The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-10
1T is FULLY GUARAN TEED
AND WARRANTED TO WORK IN
ANY DISTRICT.
IT NOMINATED JENKINS, OF CHATHAM
And Strowd, Shuford, Settle, Mitchell, Wilson;
TorIinson, and Cites Stand Ready
to Testify to is Power
and Efficiency.
and Efficiency.

|
! The result of the Populst convention
was anything but satisfactory. Indeed
nomination of jenkins, was jenkins him
, self. Carl Duncan, Loge Harris, Tom
! Bailey, c. Meddlesome Bernard, Mill
! kan and the Dockerys. There was not
Il Populist delegate present, except half
Il dozen or so from Chatham, who want
to be sheriff in Jenkins place that really
wanted Jenkins nominated. There were
| 90 or 40 of the votes that were earn
cstly given to the support of StroWd.
| There were about thirty votes i'll the
| Wake delegation who were, perhaps
earnestly in favor of Wilson. The 9th
ers he received had to be whipped into
| line by Wilson himself, and by Peanut
King and j. L. Kelly, and even then it
was claimed that some of them played
him fake and deserted him every time
| the eyes of Wilson, Kelly and King were
| turned the other way.
| Nash county voted conscientiously for
| Strowd first; Bailey next, and then for
! Mitchell. Johnston put UP its horny
man, Fitzgerald, to help Duncan and
i the revenue crowd beat Strowd, and
! it was said that there are not four Popu-
! lists in the county outside of the dele
I gates present, who were opposed to
| Strowd
/ Franklin county voted first, last and
all the time for Mitchell, and wanted
| him nominated. The Vance county pie
J eaters, of course, wanted Garrett, but
nobody wanted Jenkins. The Strowd
men, of course, didn't want him, for
! they knew that with Jenkins sanction,
Little Billy Bryan had sold Strowd out
! to the highest bidder of the revenue
/ ring. The Ohio Wilson York Garrett
/ factions didn't want him, because they
did not think that after Strowd was out,
! Chatham should come in and claim the
| place for another man.
Randolph sat quietly all the time
casting its votes in the wind for Tom
| linson and English, until the opportuni-
ty arrived to do Millikin's bidding, and
that was to cast the vote of the county
for jenkins, the Revenue ring candidate,
just as soon as the thirteen votes would
nominate him. and the very moment
! this opportunity came, the Randolph
vote went to him, with Millikin sitting
in the delegation demanding that it be
done.
The plan to nominate jenkins had
been carefully arranged. and it had been
manipulated by trained politicians. II
worked splendidly, and when the time
| came, all that the Duncanites had to
| do was to press the button.
he 10 Il ,Inf.,
Strowd, and yet do it in such way
! as to retain the support of the Strowd
j men for the ring candidate. Everybody
knows that half of the Chatham deleg,l
ton was against Strowd's denomination.
and yet part of the plan was for Chat
ham to vote solidly for him until be
became tired and marched himself up
to the altar to receive the guillotine.
| Meanwhile the wire-pulers knew that
Wilson, Garrett, Mitchell and the other
/ candidates would slaughter each other
| The pressure to get Strowd to with
/ draw began after the third ballot, and
/ continued after subsequent ballots until
| it finally succeeded. Then it was ar.
ranged that Chatham should cast liz
! vote about in fractions for one or two
! ballots. after which Wicker should get
up, make the speech for Jenkins tnat
he had perhaps been mcmoriZing for Il
week, and stampede the convention. All
this happened, but Wicker was so bent
| on carrying out the programme to the
letter and Jenkins was so afraid that
the scheme in detail would be detected
that in attempting to give this part Of
the proceedings they made bunglesome
and awkward mess of it.
The expected stampede did not imme.
diately materialize, however, and this
] fact surprised and frightened the Re
venue gang. Mitchell, of Franklin, be-
F., gan pulling up and on one ballot he
climbed away up near the coveted plum
! Immediately the Revenue Republican
pie-eating crowd became excited and
more active. They passed from delega-
! ton to delegation; put on the screws
: tighter and tighter until Garrett, Wilson
and English threw up the sponge, leaving
only poor little Mitchell to wrestle with
the Duncan illiken-Baiey combine, re-
inforced now with Garrett, Wilson and
| English. The supreme moment had
| come-the time for the final test of the
| Duncan process. Would the Revenue
| ring win, or would it be smashed! The
, suspense was soon over. Garrett left
his neighbOr in his neighboring county,
j Stdici Ills part oI the contract Dy IuFu-
| ing the vote of Vance over to the
Duncan candidate. Millikin's opportuni-
ty had arrived. He was there sitting
with the randolph delegation. He popped
his finger and in went the English
Tomlinson contingent of thirteen votes.
Massey had emptied Johnston's vote into
the lap of Jenkins, and it was all over
but the yelling, and the Revenue crowd
| did the yelling in great shape. Not Il
huZza came from any of the county
delegation except a feeble yell from
Chatham.
All day yesterday the half-dazed VIII
sonites, Strowd men, Mitchellites and
others were wondering how it was done,
and the delegates from Franklin. Nash
! and few from Wake. who had not
been let into the deal, were still wonder
ing what it was done for.
FOR further information, and for terms,
etc, apply to Il. c. Duncan, Collector Of
| Internal Revenue, Raleigh, n c., or j.
M. Millikin, u. S. Marshal, Asheboro
| n. G.