The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-10

master. Bob BIcd4oo dapufv T.-.,
IN burke county fo4tv to forf,-ava
aeshled. ". ;. Person. r.frraa ln
bankruptcy. WIS Chairman - = -
Cobb. cx-store-keepcr AL -
IetdFy. Leaders Of the roTyer.f.r
N'ie - : Pearson. postmaster Pfrh-
- " mains, 4. :. commissioner
D. toh ~iaIlybufton. deputy colIecfor
Ter. 'PeI ana GauS-
mailman has been swept 50 clean
mat lhcre were very few omro-hoIi-
80 III SleFlce to take part. What there
"sIe IpFctd an Endorsement Of Adams
- protest Of e~X-PopuIists. At
N"lci ana jenkins, former rivals. now
p3aoIn republican friends. We're con-
tendance. ~
IN Cleveland the occasion Of the
oouhly convention had been advertised
as a Republican rally at which con.
vert Toms would speak. with lake
Ne"ctl as a side attraction. only
MY delegates and visitors responded.
J. II. Quinn candidate for shelby
poStoflce. g.. w. DePriest. the post
mdatcf At mat place. Il. l.. Ware. post
master at Kings Mountain and his
assistant. >. 5. Weir. and +. D.. Ham
TICK, L. = commissioner. ran the con-
VcntIon. There was a kbur
ADAMS fight on the lines Of the can
dldacy for the Shelby p~ostonicc Of
EA - i'11t iAfIE was iID
instruction for chairman. this being Il
victory for tho Adams faction.
IN cumberland there is Il contest it
ptlng charged that a pretended con-
Nentlon was held there on the 18th of
June, which was not authorized bv any
meeting of the executive committee.
mat no notice Of the same was given
TO the party or the public: that no one
mad any knowledge Of it except the
chairman and the postmaster whose
WIG is q cousin of RlfHrr'G. that tho
chairman son is a clerk i'm the post
once ana that it was a nap owen
ton and afforded the Republicans Of
mat county no opportunity to be
heard.
In DaVie the convention" was com
posed of exactly sixteen delegates"
VINO followed the Instructions of
Postmaster f.. H. Morris and w. \.
Balley, noted cN-distiller of the coun-
~. Tho Whiskey ring was in the sad
die. As to Blackburn and Adams
there was q silence, it being a case of
Good Lord, good devil"
Edgecombc county brought together
IN convention twenty Republicans In
cIudlnG G. w. Robbins, postmaster at
Rocky Mount, Revenue Collector
Wood and Wheeler Martin, who were
visitors.
THIRTY delegates in Franklin en-
dorscd Adams as chairman.
CASTOR county's convention was an
'i'iA ~ III poStliIjoJtIS Win rev
enue officers, deputy m~arshals and cx-
~Store-keeperS and gauger thrown in.
H. l.. Xxi e-X-pOStinaSter of Cas-
tonla, was chairman, and Peter Rhyme.
postmaster of Dallas. vas secretary.
VIII Armstrong, postmaster of Bel
mont, John F. JOY. postmaster of
Mount Holly, r. Lee Thornburg. post
master of BeSsemer City. and the as
Slstant postmaster of Gastonia, were
present and ran the cO~nVention. all
VOC tbD u cic u =, anr 80. 90, so 49,
who was run over G. d. Holland.
who until a few months ago was
postmaster at GaStonia. was reelected
chairman of the executive commit
tee, over the vehement protest of John
j. George, eX-pOStmaSter at Cherry
Vile. who now resides at Bessemer
City. George publicly declared that
Holland was unfit to be chairman of
q party which expected to gam the
confidence Of the people, or which eX-
pected to make an effort to win in the
election, and declared that he lost
the GaStonia postmaStership on ac-
IL of his personal vice (intempeT-
ance). but the convention had been
fixed and Holland was elected.
There are now no Federal office-hold-
erS in this county except pOstmaSters,
and they were all out in force.
Graham ~county'S convention brought
out tWenty-onc Republicans to a
"maSS meeting" who were controlled
y ny SHERMAN ,IlSD. T. -. ueDuJN mar
shall, and John Dryton, T.. S. commits
sioner, who was chairman.
In Hyde county thirty delegates
gathered to the convention and en-
gagged in a trough house" contest
over the craftsmanship. Federal office
holders, a. Berry and William Swim
dell were prominent.
1redell had a convention numbering
about one hundred. II. G. Cowles,
Clerk of the Federal Court, presid-
ed. DR.. Mott and r. II. MCNEIL, who
had been elected delegates to the
state convention from their township.
were f~im-flanlmed and left off the list.
Jackson county convention num-
lbered thirty-five who were managed
by Zebulon Watson, L. s. commits
sioner and Chairman and mo-. b. Ems
ley. deputy collector.
In Montgomery county there gath
cred twenty nine with one dark spot.
Bossing the show were L. NJ. Russell,
postmaster: b. l.. Cox. deputy mar
shall; n. V. Long. postmaster: Glenn.
Dowd, postmaster; f. FarloW. post
master; H. y. Henderson, postmaster;
D.. :. Hurley, postmaster; L.. a.
+ Wright, store-keeper.
The convention in ~PaSQuOtank num-
bercd twenty-five, of whom were l.
M. Meekins, postmaster at lila
City; w. y. Holmes, clerk in the
~postofficc. ]. T. OVcrman, assistant
postmaster. Holmes was secretary of
the convention.
Perquimans mustered fifteen to
twenty. of whom were most promi-
nent postmasters ]. p. Jessup. of
Hartford. and l.. Nyne, of N~iconon.
Federal officers w. r. White and
10 w. Barrow, were chairman and
secretary.
Rockincham'S Typical Array.
Rockingham furnished q typical
Convention. There were about forty
| nS +Jnca u-nrn most
master r.. s. Lemons; revenue officer
Price Easley, stamp clerk Phil. y.
Petrozs, postmasters Euna r. Reid.
r. p. Tucker and p. p. Foster.
IThomas S. Malloy. the chairman, is
Ian ex-revenue guager, In addition 70
1.-The seven named above, seven dele
Gates who took a particularly active
part may thus be classified: 1 bar
lroom keeper; 1 ex-baWGy-house
Keeper / pool room keeper; l flu