The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-21

| pie-eatcr. and all the private boxes re-
manned filed with negroes.
| There is a small spot of blood on the
| Wake county Republican moon, ana u
IL likely to dilate as the campaign ap-
| prGarbes. i. &. Logan Harms was
| wratby yesterday, and when i>o2e gets
| WratbF il means something. tie canned
that e. Tom Bailey and the other fDuTih
! district delegates had taken snap Iaos-
| tneht on himself aud Jim Young, and
| held caucus Tuesday night when eau
rms named Bailey for State Committee
| man and negro by the name ~ Eaton
| fran Vance. for the resolutions commit
| tee. ff,ge wanted tie latter place hIfa~
self and what he said 10 MiIIikan, the
marshal. and Bailey the committeeman,
would NOT look well IN print.
| n IL said that Ioge Harris wrote the
| part ~ the IfaffoTm endorsing RUsseiFs
| administrator md fine committee oniy
struck ont one s0rd in tho original draft,
| f6pr wrote "eud0rse and commend
| ana fhn committee struck ont the f1rHsfr,
nnd left in the latfer dividing fae cDrg
incubation ihfo three paragraphs,
Th6na& Settle. who 4hf Ieff Is fEe
| Gfrcnsb6r9 and GaHfDfd coa6fg e9ngere
| ti6Ha attended the eDHgfnfihH ard was
in p6sseszl6r9 ~ . letter WRITER, 10 1HG9@
| Adams 10 ]. VI, 8gkez. NJ GraaQ8le
| Dtgtnfy. sagihZ that be- was q candidate
| f0r (ndgp ADAMS and / understand
enrf 1fher." said tbe -Cfmzg@ssman
from the FIN. "abG 81 VIII 81 yell IN
me End"
| why abDnid we GoTGDIain," said q
| t1gsellite after the conrerfi0u adI0grn-
| cd. "Ofir man was e0EDmeuded and en-
| dorged 0f il fYne they atF1Iek ont the
/ w0rd "eB9orged," bHf 'c0mmend' -
really better woraJ
ooh. yes" continued this RuaeelIite:
| "if they desire "a shift al this on Treas
nrer Worth it Is ali right for we have not
heard III much cIashing betweea Rus
sell and Worth.
There were afew deigates to the con
| yentiOn who were not PIE eaters. Frank
James Of Chatham was one AN &. !.
| Harris Of Polk was another Ge1ch Of
whom are doing something tOwSrfS~the
material development Of the State. bat
neither of them could be HEARD above
| the din Of the pie eating brigade.
TIL Hon. Richmond Pearson, of Rich
mond Hill, the ''opalescent and empyre-
| an" Congressman of the Ninth, cuts
his whiSkers and his dialect after the
English model. There was not man i'll
| the whole convention that could say
| fewer things in more words than Mr..
| Vl.tt h0f
in Congress also.
| One of the best pleased Republicans
here was III. c. Dockery. of Rockingham.
After the sweating and hollering were
| over Mr.. Dockery occupied chair in
front of the Marlborough and every few
minutes broke into a spontaneous subter-
ranean chuckle. He was thinking of how
smoothly that platform veered and
| hedged, of how successfully it did and
didn't.
The famous Room No. 10 of the Park
| Hotel was occupied by Sheriff j. j.
Jenkins. Il Populist, and l.. l.. Wrenn,
n Republican, both of Chatham county,
and it is safe to say that they had no
! difficulty in perfecting fusion.
| Inc negroes ulu the SppdklHS. vi
course Blackburn and Linney had to say
little pieces. but the big guns were fired
| by Dancy, the negro collector of the Will
| mington custom house, and Geo. ii.
| White, the negro Congressman from the
Second district.
Among the applauders of Whites
| TRADE when he was inviting the issue of
the white man against the negro was
j. c. Ray, Il white man from the white
county of Watauga. We can but won
| der what his white neighbOrs would
| have thought if they had seen him cheer
| ing these rampant negro utterances.
The platform was reported and read
| by Richmond Pearson, who eats n five
| thousand dollar piece of pie every year
as Congressman from the Ninth dis
| trict.
If the Mecklenburg county Democrats
could have heard Mullen and Mcdonald
| pledging the county to the Republicans
| by 800 majority. they would have smiled
smile that would have tickled the ma
| tives. =,
"Oh. yes, / am negro office holder"
said Geo. III. White land there are
| many other negroes that are going to
hold office They are being built to or
der. l want to invite the issue of the
white man against the negro. | want to
meet it in the black belt, and whether
they meet me or not, | am going to have
them to hear me-"
If there was n single sentence uttEad
or motion made in the convention that
did not emanate from an office holder no
body knows what it was; the pie eaters
had the whole thing from beginning to !
end. They had the organizations both
| temporary and permanent. They served
on all the committees. They wrote the
platform, reported and adopted it. and