The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-20
Republicans Rant and
Call For Dissatisfied.
RIP ROARING FARCE
Rad Executive Committee Brings the
0usted to the Front and Then
There is a Chorus of Any
thing Oh Lord, to Beat
the Democrats.

For genuine old time fun that breaks
buttons the performance by motley
assemblage at the Court House yester-
day was a priZe-winner.
Attempting to galvanize the corpse
of Wake county Republicanism there
gathered at noon an assemblage call
ing itself the Wake County Republi-
can Executive Committee" but when
it ended it had reached the stage os
being a nameless assemblage. Col
j. c. l.. Harris, who assisted in the
metamorphosis named it ''call-it ?what-
you-please'' and quoted with rapt voice
"a rose by any other name
But the assemblage evidently did
not think that Republican" is sweet
smeller, for they kicked off the nama
without getting a new one, unless
Dissatisfied a word which rolled
from mouth to mouth during the
meeting, is accepted.
Here is the sum and substance OF
the meeting in a series of resolutions,
which were not presented or adopted
but which were indicated by every
shouter at the conclaye:
Resolved. We want the jobs in wake
county.
Resolved. The people know we are
.epublicans, and our record is not
.iOrous, therefore we will get under
cover.
Resolved. We will call ourselves The
People and we will nightly shous
''SmaSh the Democratic Ring"
Resolved. We will become the par
ty of The Dissatisfied and we will in,
vite Radicals. Republicans, PopuiistA
and Sore Head Democrats to join with
us. y ssbsxsa
Resolved. Wake county has gone to
smash and we are the only folks WHO
can save it.
The conclave was a medley of dis
cord in how-to-do-it and varieSated
in it's make up. Before the main show
began Revenue Doodle j. p. H..
Adams, Postmaster c. Tom Bailey,
ex-Congressman John Nichols and
Jim Young, the colored excel. and
present Deputy Collector sat close to-
gether way up in front and fixed the
plans.
In the circus which later went on
there were a number of SnOrterS.
Among these were Postmaster Bailey.
Col. j. G. l.. Harris. who numbered
out sonorous sentences in deep notes,
ex-Congressman John Nichols, who
did things softly, Rowan Rogers, Fed
eral Court Crier. who constantly pop
ped out of the box which Postmaster
Bailey tried to keep shut, Assistant
Postmaster of Raleigh Leonard, j. l..
II. Adams, Deputy Doodler, Postmast-
cr Hudson, of Apex, eX-PopulISt Rep7
resentative j. M. Terrell. of Mark $
Creek, Hill King, Populist county
chairman. ex-District Attorney Claud-
JUS Bernard, Mr.. ClaudiuS Dockery.
who has managed to escape being
nominated for Congress. Besides these
there were a number of Revenue
Doodlers of various grades, some 9TH
er postoffice folks, few messy backs,
e. A. Johnson, colored. who once as
sisted Col. Harry Skinner as Distrlc!
Attorney, and Jim Hamlin. colOrei, OF
this city.
All told, there were about thirty
present. not counting peddler Of ap-
pies who retired during the deiibera-
lions. To keep back the fact that only
n few precincts were represented q,
Tom Bailey said when the meeting be-
gan, 1T is not necessary to call the
roll of precincts as 1t IL evident thas
there are plenty present" And then
he added, 1--WE would like to hear
from Col. Harris"
Col. Harris heaved himself off his
chair and announced that he had some
views. He presented these, his voice
growing louder and louder. He said
the Democrats In the county mac dona
terrible things and they ought to be
put out of office. He said that the
Republicans alone couldn't do this and
that q mass convention OF Republl-
cans, Populists and all dissatisfied
Democrats should be called and that
every man should bring his vote UNI
der his hat He denounced the Wake
county road law and insisted that the
dispensary cash profits should go to
the county for schools and not cent
to the city. He declared this was tho
time to skip away from the name Re-
publican and get in all the dissatis,
fed, predicting that the Democrats
would all go to pieces and that huge
stacks of them were dissatisfied, that
the Republicans were the only fellows
who had ever done things right in
Wake, and that the only Democratic
argument was that Roosevelt ate with
the negro Washington. He said that
Roosevelt ought not to have done SO
and that if he had lived in the South
he wouldn't. He raked up what he
called deep laid Democratic schemes
TO disuualify folks and his voice and
manner were real creepy. eff you peo-
pie have any spunk, manhood, cour-
age or pluck you will drive out the
Democrats from office" he Numbered
and then insisted that mass conven-
ton was the stuff to start on.
Here c.. Tom Bailey, postmaster
arose. at agree with Col. Harris en-
tirely." said he. Let us now heal
from Claude Bernard. he is good Re-
publican and has certainly been loya
to the Republican party. He can en-
tighten u.s.
Claude therefore arose. He said ne
was a spectator only, but would talk
He agreed with Col. Harris anc
trampled over the same ground, say
ing the mass convention was gooc
thing and that bis surprise was II
store for Wake Democracy. Aftel
much words of the same import ne
subsidized, his main idea being for the
Republicans to do the sneak act by
the Independent masquerade.
Ex-Congressman John Nichols, II
PRINCE Albert coat and much dignity