The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-03-30
BAILEY, FISH
and WHAT not
Oscar Coffin Covers Several
Subjects In This Weeks
Raleigh Letter.
o. J. COFFIN
Special Raleigh Correspondent of
THE INDEPENDENT.

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RALEIGH. Mar. 29.-This
man ]. w. Bailey, who is 60
ing to speak to Elizabeth City
folks one Friday night in May,
doesn't like to have his picture
took"
went around to get Il photograph
for Will Saunders, so that he
could show you-all what Josiah Viii
liam looks like. Mr.. Bailey. says
/, all polite and respectful. Will
Saunders wants TO print your pic
ture."
Il have no picture" says he: "othcr-
wise l should be glad to obligc."
(And. indeed. Mr.. Bailey does aim to
please and always does in making Il
speech. All of you folks better go
out and hear him. But | don't
like to try to look big; and | won't
look small if l can help it. In any
event the public easily sees through
the man that is posing for picture,
and l don't like to do it. Now Il
picture of one of my children.
! switched the cOnycrSation-rO
trouble ut all. | assure you. to the
subject of the gubcrnatorial primary
of next summer.
Mr.. Bailey will be 4 candidate if
he decides next fall that the people
want him. He is certain they want
him now just as badly as they want
\. W. Mclean of IumbertOn: but he
isn't convinced that they lie awake
at nights trying to devise new ways
and means Of inducing either himself
or Mr.. Mclean to run. He wont
authorize a statement as TO his can
didacy; but he rather thinks he will.
SO do lots of the rest of US.
Some of the politicians. member Of
what he has diSrespcclfully termed
THE machine" low a> how won't. Mr..
Bailey says he isn't ut ali afraid of
the politicians. He expects close t"
an even break among them. knowing
enough of human nature to realize
that if one faction in Il county de-
clares against him. another is apt to
be attracted TO him.
In Durham County. for instance.
II. o. Everett is reported to have
aSpouSed the cause of Mr.. Mclean.
Highly satisfactory. Mr.. Everett.
who continually StirS up some oppOSi-
ton for himself in his own preserves.
is confidently expected to make some
friends for the opponent of his candi-
date.
In like manner Mr.. Bailcy does not
expect the support of State Senator
L. III. Williams. former District At
torney Ed. Aydlett, Walter Cohoon
and W. q. Saunders ut one and the
same time. \ lot Of things have been
said for and against the Wake Coun-
ty man who has been with and with
out the Old Guard: but those who
have said that he isn't Il pretty fair
Judge of human nature have been kid
ding themselves.
! don't know whether he'll ever
be Governor. and have in no order
for sackcloth contingent upon his
election or defeat: but | do know
that he makes Il hell of Il good speech
and has something worthy of hearing
even by Eliza5eth City people. ac-
customcd as they are to the cloqucncc
of Walter CohoOn. Ed. Aydlctt, Pat
Williams. Ike McekinS and others too
numerous and tedious to mention.
The Fish Commission
Let's talk fish and fisheries some.
The Fish Commission, which with
n half-million dollar appropriation
is now in Il position to cut bait, met
here Tuesday. heard Il talk on the
subject of fish and progress by Gov
crnor Morrison and got lcGcthcr 4
Temporary organization by th" cleo
tion of John X. Dixon. of Trenton,
Jones County. chairman and Editor
Sanford Martin OF the Winston-Saiem
Journal. secretary.
There was talk of the planting by
the million of bushels of oyster shells
for the oysters to come along. pick up
and fill; but there was no program
agreed upon. The term OF office OF
tbe new commissioners does not be-
gin until April 1. There is this
sentiment among the members OF the
commission, however: to speed up the
planting of fish and the policing OF
the waters and to proceed cautiously
in the matter of attempting to re-
omen the inlets OF the SOUNDS. lhcfe
are enough of practical folks on the
commission to know that opening an
inlet amounts to something more
than putting in steam shovel and
throwing out Il cubic yard or so of
sand.
There is interest, too, in what
commissioner Grant of Onslow,
fisherman of parts and all oysterman
along the New River, terms sport
ing" fish. We upstaters who delight
70 worm our way into the confidence
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