The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-07-22
Russell's Endorsement
the Main Issue.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
Afraid TO and Afraid
met Not Yef Equipped-Second ReSf.
ment Deserters Sent TO Prison-Ship.
meut Of Grape. TO Begtn-Error Is TO
Troops Furnished by this State-No
Colors Furnished North Carolina
Regiments.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., July 20.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., July 20.
The sig companies OF the Second
| regiment in camp here left at 6.o'clock
this morning for Penny's ford, V
miles from Raleigh. and will remain
| there two days. They were glad to
leave camp. It IS the general senti-
| ment in camp and in the city that a
new camp site should be at once occu-
| pied. The site at the fair grounds is
not now sanitary. Physicians make
| this remark. It IS spoken OF as odd
| thai the surgeons have not advised re-
moval.
Robert Carver, OF Company II, Ashe-
| vile, and William Miller, OF Company
| NJ, Murphy, were this morning taken to
| Fort Pherson, Atlanta, to serve a year
| at hard labor for desertion. The sem
| tence Of each was three years, but it
| was modified to the shorter term.
John Cooley, of Company L, Tar
boro, died at the camp hospital Mon
| day night and was buried in the ma
| tionaI cemetery yesterday. His death
| was uUe 10 lypllOlu ltNel. ~
| named Martin is thought to be dying.
1t appears that after all the equip
| ment is incomplete. The canteen
straps came a month ago. but as yet
there are no canteens. No cartridge
| belts have ever been received. The
| war department yesterday ordered
that the six companies detached and
| part south be equipped before those
here.
The shipment Of grapes from this
point begins next Monday The Della
ware is the grape principally grown.
| Senator Pritchard did not attend the
republican state convention here to-
| day. The reason which n republican
gave for his absence is unique. He
said the senator had promised sc many
| men office and SO many had failed to
get the places that he feared to meet
this LEGION of the Disappointed" and
that tOday'S convention contained
many of this class Of men who failed.
The convention met at noon in Met
| ropolitan hall. 1t was very SHINY at
tended. The negroes cut quite a fig
ure. Last night and this morning the
absorbing question was whether or not
Governor Russell should be endorsed.
| A leading republican said: IF We do
endorse Russell the democrats will use
it for campaign and yet If we
do not endorse him they will use it
| - Tic chllIC pun lpoNo. wv ~ "
tween two fires. We do not want to
| endorse him" Ex-Governor Jarvis,
commenting on this. said: They are in
a tight place as to the endorsement
business. It is a case of We'll be
damned if we do and we'll be damned
if we don't" One Of Senator Pritch-
| ards warmeSt friends said last night:
mo sir, Russell will not be endorsed"
Yet at 70 o'clock this morning there
was a CauCuS on that subject. A dele
| gate from Cumberland said: The
| real fight is over Russell. All of US
want to endorse Mckinley and Prttch-
ard. Russell has a few friends in the
eaSt-very few. It is a question of pol
icy. That is, whether we can endorse
Mckinley and leave out the state ad-
| ministratiOn. If it were merely a queS-
ton of endorsing Russell personally
or alone he wouldn't get a dozen
votes"
The main object of the convention
was to ratify the nomination of judges.
The nominations for those SO far made
by the republicans are: Second dis
trict, d. w. Caldwell: Sixth. G. p.
Jockey: Seventh, H. F. SeaweIl. (nom-
mated by pOpulists and endorsed by
! republiCans); Eleventh, Henry Eaves,
son of John B. Eaves. No
are as yet made, State Chairman HoI-
ton says, in the First, Fifth, and
Twelfth.
IT was arranged that James f. Boyd
should be permanent chairman of the
convention. Under the plan Of organi-
cation State Chairman Holton was the
temporary chairman. 1t was also
agreed that Holton should be rs-eIect-
| ed state chairman.
This state has furnished it's quota of
volunteers under the second call, save
about seventy men for the three old
| companies of the negro regiment. I'm
der hat call it has added 7s3 recruits
to the two white regiments and 76 70
the negro regiment the latter having
increased from a battalion of 3 COM
panles OF 80 men each. The news was
| given out at Washington Yesterday
that only So men of the second call had
been raised. The adjutant general
says TINS Is such 4 false
hood that he will not make any official
complaint of the SANDER OF the state,
put VIII let the newspapers fight it out
senator Butler was expected here.
put MS private secretary says he did
not come. He Is at Elliott, Sampson
| county.
The past four days have been among
the most trying Of the season in point
or neat. Today the hear was scorch-
ing. 1t suits the cotton
Ii is expected that a lawyer named
Blythe, of Jackson county. will be ap-
~ - IsuS=EIi 10 Sue
coed H. G.. Ewart as iuCeye OF the west
ern criminal circuit.
AS yet neither the PTrst nor Second
regiments of volunteers has been fur
nished with national and state colors,
ANY one would have thought that the
state authorities wodld have supplied
them with state colsrs.
1t was very significant today that
the republican and populist office hold
ers were in close consultation. They
nave clearly arranged secretly all the
details of fusion.
Inc state board Of agriculture met
.oaay' mere was no reason for its
meeting, SAID a member. unless il
were to be here with the renphlica,
convention.
The board OF agriculture gives the
state fair &, 500.
we resume Gomez will come out OF
Il nlE No m ~ nn1r