The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-15
Maj. GRANTS DISH FOR WAYNE
VOTERS.

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down a Job in the Federal building in
Raleigh, went down to Goldsboro
| Wednesd to nominate ticket Tor
the Republican and the Ring-tali
crowd of that county. That's what
Federal officeholders are in office for
and Grant. it seems, returned to his
old tricks in the Wayne county con-
ven ton In order to show how pap
| suckers and discredited Radicals run
the negro-revenue doodle party in
North Carolina we give below an &C
count of the convention taken from
the Goldsboro Argus:
AT noon today the court house
bell rang and subsequently a number
of old line Republicans and all of
their recent recruits from the defunct
Populist party who have now become
Republicans, nearly all of the best
PopulstS having long since joined the
Democratic party, met in the court
house and We're called to disorder by
Major H. L. Grant. who on coming TO
the chair delivered himself of one of
his characteristic TRADES of denun-
citation against the Democratic party.
He denounced it for passing the con-
stitutional amendment, thereby he
said, depriving the negro of the right
TO vote. He then assailed the Watts
law, and attempted to array the coun-
try people against the town people,
and to hear him one would think That
he was the apostle of the antl-pronlbl-
tionSts, whereas in fact he has been
one of the most active of prohlbltlon-
lists; and now for the mere purpose OF
advancing, if possible. dominion or
Republican party he makes the Watts
law the burda<-of his TRADE against
the Democratic party. And in the
midst of his unfair assault upon the
Watts law he was Interrupted by
Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson, Lifelong
Republican and delegate to the con-
vention, who called Major Grant down
sharply for his unfairness and lncon-
sistency. This resulted in spirited
parley between the two. but the crowd
We're with Major Grant, who stands
for anything to beat the Democratic
party" but Judge Robinson by his elo-
quent and manly defense OF MS posi-
ton or the temperance question ana
yet adheres to the principles of the
Republican party, won the admiration
and applause of all fair minded men
who heard HIM. Judge Robinson de-
nounced the resolution, prepared Dy
and hidden away in the pocket OF
Major Grant as a gag measure ana
demanded to know where they nad
originated, DIS ne Ildd never SeNll tiiCAii
He moved that a committee OF llVe
nted to prepare and report
resolutions; but the autocratlc MAJOR
simply patted his breast pocket ana
exultantly told the Judge that he had
the resolutions safely awaiting ms
own sweet pleasure OF producing
them, and that they would be passed
by the convention without an APP
pointment Of any committeeman
they were. In fact, Major Grant was
the convention. He was entirely II,
ana when it came in order to nom1-
nate candidates, and some delegate
happened TO nominate some one for
some office whose name was not on
the Majors slate, why IT simply
suggested" that-oh-Well--it was
the most disgusting assumption and
exercise of one man rule ever vet at
tempted in the name of any party
The Rlng-tail ticket put out byI
Major Grant will go about Wayne
county and denounce ring rule.
Among those put on Grants ticket was
John r. Smith for sheriff. With Hir-
am L. Grant as ring master and John
r. Smith as the principal performer,
Wayne county will be treated 10 a
circus this year to the coon's task.
The dish set before the voters of
Wayne this year is the same they re-
jected with emphasis in 1898. There
have not been in North Carolina in
a quarter of a century two more dis
reputable political ringsters than
Hiram Grant and John r. Smith. AS
the whip" of the Radical caucus in
the Fusion Legislature, Grants con-
duct has made him politically odious
in North Carolina. He claims the
credit for putting Butler in the SEN
ate and Russell in the office of Gov
ernor and he was a leading factor in
thus disgracing the State in both in
stances North Carolina in 1898 re-
pudiated that whole gang that dis
honored the State. Grant and Smith
will find that the Wayne voters in
1904 will not return to the dish OF
bad government that the Revenue
Ring is trying to make them swallow.
There was a time when Grant posed
as great temperance reformer. His
conduct this week shows where he
stands.