The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-12
GOVERNOR GLENN
COMES TO HIS OWN
Scenes and Pictures of the Day When the State
Went Into the Hands of Peoples
Chosen Leader.

| riageS into which the party of the
Governor were hustled with little
| ceremony The rniltstry formed, the
bands played again, the people rush.
! ing from the depot, unsatiSfied with
what they had been, anxious for furth-
| er details. 1t commenced to ram.
Nobody cared. AS the carriages went
slowly forward behind the procession,
as the green diverted band, with it's
| gorgeous drum major struck into the
! popular tunes. the sidewalks moved
with their packed humanity in slow
accord to the order of the march.
Thus it was that the Governor came
| to Raleigh
at the hotel there was IN informal
reception, AS the Governor ard his
| party alighted from their carriages,
| they were swallowed uD in the throng.
| TIE state officers were there to a man,
| the legislators were eager with greet
! inss Pretty women waited for hon.
| ors which they gave by their pres
| ence. The parlors of the old hosiery
! swarmed with a company which was
| as brilliant as they had aver seen.
| Gilt-bed eckcd members of the Gov
| ernors staff shouldered broad and
| g!ittering paths through the crush.
| Supreme court judges. eX-statesmen.
I'prominent citizens from every part of
| the State We'd with each other in the
executive. The rooms rang with ami
mated chatter. Still half dazed the
Governor stood in the midst. Good
wishes showered upon him. The ine-
vitable and officious characters falling
to recognize the power of popular
movement tried to interfere. They
were physically over run, their sug-
| gestions were ignored. The people
We're after their man. the hour had
struck, il was a carnival of joyous
realization. Only the Governor avail
ed. Presently the crowd thnned.
Walking at the mead of his party, he
came through the mass of folks like
a swimmer breatinS the waves,
strong. confident, set purpose in his
! eyes, the leader that he is. The Gov
| ernor's party attained their apart
ments after their trip, but the crowd
waited
Out side the military moved in err
ratio manoeuv"as. People cheered
again and again for the exercise,
horses pranced, vehicles ran UP and
down the streets. In the lobby of
! the hotel smoke hung like curtain
! to the cloud Of talk. High hats top
| ped tho drab slouches of country VS.
ltors 1t was Glenn, Glenn, GlennHf|
The rain fell un-heeded. Nobody
| cared or thought of the weather. Far
| down the street the procession was
forming Governor was being
| made. Somebody shouted "Aycock. 81
| The word struck a response that ran
from mouth TO mouth. There came
! new cheers. What's the matter with
! Glenn p roa:ad fat individual from
the corner. The cheering re-doubled.
From hundred throats came the re-
| sponse, Hes all right"
The procession was formed It
| came up Fayetteville street filling 1t
! like Il flood of water running from
pavement to pavement 1t was r.
resistible, slow. ponderous and dfgnf-
fled. 1t was typical of the occasion
! and appropriate to it. At the head
came General Armfeld, straight,
sol5ierly figure, moulded to the motion
| OF his horse his stern, gamy face ana
! cleaning eyes making with the cam
| paign nat pulled over his dark fore
| head and heavy brows the picture of
4 man OF the wars. After him came
Colonel Robertson, Won Mollle,
! heavy set, a picture in a frame. other
horse mounted soldiers and the mill
| tary and tho bands in fine arrav. The
| carriages tagged on somehow to tie
| end of III" martial movement. and
! proceeded to the Academy of Music.
Down Fayetteville street the crowd.
warned a t the open air stand erected
I in the capitol square by Captain Alex
| Stronach came hurrying to meet the
| ether hundreds pouring down Martin
! street. The end Of an administra ton.
! the beginning of another was al hand
! The opera house filed quickly The
! We're packed, women predC minating
| Their hats and the feathers on them
! shook like rose garden in the wind
/ The murmur of their voices came
, down TO the roar of the fit like the
| breaking of the wavelets of ripples or
/ the shore. The Legislature occupied
I preserved seats to which they were
! directed by an enthusiast who forgot
f, his own comfort for the good of the
| State In the forefront sat the band
| of the Blind Institution. little fellows
| their faces twisted with the pitiruI
! onconsciousness of a lack Of Sight
! the State officials. Masons, prominent
| men and the members of the press,
! dazed with the bigneSs OF .he story
and the variety of the picture spread
! before their eyes.
/ In the right hand box sat party OF
! ladies. Mrs. BRYAN Grimes. Mrs. &. r.
Lacy Mrs Ed. Chambers Smith,
I Mrs. Glenn. the mother of the Gov
| ernor Mrs. r. Is. Glenn. Miss Rebecca
| Glenn. Miss Glenn. the daughter OF
| General j. ID. Glenn. On the plat
! form sat besides the State officials,
| Speaker Guion, the Chief Justice.
Senator Eller. Mr.. Glenn's manager
| for the nomination., the Masons. Mr..
Josephus Daniels. Judge Womack
| Mayor Powell the Governors staff.
| DR.. Mclver, Mr.. J. q. Brown. Judge
! Fred Moore. Mr.. II. e. Litchford and
many others.
! IN the front seats were Governor
| Aycock. Governor-elect Glenn, Lieu
! tenant Governor Turner, and Lieuten-
| ant Governor-clect Winston.
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