The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1903-11-19
OUR RALEiGHLEITER'
THINGS SEEN AND HEARD AT THE
STATE CAPITAL.
Indications of a Close Contest IN the
Race for GoveInor-Gorman and the
Presidential Nomination - Other
items
GORMAN NEW BUREAU.


RALEIGH. \. c.. Nov. 16, 1903.
Within year from this date a new
governor Of North Carolina, and other
State executive and judicial and legisla-
live officers and county officials, will be
elected. Most of these will be nominated
by their respective conventions within
seven or eight months-and yet no one
can accurately or confidently predict who
even the next governor will be. to say
nothing OF the smaller fry Stedman,
Turner, Doughton, Glenn and Davidson
all appear to have d large following, es-
pecialIy in their respective congressional
districts. and at least two or three OF
them will have a strong support III the
east. All of these gentlemen are lawyers
land good ones and the only gentleman
not lawyer whom | have heard seri-
ously mentioned in connection with the
gubernatorial nomination OF the Demo
cratic party is Col. l.. Banks Holt, the
| prominent cotton manufacturer OF Ala
nance county Present Indications point
| to one of the closest contests Of many
years, and so far it seems to be nip and
tuck" between the three leading aspi-
| rants.
Indeed the coming year promises to be
| one of the most interesting, politically,
| and the Presidential and Congressional
contests will be unusually exciting.
Many of the leading Republican papers
seem to stand in mortal fear of the NOM
| nation OF Senator German, and are try
| ing to discourage it all they can. They
know that as a Presidential candidate
| Senator German would command the
| confidence of that mighty force in every
| election up North, the business Interests
F! OF the country" as well as the support
of his native solid South and that
would elect him, for both lack confidence
in Roosevelt and are afraid of his freak
notions and performances. With an
election next year. and four years OF
power before him, lie would be less eau
tious than ever, and there's no telling
| what he might do" said a prominent
| Northern business man and capitalist 8
few days ago. This fear OF Roosevelt il
more widespread and general in the North
than most people in the South are aware
OF.
Gov. AycOck, Senator Simmons. anC
most of our Congressman, are pronounced
German men, while Senator Overma1
and the others are friendly to his nomi
nation. 1t is not yet known what figur
ex-President Cleveland will cut in the mex
national convention and campaign
There ore many, including not few
North CarOlinians. who believe he Ough
to be northumberland forced to accept
need be. Others think not, and sti
others say he will not allow the use c
his name in the convention.
There is no class of people so Difficult
to organize in their own interests as tn
farmers of the South is a statemen
that has been made to me on high al
, thority several times during the last fe,
years, and some of the largest and mos
intelligent farmers of North Carolina hay
endorsed the truthfulness of the assel
ton when | repeated it to them
+ Nevertheless, another attempt is bein
made this week to organize the tObacc
, growers of North Carolina and Virgini
, into an Interstate alliance. The meetin
q is being held at Danville, Va, beginnin
= Tuesday OF this week. Col. John S. Gun
ningham, President of the North Carolin
Tobacco Growers Association the Mort
Carolina Farmers Protective Associ;
tom, and some other prominent Ta
: Heel tobacco producers, are in attent
: ance. In the meantime the local new
q papers of Durham, Oxford, Wilson, an
other leading tobacco markets, are pul
> fishing accounts of large sales of IL
!. weed on the warehouse floors at great
h improved prices-the ia. Ilers being T.
II ported as boing ''sa tieficd' with Il
r prices obtained. Better grades of tobacc
S were sold, as a rule. All of which is e.
8 cOuraging, and very welcome news.
During the agitation of the liquor que
:, ton in North Carolina this year election
have been held in 81 towns, Is of whit
voted for prohibition Or dispensary ar
: against the open saloon. and voted /
remain wet At one place the electic
has not yet been held Durham is tt
largest town to adopt prohibition sin
Raleigh tried it some 1 5 years ago, al
much interest is felt in the result of Il
trial there
The Trinity College boys have formt
a tennis association and several ne
courts are being made. The baseball mt
at Trinity are preparing for next sprir
by taking crOss-cOuntry runs of two al
four miles every week. Manager Gil
bons says he will have a fine. winni1
team for 1904.
jury here last week awarded viii
boy named George Smith, a brakema
$50, 900 damages against the Seaboal
Air Line r. r. Co., for the loss of |,
and arm. The boy, who is 10 years o
now, was receiving $50 per month at Il
time OF the injury, SO the jury paid him
like salary in advance for 100 years as
solace. Next day the Judge set the We
: dict aside as being excessive and again
} the weight of evidence.
The Thanksgiving-dinner turkey G.
r OF distress is being hauled to town |
V our country cousins this week
LLEWNAM