The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-08-21
Terrell Wants An .Orgin."

Terrell Wants An Origin"
The hot spiel OF the day was made
BY Terrell. the nominee for Clerk.
He declared that the party must have
an origin" that the power Of the
Press Il the thing. that IL is the edu-
Gator that makes Democracy a win
Ter. He was cutting high Jfnks and
doing volcanic stunts m word SING
ing until a voice cried out Lets make
the C~ow-cassiou our origin This
vas taken as q motion b. Chairman
Claudius so orator Terrell sal down
but Postmaster Wills Br!gg
got up. He remembered a. how the
Subsidized News had printed his pic
ture on the first page with that Of
Uncle Joe Cannon. and he O. to
amend by making the Butler-Petti-
grew-LittlefelI bond steal News the
origin" also. The RAIDS We're all mix
cd up a. to what 10 90, while Lester
Butler. MariOn's brOther, no" in the
doodle service. on the waiting list TO
Of the COW-cassiOn, OCk deeply
anxious. While everybody was Wond-
ering what 10 do, George T~onnOfflSkl,
tl,a ass7stant clerk Of the Federal
Court, put water on the hot box by
moving to make the CoW-cassion the
county origin" and the In-the-dust
News the State "orgin," thus allaying
the strife, though George must have
forgotten that his chief Federal Court
Clerk Grant was once president OF
the Tar Heel Publishing Company,
and ought to have made il "a origin,
too.
How the Splitter Went On.
When twelve o'clock and eight
minutes after came yesterday there
was a 'skiddoO" crowd of twenty
three in attendance on the meeting,
which began at l2:15 with about
eighty III the room, the rest Of the
gang being persuaded TO come away
from the side Of the postoftice build
ing. which is q magnet for Radicals,
as Col. "Jeens' Young has his head
quarters there. j. =. II. Adams,
doodler, and county chairman, family
called the thing-a-ma-ree TO order
and told that United States Marshal
Claudius Dockery was temporary
chairman, While Vic Terry became
secret ny. Claudius, all smiles,
Grated a few and then had a mo-
ton passed to take a recess till two
o'clock. as delegates We're expected
on n belated train. He was told
that these had come on another train,
but declared a recess anyway
Then the reason for this was seen.
Thad Ivey and j. /. Moore spoke for
q caucus. This was agreed upon and
the Democrats present, especially
Democratic reporters, were notified to
! move out. They did so and for about
an hour and a half the same
old gang went through it's list Of mem
bers with a fine tooth comb to find
out what victims it could get to go
up against the Democratic nominees,
and if they could be persuaded to &C
cept. After diligent study Of a hard
problem the caucus ended and The
delegates went out to all friends, etc.
AS United States Commissioner Mich
OILS said he had business at his office
he got out of being the caucus .,air-
man and Smiling Claudius too the
job.
Here Beginneth the Job.
Sometime after two o'clock the as
IsemblaGe drifted together again and
Claudius called it to order. He lac
to call for order frequently is the
delegates and outsiders Woul talk.
Britt, a local carpenter, had much to
say against the rulings of Claudius but
the Smiling One batted him out of The
box. Vic Terry arose, threw out his
chest and called the roll Of precincts
announcing all but our represented,
though this writer's tab on answers
he heard showed sixteen not anSW CT
ing.
The temporary organization was
made permanent on motion of Willis
Briggs, and Claudius grated about Re
publican success and opportunity"
The ObStreperOuS Britt wanted to
speak but Claudius would not let him.
Vic Terry then moved hat a commit
tee of five be named on platform n
resolutions. John Nichols wanted a
committee to consider candidates., but
as j. r. Medlin, of Houses Creek,
kicked, though he stated that he did
not want The News and Observer to
say he was kicking, Commissioner
Nichols Withdrew his motion, but Britt
tried to talk some more, While john
Scarboro. of Outside East, north,
wanted the chair to designate some
one to keep the folks quiet.
Selecting Them for Slaughter.
Then the candidates for County
Commissioners were nominated. Col.
John Nichols put in w. w. Wynne, of
Raleigh, for chairman, others named
being e. A. Holt, of Buckhorn;
Charles Sugg, of Middle Creek; r. L.
Sorrell, of GUS Creek; j. j. Pow
ell, of New Light, who were nomi-
mated. Marshal Partin, of Middle
Creek, was named but was withdrawn,
the nominations being by acclama-
ton,
Then the other members of the
ticket given were named, Willis G..
Briggs, POstmaster-tO-be and until the
other day city editor of the Evening
Times, saying that as w. f. Upchurch
comes from Percy olives township
he was q good man to nominate. In
making the nominations for the House
Nichols nominated j. S. Mangum. and
Elmer Shaffer nominated John w.
Parker, of st. Mary's, saying as how
he was sorry that he could not take
a nomination himself. Elmer also
said that he wanted a joint nVa
of the Republicans and the Democrats
to discuss the issues, the main one,
as he announced it, being as to the
election of a United States Senator.
Mangum pulled down his name and
Willis Briggs nominated w. II. Hes
ter. Hill f. King whOOped it up for
James NJ. Terrell. j. p. Massey named
H. b. Harrell, of Swift Creek. Thad
lVey~ GRATED for j. w. Parker and
talked of the times when the Demo-
Gratis had tteir heels on our necks."
Willis Briggs seconded the nomina-
tons of Parker, Hester and Mangum.
r. II. Scarborough, of MitchelIs Mill,
was named as was Terry, of Raj
plOh who said ha il1 NOT have time