The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-10
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resentative Pou. OF North Carolina is
quoted as saving:
You may safely say that it is practic-
ally the unanimous wish of the Demo-
Gratis of the House that there shall be abb
solutely no reference to the money ques-
ton, as involving free silver. in the Chi
cago platform. That is past issue and
should be dropped. In my opinion, the
coming campaign will be fought very
largely on the personality of the two
candidates. In Judge Parker the Demo-
Gratis will nominate man of strong con-
servatism, of a judicial mind and COM
| plete appreciation of the constitutional
| limitations of the office Of President. He
will be contrasted with the candidate of
the Republicans, who has shown himself
| to be impulsve, somewhat erratc and
uncertain and with little regard for the
limitations placed on the power of the
President by the Constitution. The COM
parison is very favorable to Judge Park
err and. believe. he will win
| Colonel ''Dck'' Bright. sergeant-at arms
in the Senate when the Democrats were
in the majority there, tells Of a revivaist
who came to a little town in Virginia
lsome years ago. The revivalist was earn
est and enthusiastic and went about the
village when he was not preaching to
drum up people to come to his meetings
| Meeting an old man on the street he
said: my friend, do not see you at our
revival meetings"
'What would do at revival meet
ing?" asked the old man crafty.
Don't you ever pray?''
mo, SIR" said the old man as he moved
away. Il carry a rabbit foot"
Representative Gregg, of Texas, de-
scribes an inscription on tombstone
which Re saw in an Arkansas graveyard,
says the Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger 1t reads: '"This
stone is sacred to the memory of Will
Lam Hardy, who comes to his death by
fooling with colt revolver on one of the
old brass mounted, and Of such is the
kingdom OF heaven
This reminded Representative Johnson
of South Carolina of a queer inscription
On headstone in his own State. 1T is
all a matter of punctuation" said John
son. "There is in my State a tombstone
which reads: Erected to the memory of
as mark of affection by his brother
In telling this to one of my representa-
tive friends continued Johnson, ''he res
marked: You people in the South have
peculiar ways of showing affection
There is alarm among clerks in the
Capitol over recent patent medicine ad-
vertisement, if the Washington Post is
correct. The advertisement depicts ex-
Representative Romulus T. Kinney. of
North Carolina known on his native heath
as the bull of the woods as an advocate
of the use OF certain nostrum. But as
the reader delves into the testimonial it
appears that Mr.. Linney administered the
medicine to his private secretary. The
very first bottle began to build the youth
right up. Reading between the lines, one
lnfers that the private secretary might
not have been much good till Mr. Linney
gave him the medicine
It may have been an nadvertence on
the part OF Mr.. Lnney to speak as he
did about the efficiency of the very first
bottle, but Congressional clerks do not
want any precedents of that kind set by
statesmen who perpetuate lher fame in
medicinal advertisements
| good humored passage between Sem
ators Depew and Carmack some days ago
recalled an incident of Indiana politics
many years back. Senator Depew had re-
marked that he was born and reared
Democrat, but had changed after he grew
older and wiser. Mr.. Carmack retorted
that he had once heard of another dis
tingulshed Republican who had said the
same thing and that his Democratic op-
pOnent had replied $50 Satan, as he
trod the burning mari of hell, boasted that
he too, was once an angel of light
Such was the reply that former Senator
Turpie made to Oliver p. Morton. really
says the Washington Post. The exchange
between Mr. Depew and Mr. Carmack
was entirely good natured, but one can
imagine the intense bitterness of tone and
manner with which the retort was uttered
by David NJ. Turpe
This talk that has been going on in the
House about lynchngs,'' said original and
popular Colonel BILL Sterrett, who drift
ed into town from Texas last week. ''re-
minds me of thing that happened down
in my State a few years ago. Jim Hodges,
local orator of the Blackburn stamp,
was just coming into his house when his
boy rushed UP and yelled, Pop, they're
gon' to lynch q niger over by the clear
Ine!'
Jim jumped on his horse and rode like
mad for the scene of trouble. They had
the niger on a platform and were just
getting ready for the final act when Jim
burst into the clearing and checked his
foam fecked horse. 'Stop!' he yelled,
with an imperious wave of the hand.
Everything came to dead stop, and
Jim springing upon the platform began a
! speech that promised to break all ora
torical records.
= Nv friends he cried sthink what Won