Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-06-11
Tar ucs| Democrats Engaged i
Fleece Three. CorGeted Battle.
nIcu|n LOOKS LIKE TIE WINES
Exconfedere se's Argument Seems to
Have Little Weight-RepubIican
Take Advantage Of AHairs-laboi
Element Has Not as Yet EnterfG

RALEIGH. n. G.. Jun" lo.-The po
litical poi Is boiling over IN Norlt
Carolina and ", rythlng c"nt"rs CT
the triangnltr contest for IN" Demo
cratic nomination for Cove rnor fo'l
years ago there was a contest OF thi
Kind in which Robert Il. Glenn
Clarlt NJ Sttdman and W!lfred ID
Turner figured and Glenn won. but II
was not so prolonged rs the contest
now on, nOthin near so bitter. mere
trih. OF money being spent and ther"
was no experimenting worth sp> akins
o.
The County primaries to elect dele
ga es to the state convention, which
will make the nomination. are now IT.
progress. Tn" Democratic convention
vii be h Id ut Charlotte. June -
The Rerul. lean executive committee
will meet June Is to fix thu date OF
their convention. which Will probably
be held ut Greensboro.
The present contest Is not only
unique. hut it il apt to he the last OF
the kind. Great sums have d er
spcnt in the interest Of the three aspi
rants Congressman William w
Kilchin. Lock, Craig and ASHLEY
Horn. A great deal OF heat has been
and il acutely personal so far as these
two are concerned. For Horne 1t /.
urged that IL he Is not chOsf 1t Will
he the last chance the Confederat
soldier will have in North Carolina
hut the appeal does not seem to have
the influence It used to have. II ha'
Ic,n expected this county would give
, Horne 4 majority. as 1t adjoins hi
home. but 1t wtnt quite largely for
Kiichin due. in part. to speech
made here last week. In which n
, handled his opponent, Craig, S"nat"
~. N. Sin mons and Ex-Governor Ay
cock in plain fashion.
He topk occasion to say that Sim
mons was no longer leader OF IN
party in North Carolina, but its boss
and he declared that in backing Craig
| for the nomination Senator Simmons
was simply using the machine TO
his purposes.
Change Of System Wanted.
The bitternc ;ses which have arisen
have mt many 4 Democrat in mood
for n chance of system. and the'
i Wuut u Ia" "'''
\ reouire tn" hohiing Ct every primary
4 on the SINE dar. This year 'h'y ne
l gan in April and end in the present
! month. The result Of the present
/ plan may he imagined. Great sums
have been expended. many times more
than ever before. and there are othc'
Things which tend to set the people
, in general In favor CT something else
The present plan is only four YEAR
old. and It certainly has not he'pe':
the Democratic party in the state
This is the Deliberate judgemt mt OF
number OF the fest-informed men.
The Republicans have taken advan'
ltacc OF every move in the game. I'd"
amount Of quiet work which they
Ihave done and are doing to bring
about dissatisfaction among workins
men and any others they can reach
vonId hardly he belle we'd by the Dem
ocrats. To illustrate VIVA! the Repn!s
llicaps have done. one Of them stat"d
today that every operative In two cot
lion mills in Raleigh was r publican
AMI hal he n made SO within the pas
few months. The time was when ih's
clement voted almost solidiy Demo
c,otic. The Republicans are pointing
ont that the negro Is out OF the game
aud that ,aev are against him and
that therefC<,. the whites can vote
as they plea 80 without any fear OF
negro domination. The Republican,
co further and say that more n croe"
yctc now FOR the Democrats than cast
Republican votes.
Internationally the Democratic ma
ior;,v is going to he cut pretty large
" in November. and the big figures
In recent years-say since 1S9S-~,'
NOT then r, seen. Some Of the Repair
iRcans look for return of their party
| 10 power not this year but two wears
hence. so far as the legislature Is con
| G, rrcG
| kitshir N the Lead.
l 4, tho cuhern atoriaI race Kitchtr
n " has led estimated bv his man
serr, At somO hing about 70 delegates
lin the conven,ioA but' the Craig man
ayers do not give Kitehin more thar
ne Hnrne-s managers saw no will
have $50 yotcs in the convention ard
tha- hc row has 1I.. Fcurtcrn coun
~ ,r,nrs Us remain To be- bold The
amount e work which Is being done
- xip IN these exceeds bciirf. The
rar,. - y, in Georgia wes Hve'~ one.
but M hing nrar Ike tho one now on
in Nor'h Carolina. This week % looks