The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1910-05-03

sherwood Opcnucn was calleQ up TO
state that Mr.. Bailey had asked if he
could carry his ward for Craig. He |
goods" that Bailey gave him check |
for the expense and told him he
would get pay for his service after the |
primary; that he carried his ward for
Craig and got his pay from Bailey, |
who remarked that he (Upchurch)
had made good even if he had sold
his vote. 81 told him." said Up
churchchurch, that I had not sold my
vote; that I went out and got the
votes he wanted with the check he
gave me for thepurpose, but that I
went to the polls like man and voted
for Willie Kitchin, the only governor
we have had that has shown the good
sense to stay in his office and attend
to his official duties.''
Hon. Dan Hugh Mclean was called
to speak. He spoke for fifteen minutes
paying tribute to the Democratic par
ty and the work for it of Armiste
Jones and those associated with hi
in the direction of the party intere
in Wake county. He appealed amid
enthusiastic applause for return of
the Democratic party of the whole
state to the fundamental Jeffersonian
principle of Democracy of local self
government, making it clear that he
meant this as to the temperance ques-
tion as we'll as others. A great revolu
tion, he declared, is going on in the
minds of the people all over the state.
Armistead Jones presented a resolu-
| ton for voting in the June pri-
maries on Salaries" and ''No sala-
ries' for county officers. This was
adopted unanimously.
| Senator Buck Jones too Editor
Daniels to task for making the fight
he and Bailey are making for putting
the county officers on salaries.
"Joe Daniels" he said claims to
| be something of a Bible on Democ-
racy, wonderfully straight Demo
crat, and yet he is well aware that
this very salary issue was the third
plank in the Republican platform in
this count ytwo years ago on which
they attempted to defeat we Demo
Ioy,o of fhn h0 iC in,
sisting that we adopt the third plank
in the Republican platform" He
charged that once when Bailey was
not doing the bidding of Editor Dan
iels the latter spent three months in
telling of and denouncing in his paper
the attitude of Bailey, holding him ur
as a Republican unworthy of voice
) in this Democratic principle and that
"Now he wants to shove on us both
Bailey and a Republican platform
plank"
Mr.. Chappell offered resolution de
claring for local self-governmert. L
was received with great enthusiasm
but afterwards by J. N. Holding tha
it would be unwise to take any actor
as it would be misrepresented in thu
local press, it was withdrawn withou
vote. Holding declared himsel
heartily in favor of it.
!. chairman, declared if he was ex
: pected to say anything about J. "
Bailey or Josephus Daniels ther,
would have to be invented new words
l that the vocabulary for denunciatio'
; was long since exhausted in this day
: proceedwings. He favored the loca
1 self-government principle, but wa
i glad the resolution was withdrawn
j He thought the convention after tn
primaries would be thetime to adop
+ a platform. A motion to adjourn pre-
vailed.
: front of the court house by Mr.. Bale
\ and his followers was an enthusiast
d lone. Bailey mounted a box and dc
S clared that "the mass meeting wa
e called for the purpose of showing wha
e sort of machine rule we have in thi
e tcounty. BY their conduct this day.
d Fhe declared, @the machine was full
e demonstrated what it is and that it
y far worse than any of us had though
e Of showing it to be-; more corrupt tina
It its worst enemies had ever undertal
|. en- to. prove"
}. He declared that this days proceed
o ing was merely skirmish and tina
8 the real fight would be among tn