The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-08-16
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
RALEIGH, y. C., August -, 1900

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The Presidential and Congressional
campaign will not begin actively i'll North
| Carolina until September LIST.
There are several good reasons for this.
| not the least important one being that
| the man upon whom the success of the
party will chiefly depend has just com
pleted seven months OF the hardest work
he or you or | ever did, and needs and
certainly deserves a rest before under
taking the arduOus work of another
campaign.
Chairman Simmons has given all OF his
time for the last four months, and by far
the most of it for the three months pre-
| viously, to the work OF managing the
great contest which has just resulted in a
signal victory for DemOcracy-and for
Simmons.
| add the last three words because
know whereof | speak when | say that
the Democrats OF North Carolina owe r.
NJ. Simmons more than they can ever pay
him in an ordinary life time. | know,
absolutely, OF no other man in the State
| to whom we could have turned with such
confidence as we did to him last winter,
| nor one who would or could have con-
Quoted such mastery campaign and
achieved such glorious victory.
Indeed it would have been no victory
at all, had we had an incompetent and
less determined and less courageous cap
tain at the helm.
In recognition of these services (as we'll
q. for the equally good work of two
years ago. most all the Democrats here
about, whom hear express themselves
say that of course we will send him to
the United States Senate in Buffers
place, and some add that they don
think any Democrat in North Carolina
| ought to compete with him for the honor;
that it should be unanimous.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
The Democrats Of the Fourth Raleigh)
district will hold their convention in this
city on September 9th, and it appears to
be at least probable that the present in
| cumbent Hon. j. W. AtWater, OF Chat
ham POp-Dem), will be able to secure a
denomination, though this is not settled
definitely. If he does not, then Capt. W.
b. Shaw. OF Vance, Armistead Jones, of
Wake, or +. W. Pou, of Johnston, will
probably be the nominee This district
gave 5000 ma iOrity for the amendment
AtDurham last Thursday the fusionists
failed to nominate IL candidate to run
against W. W. kitchin in the Fifth dis
| trict, but adjourned to meet at Green's
boro September 9TH Some think that
Spencer b. Adams will yet be able to cap
ture the nomination. while there are at
the same time some rumOrs concerning
the putting up OF Il nOn-partisan, ANTI
Bryan business man a gold Democrat,
in other words
MINOR MENTION.
Standing Master Shepherd will to-mor-
row (Iuesday) resume the hearing in the
railroad tax assessment cases at Char
lotte
Next week "wednesday, 22nd instant)
the unvelling ceremonies OF the splendid
bronze statue of the great Vance take
place. The prospects are that thousands
of visitors will be here
The Democratic State Executive Com
mittee will soon be called together.
Chairman Simmons states, for the purpose
OF arranging for the holding of primary
for nlted States Senator They will, |
learn from another source. probably be
left to the various county organizations
each county holding the primary as ar
ranged by the county committees, etc
All who voted the Democratic State
ticket will be entitled to vote at these
primaries.
OF the State Farmers Alliance to meet to-
morrow Tuesday) at Hillsboro.
The eighth annual session of the Baptist
Sunday-School Chautauqua meets at
LenOir tomorrow (Tuesday), and will
be in session most of the present week
The New Berne Fair will this year he
held November 10Th to 18th, land will
be better than ever the management
states.
The Democratic State Committee, in
balancing accounts last week, found that
the expenses of the campaign had run the
committee in debt for over 81 700, that
being the excess OF expenditures over re-
celpts. \ gentleman told me to-day that
Chairman Simmons thereupon gave his
personal check for$ 900 of that amount.
and will undertake to raise the balance.
Our splendid chairman thus leads all con-
trlbutors to the campaign fund (by $500
more than any other subscriber) in ad-
dltiOn to giving more than half the year
OF his time and labOrs exclusively to the
cause. +. NJ. Simmons is a leader worth
having.
The Association of Photographers of
North Carolina and Virginia, which met
last week in Richmond, decided to hold
their next meeting in Raleigh, date yet to
be fixed LLEWXAM