The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-07-15
STATE OFFICERS WELL PLEASED.
They Regard the Nomination Of Park
er as . Good One. Giving Prospects
OF Democratic Success-Increaee Of
MOonstining-Repo On the State
Banks-Game Warden UpchuFch
Has Been Busy.
Messenger Bureau.

The nomination of Parker for Presi-
dent certainly gives great satisfaction
in North Carolina The state officers
were interviewed this morning and said
enough 10 show this clearly.
Governor Aycock said: lit is an ex-
cellent nomination. 1t looks to me like
we stand a fair chance Of winning.
The party is united, for the first time
since 1892. When we are united a ma
jority of the people of the United
States are Democrats.
Secretary of States Grimes said: 1T
is the very best that could be done. 1t
was wise. Parker is a big man. He
is too good a man to be beaten by such
d man as Roosevelt, I think his
with four years more of Roosevelt We
would be almost an Empire and the
election of Parker will stay the trend
towards Imperialism v
State Auditor Dixon: Il am delight
ed with the nomination. 1 am one Of
the original Parker men. Chances Of
success are good"
State Treasurer Lacy: Il do not
know a thing about Parker
Commissioner of Agriculture Patter-
son: Il am satisfied. i wanted Cleve-
land, but Parker is strong and safe
man. The prospects Of success are eu-
couraging.''
State Labor Commissioner Warner:
Il think he is the only man we have
whom we can elect. / have been on
the Parker band wagon since January
1902. 4 was not quite as early as Hoke
Smith, who says he got on the band
wagon three years ago. Parker is 60
| ing to be elected
Ex-State Chairman James H. Pou
said: Il regard the nomination as the
very best that could have been made.
The platform is entirely satisfactory.
There is no reason why all should not
stand on it and elect the ticket
Some one remarked to the Governor
| that they were booming him for Vice
President. He said: There is no dan
| ger of that; if there were / would stop
| it,"
Labor Commissioner Warner says that
of the 300 newspapers now in this state
almost exactly two-thirds belong to the
State Press ASsOcia ton, which meets
at Morehead City this month. The cir
culation of the largest paper in North
Carolina is 10000. Mr.. Warner, as labor
commissioner, left today for Concord,
N. H., to attend the annual meeting
of labor commissioners.
Revenue officers made a raid yester-
day south Of here ,and on the Wake
and Harnett line got two distilleries.
They say that the fermenters at one of
these had evidently come from a regis
tered distillery. They say further that
nine tenths of the registered distillers
who have been put out of the business
by the Watts law are engaged in moon
shining. They claim that no county
officers will assist in surpressng moon
sinners, giving as reason that thew
are afraid of loosing votes. All the
revenue officers declare there is an m
crease of moonshiners. "
Next Monday Judge Purnell will go
to Richmond, where he will sit on the
Circuit court of appeals.
The severe storm here yesterday af-
ternoon was very local, say two miles
wide and eight miles long. Hail and
winds and rain severely damaged some
crops in that area. among them that
of DR.. Richard H. Lewis.
Chatting with the Governor yeSter-
| day some one made the point that it
would be odd if the st. Louis conven-
| ton made a nomination, it being Fri
| day. The Governor remarked that a
| number of nominations had been made
| on Friday. He thought that if there
| were i'll luck in the matter, it would
| be on the Republicans
Onions from Egypt are being sold
| here. which seems rather queer, but
| then only few winters ago Irish po-
| tatoes from Ireland were on sale and
| so were cabbage from Denmark.
| Game Warden John w. Upchurch
| has returned from the North Carolina
coast, his principal business being to
| visit some "rookeries," or the places
where the birds lay their eggs. One
| of these is on Whale Head island
| where there are many nests of the
| shearwater or skinner. The point i,
to save the eggs, not from animals and
birds so much as from men, for the peo-
| pie go over to the island and take eggs,
| which they eat. They say that the
birds set upon the nests only at night.
| and that during the day they let the
| sun do the work. The eggs are laid on
l the sand and in many cases are half
| covered by the drifted sand. Of course
the heat is intense. Warden Upchurch
saw many other birds, but no eggs ex-
1 cept those of the skinner. He en-
| ployed man to remain on the island
and guard the eggs. 1t is greatly de-
] sired, by protection. to secure bird life
on the coast. once SO abundant arI
| varied, but now, owing to the murder
Gus people who have killed the birds
| for the plumage dealers, it has been
| made a rarity to find a rookery OF any
| size. The warden found a good many
| willets, priced game bird. with its
| young large enough to fly. Some gray
| gulls were also seen. Gulls are not a
| game bird, but people on the coast eat
| them, as they do herrons.
| Up in the newspaper room of the
| state library, two young students are at
work, getting up material for theses in
| competition for scholarships. On OF
| these is working on the states rights
| matter, and the other on North Carou-
| mas war and reconstruction hist tory.
| Thee is a wealth of material in this
| department of the library.
Among todays arrivals were ". 4.
| Guthrie and r. w. Winston of Dur
| ham. The latter was here in connec-
| ton with an old bankruptcy case before
| Judge Purnen
The Corporation Commission has is
| sued its report on state, private and
| savings banks UP to June g. The re-