The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-05-10
{ From Our Regular C"rIespondent.)

RALEIGH. y. e., May 5. 100.
Here is the ticket put up by the Repub-
licans last week and the general COM
rnent is that it is weak one, not even
on par with the Populist toy-soldier
slate:
For Governor, Spencer B. Adams. OF
GuilfOrd; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Claude
Dockery. OF Richmond; Auditor. }. 5. Rol-
Inns. OF Madison; Secretary OF State }. r.
Parrott OF Lenoir; Treasurer, l.. L. Jen
kins. Of CASTOR; Attorney General, Il. V.
Walser, Of Davidson; Superintendent OF
Public instruction, y. c. English. OF Ran
dOlph; Commissioner of Agriculture. Abner
Alexander. OF Tyrrell; Commissioner OF
Labor, r. $. Malloy. OF Rockingham; Cor
pOraton Commissioners, {. \. Reynolds,
of Forsyth (siX years term). and ]. \.
Francks, Of Swain. Gour years term);
Electors-at-L Large. \. H. Price. of Rowan,
and j r. McRary, OF Davidson; Delegates
to National Convention. letter C. Prit-
chard James +. Boyd Charles McNamee
and f. e. Duncan Most of these are we'll
known Republicans but none Of eXtraOr
binary ability. and neither nor al calcu-
lated to set the political woods atire.
\. II. Price one OF the electors. is a son
OF Hon. Charles Price. Of Salisbury. He
placed Judge Adams i'll nomination Tor
Governor. and the eloquent speech he
made caused his selection as electOr. He
had not been thought of in that connec-
ton previously. | am informed.
wHITEsT STATE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
EVER HELD.
1t was a ''lly-white' affair. as nearly
as could be made-only about 20 of the
| $40 delegates being negroes or 'coored.
h1 hnI1 r,l.,Jy, to
pleXiOn. and the great majority We're
office holders
Had Senator Pritchard fully succeeded
| in his plans, there would not have been a
| negro delegate in the conventions As it
was. his orders in this respect were pretty
| faithfully carried out.
Oh cDTrS" this was only Il temporary
| luse. chiefly for the benefit of the Western
| voters ana the next convention will
| again be as black -and-tan affair with Il
| maJOrlty Of negro deleyates) as any OF
| the predecessors Of this one The negroes
| are Excepting out Of sight" during this
campaign (only till election day. how
ever. when they Will all show up in
order to carry out the game OF false pre-
lenses introduced by the Republican
| managers 1t will not work. however,
as the ruse is so plain an idiot can see
through its purposes.
| All the nominations We're made by ''ilc-
ciamation. and there is not IA candidate
on the ticket who at heart entertains the
slightest hope OF election.
WHY NO STATE ''FrsION'' 50 FAR.
The only reason there has been no
''fusiOn' between the POpulsts and Re
| publlcanS on the State ticket to date. is
| because both parties recognize that il
would be hopeless to attempt to defeat
the Democrats this wear.
Knowing defeat is certain they adopt
such plans as they think will most con
tribute to mislead the common people. "
uiSreprpsent the amendment. the at
tempt to defeat which is the chief end anG
aim OF both OF the opposition parties this
year. When it comes To Legislative AND
county and congressional candidates
there will be fusion in many counties
and several districts.
RUSSELL sN,BBED AND HIS FRIENDS MAD
The old sore which Gov. Russell has
| been nursing was aggravated by the
action OF the convention in Snubbing the
Gov@rnor by declining to send him as one
| OF the four delega t-large to the ma
tlonal convention, it always being usila
to send the Governor as such delegate by
the party in power
Another direct slap at the Governor
was the selection OF Attorney Genera
Walser as chairman of the convention
the one official OF the present State ad
mnistration whom GOV. Russell has III
sisted on ''supprpSsing as far as posi-
bic.