The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-07
Spirit of the Press
Lenoir Landscape and Genre.

New York Sun.
BY the kindness of Mr.. r. l.. Gray,
of The Raleigh News and Observer we
can see and hear the Hon. Bob Glenn,
Democratic candidate for Governor of
North Carolina. Bob is picture in
warm colors. beautifully framed. He
is at Lenoir, the place which the pro-
nouncing angels call 'Lenore." The
charms of nature and of the Daven-
port Female College surround Bob.
The giant trunks of seven immense
white pines enclose the speakers plat
form. Fifty or seventy-five of the
young women, seated on the grass,
made, with the light colors Of their
dresses, a pretty picture"
'They were pretty, too. The sun
had blushed their faces and the
warmth of the day had just moist
ened their hair so that it went
into curl. They shook the next
Governors hands and twittered
with pleasure at his smiling COM
pliments. If l was as pretty as
you girls, he said, there wouldn't
be a Republican left in Caldwell.
Go to work, girls. for the ticket
TO which the girls responded with
a we'll rendered 'Rah, Rah, Rah,
Clennn"
A breeze and breezy Bob "blew con-
stantly through the long needles of
the trees and famed the people sit
ting in the shade" Everything was
al it's best. Breezy Bob was at his
best when "he declared that he would,
as it were. shake his fist in the Presi
dents face and denounce the Presi-
dents words as false There was a
chorus of applause that sounded like
'Amens! from the corner of camp
meeting" The young women sang
America" and 1.-The Old North State"
\, Il $40
greenwood tree.
But cen within Paradise there was
snake:
Directly in front of the stand
two young bloods, with high col
lars and wearing red ties. sat in
a high red-wheeled buggy with a
green wagon body. Twenty min
utes after the commencement of
the speech they attempted to drive
away. AS they turned their horse
to and fro among the people, cut
ting the wheels this way and that,
the disturbance was considerable.
The horse stepped over babies and
boys sprawling in the grass, and
the buggy backed into the Wo-
men, to their great CONSERVATION.
For few minutes no one thought
of anything except the efforts of
the young fellows to control their
horse. Glenn, however, did not
stop his speech until after one of
the young men had gotten out and
the other was driving the buggy
down the road directly past the
speaker; than he hit quick and
hard: Never mind that he said;
it's nothing but q horse and bug
gy' fhe crowd howled it's pleas
ure, and the young school girls
who had been suffering from the
ogling of the youths, ClapDed de-
lightedly, While the eliminated
young men, blushing to the ears,
drove away at a three minute clip,
followed by the derisive laughter
of the people"
The leering rascals in the buggy and
red ties were Republicans, of course.
Away with them, and look at some in
nocent bits of genre:
AN Old man with billy goat
whiskers stood I'D for the two
hours of the speech and mumbled
after the speaker, evidently re-
citing the words one by one.
can ample old mother from the
country, dressed in a black and
white dotted skirt. waist and a
hat with a black rooster plume,
\ sat on a bench under n tree and
dipped snuff while she showed
toothless joy at the jokes and
meanwhile administered old-time
comfort to little yellow headed
kid, some three years Old. The
kid was much invigorated by its
drink and proceeded to amuse
itself by running up and down the
path.
"At the conclusion of burst OF