The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-20
POSSIBILITIES RAMPANT
BUT THE PRITCHARD PIE EAT
Frs ARE IN CONTROL OF
THE CONVENTION.
BOYD FOR PERMANENT CHAIRMAN
And Truce Being Effected to Get The Warning
Factions together. A Small Crowd
Mostly Pie Eaters in Attendance.

1t is fight to the finish.
The pie-eaters are here but half OF
them are sorry that they came.
There is n great big problem to solve,
and they hate TO face the music. There
are aching voids in the Radical conyen-
ton and they fairly yearn for somebody
to fill them.
Pritchard is not here. nor will he be
here. Pearson is yet awhile supposed to
be basking in the breezes that float over
Richmond Hill.
Linney is mending his fences IN the
bellicose Eighth district, and even the
negro delegates are wearing woe-be-
gone expression because of the absence
of Geo. II. White, their only representa-
tive in Congress.
AT II o'clock last night the whole Radi-
cal fleet was in the Russell harbor and
did not know how to get out.
1t is true Pritchard has enough guns
to destroy the Russell Notifications. but
his commanders are afraid to fire, fear
ing that there may be some of their own
forces in the Russell harbor.
Buck Adams, of Wake: J. Nj. Milliken,
of Randolph, n. c.; Duncan, of Carteret;
Jno. c. Dancey, of Rowan, and few
others are in favor of bombardment, re-
gardess of circumstances, but Chas. a.
Cook, of Warren; John A. Ramsey, OF
Rowan: J. C.. l.. Harris, of Wake. and
the invincble commander of the colored
contingent, Jas. IL. Young, of Fort Ma
con- is daring them to fire a single gun
without first consulting them. Ramsey,
of Rowan. is an old artillery commander
and it is said that he ate his dinner sit
ting on cason during the hottest of the
Gettysburg engagement, and besides he
downed the Pritchardites in the Rowan
county convention and the two Pritchard
delegates, James III. Ramsey, postmaster
of Salisbury, and .Jno. G. Dancy, collec-
tor of the port at Wilmington, are here
by his grace and it is by his grace also
that Chas. Price the great Republican
Southern Railroad attorney is put down
as an alternate.
Cook of Warren, is a fighter also
such fighter is this man Cook. of
Warren. that even the great Col. An
drews told Senator Pritchard that he
would not object to his being appointed
Brigadier General in the army, where
upon he was duly endorsed, but he has
not been appointed yet and he is i'll Raj
eigh "spilen'' for fight. Loge Harris
was at the Mansion last night and
his rapid fire guns are loaded to the
muzzle, and he does ut hesitate to say
that it is a Reputation of Mckinley and
Pritchard, full endorsement of Russell
or a row, leaving the other fellows to
take which ever horn of the dilemma
they please.
The "getherin' " will "gather" Mt II
o'clock to-day. A. Il. Holton will call it
to order, act as temporary chairman and
name a committee on credentials. This
pie-eating Piedmonter has some expe-
rience along this line and some that the
Russellites say ought to teach him il
lessons. He appointed at the last conven-
ton solid anti-Russell committee with
the exception of WILDER Martin and then
had to sit and witness the complete ami
hilation Of every single majority report.
The same thing may happen again.
but it is not likely for the Holton-Prltch-
ard Duncan-Dockery crowd are crying
aloud for il compromise.
James e. Boyd of Guilford. assistant
Attorney General, was expected to ar
rive in Raleigh at two o'clock
this morning and it is the big
Brainy Barnes from Guilford that has
been agreed upon for permanent
chairman: if he is here and if he will CON
sent he will be named. He is Il Prtchard
man, and Southern Railroad man and Il
Mckinley man and an anti Russell man,
but he is said to want peas and hom-
inv" if the hands insist on having them.
The convention will perhaps endorse
everything in sight including Private
tnH fnr
Mewbornes management of the peniten-
tiary. John r. Smiths manure pile
methods McKinley's gold standard pol
icy, Pritchard's votes on bond issues,
etc. etc, and any other old thing that
however. that rather than endorse Rus
sell the convention will not endorse any
body or anything. 1t is understood that
Colonel Andrews is bitterly opposed to
endorsing Russell, but favors the en-
dorsement of Mckinley and Pritchard
but even he may be whipped into line
rather than have a split in the conven-
ton akin to the one at Wilkesboro.
The Andrews offices in the Yarbor-
ough House formed a sort of rendez-
vous for the delegates yesterday after
non and many of the delegates went in
to pay their respects and perhaps to re-
ceive their orders. The McKinleyites
were welcomed of course. but the Rus
selltes were slow to venture into the
sanctum of the great head of the Me
KinleyPritchar Andrews triple alliance.
The convention is going to be a small
one in numbers. 1t is already disappoint-
ing, only the pie eaters being present
They are here from every section, among
them A. e. Hoton. United States Dis
trict attorney for the Western district
J. NJ. Milliken. United States marshall
the puny prosecutor and pompous pie
eater from Pitt; o. J. Shears, the first
assistant to the Pitt pie paster; E. II.
Johnson. the second assistant to the puny
prosecutor.
Fl. G. Dockery. United States mar
shall. Eastern district and his two
nephews. Claudius Dockery. chairman of
the penitentiary directors, and o. II.
Dockery. Jr., clerk in Collector Duncan's
office, and candidate for solicitor in one
or two districts.
j. G. T.. Harris. who holds seventeen
offices and one or two minor positions.
G. II. Bailey. postma ster of Raleigh.
J. p. III. Adams, deputy revenue coll