The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-05-01
Gideon and his Pals Rule the
the County Convention.
BUT DELEGATES NAMED
ARE SAID TO BE NEARLY EQUAL
T.Y DIVIDED.
OHIO WILSON FLAWS HAL AYtk
And a Warm Time is Had Over ueiegaV
at Large Proceedings Of Wake Ccun'
~ Pop Convention.

W IUp NoHfS"'0
The Wake county Populist convention
met in Metropolitan Hall yesterday at
10 o'clock with $. Ohio Wilson Iii
charge.
II was meeting of pie-triots with
tho pie-caters, brothers and uncles, fath-
ors and fathers-in-law, i'll full blast.
Ohio had set his trap and caught every
thing in sight. Senator Utley and oth.
ers declared that he had packed the con
yention. and therefore it was folly 10
attempt to get anything through unless
it had on it the trade mark, "otho.
The Gideon knew too that the whole
shooting match was his, and he strutted
about with the pomposity OF sure
enough boss. He was the boss with al
the word implies, the smaller pie eaters
like ]. Gutter Williams, of Cary, Z. Il.
Raw. of Bartons Creek, w. Iiire'em
Chamblee. of Wakefield. q. Loose
Turn-o ff-sky, of Raleigh, and See More
Chamblee, son of his pa, We're ali as piia-
bic in the fingers of Ohio as skeins of
spool cotton in the eye of Il machine
needle.
Hill T.. King, of Onslow, was Otho's
Generalissimo. He has never cast 4
vote in Wake county, and If he was TO
lose his nosition on the manure pile he
never would but he was a delegate and
n first lieutenant in the convention, and
as one of the delegates he will represent
Wake county in the State convention.
Guy " Barnes, State Printer, was in
positive evidence He was secretary of
the county committee and secretary of
the convention, and is therefore the left
bower to Otho in the manipulation of
county affairs. The county executive
committee met an hour before the CON
vention assembled. and reelected Ohio
Wilson chairman and Guy V. Barnes
secretary. This was the first victory
for Ohio and he went into the conven-
ton with this victory. He called the
convention to order before the delegate
were seated, read the call and AMI asked
The secretary to call the roll of townships.
All the precincts We're represented eN-
cept Cedar Fork, Robinson's Store and
Oak Grove the two latter being repre-
scented either in person or by proxy later
on in the meeting. A delegate from New
Light nominated for permanent chair
man S. Ohio Wilson. Capt. Jno. w
Smith nominated w. s. Barnes and j.
w. Denmark placed in nomination Sen
ator G. III. Utley. Mr.. Utley knew the
thing was fixed, so he requested that his
name be Withdrawn. which was done
Mr.. Barnes did not want to measure
lances with the Gideon especially in
view of the fact that on matters of
policy he and Ohio stood together
SO he requested that his name should
be withdrawn. Capt. Smith declined to
L. l,.A 1a1
forward into the Ohio guillotine where
he was slaughtered by vote of LOO TO
60 Ohio announced that this was the
fourth time that he had presided over
Wake county Populist convention.
The various townships were then ask
cd to suggest their delegates to the State
convention, based on the EXum vote of
o.
The following delegates were named
by the different townships and ratified
by the conventions:
G. w. Ray. r.. G. Penny W.
NJ. Honeycutt, ]. p. Ball, Enoch
Pope Henry Holleman. Thaddens Ivty.
J. Q. Williams, J. W. Olive. ID. III.
Fuauay. II. w. Norris, Il. s. Utley. $.
G.. Medlin. C. b. Ray. d. T.. Penny, III.
w. House. o. G.. Ellen, T.. d. Scar
borough, ]. ID. Underhill. w. III. Cham
blee, ]. I'll. Griffin, J. NJ. Ferrall. John
w. Smith. J. III. Honeycutt. s. NJ.
Rowland, J. p. Bridgers. G. r. Banks.
w. r. Braswell. NJ. V. Norwood. I. s
Bailey. c. L. Keith. w. d. Ray, ]. II.
Ray. J. p. Goodwin. J. J. Bagwell. A.
ID. Honeycutt, Bryant Todd. J. T. Bus
bee, A. +. Gould. ]. Il. Markham. A.
l.. Nepper, Jesse Penny. w. II. Utley,
w. III. J. Goodwin, G.. II. J. Goodwin.
YY II
borough, r.. y. Raines. j. ID. Virgins.
H. G. Luther, ]. ]. Rogers. Rufus Bus
bee. s. S. Rogers. J. III. Mills. ST.. w. S.
Barnes. J. l.. Kelly. III. Il. King, G. l..
Tonnoffski.
Then came the tug of war.
The Raleigh delegation had been for
half an hour in conference behind the
scene. where the first fight between the
Rep-Pop crowd and the Dem-Pop crowd
had been waged Hal Aver. Denmark
and father Worth had all bit the dust.
while Hill L. King, of Onslaw, }. j..
Kelly, Of Vance, w. S. Barnes. of VII
son. and q. Eooseem Tannoffski had
walked away with the honors.
Aver, Denmark, Worth and their
compeers came back into the hall with
their plnmes dampened and limp. Otho
still more intoxicated with the victory
of his Vance county brother-in-law was
just then ''spilen'' for fight He fairly
yearned to count noses and pile still
greater debris on the PROSTATE forms Of
Aver, Denmark, Utley. Fcrran. Hole
mann, Bulfalos and the other Dem-Pop
fusionistS.
Hill King moved that for delegates
at large s. Ohio Wilson, Guy V. Barnes
and Hal w. Aver he named this brought
Ohio TO his feet He called w. =
Barnes to the chair, and proceeded 10
lambast Democrats and everybody and
everything that had ever or would ever
have any respect for, or any connection
with anything that ever had been or
ever would be Democratic. He charged
the Democrats with being liars, scoun-
drels and thieves and then turned his
foul lips upon the News and Observer in
Il TRADE of indecent and blatant de-
nunciation. He wanted the convention
to know first what it was doing. He
wanted to second the nomination Of Ohio