The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-03-24
OUR RALEIGH LETTER.
Things Seen and Heard at the
State Capital.

JORMAN NEWS BUREAU,
RALEIGH, n c.: March %, 1904
The ignOminious retreat OF MIR. Receiver
'.Buneh'' McBee, who strutted up the hill
with such a lightning quickstep as to
electrify the whole State. was the most
nauseating exhibition of cowardice wit.
messed in many years hereabOuts. Of
course. he couldn't help himself, for he
didn't have leg to stand on after the
Governor and Chief Justice and Attorney
General assisted by one of his own law
yers) got through with him; for Its
conscience that makes towards OF us all;
and it is hard to say, reviewing the
whole fiasco from start to finish. whether
there was after all a greater lack OF
courage or brains
Well, the old crowd is back again
managing the States railroad, and
this week an investigation and examlna-
ton is being prosecuted, under the Gov
ernOr's orders and direction, to ascertain
the exact condition of the property, ply
sically and financially. 1t is generally
hoped that the Atlantic & North Caro-
lima Railroad will soon be leased to one
of the several bidders McBee's offer to
lease was withdrawn a day or two be-
fore he was appointed receiver, but since
then at least two new propositions have
been made by others, offering much bet
ter terms to the State, and are now III
the hands of the Governor, awaiting
action.
The members OF the Democratic State
Committee which met here last Thurs
day night and called the State cOnven-
ton to meet on June %, at Greensboro,
did not contribute anything to the Hearst
movement" which is trying to get a
move on it in North Carolina. If any of
them favor the nomination of the New
York editor and millionaire Congressman
they kept their opinion to themselves.
The forty-od who expressed their prefer
ences all wanted Parker. Cleveland Cor
man or Gray. the favOrites standing in
the order named.
For Governor, the Stedman men were
in the majority, and Lieutenant Governor
Turner came next Solicitor Brooks, the
manager of the Stedman campaign, said:
I'VE are certainly going to win Mr..
J. A. Hartness, of Iredell, declared his be-
lief that Turner would show up as many
votes in the convention as either OF the
other candidates, and, in his opinion,
would eventually secure the nomina
ton
The story has leaked out that when
Mr.. Hearst's visiting manager approach
preached Gov Aycock the other day. the
Governor remarked to him that if Hearst
should be nominated he would vote for
him. but that he "would feel Inundated
in doing so,'' whereupon the agent adj
jOurned himself to a more cOngenial
Cline
The State convention will probably be
in session 2 days this year on account Of
the change made by the State committee
in the order of business. 4 resolution,
offered by Hon. Josephus Daniels, was
adopted, which requires the election of
and the adoption of the platform before
the nomination of candidates for the
State offices is taken up.
All the Indications point to the pulling
off, at Wilkesboro, ON Thursday of next
week, of the hottest political scrap in
many years in this State The Republi-
cans of the Sth District meet on that
date to nominate candidate for Con-
gress. Zig lag Linney and Drummer
Boy" Blackburn (who really lives at
Greensboro, in the 9Th District have
been fighting and abusing each other so
badly that it is possible both will be laid
aside, in which event it is said that Gus"
Price of Salisbury may be nominated.
The Democrats Of that district appear to
be greatly divided also one county alone
UaldwelD- furnishing two candidates,
Newland and Bowen.
The official head of Assistant United
States District Attorney Oscar J. Spears
has at last fallen under the axe, after
more than years delay and today
there is a vacancy in that Office here
Friction between Judge Purnell and Mr.
Spears was the primary cause of his
losing the job, but there were other rea-
SONS that contributed to that result, it is
said. His successor has not vet been
chosen and the names of F. H. Whitaker,
of Halifax, W II. Marlborough, of Frank
| lin, George 81. Butler, of Sampson. E. A.
Johnson. (colored) of Wake, and others
are mentioned" in connection with the
place. The new appointee will be re-
quired to reside at Raleigh, as District
Attorney SINNERS official home has re-
Gently been transferred to Greensboro,
his actual place of residence, and it there
fore becomes necessary that his assistant
shall take charge of the office at Raleigh
There has been no cotton sold on this
market since last Thursday, the day on
which Sully, the chief bull operator,
failed. The local buyers here have since
then been Offering only 12h to Ii cents,
| and the farmers who brought cotton here
either took it back home or stored it in
the warehouses here to wait for higher
prices. Some OF the cotton growers here
abouts have not yet marketed their crop
and have been waiting for the price to
move up to Is or 20 cents | know of
| one who raised 100 bales and who has
| not yet sold bale of it. But these are
rare exceptions, for the great majority
sold early in the season and realized only
10 to II cents. Cotton may again go up
to Is or 16 cents, and, as l said in this
| letter last week. if had any left on hand
l6 cents would call for all had There
is such a thing as holding on a little too
long to good thing
The lawyers defending the negro Dan
| iels, whose conviction of the murder of
Senator Simmons father has been a affirm
| ed by the State Supreme Court; are low
trying to take the case up to the Supreme
Court of the United States, on the ground
| that discrimination was made against