The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-13
A new FASHION RING
Makes Pie Eaters Plan a Reg
uIar Pie Trust.
HAM, DAN AND JOE
GREAT no. OWN KING s,H me
70 Keep Other Republican and popullst CandI /.
dates Out of The Van for County
Nominations.

Talk about Rugs. The Wake county
court house pie-calcrB have "teht'iaoh 81
ring. il reports be true. that would Nuke
the face Of a ear wheel rim blush with
envy. 1t Is fashioned after models furt
ished hy ringAterA who could have gifpH|
a Boss Tweed or II Hoaa Shepherd eards
and spades aud beaten thcu every
game.
II is II ring, SO the story goes, formed
of n ,iozen or So. different sections All
SO fitted aud dove.tailed into each other
MS to make il solid aud compact aud
yet have the appearance Of each ser
ton being separate aud distinct from The
other.
An outer rim stcadtastly aud securely
holds the several sections IN place, aud
still not appearing to bc in any mnnncr
attached to the new patent political de
vice.
The first section Of this ring and
that to which the other sections are fitted
ii is said is Ham Jones who, viii, Dan
Young and Joe Rogers forms the inner
flange or circle. Bound around this
hanse and 50 closely allied with il az to
almost hide the dividing line, IL an
other circle made up of Buck Adams.
Geo. Tonnofiski and Chas. Hoover.
Then there is said to be an outer ilange
formed entirely of the collector of III
ternal revenue that holds all the other
pieces and sections together. the whole
forming Il new court house political ring,
so strong that it cannot be separated or
broken. even by those who made the
different pieces, and as irresistible as it
unique.
This is the way the ring has been
formed so the knowing ones say.
Ham Jones wants the fusion nomination
for sheriff again Dan Young wants to be
clerk; and Joe Rogers is yearning for
another term of Register of Deeds. There
are many men in the Republican ana
Populst parties in Wake county that
are tired of them, some want the places
themselves and others want II change,
no matter who gets them. Buck Adams
friends got to whooping him UP for
sheriff and right here the new ring began
forming. Revenue Collector Duncan was
appealed to and consented to bottle
Adams up in the revenue office Santiago.
Then there was talk of other candidates
being brought out, SO Ham Jones and
Buck got together and Buck consented
to keep right on running FOR the noml-
nation against Ham until the county
convention meets and thcn stand out of
the way and LET Ham in, it being under
stood with Duncan that Buck was to
keep his revenue job. This worked like
a charm, and Buck is running away for
dear life for the nomination for sheriff
and nobody else cxcept..Ii Is even
being thought about.
t.nI hn IbnGnysc
concluded he would try it, 50 he steps
across the hall and gets Geo. TonnoffskL
Dan Young's clerk. to do some running
against him in order to pun the wool
over the eyes of other would-be candi-
dates. George started off in trot,
heading off other possible opponents of
Rogers with the understanding that he
should finally stand aside In Rogers in
tcrest and retain his job in Young's of
fee.
This fixed everything as they thought
but it began to be mentioned about that
Dan Young's scalp was in danger and
some fellows were thinking about trying
to defeat him for the nomination.
Duncan, it is said. had TO be appealed
to once more and now it is rumored that
Young has fixed up his part of the
scheme and the ring is compact and
| complete.
Chas. Hoover is to be Young's running
mate. Dan. they say, was afraid TO
| ring in white competitor for fear
| he might beat him sure enough, so Hoo
yer is to be the candidate. He is to
| galop along by the side of Dan. keeping
| the other fellows off until the convention
| meets and then he is to get the janitor's
place at the post office building, but
don't anybody tell Jerry Smith about
| this last part Of the deal for Jerry has
had both eyes on that janitor's job and #
| he finds out that Hoover is slated he
may make trouble.
Great scheme this, a finely spun,
doubled and twisted scheme to hoodWink
| the other fellows and keep them out
Of the race so that Ham. Dan and Joe
and Buck, George and Hoover may all
| feed away at the pie counters, while
| the other fellows stand off and watch the
performance.