The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-11-01

The Cotton and Tobacco Growers
Associations-A Big Two.Week's
Hunt Next Month-Big Persimmons
at the Fair-The Republicans and
PopuIists Wear Badges OF Sena-
toriaI Candidatc-RepubIic County
Chairman Says He and Other Fusion
lists Will Vote for Him-A Straight
Democratic Primary Demanded -
The East Overwhelmingly for SIM
mons-Other Matters.
| (From Our Regular Correspondents
RALEIGH. \. C.. October 30, 1900
The week just closed registered the
most successful Fair week in the history
OF the State-in point of numbers of visi-
tors attending the Fair especially.
| So many North Carolina people, repre-
senting so many counties, have never
visited the capital of their State within
| Il like period of time on any similar Oc-
! casion.
President McNamee and Secretary
Pogue deserve the highest credit and
praise for their splendid work in its be-
| half-and both receive it unstintedly.
| Capt. POgue is one of the most energetic
and capable of business men and his re-
election as secretary of the State Fair
otherwise yclept the \. c. Agricultural
Society by Il unanimous vote. was a de-
served tribute to his splendid efforts this
year and the confidence of the stOckhOld-
ers and directors in his ability to make
the next Fair equally if not even more
successful.
| President McNamee declined a re-elec-
ton. But the Society was happy and
fortunate in securing the consent OF one
OF the best and grandest men in all
North Carolina to accept the presidency
for the ensuing year. viz. Gen. William
K. Cox, Congressman for three successive
terms from the Raleigh district and
until recently Secretary of the Senate of
the United Stales-and one of the bravest
OF the brave during the war between
the States" from 81 to '65. Let it be
| added that he was no ''tin soldier" and
that he surrendered his sword as Brigadier
General not until the fateful day at Ap-
pamattOX-a sword which he carried I'M
| sheathed during those sanguinary four
years.
| He is now a practical farmer" having
retired from the activities OF public and
professional life to his magnificent plan
tatiOn in EdgecOmbe county. His splen-
did energies and executive ability will be
| devoted to the next State Fair, and that.
of itself, means that the great success of
this year will be repeated, and possibly
eXcelled
| EVERYBODY DISCUSSING THE SENATORSHIP.
What did this great thrOng of people
talk about?
NO man at Raleigh during the week
would ask that question. but for the
| benefit of the stay-at-homes it should be
| answered.
The Senatorship formed the principal
topic OF conversation wherever two or
more men We're gathered together-on
the Fair grounds, in the hotel Hobbies. at
the dining tables, everywhere
| Boys and men went about the Fair
grounds pinning buttons bearing the pic
ture OF one candidate on all who would
wear them-and they We're worn in con-
siderable numbers by not only Democrats,
| but by well known Republicans and Pop
| ulists.
On Wednesday there appeared con-
siderable number OF we'll known Demo-
| Gratis with persmmOns pinned upon the
lappels Of their coats, and at once there
was created 81 great demand for g. sim
mons'-but no Republican or Populist
|
| direction. Not much
| An adequate supply was not visible
| however, and not one man in ten who
| wanted one secured it. Some shreWd
traders appeared on Thursday, however,
| with the biggest portion of several trees
OF persimmons, which they had procured
| from the cOuntry-and they made lot of
| money.
No, they did not give em away The
| lovers Of simmons fell over each other
in the rush to buy them from the ener-
| getic dealers, and in a brief space of time
all of them had been sold. The cry for
more was never satisfied, and so it was
that the disappointed ones, unable to
procure Il perSimmOn, refused to wear
any badge at all-and they formed a
| large percentage of the visitors to the
! Fair.
| 4 GREAT YEAR FOR 'sIMMONs''
| In the fruit exhibit there was displayed
a small lot of the largest persimmons
ever seen in North Carolina-fuly as
| large as turkey eggs, many of them, and
none of the exhibit smaller than a hen
| egg.
Most OF them We're begged from the
exhibitor (who declined to sell them) be-
| fore the big day on Thursday, after
"
Der OF friends of the Democratic State
! chairman, and the fruit was pinned on
| the lapel OF the coats OF the recipients
and proudly worn wherever they went
the WearerS good-naturedly Dragging on
the splendid variety OF the 'simmOn crop
| this year, with the added declaration
| that they would all ripen on the 9th of
November when the frost fell for the
other fellow'
SOME OF THE ''sIGHTs''
| The Democrats from the Eastern coun-
ties here during the week We're very pro-
| nOunced in their views on the Senatorial
| questionable ratio being as nearly as
could be judged. about to in favor of
| Simmons.
| was present in a crowd of Democrats
who We're discussing the Sights" they
had witnessed during the Fair
| All OF them had more or less to say
anent the beautiful North Carolina wo-
men in attendance-and surely no lover
| of the beautiful and admirable could fail
to observe this feature of the fairest ex-
hibit OF the Fair. But let me quote:
| REPUBLICANS STILL ':QUALIFYING"
There goes a remarkable though not
entirely surprising sight to me-" said
! One-and he pointed TO a we'll known Re-
publican merchant OF Raleigh (whose
name begins with the second letter in
the alphabet and who wore conspic-
uously upon the lapel OF his coat a cam
paign button bearing the likeness of a
candidate for t. s. Senator. He was
told by a gentleman in the little gather
ing OF acquaintance that though it
might, and properly should be a re
markable, sight, it is fast becoming a
very common one. not only in Raleigh.
but in other towns and counties of the
State.
Well gentlemen" said another of the
group, Il saw and heard a sight last
night. A Republican acquaintance of
mine. Mr.. X. calling the name) from the
county OF W. (naming the county, who
is member, by appointment of the last
fusion Legislature, OF the Board OF Agri-
culture, surprised me by declaring that
he and other Republicans of his county
and section intended to qualify them
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