The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-25
When Emotion had Reach
ed Its Climax.
ANDTHE BRAIN RELIED
Then Over That laundering Maelsirom
Rushed Suddenly the Peaceful
Sea of Union Out of Which
Rose Peoples Chcsen..-
the Governor.
BY II. l.. GRAY.

Greensboro. ". c.. June 25. 1901.
Governor Glenn to the people OF
North Carolina, through the News and
Observer:
considering the character of the
magnificent convention that brings
me this nomination.. i can only say
that the honor Is the greatest that L
could have received from any source.
under any circumstances and to the
people of the State who have SO hon.
Ored me. / can only say that my graft
tnde Is unbounded, and that the OBJ
legation to deserve their good will
shall ever hold to be my first and most
sincere duty
The above statement was made to
me in an interview, for which l had
to fight my way through a turbulent
throng of congratulatory hand-shakers
at the Guilford Hotel this morning.
Captain Glenn's candid happiness was
delightful. His face beamed. The
statement above will leave a pleasant
taste in the mouth. 1T is frank and
ouI-spoken and natural. His state
ment as to the convention goes beyond
compliment; it is a glorious fact of
Carolina manhood.
General Davidson, when / saw him
today and asked for an expression as
10 the nomination., fcpHeQ.
81 think the nomna ton q capital
one that it represents the will of the
people: and that it deserves the most
hearty support of every Democrat in
the State of every shade of political
opinion-and it will certainly have my
own most cordial and active endorse
ncnnt."
l also called to see Major Stedman
and Lieutenant Governor Turner. but
the one happened not to be present
and the other had left on an early
train. No doubt. could they have
been found, their expressions would
have been of a nature equally as gen
erous and hearty as were the remarks
of General Davidson.
To one who has been through the
last exciting forty-eight hours, the
proceedings of the convention tumble
over one another through the mind
like beadleS over hurdle. The
realities that fill the moments of a
struggle like that we have just come
through-the stern incidents of pas
sion, the pity of hopeless loyalty. the
fierce primeval believing of realized
victory seen today, with the high sun
in the sky and the convention hall
gradually filling up with freshly
groomed and orderly delegates seem
but the woop of a dream. The band
plays, the Glenn men are sitting quiet
~ smiling their satisfaction and other
candidates have the stage. Democ-
racy, in the very fibre of its being. in
the name itself suggests a force that
has no time to remember after the
will of the people has been spoken.
That is the sentiment today. Every
where is peace favored with philoso-
ply The cry is to a brighter to-
morrow There is the tenderness OF
pathos about the inevitable disap-
pointments of yesterday, but there is
no pity felt or expected. Democracy
is virile;. : it draws its strength from its
family broils-it goes forward.
Yet in the words of a splendid old
poem that had the misfortune to be
so good as to be talked and spoken to
DEATH Linden saw another sight
Four hours ago this hall dronine
and buZzing with conversation. was
the stage of victory with it's attendant
pathos, humor and delerumi and the
almost brutal joy of men with lips
running with the juice of conquest.
There have been before in North
Carolina conventions that have
"stampeded." The Oldest of those
with the convention habit"
who have seen the sun rise on fifteen
or twenty nominating mornings tell
me that never before was such a
scene witnessed in North Carolina as
when the Glenn constituency took
the convention wi ct armls. Al
the conclusion Of the fourth ballot
there was still hope for Stedman, FOL
any other of the candidates. 1t look
ed like Glenn; everybody felt It Woulo
be Glenn, but there was the possibility
that the contest might be drawn out