The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-03
THE REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION
Continued from First Page

CdTUiiHd LOT tue last ten years anu thde
is better work than nine-tenths of the
preachers have done. The preacher
breaches salvation to ALL l preach hui
man liberty to ALL
Having thus tagged and priced himself
he likened the Democratic party to the
giant Goliath and the Republican party
to David. the shepherd boy With a
sling and stone
I'VE are going to clean 'em up and
give their carcass to the birds OF the
air. he announced violently, his head.
arms and feet flying through the air like
wind mill. "Mr. Aycock and his crowd
of candidates have been up in our noun
tain country. They've got no business.
there. Let them stay down in Halifax
and the other negro counties where they
belong"
Blackburn was followed by J. r. Nc
Crazy of Lexington, who told of 1.-The
glorious past of the Republican party.
and quoted Tennyson's 1--WE are living in
a grand and awful time"
This closed the oratorica pyrotechnc
| contest for at this point Col. Cowles. for
the Committee on Credentials, reported
in favor of the white delegation from
Wayne-the only county in which there
was contest; also that every county in
| the State except one was represented
| by duly accredited delegates
On motion of the Hon. j. NJ Moody,
of Haywood, Mr.. Walser was elected per-
manent chairman.
| The following committee on platforms
and resolutions was named by districts:
First district, Wheeler Martin.
Second district, ID. w. Patrick.
Third district. c. P. Jockey.
Fourth district, j. ID. Parker.
Fifth district j. r. Joyce.
Sixth district, X. M. Norment.
Seventh district, A. III. Price.
Eighth district, Jas. w. Mcneil.
Ninth district, Richmond Pearson.
II was announced that this committee
would meet at the Marlborough.
Nominations for Governor were now
declared in order, and the Hon. A. II.
Price, of Salisbury, in a 'randybooing'
speech placed in nomination ex-Judge
Spencer b. Adams, of Greensboro. The
nomination was seconded by the 'Icn. A..
NJ. Clark, of Moore. and on his motion
the nomination was unanimously made,
the convention rising to it's feet.
For Lieutenant Governor the Hon.
Claudius Dockery, of Rockingham, was
put in nomination, which was seconded
by the Hon. II. b. Pierce, of Johnston
county.
clamation.
For Auditor, the Hon. Fl. c. Cowles
placed in nomination the Hon. Thos. G.
Rollins, of Asheville, some doodler sec
onded the nomination and another moved
hot hf, 10 bxo ala,f1 oti ion
| done.
| At this point the band was ordered to
| dispense a few yards Of music. There s
a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea-. was
being reeled off, when Col. Jim Boyd
and Lieutenant Governor Reynolds who
| had been sent out to hunt Judge Adams,
returned with the game.
| Judge Adams thanked the convention for
| the honor, but said that it came un-
sought
1T was not my desire to be candidate,
but now that this convention has seen fit
to place the banner in my hands, by the
grace of God it shall not trail in the
dust"
| The fight is on. We are today passing
through the Red Sea of our liberties.
Nominations were now proceeded with.
For State Treasurer, the Hon. j. w.
Mcneil, of Ashe, placed in nomination
the Hon. L. l.. jenkins, of CASTOR The
nomination was made by reclamation.
For Secretary of State the Hon. James
F. Parrot of Lenoir, was nominated by
the Hon. ]. e. Cameron, of Lenoir.
| Another reclamation performance.
For Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion the Hon. J. J. Britt. of Mitchell, was
nominated. Still it was reclamation.
| For Attorney General the Hon. Spencer
Blackburn, with nice little recitation
beginning when freedom from it's noun
tain height" named the Hon. Zeb. Vance
| Walser. The Hon. j. G.. McCrary, of
Lexington, and the Hon. Scotland Harris
| tcol.), of Halifax, seconded the nomi-
nation The Hon Mr. Harris ora
ton was carefully prepared and dis
| tinctly delivered. He declared that under
Democratic rule the fires had gone out
| i'm H., furnaces and the hum of industry
hash; II Thousands of hemlocks "and
thus extcnuate to US the principles that
have come down to us through the cor
ridors of time, that have been recorded
by historians, told in story and sung in
poetry, I therefore second the nominal
tion of the Hon. Zeb Vance Walser.'
1t was hard to see the connection, but
the convention couldn't stand back on
small thing like that, so the Hon. Mr..
Walser was nominated by reclamation,
the motion being put by Chairman Holton.
At this point the Hon. ]. J. Britt, of
Mitchell, arose and said he was much
obliged to the convention for the nomi-
nation as Superintendent Of Public In
struction, but for reasons personal to
himself he must decline. He presented
the following wonderfully made resolution
which he asked the convention to adopt:
Resolved. Realizing the Importance of
the position of Public Instruction to the
interest of education of the masses OF
our people.
"And whereas all classes without re-
gard to politics recognize and
admit that N. C. English, of
Randolph county, is the ablest and best
equipped educator ever presented for the
prcitinp in tho Cfafa Wo thorforo ,>Io.lro