The commonwealth., 1910-08-11
The ANtl-RING MEETING.
The Mass.Meeting at Halifax Friday
Puts out a Ticket.


meeting was held in the court house
at Halifax Friday as had been adver-
tised. The meeting was called to
order at one o'clock by Major L. l..
Emery, and Mr.. B. D. Mann acted
in the capacity of secretary, though
a motion was passed to invite the
members of the press present to act
as secretaries.
Previous to the assembling of the
meeting a caucus of several repre-
sentatives from the various town
ship was held and the county ticket
recommended.
In calling the meeting to order
Major Emery said that the object OF
the meeting was to name a demo-
cratic county ticket to defeat the
old ring.
Mr.. w. F. Butterworth was first
on his feet after the organization
was perfected and in few remarks
paid his respects to the present man
agement of county finances and
also said that he thought the pri-
mary law very damnable and unjust,
but that since the bars had been
thrown down he thought it best to
90 into the primary on the 10Th, and
have the fight out there. He said
he was true democrat and did not
want to see any but good democrats
named in the mass-meeting and
those that are opposed to the ring.
Mr.. Butterworth then made the
motion that the anti-ring people
vote in the primary. The motion
then being before the house a gene
raj discussion followed. Messrs. }.
H. Pope and Henry Whitaker were
opposed to going into the primary
Messrs. L. w. Leggett, W. w. Ros-
ser, ]. w. Pittman. and others ex.
pressed themselves as willing to &C
into the primary. The vote was
then taken and carried unanimously
to go to the primary on the 18th
and vote and work for the success
of their ticket.
The next contention was over the
slate or ticket that had been sugges-
ted. Mr.. S. F. Dunn led the fight
against the slate and made motion
that the list be tabled. The motion
was lost and the convention proceed
ed to nominate ticket as follows:
Senator-W. F. Butterworth, OF
Scotland Neck township.
House Of Representatives W
Rosser, of Brinkleyville township
and L. w. Leggett, of Palmyr;
township.
Sheriff-N. w. Warren, of Butter
wood township.
Treasurer-T. F. Whitley, of Scot
land Neck township.
Register of Deeds-J. Valid
Whitaker, of Enfield township.
Clerk of Court-Chas. Speed, O
Scotland Neck township.
Coroner-W. E. Whitmore, O
Scotland Neck township.
County Commissioners E. Co,
Of Roanoke Rapids, w. A. Pearce
Of Weldon, w. V. Barnhill, of Er
field, T. L. House, of Palmyra, an
w. T. Eure, Of Halifax.
All the candidates present wer
allied out and accepted the nomin;
ton, pledging their full sympath
, and hearty cooperation for the SUI
The nominations with the excel
: ton of register of deeds and treas,
y rer, were made by acclamatio1
4 Three names were put in nomin;
\ tion by the committee for treasure
as follows:-G. S. White E. w. H,
: man and T. F. Whitley. A vote w;
$ taken which showed 121 voting, d
vided as follows: Whitley rs, Hyma
26 and White 20. Mr.. Whitley w;
: declared the nominee and the oth'
r men moved that it be made unan
nous. For register of deeds
! Waldo Whitaker and O. P. Stalling
: both of Enfield, were recommonde
a A vote by standing was called fl
:. and 62 were counted for Whitak,
e and 38 for Stallings, Whitaker W
+ nominated.
/ 1t might be said in passing tn
! the committee that proposed tt
J. slate did not Recommend any nan
j. for clerk of the court and that aft
discussing the matter in the cove
e ton several names were mention
= but none seemed to be satisfactor
S finally Mr.. J. E. Hancock. of SCI
e land Neck, put in nomination M
j Chas. Speed and he was nominal
with enthusiasm.
The crowd present was various
IL estimated at from 275 to $50 peopI
though we believe more conserv
tive estimate put the number at 81