The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-03

The Governor has returned from Will
mington. and Holton and Thompson look
as blue as ever.
They're on the run--the Blacks and
Tans. Give 'em another kick and keep
'em going Africanus Holton is in the
lead with Sigh Thompson close second.
Wake county must and will be redeem
ed. The court house ring has become
Il disgrace and must be broken. Even
the negroes say that. The people want
look at the books and that's the
only way to get it.
Holton's supplies being exhausted the
Fusion firing line will show up rather
weak next Tuesday.
Raleigh negroes-something like Il
dozen of them-have been paid from S.
to $50, and one or two 800 by the Flu
sionists, for their influence. The others
are expected to do the voting.
1t is said that Pittman Stel is in favor
ought to be strong point in favor of
elcting him surveyor OH the Black and
Tan ticket.
People talk about trouble i'll New
Hanover and Edgecombe and Halifax"
said an observant man, who has been
over the State. do you know the point
at which there is greatest danger of
boodshed? It's Winston. Holtons
town. There are more squatter negroes
registered there than at any other place
in the State. On the books there are
some 200 negroes of whom nobody
knows or has ever heard anything.
Challenge them. though. and they
appear with forty or fifty others
like them. to prove that they have been
living and working there the required
length of time. AS rule they say they
are doing nothing now but that they
have, from time to time, been working
for some of the tobacco factories or
prize houses. The truth of the matter
is that the majority of them are not
legally entitled to vote. and the white
people say they shall not do So
Mr.. W. w. Jenkins, of Wake Forest,
says he will this year vote the Democrat
ic ticket He has been a Republican
all his life, is son of Honest Dave
jenkins. the State Treasurer, and was
once postmaster ut Charlotte, but the
time has come he thinks. when, in local
matters. the white men must stand to-
gether.
After trying many others. ChairmanI
Holton finally found Il man who consent
ed to go to Halifax county to carry his
bench warrants. 1t was Mr.. Roscoe
Mitchell. clerk in the Republican
headquarters. He left here Tuesday
night on the PIG train, and returned
yesterday afternoon. He gave the war
rants to the sheriff.
Mr. Wiley V. Clifton. who has recent
~ visited the extreme western counties.
brings back good reports as to their
condition politically. The Democrats in
the West. he says. are as united, enthu-
siastic and determined as they are i'll
the East.
Wood, the Fusion orator recently inn,
ported to Halifax county from Texas,
is now in the city for his health. He
has been here for IA week. He is recon
centradoing with the Rev. Hallelujah
Holton asked William Westmoreland,
janitor of the Supreme court building,
to go down to Halifax to carry those
bench warrants. Like the biblical char
acter Of old our worthy janitor replied
that he had just married IA VIE. ana
therefore he couldn't go.
Large chunks of confusion are to be
found in Fusion headquarters these last
days Of the campaign.
Bluejean Holton should put Il few men
in training to serve bench warrants in
Halifax county. Then, perhaps, he
would not have SO much trouble in get
ting it done
According to DIR. Warren 'Bulr'' Hall,
Acting Labor Commissioner, the defeat
Of George White (colored), in the Secont!
district, or Of Dockery in the Sixth, will
be proof conclusive of fraud in the elac-
TONS, and neither their opponents nor
any Democratic Congressman from this
State will be allowed to hold seat in
Congress. The Doctor talks with III
rectness and assurance born of having
heard these views expressed at mead
quarters.
Has Chairman Bluejean Holton any
more cards up his sleeves! Somehow
his KitcIin trum has failed to take the
trick. Time is short and the days are
dull, Mr.. Holton, trot out your sensa-
tions.
Up to date there are two Halifax
concentrates in Raleigh-the negro
Steptoe and white man named Wood.
A pretty and well-matched pair.