The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-08-11
WAKE REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION


Nearly Two tn One-f.o~tma.ser
Briggs leads Bols-Ts r. Butler
Elected Chairman.
The Wake County Republican
Contention met at the courthouse
on Saturday last at I2:4s .. m. and
! was called 30 order by Chairman
Barrow. The delegates and Others
who packed the courtroom had been
addressed by Hon. Thos. Settle. who
delivered a speech that eaptlvated
his audience. His aaying Of the
referee system and his expose of
the hypocracy Of the ring bosses.
was greeted with wiid applause. Mr.
! Settles remarks wiIi be found in an
other column.
The only feature that marred the
! occasion vas the uneaIied-for inter
F ruption Of Mr. Settles speech BY
! Postmaster Willis G. Briggs, gho.
apparently realizing his complete de-
j feat. lost his head and dashed al the
speaker as II TO attack him. Mr.
Settle met the interruption with his
. usual good humor and smiling waved
the angry young man aside.
Contest Reported.
Upon calling the convention 10 or
der il was reported that there was
contest in the Second Division of the
Third Ward. Chairman Barrow then
appointed a committee, consisting of
&C. II. Collins. Willis G. Briggs. ]. J.
Peasants, J. s. Mangum, and s. Nj.
Rowland TO pass upon the matter.
After some delay, the committee re-
turned and presented two reports.
one signed by four members OF the
} committee and a minority one, sign
: ed by Postmaster Briggs alone The
I majority report recommended that
! the regularly elected delegates from
= that division be seated, as opposed to
= an alleged delegation selected by a
: handful of men, mostly former Dem
e ocrats; that Mr.. l.. D. Ray be seated
as a regularly elected delegate from
c Barton's Creek, and that no delegate:
q be seated from Neuse, as the primar,
, had not been conducted in accord
ance with the "Plan of OrganiZa
, ton" Postmaster Briggs repor
!, recommended the seating of TIL
\ trump Democratic" delegation from
the Third Ward; that Mr.. s. c. Pee
+ din be seated in place of Mr.. Ray
the regularly elected delegate iron
Barton's Creek, and that the tw
L Neuse delegates be seated, anyhow
II The postmaster supported his min
g ority report in a fervid speech tina
a, at times approached the solemnit
s. of a camp-meeting eXhOrtation. Du1
he ing the progress of his speech tn
1t, delegates, becoming tired of listenin
az to il, repeatedly called upon him
v finish il and quit. At this, one {
be the Briggs-Duncan delegates, ev
lg IDENTIFY thinking to play upon the fee
n ings of the delegates, arose in a wei
On assumed pose of Indignation and d
clared "he would call for the pole
no to enforce order Mr.. c. NJ Be
Iv nard, in a few words, courteousl
~ but sharply, rebuked the delegate f
nf thus manufacturing political capt.
No. for the Democrats, and the delega
on subsidized.
he On behalf OF the majority repol
ost Mr. Lester F. Butler and Mr.. c.
en- Bernard spoke. The latter explai
at ed that the death of Mr.. L. D. Ray
to son almost at the very hour Of t
is primaries had prevented his atten
Ter ance He also explained how the tN
NY meetings had been conducted in t
I'D I'd Mr pnrnarH
attention to the fact that the Ct
Dental committee sat as jury,
ing selected by the chairman, a
:. that four of the five had made
port after hearing the evidence a
that they should be supported.
- The roll-call by townships "
20 then made and the tailed vote W
AZ for the report of Postmas
Brigg and "A against. Before
vote was announced, by personal :
peals two delegates were induced
change their vote, so that the
80 corded vote was ~ to A.
ted Test Vote Defeats Duncan.
This test vote revealed the strens
ign of the Morehead force and the CO
Az paratiye weakness of the office-ho
vas ers, as it was plainly understood Il
vote for the minority report '
eli for the machine" The Moreht
supporters greeted the vote with p
longed cheering, and the express
on the faces of the "office-holde
and their slim showing, plainly sht
nc ed their chagrin. The plain PEG
had spoken, and it had sounded tt
death-knell.
The motion to approve the !
! - iority report went through with
coll 80 a s,,e