The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-07
Under the Dome.

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Hon. Cyrus B. Watson is always ready
with wit or anecdote. or piece Of
! good humor.
| There is a gentleman in Raleigh who
| loves no beverage so we'll as persimmon
beer of his own brewing. Every winter
| he gathers choice persimmons, excellent
| locusts, and honey as good as that which
| flowed in the Promised Land. and then
| he brews his beer with all the skill that
! is required to have good beaten biscuit
| After it has stood a certain length OF
time-he figures it to the minute-he in
vites some friends to sample it. Yester-
day, the beer being ready, this gentle
! man invited Hon. Cyrus B. Watson, Hon
Lee S. Overman and Hon. Locke Craig
| Il name them in the order of their age) to
"christen" and sample his new barrel of
! persimmon beer. All of them are tenn
perance men. but they were glad enough
to try it. The first glass was handed to
Mr. Watson. He held it up, as the thirs-
| ty man holds his bumper, and looking
upon his competitors for the Senatorial
! toga, turned to Mr.. Overman and offered
this toast
"Mr. Overman, 1 drink to your sue
| cess
and all the little company looked. as
| founded that Mr.. Watson should propose
a toast to the success of a competitor,
but Mr.. Watson, pausing long enough to
let them recover from the shock, con-
tinued-
| ''as my successor
And as the little company gave forced
grin, as they saw how they had been
taken in Mr.. Watson went on to say to
Mr.. Overm3n:
''You are younger man than 1 am,
and can afford to wait.
A North Carolina paper-(not 1.-The Old
Reliable Unpublished among the arrivals
in Raleigh yesterday morning;
"Wescott Robinson. Greensboro"
Now Mr.. Wescott Robinson, who is a
popular member of the House from Gull
ford, filling his second term lives in
Il High Point The folks in High Point re-
gard Greensboro as pleasant little
court house village, but think High Point
ranks not a decree lower than Grand
Rapids as a chief manufacturing city
They didn't like the idea Of their repre-
sentative registering himself as from
Greensboro, and yesterday morning they
sent him this telegram:
l High Point, N. c., Jan. 6.
| "Hon. Wescott Robinson, Raleigh, y.
did you register from Greensboro"
TEN LEADING CITIZENS"
To this inquiry Mr.. Robinson replied:
Raleigh, N. c., Jan. 6.
Ten Leading Citizens, High Point, N. c.:
To-
/ town.
"WESCOTT ROBINSON"
And now Mr.. Robinson is reinstated in
the esteem of the people of High Point.
/ They do not object to their representative
hailing from great city like jamestown.
but they draw the line at country vii
lage like Greensboro.
Mr.. John NJ. Julian, editor of the Sails
bury Sun, who is in Raleigh as a warm
friend and supporter of Hon. Lee S. Over
man for the Senate, writing to his paper,
| says:
"Some are predicting a long contest,
and probably a deadlock, in the caucus,
and i'll that event a nimble pencil pusher
has been stuffng some of the great
dailies' of the North with improbable
stories. One of the latest of these is
the probability of the election of ex-
Senator M. W. Ransom. the writer, ap-
rarently, not once rejecting upon the
fact that General Ransom is not only not
seeking a re-entrance into active politics,
but is a way down east man, and hardly
eligible this year for election to the Sen
ate.
"If the Legislature should do the i'm
probable thing of throwing section to the
wind and decide to select an eastern man
it would be more likely in my opinion, to
select Governor Aycock than General Ran
som. But the indications. even in the
event of a protracted contest is that it
will do neither.
1.-The Watson men have been making
the biggest claims and doing the most
Dragging, followed by the Craigites. But
careful and astute politicians tell me that
Overman already has the inside track,
and that his chances for winning out
are the best. General Carr's friends
are hopeful, and now and then you hear
the name of Bob Glenn. Dark horses arc
being detected in some quarters, and Jas.
H. Pou, of Raleigh, is a prime favorite
with all who are looking for a dark
horse to win. But, as / have said, Over
man stock seems to be rated the highest
now, and it is the fact that he is con-
stantly growing in favor. He is said to
be much stronger now than he was a
month or two ago.
In an interview with an Observer re-
porter just before leaving. Senator Lamb
said that he and Mr.. Billiard had de-
cided to cast their votes for Hon. Lee S.
Overman for Senator. He did not know
how Mr.. Moore would vote. but thought
he was for Hon. G. B. Watson. Senator
Lamb said that his and Representative
Billiards. decision to vote for Overman
was on the ground that Ovcrman was
the caucus nominee of the Democrats
when Pritchari was elected By the Flu
sion Legislature. Mr. Lamb said that
he considered the most important issue
that would come up before the Legisla-
, ture, after the Senatorship, was the mat
, ter of taxation, and next, the regula ton
of the whiskey traffic He looks for. a
lively local fight over the HaymounI