The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-21
L|NGER ON THE WAY
Leading Politicians at
Bar Gathering?
| Want to be Delegate and With a
Delegate Sit, Lemonade, and
Cigars. and Tobacco
Glowing" Free.
Special to News and Observer.


Greensboro, N. c., June 20.-There
will not be a large attendance or
Greensboro lawyers at the meeting in
Charlotte this week of the State Bar
Association. Almost every attorney
here is closely engaged this week III
assisting on some important local COM
mittee Of arrangements for the State
Democratic convention.
Among those who have gone to
Charlotte today and tonight are Su-
preme Court Judge r. M. Douglas,
United States District Judge James f..
Boyd. Solicitor A. l.. Brooks and Mr.,
Il. p. King.
The usual advance leading politi-
clans" from the various sections have
not shown up as usual, several days
ahead. 1t is supposed that these
leaders" for the various candidates
have assembled at Charlotte instead,
they almost invariably being proml-
nent lawyers. 1t is thought by some
that the session of the Bar Association
at Charlotte, where the largest assem-
blage of lawyers ever known in tho
State are gathered, will prove an ideat
place for political ante-cOnVention log
rolling, and that when that body
moves on the convention to he held
Thursday in Greensboro, a larg por-
ton of the routine work at least viii
have been mapped out and Sre2t
many deals, trades, dickers, etc, gen
orally made in close executive sessions
behind closed doors in the various
candidates headquarters the uignt be-
fore the balloting begins in the con-
Vention, will have been cOnsGmnGated
in Charlotte.
The convention hail. when Will seat
FIVE thousand people, is about ready
for occupancy. Electric lights, fans
and additional VentlatorS are COM
pleted and decorations are being at
tended to now. In addition to free
mineral water the local committee Las
arranged for lemonade, cigars, lemon
waters, chewing tobacco, etc, to be
distributed free by the forty uShers So
lccted to direct delegates to their seats
and look out for their comfort and re-
treatment Many Of the largest busl-
rcss houses on Main street are already
decorated and the work goes bravery
on. Enquiry among the hotels shows
that they are prepared to room COM
fortably three thousand people. ami
private boarding houses can take care
Of q thousand more without GROWING.
AS for eating, 900 can be easily ac-
commodated in the hotels, boarding
| houses and restaurants and cafes.
Stedman buttons and badges are al
ready in evidence on the streets here,
and while Guilford county people are
entirely enthusiastic in his support
that they are not going to forget that
| they are hosts of convention visitors
who are enthusiastic for other candi-
| dates and attempt by unseemly dem
| onstrations to embarras or annoy OF
| take advantage of other constituencies
| however small they may be numeri-
| cally.
The proprietor of the BenbOW HO-
| tel was considerably nonplussed Sat
| Urday afternoon by Il strike among q
body of reserve force walters he had
employed for extra waiting service al
| the State convention. These waiter.
| had been engaged and were being paid
| without anything to do, so as to have
! them on hand to attend to the wants
| of the 1900 guests the hotel is pre-
| pared to entertain. Having nothing tC
| DO, Mr.. Benbow directed them Satur-
| day afternoon to go over to the new
annex and proceed to wash the win
| doWs just put in in the 100 new rooms
| there. In a few minutes he was waited
| en- by the walters in body, who re-
| fused to do the work on the ground il
was not their business and would in
! terfere with that of regular window
! washers.
Mr. .Benbow began to make inquir-
| les, with the result that he found his
old and supposedly reliable head wait
er had constituted himself a walking
delegate, had been among the new
help and advised their refusal to clear
windows. The head waiter was in.
continently discharged. the recalcitran
| Workmen became recOnciled and Wen
| to work on the windows and earning
part of the wages they had been re-
ceiving for doing nothing but wait fol
the oncoming crowd of convention
guests.