The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-12

about ten and instead of 100 in the
county convention, sixty-SiX. Much of
the reduction is due to the amended
suffrage law, but the failure of 500 or
700 citizens TO exercise their right
10 vote wa also a factor.-Tarboro
Southerner.
This is the only comment l have
to make ON the election" said Capt.
z. c. Carlton yesterday, as he handed
The Landmark the following:
BROAD is the road that leads to death.
And thousands walk together there.
But wisdom finds a narrow path
With here and there a traveller"
And there ought to be some COM
fort to Democrats in this stanza from
the good old hymn.-Stateville Land
mark.
When the judges of election know
that there is money on the hip for the
remuneration of those who know how
to count votes for the party who wants
them at any cost. we can't most al
ways tell whether the vote is counted
like it is cast or not. Some of those
big Roosevelt maiorities ought to be
Iarrested on Wilmington
Star.
We haven't seen him, but Wen bet
that e. Spencer is making a turkey
gobbIer ashamed of himself today. AS
some of his former constituents would
saw he is no doubt "a struttin' to
beat the band" He ought to, for he
whipped not only the Democrats but
the biggest men i'm his own party
Greensboro Record.
Heard on the street election night:
Two negroes We're discussing Roose-
veIt's election, when one said "Roose
felt rot fou' million votes moren
Parker, man, an he's lected sho.' :
Oats what l heard jest now, said the
other one, IAN l shore blieve God had
sump'n to do wild dis lection. Kin
ston Free Press.
Kings Weekly, whose editor was an
unsuccessful candidate for the Legis-
lature, writes a long poem, closing
with this verse:
"Well, let it go no grief
Shall we shed for the past
Trusting time to bring relief
And justice to us at last"
Speaking of Arkansas Jones and
Tom Taggart, it seems that the In
diana man beat the Arkansas man
when it came to ante-election claims,
but he quit sooner when the returns
came in. We do not know whether
old man Jones had given up yet
Charlotte News.
Senator-eIect Duls is a modest man,
but it should be stated that he ran
slightly ahead Of the ticket which was
itself Overwhelmingly elected. He
will make one of the best Senators
Mecklenburg has ever had.-Charlotte
News.
Hurrah for South Point precinct!
1t is the only one in the county that
went unanimously Democratic. There
was only one Republican at the box
and he failed to register. Give the
banner to South Point.-Gastonia Ca
zette.
In North Carolina we believe that
our Senator F. M. Simmons could have
done very much better than Mr.. Tom
Taggart. The Senator has national
chairmanship stuff in him-Winston
Sentinel.
1t was considered the thing four
years ago to 'cuss," in five different
languages, Arkansaw Jones. We rise
to remark that Tommie Taggart is i'm
line for promotion.-Ch News.
AS Col. Henry Watterson once re-
marked apropos of a certain Demo-
cratic victory of former years: "a
ground swell be id; this is an earth
News and Courier
w. L. Douglas. the shoe man, adj
vertised his candidacy in every news
paper in the Bay State. He was elect
ed by $4,000, although Roosevelt car