The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-10-11


"A Scheme That Needs to be Looked
After-Cotton Mill Troubies-Minor
Mention-News Notes.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
RALEIGH, n C., October s, 1900
| The proposition OF Judge A. c. Avery,
| OF MorgantOn, that the Senatorial pri-
| mary be deferred a month subsequent to
| the National election. as outlined by him
in several OF the daily papers last week
| attracted much attention and ELECTED a
| great deal of comment from all classes of
people here abOut-unfavOrab for the
most part it should be added.
| After hearing the subject discussed or
| commented on by hundreds of people, |
| took the pains to obtain the views of q
number OF leading party men, including
some who are pronounced and prominent
| in their support and advocacy of one or
| the other of the aspirants for the Sena-
/ neutrality-suspicious. who prefer Simmons,
Others who support Carr, some who
| favor Waddell and d few inclined to
Jarvis-and there is no installing the
concensus of opinion, viz, that it would
| be unwise and impracticable to attempt
to side-track the Senatorship matter at
| this time in the interest OF Mr.. Bryan
or for any other reason; that, in fact it
| would be impossible to stop or suspend
| the contest now, it has proceeded too far.
SENATORIAL PRIMARY WILL HELP BRYAN.
| find that, with very few exceptions,
| it is the general belief that the primary
will help, instead of hurt Mr.. Bryan
and the democratic Congressional candi-
dates. in that it will very materially as
sjst in bringing out a full vote, especially
as it is believed many Populists espec-
| iallv) will equality" themselves to par
ticipate in the primary by first voting for
| Mr. Bryan electors. Let me quote the
| language of an astute and sensible Demo-
crat along this line. He said:
There is no disputine the fact that
there is Il great deal of apathy prevalent
among our folks. SO far as the National
ticket is concerned. 1t is seen and felt in
IL greater or less degree all over the State,
but in some localities, including whole
counties. it is SO apparent as to be d
source of anxiety. Right here in Raleigh,
even, | have never known Democrats to
be so unconcerned and inactive IL month
before election in all my experience. This
state OF affairs is, at least partly, due
to the excess and surfeit of politics
this year. and the reaction natural after
the excitement of the State campai On.
But there appears to be some other rea-
sons, too. among certain classes. 1t is
my belief that Just some such incentive as
this Senatorship question was desirable,
if not necessary, to get the white people
out on election day, and, my word for it,
| II the primary We're postponed Bryan
and our Congressional candidates would
suffer the loss of thousands OF votes
which they will now receive
ANENT THE CRITICS OF THE ''MACHINE.
Another leading Democrat land he is
not an active Simmons man. either. if he
| intends to vote for him at alb said to me
| to-day:
Il don't think much OF the proposition
to stop the Senatorial canvass, but there
is one feature Of it that should be stopped
at once. Those OverZealOuS critics who
are attempting to discredit and cast
| Odium upon the Democratic organization
by crying ''machine.' had better put a
paddock on their source of noise if they
cannot get up Il better argument" than
that. Without the so-called 'machine'
and a capable and courageous ''machin-
list to operate it Gas Mr.. Simmons SO
admirably proved to beg I'd like to ask
where would the Democratic party be
to-day? What would be the political
complexion of the elect which
is to formally and legally elect the Sena-
tor after all this primary tumult is over
had it not been for this "machine'' and
this ''machnist"? Without them last
summer, there would be no need of a
Democratic primary now, and Butler
would be chosen in January to succeed
himself. undoubtedly
| have had q buOdra6 man to ma l. q
similar remarks in my presence during
the past week. Most of them take this
| position:
| When a person cries machine he sim
ply attacks the Democratic party and its
| organization as a whOle-nOt only in the
State at large, but in every Congressional
and judicial and Senatorial district, in
every county, in every township and
| precinct-and his remarks constitute a
direct attack upon the chairmen and
executive committees in each one of these
divisions. Machine" indeed. What is
there wrong about Il ''machine" par
ticularly our machine? If any candidate
or his friends think that by thus 'cussine
out the working Democrats of North
Carollna-the very men who redeemed
the State from negro rule and Populist
miSgOvernment and made it possible for
us to elect a Democratic Senator at all
this time-they can elect or aid any man
who is party to it. they will find them
selves woefully mistaken, as they ought
to be.
NO CROSSES IN NORTH CAROLINA
The Democratic organization, by these
kickers yclept machine. is the finest and
best we ever had. and as honest as any
State can boast of. and the rank and file
OF true Democrats support it and will
stand by it. Who ever heard of politi-
cal party differed 10y sane men that
didn't have a ''machne". The ma
chine" is all right, entirely proper and an