The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-26
REMNANT NOTES
FROMGREENSBORO
Some Effects of the State
Convention.
GAVE VOICE TO GLENN
How Regulations Were Gained and
Lost BY Attending the Greatest
Convention in the History
of the State of North
Carolina.
Carolina.
BY EDWARD r.. BRITTON.

BY EDWARD T.. BRITTON.
Groups on the streets of Raleigh
close about talking citizens in the
centre were familiar sights in Rail
eish yesterday. SO it is certain 1t
was also in other towns and cities
IN North Carolina, for post-conven7
ton talk of the personal experience
order is always delightful.
And those folks who went to
Greensboro last week had plenty to
talk about Things happened there
at a mile q minute gait, and it did
not require that man be an impress
slonist for him to become surfeited
with impressions. The convention
furnished stacks and cords of them.
Governor Aycock was talking of the
shouting Yesterday. He did none of%t
himself and hence he could afford to
poke fun at the boys with hoarse
voices or those who spoke in thin and
wheezy tones. Said he:
II met a delegate on the train COM
ing from Greensboro. l spoke 10 him
in salutation, but all he did was to
look at me, while his lips worked
stricken dumb and 1 leaned down,
my ear close to his mouth. In a
thin, PARKWAY voice like the ghost
Of a sadly broken photograph he
said:
Wasn't it glorious %
What's become of your voice."
asked.
Gave it to Glenn" he wheezed at
me.
l#E]w8M
George Norwood and John Thomp-
son, the two big-bodied Glenn cham
pions Of Raleigh, were almost bereft
OF speech because of their shouting
in Greensboro, and till late yesterday
were simply telling how it happened
by means of gestures. Later in the
afternoon they We're able to whisper.
and today forgot, its Sunday, so
will say tomorrow-they Will be able
to give in full voice, deep-chested
tones, the thrilling story of how Glenn
got there.
There's a good story told of a Glenn
man and a Stedman man who went up
to Greensboro to the convention. II
is that the Glenn man, who is strictly
temperate at home got somewhat
thirsty in Greensboro and imbibed too
much, while the Stedman man. who
takes his, if he wants il, AT home did
not take a drop in Greensboro
The two We're together on the re-
turn trip. Said the Stedman man to
the Glenn man:
Say, you won your candidate I'D
Greensboro and lost your reputation.
lost my candidate and regained my
reputation"
The Wake delegation at Green's
boro Jared badly in the apportioning
OF seats, as they were off to the side
on the right of the platform. The
delegates could hear, but could not
see. They were, however, very lucky
in being guests at the Hotel Guilford,
for Mr.. Marion Cobb and Capt. Fl'y
took splendid care of their guests and
handled the great crowd splendidly.
The meals were a revelation to those
who attend conventions.
The headquarters of Major Sted-
man, Mr.. Turner and Captain Glenn
were at the Guilford, and it was also
the abiding place of Governor Aycock
and many other distinguished maa
Everybody seemed pleased, and SINH.
lar good reports come from guests
at the other hotels.
That was clever advertising
scheme of Secretary Joseph Pogue.
for advertising the State Fair who
attended the great convention at
and distributed two thouS-
and score cards among the delegates
for their use in keeping tab on the
balloting for governor and other
officers. and were generally used and
appreciated by the delegates, as no
other score cards were provided
The great crowd at Greensboro was
handled as we'll as it could have
been in an imDrovised hall. / noticed
that the greatest disorder in the hall
was on the right and left of the plat
form, where the delegates could
neither see the speakers or hear their
voices. [ don't blame them for keep
ing UP a racket. I would have been
at it had I been so situated.
A circular platform would have
been an Improvement, and better still,
a second smaller platform should
have been built on top of the first, and
on this the chairman should have
been seated, with walking space
for the speakers. This would have
raised them above the visiting states
men and newspaper men on the plat
form and would have aided to quiet
the convention.
A great help in adding UP the votes
for governor was given by the able
gentlemen who manipulated four
counting machines. and thus saved
lime. The first ballot consumed two
lours and of the additions had been
Of the result would have been long
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