Evening star., 1898-10-05

ponent III get the solid vote of both mar
Ties can defeat him by 300 to 500 | Will
make my canvass national issues. I
WI VIII NOT nave anything to say on the color
lihe. out VIII discuss free silver and the
populfst platform. The democratic marty
mas not officially indorsed me- IL has sim
ply made no nomination. 4 am told that
democrats VIII support me | have been
'oao py some democrats that at the last
moment their party will make a nominal
tion, out Know the overwhelming demo-
cratic sentiment is against any such
course
The democratic papers here are saying
ltat Lloyd IS really running in the interest
OF white. Lloyd denies this and says he
desires most earnestly to defeat White
Curiosity About Butler.
Senator Butler and Populist State Chair
man Cyrus Thompson are to speak here
october :. There is some curiosity to know
What course the senator will take Repuh-
means are evidently showing him and his
wing OF the populists some favors Popu-
nsts or the anti-Butler wing like Editor
X A Cobb of the Home Rule saw thar
popuilsts VIII now vote for Fowler The
1act Is the republicans up to last week
Grained the nomination in the third dis
trict. Cobb. who two weeks ago said some
popullsts would vote for White in the sec
Lloyd. i'i
The republicans and populists u,bila .,
conference agreed to divide the nomina-
lions for Judges equally. OF these there
are SIX. To make these equal the governor
has appointed W. p Bynum Judge for tbe
nth district, vice s. B. Adams who re-
signed to take the nomination for senator
ana then Bynum becomes the fusion NOM
NEE Tor Judge. as the appointment only
holds until the election. c. p I,ockey re-
publican. is taken on the fusion ticket i'm
the seventh district. and J. w. Loftin pop
uiiSt. put on.
Inc democrats are making the color line
HSht hotter and hotter. Carl duncan the
republican leader in the entire eastern dis
trlct. says that the democratic campaIgn
Is now really ended and that the rppIbli-
cans are undoing what the democrats have
uohe. On the other hand, il is said al Gem-
ocraac headquarters that over 200 .'Snita
government unions" have been organized
ana that the legislature is safe Duncan
declares that the democrats can't elect a
judge or representative or "A ma .orit,. in
either branch Of the legislature but ttis is
certainly very rosy view
The campaign is by far the most personal
one ever held in the state.
The Race Question.
Charles r. Thomas, democratic nominee
Tor Congress in the third district, has he
gun his campaign. Race antagonis.n is so
nigh that in this county the republicans
decided not to nominate a negro, though
the latter clamored for it, The negro COL
onel o1 the Sd North Carolina Regime nt
came all the way from Knoxville to work
Tor the nomination of at least che negro ON
.me ticket, but was completely overslaughed
Inc white republicans told the regroes thar
III they nominated one of their race the re-
SUIT would be the alienation Gf the DDpulist
vote, which Is an absolute necessity Oliver
Dockery, Jr-. fusion nominee for solicitor
declared that each night IN his praH,ers bs
made "a special prayer for the popuI.sts
without whose aid the republican rarty
could lot exist in North Carolina"
ne democrats OF the eighth district We'd
nesday nominated T.. r Lowell for Con-.
gress on the ffty-first ballot.