The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
HITCH AMONG R)S|ON|SIS
They Have Not as Yet
Come to Terms.
OTHER CONFERENCES
Necessary TO Settle the Differences Be
tween the Partfes-Republican OBJ
jeet to Taking Lockey Down-First
Edition of Democratic Campaign
Paper-ReneWed ed Inte rest I'm Mica and
Corundum Mining-MOre Railroad
Property Put on the Tax Books-Fatal
Wine Accident.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., September 2.

Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh, n. c., September 2.
AS far as the republican and popu-
list state committees can effect it fu-
sion is again arranged in North Caro-.
lima, from top to bottom"
The republican state committee met
last evening and appointed a confer
ence committee composed of a. Z.
Holton, f. c. Duncan, John c. Dancy,
]. A. Norwood and William E. Clark.
This committee met with the popu-
list conference committee, Of which
Cyrus Thompson, H. w. Aver, j. B.
Lloyd, j. b. Schulken, Zack T. Car
rett and A. S. Peace were present.
The conference, which was absolute
Iy secret lasted until 1870 o'clock this
morning. Then the joint conference
committee gave out a signed state
ment, which was drawn up by Aver,
the pOpuliSt secretary, and signed by
State Chairmen Holton and Thompson.
The statement says the conference
resulted in a unanimous and harmoni-
Gus conclusion to the effect that it
was advisable and necessary to effect
a complete cooperation of the two
details of such cooperation to be
ranged in Difference to the expressions
of the various conventions of the two
parties, and recommends that the va
rious counties and districts proceed to
nominate cooperative tickets on mu-
tually agreeable conditions. The COM
mittees give the assurances that their
best offices and assistance will be given
in any other matter necessary to effect
the cO-ODpratiOn above recommended
and advised.
The pOpulist committee did not meet
. today. 1t was learned that the popu-
| lists demanded that that party should
have ali the congressman it had nam
ed so far and all the judges and So
! licitors it had nominated. The re-
publicans want the congressman in the
| Third district. 1t looks like they will
| get him, as the populist committee
! has no regard whatever for John Z.
| Fowler, pOpulist nominee there, whom
/ the republicans are bent on crushing
No agreement was reached today,
| pOpuliSt committeeman say. They fur
| ther say that the conference commit
| tees will probably have another meet
| ing in fifteen days and then fix mat
| ters as to taking down and putting up
! candidates. They want to ascertain
they say, the wishes of the various
| districts.
| congressman Skinner, VINO was GER
, tainly expected to be here and enjoy
| his triumph over Senator Butler, was
| kept at home by Sickness
| James B. Lloyd, populist nominee in
| the Second district, says he will de-
| feat George H. White in the congress-
| ional race. He says he expects the
| full democratic vote, and that he will
! get some negro votes. The republicans
| greatly dislike Lloyd and want him
| taken down.
| President George T. Winston, Of the
| University of Texas, is here. He says
! it has 1000 students. He has been in
! New England a couple of months.
| Republicans are saying that c. P.
| LOckey will be taken down for judge
| in the Fifth district. Jockey was here
| last night IT is claimed that he will
: assent to this change in favor of Lof-
! tin, for whom the pOpulists are par
| ticularly deSirous.
| Republicans are worried about the
| First district and say they now begin
| to believe Harry Skinner will have a
desperately hard fight there. They
! say they hope to carry all save two
! counties in that district.
! 1t is quite clear that the minority
or anti-Butler populists control that
: party. The only question is whether
] the faction then in power can deliver
, the goods. That the populist party is
f.! Spl1t Is certain Ihe only uncertain
. ty is the size of the split.
! The governor pardOns Tom Lee, a
white convict, a native of Orange, who
! was sent to the penitentiary fourteen
| years ago to serve twenty years for
| murder in the second degree. He was
| only IA years old when convicted.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh, n c., September g.
hn a1 NJ
| by the populists and the republicans
! yesterday that they had fused, there
are some stitches, and other meetings
of the conference committees will be
necessary. Populists say one thing
republicans another When today a
| republican was told that it was openly
said Jockey as nominee for judge was
to be taken down, he said: Who told
you so? A populist. Well. he wants
! things that way. The matter is no,
settled In spite of this it is safe tc
! bet that Lockey will be taken down
! and that Fowler will not be the fus-
ion candidate for congress in the Third
district. The republicans are openly
claiming they must have that district
One of their committee so says and he
adds that his party openly told the
populist committee il would never
! vote for Fowler.
! The republicans Of the Fifth con-
gressional district held their conven-
F. ton at Oxford today. 1t was known
beforehand that they would nominate
S. 3. Adams, now Judge. Republi-
cans gay the populists are pledged TO
, support Adams.