The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-16
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Correspondence OF The Messenger |
Greensboro. y. c. September Il. |
The meeting here Friday night OF anti
Clark. so called democrats, turned out
to be also an anti-demoCratic aggrega- /
ton so far as the completed results
proved. While IL was called ostensi- |
bly, to defeat Clark, on the high ground |
taken that he was not OF a sufficient |
high character politically or officially to |
occupy the supreme court bench. and
while many who engaged in the meet
ing TO organize for that purpose alone
and had come for that purpose alone.
yet the chief mischief done, or attempt
ed TO be done, was TO join with republi-
can schemes TO defeat kitchin for con-
gress, or by nominating a democrat
against him, so demoralize the county
campaign as TO effect the defeat OF dem
ocratic local candidates in that
were close.
Here was a conference OF men from
all parts of the state, high minded men
in financial and ordinary transactions
of life. who took IL upon themselves 10
come TO the fifth district for the pur-
pose, and having little enough political
sagacity to be side-tracked from that
into passing an edict OF destruction on
a man against whose public d
private life and official department not
one word has eve been uttered, ana
whose nomination for congress was
made by reclamation, not a voice being
raised in opposition. An effort was
| made 10 make it ppear that the two
| meetings were held separate and dls-
tinct and had no connection, the one
with the other, and literally they were
hall mart for after the conference OF
the anti-Clark contingent those from
the fifth district did eparate themselves
and go into a different room and pro-
ceed 10 nominate Mr.. Lindsay Patter-
son for congress.
The fact is, this whole matter was
carefully discussed in the state confer
| ence. and some of those present stoutly
opposed taking up the congressional
| fight for the republicans in this district,
| one of those present insisting tina J..
would be a great tactical mistake, ana
besides il would be utterly impossible
to defeat Kitchin. 1t is said hat MI.
| John w. Fries, of Salem, would listen 10
| nothing else. He, Mr.. Patterson anu
w. A. Blair, of Salem, were especially
strong in their condemnation or Kitten
| ms financial record, and 1t is said mat
when the fact that he defeated the
amendment to the state platform p
| dating in terms the Kansas City plat
| form was dealt upon at length by M.
Fries. the gold-bug ire of all present
was so aroused against kltchln, that
the conference came to terms, ana aiteF
this. the farce Of a fifth district meet
ing was gone through with, 70 mahe u
look to homefolks that outsiders "ere
NOT intermedling with their local al1alrs-
The self constituted actual representa-
tiyes of the fifth district VINO perfume
torily met and formally named MI.
Patterson were ]. w. Fries, w. A. BLAIR
i T0rnI pnl n0H
OF Guilford: James H. Holt, eugene
Holt and F. S. Williamson, OF Ala
nance: and J. E. Stage, of Durham
Two fifth district men, who were In the
conference over the anti-Clark organ
ization and in full sympathy with ~
but who bitterly opposed inter1errins
with fifth district democrats, refused &C
90 into patterson nomination caucus
and saw today they will cordially sup
port Mr.. Kitchin. ~.
The facts above recited are III tn
main absolutely reliable. IL is we
[ known here that this kltcnin ana n
was agreed upon at the republican con
ference with Pritchard,
REYNOLDS and others at the caucus Tues
. dav night, on the eve of the consres
= sional republican convention, anu TN
correspondent then communicated IN
intelligence that Mr.. Patterson WouId v
tho nominee. Mr.. Patterson denied ]
= at home and even yesterday, but he wa
giving his own mind and
, not realizing how a greater pol!' -
mower had decreed otherwise, anu III
y thing was, of course, made sucn an d.
a of heroism to him last night that n
succumbed. as had been predcted "he
e postmaster Reynolds, of winston
shrewdly conceived the plan, and COZ
j. WINGED Pritchard that with Patterso
cunning for congress in torsyln
would bring about bad blood amor
/ democrats in Forsyth to insure amor
n other difficulties the defeat Oh tnr'
n. democrats for the legislature.
have no idea the men here last mig
Is have any such object in view or ~ou
lie knowingly aid in such a thing, put tne
l. is no doubt about that being the ODD
of the republican managers In prlls1l
s. about this Patterson annex 10 the Il
boom. - :,
,aw central executive committee, sa.
- that he will soon open headquarters
- Greensboro and begin an actlVe Cal
naien for Judge Hill. Chairman PrltcI
ard will also have his
here where he will shell all democra
from Clark to Kitchin down TO TOW
iy ship democratic nominees lor Coh
Is. BILE. r =
81 chairman Whitaker also desires II
"a deny the report that he was in
FORMAL caucus Tuesday night WI
On Pritchard, Reynolds, Blackburn al
s. other republicans. or that ne was pre-
ent at the caucus here Wednesday mig
with Page, Day and Blackburn. ASK
if he did not have repeated conVers
as tions with them, he said they were OH
a social.
To 81 stood ia a
&c ..ht ~