The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-18
ADAMS SAVING WOOD
New Alignment OF Factions Growing
out Of the Desire 20 Crush Butler
Control of the state Dele
CATION the Apple OF Dis
cord at This Writing.
BY ANDREW OYNER

Federal office holding outs. and the
bomb proof ms.
Mixed up with this is the new
alignment caused by the breach be-
tween State Chairman Adams and
would be distator Marion Butler. ask
ed If this fight was not about over. a
republican here who belongs 10
neither one OF these leaders sides
laughed ana replied: Not by a.
sight. It's just cache the fighting
stage. All the talk We had through
the press sometime ago was just the
skirmlsh. The deep quiet now is but
the yeritication OF the poets judgment
and truthfulness when he said the
Swallows murmur, while the deep is
dumb The fight now IS over get
ting the control Of the delegation from
North Carolina to the next National
Convention" continued this knowing
unsympathetic Republican: Adams
had quit fighting Harris, and he and
Harris have joined forces TO beat
Butler out of the credit for hold
ing North Carolina Republican dele
gates j. line for Roosevelt or whoever
he may name, whether 1t be Taft,
Knox, Cannon or anybody else, But
Ter like to have scared them TO death
when he delivered his first broadside
for Roosevelt and charged that Ad-
ans, Miliikan, HOltOn, etc, were
fixing a slate to control the State
against the Presidents favorite, Taft.
They knew Buffers object and now
are trying TO beat hin in the race for
the credit of doing anything that the
administration wants done. If you will
notice carefully you will see evidences
of the big things doing in Republican
circles on the quiet here.
THE Republican leaders of the
Adams type or rather OF the anti
Butler type, are not coming here in
flying s~quadrons or platoons to see
the State Chairman, but they are drop
ping in here every day and every
night, and from all parts Of the State,
and are departing in the same un-
heralded way, after having had a
conference with Adams. This mas been
going on for a week. day and night.
1T means business that counts is being
done, anG Adams knows what he 5
about. Roosevelt has fixed this State,
and Adams is going to see to 1t, that
he comes in as the man who Will be
the chief beneficiary of the arrange
ment and not Butler. There's South
Carolina, John Capers was turned out
as District Attorney last year be
cause he was said to be too thick with
the WhiSkey distillerS who were ting
ed with suspicion of d~efrauding the
out of taxes. Capers alb
soluteIy controls the Republican or
g~anization of South Carolina. because
he has his hands upon the negro who
controls the negroes of South Carolina.
II I aDeIS SIION el HIS Ibtl1 III
at being ousted, and swore to get
even. It was found that he could
control solidly South Carolina against
the President in the National CONVEX
ton, so CaDers became head of the
Revenue Department. liking south
Carolina II Louisiana both at one
lick by this arrangement, present ana
in future. Yerkes is a dead dog IN
Kentucky because of his feeling that
he could repay R~oosevelt's admins
tration bv being Independent, and Ala
hama is sOlidly in line through Booker
Washington whether n nlggerS IKE
it or not"
That is the way this Republican
nut it. IN the meantime | saw Judge
ADAMS, and spoke of all these thing
to him. And Judge Adams. he laugh
ed long. and loud. And Judge Adams.
he aint said nothing. And he says he
isn't or going to say nothing. SO he
must lie saving wood, sure enough.
Trouble Over "A Horse Trade.
Purney Williams. a respectable
looking white man of Raidsville, was
arrested in Danville yesterday and
brought here and placed in Jail,
charged with defrauding Penny Bro
theirs ir the purchase of a pair OF
horses. Penny Brothers claim they
SOLD to Williams some time ago a pair
: of horses for $410. To secure the
purchase money Williams gave a note
secured by a mortgage on the horses
and a large amount Of personal prop
erty he said he owned. Upon failing
to pay the note when due Penny Bro
theirs say they found that Williams
not only had no personal property,
but that he had sold the horses, one
for S115. the other for sos. They al
once got out claim and delivery pa
perS for the horses and a warrant for
Williams.
United States Marshal, Milikan is
here. having been called from attend
ance on the Federal Cour at Char
lotte on account of the critical illness
of Mrs. Millikan's sister Mrs. Annie
Myrick. Mrs. Myrick underwent q
~surgical operation yesterday at st
t, Leo's Hospital for appendicitis. She
is reported as resting we'll this morn
ing. but her condition is such as tc
cause alarm to her relatives and many
/, friends
: Mr.. Thomas w. Vincent, Of Bur
Iington will center the internal rev
!. enue service as special employe or
Julv 1st. He has been laid off fol-
) some time owing TO an injury which
he accidentally sustained while suttine
I up a still in Orange county.
Installing Mill Machinery.
} The Pomona Cotton Manufacturing
Company is completing the fnstalla.
ton of the new machinery contracted
} for several months ago. 1t is install
ing 10000 spindles and accompanying
apparatus, the previous equipmen
having been 10,750 spindles and 80
looms. The company's original mil
building two stories high and 30 b!
325 feet has been added to by tn
erection of a second structure $50 By
: zoo feet
Elegant marker in large black let
ters on a white painted background
designating where different com
I . ,9on7S and fhpir numbers stood ar
being placed on Guilford Battl'
: Ground for the information of tn
thousands who viii attend the cele'
2 hration there on July 4th.
!. Hardware Man Quotes Scripture.
; Yesterday at Richmond Mr.. Charlie:
: H. Ireland was elected a member o
the executive committee Of the South
ern Hardware Jobbers Association
) Mr.. ireland, who is a leading spirit il
this great reanizatin as he Is il