The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-05-15
WILMINGTON, N. c.
TUESDAY, MAY is, 1906.
POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

Politics is warming up all over the
state. Down here in old New Hanover
it is getting so that this is the chief
subject of discussion on the streets.
Much interest is being taken in the
county convention which meets Tues
day to appoint delegates to the state,
congressional and judicial conventions.
The chief point of interest is the con-
g~ressional convention delegation. Indi-
cations are that there will be a lively
contest over the choice of chairman OF
the county convention. There are four
candidates in this congressional dis
trict and all have friends and support
ers in this county. We hope that each
one will have given him his full
strength on the delegation to the dis
trict convention. That is the rule es-
tablished by the state executive com
mittee and it is fair and just. There
have been instances in the past when
this rule was completely ignored in
this county as regards candidates for
state offices and in this and other coun-
ties in this district in the manner OF
casting the county's vote for congre1-
sional candidates. In these instances
the minority has been completely iG-
nOred and the full vote of the county
cast for the choice of the majority.
This is not right and should not be
tolerated. Every time it is done it
works injury to the party. Democrats
don't like to feel hat they have been
~unjustIy treated by the men who have
control Of the county or district at
fairs OF the party.
County politics do not figure to much
extent at present. That part of the
contest will come up later in the sum-
mer, and the indications are that times
will be pretty lively when it does be
gin.
The present outlook is for a spirited
contest over the congressional nomina-
tion in this district. 1t will probably
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district in the state, except, perhaps in
the eighth, now represented by Mr..
Blackburn, the lone republican con-
gresham from this state, and which
will probably be represented by the
same gentleman in the next congress,
no matter whom the democrats may
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there should be more democrats Seek
ing the nomination in that republican
district than in any other in the state,
The republican count on carrying the
eighth, and many democrats concede
it TO them; still, there is a pretty big
demand among democratic politicians
for their party's nomination.
1t is we'll understood that Messrs.
Pou, in the fourth district and Page
in the seventh will have no opposition
for denomination.
Mr.. Claude kitchi1, in the second,
will hardly have serious opposition, #
any at all.
AL clOl L Will US 1ldNS u OS1SdL tiS
denomination of Mr.. w. w. Kitchi1 in
the fifth because Of his strenuous cp-
position to the southern fast mail ap
preparation, but it will prove fruitless.
Messrs. Small, of the first, and
Thomas, of the third, will be pretty
sure to have very slight opposition.
Matters have not sufficiently develop
ed in the ninth to indicate the out
come. Mr.. Webb, though, will likely
be given a third term.
In the tenth Mr.. Gudger will have a
fight for his nomination, and whoever
is nominated will have a hot fight for
the election. The republicans claim
they have good showing in that dis
trict.
In state matters there is nothing For
the convention to do but indorse the
nominations for superior court judges
made by the conventions in those dis
tricts whose judges term expires this
year; to nominate a corporation COM
missioner as successor to Chairman
MCNEIL; to adopt a platform and 10
choose a state committee and a mem
Der of the national committee.
MI. Mcneil is a candidate for renom-
ination and he has a strong opponent
in Mr.. Jacob A. Long, of Chatham.
There win probably be other candi-
dates for this Office by the time the
convention meets.
Because of the state OF affairs in
the national party the choice of a state
committee and a member of the nation