The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-26
The Tobacco Trusts Selects
Republican Delegates.
Nominated BY 0'BRIEN
B. |. Duke Served as Chairman and Employ
ees of the American Tobacco Company Made
Delegates. S. M. HoIton and Green Ross are
Snubbsd. .Queer Primary in The Fourth Pre-
cnct. The Cigarette Trust Wants to Leave
Fusion with the Populists.
Durham Recorder.)

The American Tobacco Company
through its agents, held the Republican
county convention in the court house
Tuesday at noon. Mr.. Il. l.. Duke wa
made permanent chairman of the meet
ing. There were half dozen white
delegates present and five or SIX tunes
that number of negroes.
When the list of delegates selected
TO the various conventions is examined
the milk in the monkey-faccd cocoanut
is plainly discernable. The judicial
convention, which will name Il candidate
for Judge and will nominate a man for
solicitor, was deemed of sufficient impor-
lance to the Tobacco Trust for the SUI
perintendcnt of the Duke factory to be
sent and w. r. O'Brien was selected.
\. NJ. Moore, Il colored Man Friday,
will accompany Superintendent OBren
j. w. Uornaday, who is foreman of the
cigarette department ut Dukes factory,
was elected delegate to the Congressional
convention with ID. II. Watson, another
-Ticgro Man Friday, us his confrere. Two
Federal officc-holders, one white and one
black, j. Il. Shepherd and +. III. Cozart,
were elected delegates to the State Con
ycntion.
In each instance Il negro was linked to
n white man and the delegations consist
of "a streak of lean and streak of
fat"
a. A. Parker and Il. w. Kennedy,
both black, were made the delegates to
the senatorial convention with >. Nj.
Iiolton and Green Ross, both white, as
aternates. Both these white men have
held the position of chairman of the
county executive committee of the Re
publican party and they both led their
party to victory. Now they are made
to play second fiddle to negroes.
As if determined to emphasize the fact
that the Republican party of Durham
county and the American Tobacco Com
pany were one and the same, w. l..
O'Ericn was elected chairman of the
county executive committee. lie VIII
continue to draw his salary as superin-
tcndent of the Duke factory while try
Ing to saddle negro rule onto tins coull-
ty and State.
But this is not ALL IT was decided to
name. a committee of five to confer with
a similar committee from the Populists
with a view to fusion and w. L. OBren
was made chairman of this COMMITTEES.
Any fusion made between the Populists
and Republicans will have bear the
@. X. Of the Tobacco Trust.
At the primary last Saturday evening
in the Fourth Precinct 5. Nj. Holton,
S. III. Herndon and James Cole, all
white, were elected delegates to the
county convention. A different set of
delegates was fixed up later-no one
seems to know where. The American
Tobacco Company's Mr.. Hornaday was
made delegate by this blockade primary
and two negroes, Kennedy and Brown,
were made his associates. Kennedy Is
also employed at the Duke factory.
Learning of this contrasting legislation,
Holton, Herndon and Cole stayed away
from the convention.
When the rank and file of the Popu-
lists learn of the convention it is not
likely that the pathway of the fuslonsts
will be smooth. Those hungry for pie
may take the deal" and they may name
the candidates, but the honest Popu-
lists will not vote very often for the
men named by the Tobacco Trusts Popu-
lists are not that sort, ut least Popu-
lists of the Fifth judicial District of
North Carolina are not.