The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-08-26
A Bolt by the POpulists
of Wake County,
WESTERN POPULlSTS
R~epudIaung the Fusion Deal-Repub-
licans Dependent over the Oatiook.
Republicans Claim to Have CorraiIed
.Populists and Negroes" Taxable
values OF the Railvvay-Cranberry
Iron Mines TO be Operated-Two Brier
Root Pipe Factories
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh. N. C. August -.

Republican State Chairman A. +.
Holton n secretary w. S. Hyanls to-
day opened headquarters here in the
| Park hotel.
The New York Plate Glass Insurance
| Company today applied to the secre-
| tary OF state for license to do business
in North Carolina.
Hiram Worth. secretary OF the North
| Carolina railway. who was here in a
hospital with fever, is ~convalescent.
A republican here was heard TO say
yesterday that his party had the
popuIists and negroes where they could
be handled without any trouble" This
| will not sound very we'll to a popullst.
In the course Of a conversation with
ex-senator A. c. Green, OF this county.
one Of its leading populists. he said to
your correspondent: September 3rd
middle of the road populists
Of Wake will hold a conven-
ton in Raleigh. We are not going
to have anything to do with fusion
! populists. l have never voted for a
republican and I never will. | do not
think fusion can get a populist vote
in my township. We will clean up the
fusionists in Wake. The republicans
have been using our party as a tool"
Ex-Superintendent Leazar of the
, penitentiary is here. He brings the
news from Iredell county that the pop
ulists are rapidly deserving fusion.
One county chairman in that section
says he will repudiate fusion.
Among today's arrivals are J. H. *.
Burgwin Of Virginia.
There is a great stir here about the
attack made by a negro paper pub
lished in Wilmington UP the chastity
of the white women OF the poorer
class. 1t is characterized as infamous
and it is freely said that in many
counties in the state the writer wOuld
not be permitted to live an hour.
From high authority it is learned
that two years & the national re-
publican committee sent $50, 600 here
to be used as a campaign fund. 1t IL
said that this year the committee Will
not invest any funds in North Car
DINA politics.
Despite any declaration they may
make, it is safe to say that the repub-
Leans are very a~pprehensive as q
carrying this state. Democrats OF
high position and much information
assure me that the victory Of their
party will this year be a surprising
one. Twenty democrats tell me they
never saw the people SO aroused since
the notable Vance and Settle cam
paign of 1876.
Only one of the five referees in bank
ruptcy for this district remains to be
appointed by Judge Purnell-that Is
the one for the Wilmington district.
| which is the 4th. Joshua II. Hill de
clined to accept for the Raleigh dis
trict and II. L. Devereux Is appointed
to succeed him. Judge Purnell says he
will not confine himself to one referee
to each bankruptcy district, but VIII
appoint others if the business demands
it, or he may designate other districts.
He thinks that at present the plan 20
having one referee to a district is most
convenient.
The taxable value of the railways
as given to the state treasurer is. At
lantiC Coast Line-$9,7 I'll, S75. tax ga.
449: Southern-$10,5 sos, 729, tax $26, 4l4.
Seaboard Air Line-$6, 053, SCI, tax Sl5.-
1874; miscellaneous roads,. 1905 5
tax $14, 251; steamboats-$293 49,, tax
1888; telegraphy-$803, $40, tax $2,0OS.
Total s33, 500, 86S.
Captain A. J. Crawford. OF the Raj
eigh Of the First regiment,
writes to friends here that the state
ment Of the tender Of his resignation
is Inaccurate; that he has not resign
ed and has no intention Of resigning.
Assistant Adjutant General Davis
today made requisition for clothing.
arms and camp equipage for the state
guard, in order to put IL all on the
same footing as 1t was prior TO April
9th.
The removal OF the Capital club from
its old to its new quarters begins to-
morrow.
The annual meeting OF the state
liquor dealers association is in pro-
gress here. At noon there was a bar
becue, given by the local association
at a pond three miles from Raleigh.
The secretary of the farmers state
alliance says he hopes the shoe fac
tory can resume work during the au-
tumn. He says $40. 900 is needed.
A large force of men are now pre-
pairing the Cranberry iron
mines in Mitchell county. for the re-
mpti of work September LIST, after
five years idleness. On that date ZOO
men will be put to work. getting out
the ore. which will D. shipped TO tho
Embreeville Iron Company. at John
son City, Tenn, and there made irap
iron and steel.
Two "brier root" pipe factories tre
now in operation in this state. -rcy
make pipe blocks" out OF the roOta
of the laurel and the ~rhododcndron-
one Is at Montezuma, Mitchell e~puntys
the other at Boone. Watauga c1apty.
The petition in bankruptcy Of an .
late firm of Barnes. Stainbacs 90 o.,
clothiers, of Henderson, is tJrd befe, re
Judge Purnell here. The trm TAI led
and assigned in 1892. The lEaoiliticg are
given at STA, 600.
September 1st Democratic State
Chairman Simmons wiz issue 30 600
copies OF a stirring campaign broad
side
A telegram from Brunswick. GA.
says many members Of the Sacnnd
North Carolina regiment Stationed at
ST. Simon's island, are kickir. against
the action OF their officers IN tender
ing the services OF the regiment for
| garrison duty, and sly they are OPP
posed to staying any longer in ser
vice. Colonel Bur y says he has
assurances from Reliable sources that
the majority Of tie men desire TO stay
in service. Lieutenant Colonel A. II.
Cowies has gone to Washington to ask
that the regiment be retained Ia SER
! vice,