The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-01-18
RALEIGH LETTER.
GORMAN News BUREAU, /
Raleigh, \. e., Jan. -, 1906. I

| rom the eastern central counties. are be-
| ginning to discuss the eastern Senator
ship now filled by Senator Simmons,
| whose term expires a little more than
a year from now and whose successor
| the legislature to be elected this year will
| choose
The discussion is not confined to the
| personality of three or four gentlemen
whom it is understood will enter the con-
test. They are very earnestly canvass
ing also the question of q State primary
and the possible outcome which some OF
them predict would result in no choice.
Remembering the unpleasant features
and party distracting results OF the SEN
atorlal primary OF six years ago, many
prominent Democrats have been heard
| to say that they dread another
II is understood that the three princi-
pal candidates for the Senatorship will
be Senator Simmons, Ex-Governor Ay
| cock and Chief Justice Walter Clark, and
it is believed that there are one or two
dark horses in the woods ready TO come
out i'll the open and join in the race as
soon as favorable opportunity presents
itself. 1t is said that numerous friends
and partisans Of these several gentlemen
are already laying pipes for the nominal
ton OF legislative candidates III the Dem
Ocratlc county conventions. with the
view OF securing the election OF men who
are partial to their respective favOrites.
The situation is not yet clearly defined.
however, and it is a little too early, per-
haps, to accurately predict results
The cotton planters Of North Carolina
especially those identified with the Got
tOn Growers Association. are in better
spirits and more hopeful Of future re-
suits than i'll many years. The new
board Of directors selected at the recent
meeting OF the State association, which
Is charged with the management OF the
affairs OF OF the association, are greatly
encouraged over the result OF their labor
during the last two or three weeks. This
board is composed os five Of the leading
cotton planters If the State, intelligent
| and energetic men. Col. Henry e. Dock
| cry is the chairman and Dr. r. II Speight
| OF EdgecOmb5, 5. i. Alexander of Neck
| lenburg, Ashley Horne Of Johnson, and
| A. e. Green Of Wake, are the other mem
bers OF the managing directorate.
These gentlemen have during the last
| two weeks secured several thousand
| dollars in subscriptions with which to
| begin defraying the expenses OF the work
OF the State cotton association, and they
| now announce that they will soon put
| the new president, C. c. Moore Of Char
| lotte, in the field, he to devote his entire
time to the growth and upbuilding of
| the organization, on u regular annual
| salary, which it is stated will be twenty
| five hundred dollars They hope by this
| and other means which they will en-
| plOy to soon bring the great majority of
cotton growers in North Carolina into
| the association as members Of the organ
! izntinn and n tbuc 10 +bnir -n,.I-
more effective. The action of the gener-
| al convention of the Southern Cotton
! Growers Association at New Orleans last
week in declaring for fifteen cents for
| the balance of the crop Of 1909, has also
enthused the members of the Organza
| ton. This writer observes also, from
| reading the editorials in several of the
| Northern textile journals during the last
few weeks that those papers which up
to Il very recent period made light OF the
| cotton growers organization are now
| cOnceding the strength and possibilities
of the association. 1t is apparent, too,
that the Northern stock and cotton
market gamblers, who have been reap
ing the great bulk Of the profit on cot
| ton so long. are greatly disturbed over
the actual probability that the Southern
farmers will hereafter fix the price of the
| staple instead of these sharks.
There was Il remarkable and unusual
scene i'll the Superior Court of Wake
| county here last week which marked
the ending OF the sensational shooting
affair in this city last June, when police
man Isaac Rogers shot and very nearly
killed Deputy L. s Marshal John Dock
cry, the affair growing out of the discov
cry of intimacy between Mr. DOckery and
| 1an,rbtar Of Mr. RnnnpC IEnn bo
case against Rogers was called he plead
| guilty to Il charge of assault with a
deadly weapon, the charge OF secret as
SAUL having been withdrawn. There
| upon Hon. James II. Pou, special prose
cutting counsel employed by Mr.. Dockery,
arose and earnestly impOrtuned Judge
Ward not to punish Mr.. Rogers He
| stated that this was the desire of Mr.
| DOckery who recognized tina Mr. Rogers
under misapprchensiOn Of the facts, :"
had acted only as any brave father
| would be expected to act That both
We're brave men and they wanted the
prosecution stopped. Judge Ward after
stating that this was the first instance
that he knew where the prosecutor had
pleaded in court for the freedom Of the
defendant. imposed only fine of fifty
dollars upon Mr.. Rogers. adding that he
could not dismiss the case without some
punishment and uphold the dignity of
the law. Counsel for Mr.. Dockery stated
that while his client had suffered much
he now believed that was for his good
and did not desire to have his assailant
punished Mr. Dockery was in a hospi-
tai here for two months following the
shooting and for several weeks his life
hung by thread. During his critical
illness Mr.. Rogers remained in Jail for a
period OF about month
| Governor Glenn spent yesterday (Sun-
/ day. i'll Charleston. :. C., where he de
livered two addresses, one before the
Young Mems Christian Association and
the other in the Scotch Presbyterian
church. He was the recipient of much
attention and many courtesies at the
hands of the officials and citizens of
Charleston.
Under special charge from Judge
Ward the grand jury of Wake county is
investigating the official conduct OF some
of the magistrates of Raleigh. This is
partly due to the fact that many of the
cases sent on to this term of court by
some OF the magistrates Were based on
souch tlimsy evidence that the grand
jury declines to return true bills But
there has been loud complaint for some
time about some of the official acts of
several justices of the peace here. it being
alleged that their courts are run princi-
pally on the financial plan" the magis-
trates governing their acts according to
the means best affording the largest fl
nancial returns in the way of court
costs. But the criticism which has been
so literally INDUCED in does not apply to
l Ill he - r no a.