didn't give cOntinen-
Il whether he was elected county sur
veyor or not.
Messrs. Julius Lewis, James Pegram
and W. Cary Brewer, the new County
Commissioners, would be just a little
more thankful if so many good men were
not trying so hard to get into the Wake
county Poor house"
Sheriff Mark Page will eat a good por-
ton of 20 pound Wake county, turkey,
and be thankful because Ham Jones and
all his deputies and Dust" could not re
duce his majority below 400.
Captain Bailey Williamson is thank
full. because he led the ticket in Wake
county when every man on it was en-
titled to universal respect and sup
port.
viii Russ is thankful because he kept
his promise to beat Dan Young and stop
the issuing of witnesses tickets to white
girls by negro deputies.
Billy Hood, the newly-elected Register
of Deeds in Wake county, is thankful
because it is all over and he has his
"There is so much trouble
A\ coming into the world"
@s WI said Lord Bolingbroke,
wy and SO much much o more of il in