The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05
Simmons Thinks Vote Will be About
Same as That Two Years Ago.
Butler Assuming Leadership Of Repub-
Team a Strong One-Improvements
in Cotton MiIIs-Appointments for
Political Speakers0Other Raleigh
News Notes.
Messenger Bureau,
Chamber of Commerce Rooms,
Hollaman Building,
Raleigh, N. c., October 2.

mons was talked WIN at
tiers today about the outlook for the
party in the state this year. He said
Iy indeed and that he was very much
pleased at the work being done and
at the temper of the democrats. When
asked about the vote and majority
this year he said there would be prac-
tically no change in the majority as
compared with that two years ago,
both as to the state and the legisla-
ture. It is not an election to call for
a great vote, but if it were so and one
calculated to bring the vote out the
majority would be larger. He says
that two years ago the democratic
party did not bring out its own vote
as fully as did the republicans, and
that there would be something of his
feeling this year in all sections where
there is no fight but in the counties
where there is a fight the democratic
vote will be fuller than it was two
years ago. Sc from the trend in the
state being republican it is more
strongly democratic. The leadership
of Marion Butler, now acknowledged
by everybody in both parties, will cost
this party fully 5000 votes in North
Carolina. A prominent republican re
marked to Chairman Simmons last
week that the speech which Butler
made in a certain county in the east 10
days ago cost the republicans 200 votes
in that county. Butler is the only re-
publican making a systematic anvas
of the state and he is going into all
the counties in the east.
From other sources your correspOn-
dent learns that ex-senator Butler is
gradually assuming the real leadership
of the republican party in North Car
rOlina. He is aggressive and he dom
mates the gatherings VI the old line
republicans. Of course he stands in
with the republican leaders in Wash
ingtOn, who think he is doing great
things in this part of the country and
he is spending much money at Green's
bore. A we'll known republican said
today he would not be surprised, if,
as a result of Buffers work in North
CdIOllHd Ic WdS SlNSH Jill lllpOl u
ant national position. The situation
is thus made a very strange one in
deed and it seems to gall some of the
republicans.
The sheriff of Pitt county brought
to the penitentiary today a white man
to serve ten years for h~ouse-burning
and larceny and a negro for five years
for house breaking and larceny.
State Veterinarian TAFT Butler has
returned from PamlicO county. 1t
has been reported that there was an
outbreak of disease among horses
there, but he found the rumor I'M
founded. 1t seems there was some
sort of an outbreak neal Goldsboro,
most probably a forage poisoning.
The first troops to leave on the ex-
petition for Cuba sailed for New York
On the army transport Sumner and
were commanded by Colonel Calvin J.
Cowles with Fifth infantry. During
the war with Spain he was lieutenant
colonel of the First North Carolina
volunteers.
The foot ball enthusiasts find that
the team of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college his year is a very
heavy one and believe that by the
end of the season it will be able to
make good against almost any team it
makes. It's Thanksgiving game will
be with the Virginia Polytechnic insti-
tute at Richmond.
Farmers in this section are now
willing to confess that they have
planted more cotton than they car
gather. Never was this fact more ap.
parent than now.
The committees which represent
the policy holders of the Mutual Life
and the New York Life companies an(
which will be in New York city mex
Friday and Saturday will ask 20 ques
lions of those companies, the first O.
these being which of the men named
by the various committees as trustee!
were directors at the beginning of thi.
year. The lists of questions have beer
very carefully prepared.
Mourning emblems were on the doc
of the Insurance department today AM
the building was closed, this bein.
due to the death Of the infant son o
Insurance Commissioner James r
Young. The baby has been sick abou
q fortnight.
The athletic field at the Agriculture
and Mechanical college is not yet read,
for use, the rainy summer hayin;
checked the work and difficulty in oh
tanning teams during the past 80 day
having caused further delay.
There is much and just complain
here Of the difficulty of finding store
for rent and also for securing dwell
ing houses 1t seems strange that thes
wants are not met by the people.
The attendance at the two bushes
colleges here today passed the 80
mark.
Your correspondent has, within tn
past few days, visited the cotton mill
here and finds that all of them hav
installed a considerable amount of ne,
machinery. The Raleigh mill has pu
in twisters and the Martin hosier
mill has installed a number of new ma