The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
TO CONFER THERE TODAY
Mr.. Roosevelt's Southern Appointeei
Brighten Old Timers
DR.. MOTT GOES TO SEE THE PRESIDENT
He is a Convert to Lcga Harris Sch'me Henry
Skinner New Wears a Radical Jacket, He
J,ins the Greensboro Crowd. The
Ex.cuYe Committee.

Senator Pritchard and all the Repub
lcan office holders in the State, who
weigh as much as thirty cents, assemble
in Greensboro today.
Collector Carl Duncan, Postmaster
Bailey DR.. D. H. Abbott, Maj. Hiram
Grant and Revenue Collector Lewis,
made their departure yesterday after
noon.
At the meeting today Pritchard and his
crowd will attempt to locate their bear
ings. They will train their field glasses
on Logue Harris and the new McLaurin
party, and if the enemy is ascertained to
be cutting all the ice that Loge has
vouched for, they are scheduled to exc
cute 1.-The loop, the loop"
1.-The meeting is of no great import
ance," said a Republican yesterday. at
is just for the purpose of going over the
situation and to give Senator Pritchard
the opportunity of comforting with his
friends" All this seems innocent enough,
but there is more alarm among Republic
can office-holders than is generally sup
posed They are fearful of their scalps,
which Logue Harris is clamoring for, and
they do not see the slightest shade OF a
silver lining in the clouds from Alabama
and South Carolina. The appointments
President Roosevelt has made in the
South, which Logue declares to be the
hand writing on the wall, look bilious to
the average Republican ice-holder in
North Carolina. Hence the Greensboro
meeting.
Harry Skinner. who has made the cir
cult from Populism to Republicanism
without even casting shoe, joined the
Raleigh delegation here yesterday and
was soon comfortably and happily seated
between Collector Carl Duncan and Post
master Bailey. Skinner, who is pining
for Demands scalp, has decided to cast
his lot with the old timers rather than
take chances with McLaurinism, with
Loge at the helm.
At the meeting today there will be rep
yrcsentatives from all parts of the State.
Even Claude Bernard, whom some OF his
enemies are trying to regulate to the tail
end of the procession, announces that he
is one of the chosen few. Claude has
enemies to spare, but he is swinging on
with desperation.
Loge Harris statement that he would
have the designations or scalps'' of the
members of the Executive Committee un-
less they get down and out of the band
wagon caused no end of comment. All
of the members of the committee, save
one are comfortably located in office.
The members of the committee and the
positions they hold are given herewith:
]. C. Pritchard, chairman, United States
Senator.
T. S. Rollins, son-in-law Of Pritchard
and his law partner.
L. c. Duncan, Collector Internal Reeve
nIe.
Fl. S. Harkins, Collector Internal Revc-
rue.
"A. E. Holton, United States District
Attorney
Fl. c. Dockery, United States Marshal
j. NJ. Millilsen. United States Marshal.
Tyre Glenn, Postmaster at Greensboro
j. W. Long, Postmaster at Statesville.
C.. T. Bailey, Postmaster at Raleigh.
Starkey Hare, Revenue Doodle.
Il. j. Lewis, Revenue Doodle.
W. J. Sutton, Revenue Doodle.
T. d. Jones, Chairman Republican COM
mittee, Fourth District
T.. v. WdISGF, supreme court Reporter.
II. p. Cheatham, colored, Recorder of
Deeds, Washington, d. G.
Spencer Blackburn, Congressman.
In the meantime Loge Harris moves
morrily on using his stick, with which
he has stirred the monkeys. Loge prom
ises to use the stick with even greater
effect before snow hits the ground. He
has located his field of operation, and he
says il designations do not soon ma
terialize the dear people may expect to
hear something drop.
Loge has a new recruit. DR.. Mott has
been resurrected from the past and has
gone to Washington to see Roosevelt. He
has absorbed Loge's ideas and believes
that the Republicans should "go way
back" and make way for the McLaurin-
lies.
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