The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-03-17
OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
Things Seen and Heard at the
State Capital.
GORMAN News BUREAU, |

also be called upon to consider prOpO-
eition to order a State primary for the
nomination of candidate for Governor.
This proposal will be made by some OF
the friends of one of the four avowed can
didates now in the field, who has ex-
pressed his preference for q primary, IN
stead of the usual convention.
AS neither of the other three candidates
will Join in this request for a departure
from the usual custom and established
order of things. it is thought that the
primary will not be ordered. Friends OF
the other gentlemen tell me that they
would have no objection to primary,
although it would be an innovation, II
there was any special demand for 1T on
the part of the Democratic masses: or II
any other important reasons for the
change could be advanced. In the absence
of such reasons they see no necessity OF
joining in the request of Mr.. Glenn and
his friends
HAD ENOUGH OF STATE PRIMARIES.
A leading Democratic politician, who
is not championing the cause of either OF
the aspirants for Governor, had the fol
lowing to say. anent the primary propo-
sition, when his opinion was asked to-
day:
1.-The experience we got out OF the Sen
atorial primary of 1900 ought to forever
settle the State primary question with
the Democratic party of North Carolina
1t caused more hard feelings between pO-
litical brethren, alienated more personal
friendships, did more to injure the party
organization, and played the devil gener-
ally more disastrously than all the politi-
cal conventions of the party held within
a quarter of a century. | haven't got
the bad taste of it entirely out OF my
mouth yet, and | certainly do not want
to see another one like it soon.
I'VE have already got enough dissen-
sion inside the party organization at this
particular time, and it would be the
height of folly to invite more of it during
this election year | take it that the
great majority of the State Committee
are acquainted with the true situation
and | have no idea that the Committee
will order a primary"
A number of the friends of Maj. Sted
man We're here on business last week
They all expressed confidence in the abil
itv of their candidate to secure the guber
material nomination, and declare that he
| is stronger now than he has been ct any
time in the past.
The quiet confidence and sangulne
words of Lieutenant-G Governor Turner {
friends are also a notable feature OF the
present canvass.
VARIOUS MATTERS OF INTEREST,".
A representative OF Hon. W. r. Hearst
the New York newspaper man. Congress
man. millionaire. etc. who asplret
to the Democratic nomination for Presl
dent. was in Raleigh last week including
two or three who were here from Other
sections Of the State. The gentleman :
name is NJ. F. Ihmsen. and he is said t(
be one of the managers OF MIR. Hearst
candidacy and campaign headquarters
| in New York City; also prominently lden
| tilted with Mr. Hearst's newspapers. De
was accompanied by Mr.. Whitehead
| kluttz son of the Sth District Congress
man, and who was last year given a pc
sition in the Washington Bureau OF thu
Hearst papers. Mr.. Ihmsen's business
| in North Carolina was to look after re
| curing delegates for his man to the st
Louis convention from this State.
The Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad
| lease matter will come up next Thursday
! in this city before Judge SimOntOn OF the
United States Circuit Court, on the appll
| cation of the State to set aside Judge
| PurnelFs order appointing V. f. McBet
| receiver etc. In this connection it is O
interest to note that a dispatch from
! Richmond says the Atlantic Coast Line
| is about to begin an extension OF its lint
| from Washington, n. C., to New Berne
| Receiver McBee on Saturday removed
| General Superintendent Dill. who has
| been with the Atlantic 4 North Carolina
| Railroad for thirty years. Mr.. McBet
will fill that position himself for the pres
| ent. The prevailing opinion here is thai
| the present middle will result in les 81
| of the road on advantageous terms tC
| the State But it is said that Governor
| Aycock will decline to act in the matter
| until the present contention is defnitel J
settled. although he could go ahead an(
| lease the property now il he chose to dc
| so.
Ex-Gov Russell, who was at the point
| OF death several days last week in hos
| pital at BaltimO ore, is reported today t(
be on the road to a final recovery from
| the operation recently performed. Tit
| fight over the Wilmington postmaster
| ship was settled Saturday when the name
of T. E. Wallace was sent to the Senate
by the President. He will be confirmed
| this week.
| The fates are certainly against the dis
| tillers and sellers of liquors of North Car
DINA in this year of grace Following
the recent decision of the Supreme Court
constituting the new anti-jug law to apply
to the entire State. and therefore making
it unlawful to ship liquor to any county
or town where its sale is prohibited from
any other point in this State, now comes
1 II. IL
| the courts. will deal the liquor traffic thu
hardest blow it has yet received.
| 1t is now claimed by some that under
the new law no liquor can be shipped by
distillers or dealers licensed in othel
counties to any town orpOint in another
| county, unless such distillers and dealers
shall first take out a license in ever,
| county and incorporated town to which
| they desire to make such shipments
Meaning. of course, those counties wher,
prohibition does not prevail The new
law and the Supreme Court expressly
say that the place OF delivery is the plac,
| of sale. Therefore, how can a distille1
in Nash or Iadkin counties sell brandy
and whiskey in the wet towns of Sails
bury or Wilmington, by shipping it tt
| private parties who order it. or even tt
| sdloou-heepeiS. tHe NASH anu 1auk1l
| distillers have no license to sell in Rowan
| and New Hanover? Looks like about
the only way to get it there lawfully
would be for the purchaser to go after
the stuff in person and then ship it to
himself Or else order from some ont
outside the State.
They say cotton may 60 higher thi.
week. Maybe so: and it may drop lower
again before you know it, If | had any
left on hand the sixteen cent bid for it this
morning would get every pound | had
And I'd say thank you, sir" besides
LLEWXAM.