The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-16
Afford FOR CONGRESS
COL. GEE BENTON ANNOUNCES
A BROAD PLATFORM.
THE REV. N BuDGER HAVING TROUBLE
Doesn't Know Whether to Register Under the
Name the News and Observer Gave
Him or Use his Baptismal
Copnomen
Cognomen.


lamented gold-bug candidate for Con
gress in this district, is again in the
field. He announced his candidacy for
n seat in the next Congress yesterday.
He doesn't expect to be elected, though,
he's just running for the fun of the
thing.
In the last campaign he went boldly
around the district hunting for voters
scalps. This year he will pursue a
very different policy. He will not go
out in the open, he says. the mark and
target for every popinjay political
stumper. He's had enough of that. He
prefers rather to set gums and dead
falls for the stray gold-bugs he may
chance TO scare up.
What is your platform, Colonel!" L
asked as he waited for belated train.
I'm an anti-fusion. sound-money, BIZ
metallic candidate" He laughed splitting
at a crack in the floor, and added: God
made gold the standard"
How do you stand on the niger
question:"
"I'm in favor of honest men. white or
black, including Indians and Chinese not
taxed
/ suggested that that was broad enough
for any ordinary mortal here below,
and asked how many votes the Colonel
managed to corral on such a vast spread
ing platform during the last campaign.
He declined to answer, but by
stander volunteered the information that
the returns showed 76.
The Rev. HI Budger, of Asheville, who
was standing nearby, under the protect
ing wing of Chairman Holton. said he
didn't know how Col Afford might find
it, but he had been canvassing the State
for three weeks and he was honestly of
the opinion that the Fusionisrs would
sweep the State.
"By what majority?"
Twenty to forty thousand"
SIS that because you've been canvass
ing?"
Ignoring the question, the Rev. Xxi
said he didn't know exactly what. he
himself would do; that he had always
called himself Hezekiah Gudger, but the
News and Observer wasn't satisfied with
that cognomen and had named him the
Rev. Xxi Budger If he registered as
Hezekiah Gudger he feared the News
and Observer would challenge his vote
and have it thrown out, so he said he
guessed he'd better put himself down as
Rev. Ki Budger and let the thing go at
that.
'Will Pearson pull out in his fight in
the Ninth?"
Eyes, / think so, by small majority"
II see Boggs, the Populist nominee,
comes out for him."
mo, / have always thought he was
running in Crawford's interest. But his
card published last week is puzzle.
But it doesn't matter much in whose in
terest he's running. He amounts to
little. He'll not get more than 100 votes
of the 600 or 700 Populist votes in the
district
who will get the others??
Pearson"
do you not find Populists leaving the
Fusion crowd as you go about over the
Stateg'
Eyes, few. But they are more than
offset by the gains we will make on the
State ticket"
"How is that?"
voted for Guthrie will this time vote for
the Fusion ticket"
The Rev. Xxi left here on the afternoons
train for Durham, where he spoke last
night. He spoke in Oxford the night be-
fore and came down here to spend the
day sucking inspiration from the Holton-
Thompson fountain, patented and all
- fe. rho .e,I
to grumble about the small space he is
this year occupying in Democratic pa
pers, hence the above.
Rev. w. G. Clements, who has recently
been in Alamance, Chatham and Wake
counties, is very confident of Demo
cratic victory this fall He says he has
never seen such a change in public SEN
timent in so short a time. The Populists
he finds, are sick of fusion with Re-
publicans and negroes, and many of
them are openly coming out against it,
while others are secretly making up their
mind to take no part in the election.
Jo-Jo Jenkins, Republican candi-
date for Congress, was in town yester-
day. He has been canvassing Wake coun-
ty and hence he looked rather wilted. He
would not acknowledge, though, that he
found things in Wake quite different
from what he had expected He said
he still believed Fusion would triumph,
and he'd be elected by good majority.
He says he's already canvassed Ran
dolph and Chatham. From Wake he
goes to Johnston and then to Nash.
-
whats the news?" / asked Dr. s. w
Thompson, of Wake Forest township
yesterday. "All good" he replied
'Those that have not already turned
over to the White Mans Party are
turning BY election day / think we
can make it practically unanimous. y
There were others in town from the
surrounding country who brought much
the same news.
Cy. Thompson's clerk, d. III. Senter,
has been talking too much When the
Fusionists read in the News and OBJ
server that he had said there were 25C
II yaI- nfx, II