The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-26
THE POSSIBILITIES failure
To Get Endorsement of
Their Boss.
AN UNHEALTHY CAMP.

stirred Up-Programme for Opening
h Democratic Campatgn-Republi-
can State Convention Gossip.
Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, N. c., July 81.
The republican state convention was
outwardly harmonious. But within
there were conflicting elements. Until
2 o'clock Tuesday night the Pritchard
and the Russell men were in confer
ence to arrange a resolution which
would be satisfactory to the Pritchard
men and at the same time appease the
cla,norous Russellites. j. c. L.. Har-
ris, one Of the latter, prepared a reso-
luton which named Russell. Strike
out the name" was what the Pritch-
ard men demanded. 1t was stricken
out. Then the word endorse was
displaced and commend inserted. AS
adopted the resolution does not name
graduates the state treasurer, supreme
u and board of agriculture. A re-
republican says cit mean nothing
We wanted harmony. We had the
convention in the hollow of our hand.
Russell did not have thirty delegates
out Of the $50"
Republicans, black aid white, throng-
ed the offices and corridors Of the rev.
enue collectors office today, %recogniz-
ing it as the headquarters of the
Pritchard force.
The CnQach of ConOrQcCnoon Canroa
H. White, colored, last night, the last
one before the state convention ad-
jOurned, vas in voice, gestures and
words alike to be condemned. 1t graf
ed on all the white republicans save
the most hardened. A western North
Carolina republican said of it today
hat if White had made it in his coun-
ty he would be run out. 1t was a de-
fiance of white men.
John A. Sims, chief clerk to the au-
ditor, who is high in populist councils,
says: 1.-The democrats will not elect a
judge this year and will be beaten by
20, OOO."
The speakers who were at a loss for
something to say in yesterdays con-
vention invariably fell back on 1.-The
negro regiment and it's officers" Sew
eral of the latter were delegates and
Of course were working in the Russell
interest.
Oscar Spears, who vas spoken of as
the republican candidate for congress
in the Third district, said today: II am
not a candidate nor will I be. But
Our party will have a candidate of it's
own. Our party will not endorse Con-
gresham Fowler.
Congressman Settle tells me there
is an understanding between him and
Judge Adams and hat the latter will
not be the republican candidate for
in the Fifth district. Settle
appears to feel sure that he himself
will get the nomination. He says
Adams greatly desires the renomina-
ton for judge. Adams so writes.
j.. B.. Martin, a private in the Muir
ply company, of the Second regiment,
in camp here, is dead, of typhoid fever.
1t is the fifth death Of members of the
regiment during it's two months stay
at Camp Russell. Martins brother is
in the hospital, critically sick with the
same disease.
There is a protest against the regi-
ment's staying longer in Camp Rus
sell. Adjutant General Cowles said
today: "The amp must be moved I
will urge Burgwyn this very day to
move it Immediately. I want it in
the pines, where Camp Grimes was,
and where there is fine natural drain
age"
The state board of met
today. It's session yesterday was brief,
as nearly all it's members were dele
gates to the republican state conven-
ton.
Augustus LeaZar, ex-superintendent
Of the penitentiary and one of the
ablest democrats in the state, is here
and says the political outlook in the
Piedmont section is very good, the mo
rale" of the party better than in years.
and that the party is determined to
win. Many men who for ears past
have been luke warm or failed to
turn out are now jealous.
Thomas H. Sutton is renominated by
the republicans for judge Of the East
ern criminal circuit. The latter nom
mated Charles A. Cook as judge Of
the Second district.
M. II. Caldwell, populist nominee for
congress in the Seventh district, tells
me he is certain to get the republican
endorsement and vote.
Democrat State Chairman Simmons
has certainly arranged an attractive
programme for the opening of the
campaign August Bird. Among the
speakers are: Columbus county, r. A.
Bennett and ]. D. Bellamy; Robson
w. H. Neal and T. ]. Jarvis; while
among other speakers in the east are
c. B. Aycock. w. B. Glenn, Swift CAL
loway, w. w. Kitchin. c. R. Thomas,
D.. II. Mclean and c. NJ. Busbee.