Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-02
TIE OLDH0RTHSTAIE
SIMMONS PREDICTS OVER FITT,
THOUSAND DEMoCkAriC sIAJoRITY
DANIELS ALSO CONFIRMS THIS
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Raleigh Patchwork on the South
md Western Observation-Disclosures
Tobacco Company Chartered.

RALEIGH, NJ c., November 1.-(spe-
cial)-Democratic State Chairman SIM
mons was interviewed by the Dtspatch
correspondent to-day regarding the cleo
ton prospect and said
In the Legislature there will be only
about thirty votes not Democratic we
will elect ali our congressman. we VIII
carry the State by from $4,000 to eo.oo?
majority. The whites registered better
than was expected Full reports are. not
yet in from over half OF the counties. |
have partial reports from nearly all the
negro vote will not be much over 5000
The negroes as a rule. did not ask for
registration. There is q larger reglst1a-
ton of negroes here in Wake and IN
Alamance than In any other counties.
The negroes resent the way in which
Senator Pritchard treated them. Hence,
they did not seek to register.
WHAT MR.. DANIELS PREDICTS.
National Democratic Committeeman
Josephus Daniels was present when these
Inquiries were made Of the chairman. and
his views were also asked. He said:
Mr.. Simmons figures are. am sure,
very correct. We will have LOG OF the 40
members of the lower house. and we
shall have forty-ive of the fifty senators.
We shall carry the State by not less
than 5000 ma jority. and if there is big
vote. We will carry it by a yet larger ma
jority. We will elect all the congress
men"
Locke Craig. who was also present. said
his views conceded with those expressed
BY Ntessrs Simmons and Daniels. He
added:
ST understand that no negroes regis
tered irs scotlalfd or Robson counties,
because none applied. hear that this
was also the case in several other coun-
ties"
pICKPOCKETS GOT THOUSANDS.
AS the facts in regard to the work OF
oickpockets at. the State Fair set out,
go into the thousands. After this, de-
ectives from the North to take in these
hieves on their arrival will be q naces-
sity People here can do nothing with
hem.
Mrs NJ NJ Marshall wife OF the rec
eor Of Christ church. is critically i'll.
The negro State fair will be held here
next week It is the twentyflfth annual
tair
SOUTH AND WESTERN RAILROAD
The corporation commission was to-day
advised by the South and Western rail-
road. which is bo !?g constructed through
Mitchell! county by State convicts, that
twenty-seven miles are in operation and
the rails ana will soon be in operation.
This road begins at the North C,lrolina-
Tennessee line and runs over wavy route,
following g valley to Nebo. on the West
ern North Carolina railroad. There it
will cross the latter and run nearly par
a!lel with it to a point near Morganton,
where 1t will strike southwark towards
Lincolnton. It may be that the Seaboard
Airline is back Of this road. It has
"earn1arks" which make it SO appear.
MISCELLANY.
charter was granted to-day to the
Warsaw Warehouse Company; capital,
S25OO0.
The prizes for apples shown at the
State Fair at the apple show were sent
to the winners today. Moses y. Cone,
OF Watauga county. won eleven first
prizes and John Rarrow OF Haywood
county, won hve first prizes.
The open season for partridges began
to-day. It is said that birds are unusually
numerous as there was never a year more
favorable for them.
The visitors to the fair poured out of
the city to-day. They have had q happy
week Of it. The railway trains handled
about 10000. and the street-cars about
IS, Co.,; during the week. Both the trains
and the electric company broke all pre-
vious records.