The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-18
Formal Opening of Wake
Republican Campaign.
CHARGE STONY HILL


Democrats"
The ada@e that one mast go from
home to get the news meets its apo
theosis in the special dispatch from
Raleigh 10 the Industrial News rela-
tive to the progress Of the Ropub-
ljcan campaign in Wake county with
.pecial reference to The political crup-
tion III the vicinage Of stony Hill, ia
New Light township.
AT tire alleged meeting we are told
that there were "over two hundred
stauuch Democrats besides many
Democrats almost persuaded To b
Republicans assembled at stony Hill
for the formal opening Of the Re
publican campaign in Wake county.
There is u ~frankness about this
statement which is rarely met with
in Republican reports of political
spaukings. Observe that even the cor
respondent does not intimate that
there were present anything except
"&tauncn Democrats" ana almost per
&UaGed Democrats at the formal
opening Of the Republican campaign.
II is inferred that the candidates who
fired the opening guns We're Kepub-
Leans, although it is not 50 stated
III II 40 IA'l IL 'hA'N
their following in the woods, or is
the population Of New Light 50 en-
tircly Democratic that the hopes of
the campaignerS are settled entirely
i'm the dream of persuasion of Demo-
Gratis which the correspondent pro
fcSSeS to discover? Most of the Demo-
Gratis were '~staunch' it is aVerred,
while some Of them are claimed to
nave been tce-teetering to the Whirl-
a-magig Of the Oratory. How, in
view OF the fact that the aunch ele-
ment of the population so greatly eX-
ceeted the doubling Thomasses as
to lend themselves to be numbered as
the tWO hundred, there is expected
the predicted assurance of a big Re-
publican vote from this section is
q problem for fair.
Let the correspondent sing his story
of the charge up Stony Hill in all its
beauty of detail:
obedience Wholly Democratic.
"Raleigh, \. c., Sept. 13.-There
were over two undre taunc Dem
OCrats besides many Democrats al
most persuaded to be Republicans as
sembled at Stony Hill in New Light
township yesterday afternoon for the
formal opening of the Republican
campaign in Wake county. All the
candidates were present n spoke eX-
1tDI MI. pen 1dIldICdtS 1OI ll1C
House, and r. L. SorreIl, candidate
foY county commissioner. There was
great interest manifested and a big
vote from his section for the Repub-
tl~an tiChe Is assured"
Postmaster. PROSPERITY
no facts are given as to what was said
or done by way of the great persua-
sion which must have been exercised
to spot the two hundred with a
mcaSly laundering to break in at the
rear of the pie brigade after there had
been a full and complete distribu-
ton. True, Postmaster Willis CT.
Briggs. who once worked hard on
democratic papers for small pay,
stood up as a concrete example of
was the result of making u good
bluff at Il bounding enthusiasm and
belief i'll the separation limb from limb
Of the solid South. Nh. Briggs, in
stead of working hard, now works
Casy with the assistance of the brother
OF Marion Butler whose company was
the price of his job, and draws there
for big pay instead of small. Mr..
Briggs is an exhibit of success to
make the mouth Of the almost per
uadcd water like a man who has
seen a mirage in Il desert of eight and
Il half cent cotton. He must feel it
himself, for he made q vigorous
speech IeDl tStIlll1lS tSbtcldllN MI.
Cpchurch and j. w. Parker."
Whereas everybody knows that the
new postmaster represented himself
and his gratitude.
But the meeting afforded one article
which was the real stuff, one mossy
back with the lichens clinging to his
coat n swami mire on his boots.
This was:
I'm O!d Time Barmaclc.
"EnoCh Holt, one of the candidates
for county commissioners travelled
ninety miles to be present at the meet
ing, having come from his home on
the Wake and Chatham lines. He is
se~Venty-tWo years old and has never
been a candidate for office before"
Seventy-two years old, a Republic
can ever since before the war, and
never a candidate for office. Here was
Il feature of the meeting for sure. old
Uncle Enoch, seeking translation into
the Board of County Commissioners.
And at his age. too, Uncle Enoch is 3
find of which it is to be hoped there
Will be more to be heard before this
campaign is over. Ninety miles to
Stony Hill. to hear Willis Briggs tell of
the prosperity which he chased around
the block and threw with a s~trangle
hold; to hear eX-Assistant Postmaster
Leonard eXpatiate on how good il
would be to be county surveyor; to
hear the pludits of Vic Terry who
has found a rest after much run
ming; to baSk in the light of a large
and enthusiastic company of stalwart
Democrats, With a sprinkling of those
who were almost persuaded" Uncle
Enoch must have had a frabjous time.
but he must have been lonely. There
was no color in the meeting. The
black background of Uncle Enoch's
earlier days was gone. 1t was an
effete Republicanism. washed ont.
soft handed, desk-bent. There was
not the 8usto which distinguished the
Republican campaigns in the dav
when Uncle Enoch was a youthful pa
triot! When the Republicans meet at
Fuuuay Springs, it would be a journey
of hope n interest to travel thus
far, did time hang as lightly as it
does in the pOStoffice, just to hear
Uncle Enoch spout about what he