The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-09

ing a mixed ticket. Grover Cleveland
(panic producing republican,, for Presi.
dent and Hon. Chas. B. Aycock. orr
great democratic educational Governor.
Tor Vice-President. And they call it
happy combination" but it will never
combine, because democracy don't COM
bine with third-term republicanism
Aycock's supposed friends are playing on
him the biggest joke of the season.
Wilkesboro Chronicle.
Representative E ]. Harrington, of
Harnett, one of the older members of
the House. enjoys the distinction, which
Is perhaps a unique one in the present
House, of having been member of the
Legislature of 1864, the last one before
the surrender. He was elected out of the
army, from Co. A. of the Fifth Cavalry.
That Legislature adjourned with the in
tention of returning to the capital and
continuing the session, but in the mean
time General Sherman occupied the city,
md there was no more session of that
Legislature.
Mr.. Harrington has always been Dem
1crat of the true-blue variety and as he
Expresses it very happily never did fuse
Win dDvtnlNS.
Another enthusiastic supporter of Cen
eral Carr for the United States Senate
arrived in the cit yesterday. This is
Hon. ]. A. Long, president of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society. He is
right in the centre of the earnest work
ers for the nomination of General Carr.
The Senate is losing no time in proving
that it is hard working body. The
Committee on Rules got to work yester-
lay afternoon and at once adopted a set
of rules for the government of the Senate.
The committee is composed of Senators
Brown, London and Glenn, and they will
have the printed rules on the members
desks this morning
In the Senate the first turn in the
liquor traffic question was taken yester-
day by Senators Justice and Reinhardt.
The first put in a bill to limit the sale
of whiskey to incorporated towns that
had 500 residents within mile of the
centre, with a tax Of at least $1,000 for
State, county and town, while the second
put on his bill for a State tax of SIS cents
a gallon on all liquor manufactured in
North Carolina.
"There." said an ardent supporter of
certain Senatorial candidate yesterday,
1.-The. caucus has done a most unwise
thing about the Senatorial caucus"
whats that?" said listener.
''Why, the unlucky day of the week
Friday-has been selected as the begin
ming of the end in the Senatorial ques-
ton. and I'm willing to bet dollars to-
doughnuts that it is going to be an un-
lucky start for five sixths of the candi-
dates. The reason? Why, only one man
will find it a lucky start"
"Few die, none resign but some de-
cline, is the way to write the latest.
Mr.. o. F. Crowson, the able editor of
the Burlington News, is in the city. He
is valiant Democratic worker, and was
rendered the position of Keeper of Sta
tionery in the House of Representatives.
Mr. Crowson was gratifed at receiving a
telegram telling him of his selection, and
came to Raleigh, not to accept, but to
decline the position, as his business re-
Quires him at home.
1--WE folks in Guilford are for Cy Wat
son." said Mr.. Dixie Gilmer, the popular
Greensboro hotel man, at the Marlborough
last night. "In fact, we could not be
otherwise as WINSTON Salem is the thirty
ing neighbor of the Gate City, and we
like to encourage our friends in this live
little city,
Representative Scott, OF Alamance, has
secured the appointment of Mr.. James
E. Watson, of Graham, to the position
of stationery clerk in the House. Mr..
Watson is a son of Mr.. ]. H. Watson,
one of the "old reliables" of Alamance,
and the son is "a chip of the old block"
'The Republicans of the Thirtysixth
Senatorial District will nominate ex-
Representative Bryant, of Yancey coun-
ty. to succeed the late Senator Wilson,
said Representative Gus Aiken, Of
Pennsylvania at the Marlborough last
night
Mr.. G. II. Hasten, of the Winston bar,
reached the city yesterday and Joined
forces with the Watson contingency
to the outcome.
Mr.. ] A. Davis, of Caswell. has been
appointed to a position in the House of
Representatives.
Senatorial II story.
To the Editor: 1 see it stated in the
papers that Hon. Lee S. Overman's