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per should also be eligible. For ex-
ample: Bill Jones, Populist, voted
IN August against the amendment
and the Democratic ticket, but in
November votes TOR Bryan and
Stevenson and the Democratic nomi-
nee for Congress, so he votes in the
primary. John Smith, gold Demo
GRAFT, voted in August for the amend
ment and for the Democratic State
ticket, but does not vote in NOvem-
Der for Bryan and Stevenson, so he
votes in the primary.-Ex.
At the Republican Convention at
Elizabeth City Wednesday, DIR. A. B.
Alexander, of Tyrell, was nominated
and unanimously chosen candidate
for Congress, and Mr.. T. P. Wilcox,
of PasQUOtank for elector. The
executive committee was appointed,
one member from each county, and
the convention thereafter adjourned.
The Post correspondent at that place
says: The Populists hung on the
outskirts of the convention desiring
to get in TheO. White for Congress,
but their desires were ignored. So
they at once called their convention
and endorsed the Republican ticket.
Ike Meekins and D. O. Newberry,
who were nominated by some Repub-
licans last summer and have been
speaking throughout the district
were treated with silent contempt.
This means that they are not in the
fight and Mr.. Meekins' energy and
efforts to confront Congressman
Small have been wasted. Of course
Meekins and Mr.. Newberry will
have to come down.
Without doubt the Senatorial fight
is the hottest thing that ever came
down the pike. It wriggles, jumps
and spits fire like a live electric wire
out OF joint. The friends of Mr.. Carr
and Mr.. Simmons, the leading can
didates, are very active. Some dirty
work is being done and if it keeps up
at the rate it is now going until the
day of the election neither of the
men will retain enough honor to tote
green apples to a bear much less be
United States Senator. All kinds
of unnecessary reports are being cir
culated willfully and maliciously, by
what character of friends or work
ers of either candidate l cannot say,
but they are now a part of the cam
and are indecent and disgrace
full. I hope and believe that the
managers of both candidates are in
nocent of the personalities being in
dulged in. Mr.. Carr is accused of
being a common drunkard, while Mr..
is charged with being
of all kinds of fraud from bal
lot box stuffing to highway robbery.
If either bears the character given
him by certain political gossipers,
God forbid that he succeed Mr.. But
Ier.-H. E. G. Bryant, in Charlotte
Observer.
The story of the resuscitation of
Archie Kinsauls, the Sampson county
murderer, who was hanged twice
and pronounced dead, is attracting
much attention. The Wilmington
Star says: 1.-The story goes that
Kinsauls was cut down from
5he gallows as dead and Ostensibly
vas carried for burial to his home in
Ioneycutt's township, his body was
aiken in charge by physicians, re-
,uscitated and hurried on to a hos
1ital at Richmond, Va, his body be-
ng wrapped in blankets. Some con-
end that the story is plausible from
he fact that Kinsauls was very
light, weighing less than a hundred
pounds, and as the first fall did not
)reak his neck it is barely possible
hat the second produced a like re-
Furthermore, the Fayette-
lille Observer deposes and says that
man named Carter, a warm friend
# Kinsauls, went after the hanging
nd offered to sit up with the corpse.
His offer was politely declined, and,
when he asked to see the dead friend,
his was also refused, though he says
saw several physicians and others
,oing and coming from the room in
which the body lay. He asked about
he funeral but got no satisfactory
.nswer. He came home fully con-
-inced that there was a mystery
omewhere in the case" All of this,