The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-10-18
OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
INTEREST IN THE SENATORIAL CONTEST
INCREASES.
Activity of Republicans and Populists
a Noteworthy Feature-Vote Swap
ping arrangement" is Causing
Some Indignation Among Democrats
The State Fair to be a Big Thing
This Year-Minor Mention.
From Our Regular Correspondent


This Year-Minor Mention.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
RALEIGH, n C., October Is, 1900.
Three weeks more, and then the Presi-
Dental election and the Senatorial pri-
mary! Or shall | say the Senatorial pri-
mary and the Presidential election?
If the SenatOrship is not regarded as OF
more Importance by North CarOlinians,
they certainly exhibit more interest in it,
and it is the subject of discussion wher-
ever you see two or three men collected
and it is not limited to Democrats. Re-
publcans and Populists, particularly
'leaders' of those parties Tor perhaps it
would be more correct to say that party,
for the fusion has been complete and of
such long standing as to practically weld
them all into one ''Repoplican' Organiza-
tom, are manifesting not only interest
but zeal and activity in our little political
family contest. and hear that many of
them intend to try to vote for a certain
Senatorial candidate if allowed by the
poll-hOlders and Democratic managers to
do so.
Their modus operand was explained in
these letters last week, the plan being to
swap votes for electors with some OF the
Democratic" friends of the Senatorial
aspirant referred to, by which method it
is claimed both will be "qualifed' to
participate in the primary-the Demo
Gratis already having qualified by vot-
ing the Democratic ticket in August
and without the loss of any votes by Mr.
Mckinley
| understand that the same arrange
ment with negroes in an Eastern county
(where there are no white Republicans
was being attempted last week by some
so-called Democrats OF the same stripe.
But of course that could not be carried
through, because no negroes can vote
in the primary tho matter if they are
lifelong Democrats, even), as the stipu-
lation made by the State convention
and the State committee expressly pro-
vides that only '.white men and CrOa-
tans'' shall be allowed to vote at the pri-
mary.
But was impudently told by a Repub-
lican leader here this week that many a
white Republican vote will go into the
Senatorial primary box, and none OF them
| will have the name of Simmons on it. you
bet!'
That's it. 1t is not because they care
| fig about the man whom they want to
vote for. but because they think they can
| probably successfully use him to defeat
Mr.. SimmOnS-the one man OF all North
| CarOinians whom they hate and fear
| most and whose influence they desire.
| above all things, to break. They openly
state that if they can secure his ''repudla-
| ton by his own party in this manner,
| that lit will kill him and end his political
career" Hence their zeal and activity to
secure the election of another.
Plain as the nose on your face! But
| will such an agreement injure Mr.. Sim
mons with the true Democrats OF the
| State? On the other hand, will it not
serve as a notice and n warming to them
| to rally even more solidly than they have
done SO far to his support, in the interest
| OF the Democratic party and the per-
| petuity of it's organization? For in the
| effort to defeat him the Republicans hope,
and boldly assert, that such a result
| would not only remove the man whose
| ability they have been unable to cope
| with, and upon whose downfall their
future success largely depends; but they
believe it will SO cripple the Democratic
party that they could again stand a
chance OF once more securing control OF
| the State gOvernment-and the offices,
| the flesh pots and the emoluments to
| which they chiefly "aspire.'
But the friends OF Mr.. Simmons say the
| Simmons tide has now set in in earnest,
| and that it's food is due on election day;
when he will be triumphantly elected;
| that he is stronger today than ever be-
| fore, and will be stronger next week than
now; that a great many former Waddell
| and Jarvis men are coming over to their
side. seeing the hopelessness of the cause
| of their first choice and preferring Mr..
| Simmons next, and that others will come
! to him without personal preference, be-
| cause they see it will be best for the
party
The publication yesterday of a letter
written by ten. Carr in December, 1897,
| to Secretary De Salssure, of the Bankers
| Convention, held at Atlanta. and in
| which Gen. Carr made the statement that
) he endorsed the bill of Congressman
| Fowler OF New Jersey, designed to
firmly fix the money standard OF this
country upon gold basis" is adding to
the "gayety of nations at this writing.
| The letter comes to light in the course OF
a reply by Judge W. r. Allen to attacks
by Mr.. j. r. Webster upon Mr. Simmons.
THINKS 1T SHOULD BE UNANIMOUS.
The withdrawal of ex-governor Jarvis
from the Senatorial race was generally
commended by ALL and it is matter OF
common report here, as these lines are
being written, that Colonel Waddell will
retire soon. AS a good party man re-
, marked today: 1T would not be any
more surprising than it would be strictly
just to see the Senatorship eventually
rendered to Mr. Simmons in the same
manner in which the gubernatorial nom
nation was so handsomely delivered to
| Mr.. AycOck. Id love to see it done that
entirely proper way!: he added. So
would the great majority of true Demo
Gratis of North Carolina if the talk one
hears in the hotel Hobbies here nowadays
is indicative of the sentiment obtaining
in the various sections and counties rep
resented by the talkers-mOst of whom
are talking very earnestly about the mat
ter, too, it should be added
| The country newspapers - those
never-failing refectors of public sentiment
in their respective communicative
never been more pronounced and earnest
in their expressive English. within my
recollection embracing period of q
quarter OF a century. to say no more
and constant reading of and contact
with theml, than during the last week
in speaking their mind on any sub.
iect.
To the glory and credit and everlasting
honor of the North Carolina country
newspapers" be it said today. as it could
have been said ever since the present
stamp OF men have been editing them
They are free and untrammeled; they own
their own little penny cedar pencils and
the Washington hand-presses and ''cylin
ders'; and their consciences are in nc
mans keeping.
They DO speak their own minds and
the sentiment of the communities they &C
faithfully represent, and their devotion to