The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-06-14
LEGISLATURE IN SESSION. y
AFTER A"RECEss" OF FIFTEEN MONTHS
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS
AGAIN AT RALEIGH.
from Our Regular Correspondent.


time this letter is dated the General
Assembly Of North Carolina is about
to reassemble in adjourned session, &C
cordlng to agreement when the "recess"
was taken In March, 1899, fifteen
months ago.
For several days the lawmakers have
been arriving here, and to-day the
''rear guard" are expected to come In
numbers sufficient to more than fur-
nish the necessary quorum in each
branch OF the Legislature. have
noted, so far, however, the absence OF
Republican faces and the physiognomy
of fusion Pops. has not beamed upon
me to an overwhelming extent.
If they had their way there would
be no extra session, you can rely upon
it. They know too we'll what it will
mean and accomplish towards disprov-
ing and dispelllng the falsehoods and
fears they have spread and conjured
up in the minds of some of the litter
ate and ignorant white voters. They
know and too sensibly feel that this
body of Democratic patriots will re-
move every valid objection, however
remote, that any white man can hon
estly entertain to the adoption of the
Constitutional Amendment and they
know that then the few who may now
feel some lingering tear OF its effects,
having the last obstacle OF doubt or
objection removed, will fall in line and
aid the balance of their honest and
self-respectlng brethren to create
White Rule in North Carolina there
after and make negro domination in
politics an impossibility for all time to
come.
NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN.
Considerable interest has been mani
tested by prominent party men and
workers of late concerning the election
of the North Carolina members OF the
Democratic National Committee.
This selection will be made as usual
during the National Convention, by
the delegates from this State to that
convention-thls year at Kansas City
on July 4th. It Is neither the inten-
ton nor desire of this writer to "take
sides" with regard to any contest over
this important "honor" Gf, indeed
| there should be contest, but it Must
| be plain to every Democrat who hopes
for the election of our national ticket
this year that too much care and wis
dom and sound judgment cannot be
exercised in this matter by our delega-
tion. I do not know how many aspir-
ants there Will be, nor whether there
will be more than one. But l have
just learned of one, viz, Major f. j.
Hale, OF Fayetteville, one of the four
delegates-at-large, and who, by the
way, received the highest vote In the
recent State Convention.
| The mutual friend who informed
me OF Major Hale's aspiration makes
the following statement to me-and /
violate no confidence in reproducing
it:
! cit is the custom to accord to the
delegate who has received the highest
vote in the State Conyention his
choice of the positions in the gift OF
the delegation. The reason is obvious.
Such vote by the highest party au-
thority is the supreme expression OF
the party's confidence. l heard lead
ing Democrat say that Mr.. Hale would
make the ideal national committee.
man at this juncture, because, after
winning the August election, We shall
be Obliged to re-unite Vance's Democ-
racy in order to carry the State for
Bryan In November. 1t will be re-
membered that the late Mr.. d. A. Gov
ington said at the Convention of '9S
that Senator Vance had said
to him, shortly before his death
that he looked to Mr.. Hale to take up
after bis life was ended, the work Of
renting the real Democracy of North
Carolina-the work upon which he
was expanding all his energies, and in
the prosecution OF which he died. II
is universally conceded that for thi.
now indispensa BILE task no one stands
more eminently fit than Msjor Hale.
HOW 100000 CAME TO NORTH cAR11NA
| On the train the other day 1 wa,
talking with gentleman who was re
turning from Morehead, where he ha6
attended the brilliant opening of The
season at the atlantic" He remarked
upon the benefit and advantages suct
popular resorts are to a State in at
tracing outsiders within our borders
Said he:
! cit IS fact not generally recognized
that the Atlantic (and perhaps Other
resorts) is materially assisting in thu
development of our resources and help
Ing to build up the State lndustrially
Many of the visitors there each season
| NJ Lotto vooro oro uao1thv 49,. 1900,