The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1924-07-11
WATTS AND CAM.
MAKE UP AGAIN
Other Outstanding Events Of
The Week at Your State
Capital
TO7 Lawyers Building.
The independents Bureau.
BY X. T.. POWELL


RALEIGH, July l0.--Onc
by one they arc trckking back
home: weary, disgusted, broke
and somewhat bent; tired Of
the sights and of sledge ham
mcr politics. The rest will
probably be home before this is
over but at the time OF writ
ing it doesn't look as il a nomi-
nation is in sight.
Yc scribe constituted the van
guard of the returning visitors from
the great Democratic convention.
\ day or so later Judge J. Lloyd
Horton. who was u delegate. came
To town i'm time To hold Wake cOun-
ty Court. Then along came w. B.
Drake Jr.. banker and delegate,
Phillip BuSbec. who was another
mere visitor. and George Ross P0u,
who was with his fathcr-One Of
the parliamcntarians Of the cOnycn-
tiOn.
The latter contingent brings hack
the most interesting bit of news for
North CarolinianS: tO-wit. that Col.
Aston ID. Watts has ap"l".i2"d tO
Governor Cameron Morrison and
that the Damon and PythiaS rela-
ton between the two has been re-
stored and the rupture forgotten.
There is hope for the Morrison
Senatorial ambitions In this healing
Of u breach that also shocked the
State. accustomed as II Is to shocks
and especially the jars Col. Watts
has given IL. Without the wizard,
there would be absolutely no hope
for Mr.. Morrison If ne runs against
Senator Overman two years from
now. With him and other re-.
sources. the goal of every governor :
ambition may bc realized.
II was unfortunate that there
should have been u break in New
York. especially in the presence OF
thG adfcs. Col. wnifs Eitriur-wiir
the North Carolina delegation a
week ago to-day. did nothing more
than was his wont when he asked
Governor Morrison 10 desert Me-
Adoo. The night before hc had
asked state Chairman John Dawson
to leave the Californian and 90 to
Al Smith. Mr.. Dawson declined
politely.
Governor Morrison did not de.
cline politely. He told Col. Watts
his old play mate, 10 get out Of the
delegation.
"You amt III to sit in here" Mr..
Morrison was quoted by Rcn Dixon
McNrill as saying to Col. Watts.
or course, then, II was unkind for
the Greensboro News parasraphcr
To come along and say that Mr..
Watts was fit to sit In the Cover
nor'S private Office when grave mat
tcrS of state policy were under
consideration.
More Trouble at Home
There is trouble at homeland
there's some news i'm II. The old
row between State College and the
state Department of Agriculture
has flarcd up again and II comes be-
tween new heads. ID used to be the
elder Graham. now dead, against
DR.. Wallace Carl Riddick, prcsi-
younger Graham. successor To his
dent of the college. Now II IL the
father. against DIR. Augcnc Clyde
Brooks. the ahlcSt educator and
perhaps the smarteSt diplomat in
all North Carolina.
The Brooks program of expand
cd state College has for some time
been giving concern not only to the
Department OF Agriculture hut TO
the friends of the University.
These latter dread the day when
state shall he In n class with the
University. But unless somebody
puts Il spider in DR.. Brooks coffee,
the day Is not so blOOmin' far off.
The first move took from the
Department DR.. B. W. Kilgore.
popularity known as the best poll
tician on Capitol Hill. The second
swept the extension service and all
publications out the college way.
Now, If the board intcrprets DR..
Brooks correctly, the college Is after
the several test farms.
There will come hitch. The
department will not loose the farms
without Il stiff fight, for II regards
these as purely its own. Relations
between the department and the
college, II is the hope of both boards,
are to he more intimate, If anything !,
but such progress as has been made
along this particular line does not
foreshadow healthy intimacy. There
are hopes for the best but dark
clouds right now are passing over
the department.
Mrs. johnson Clashes With
Politicians
Commissioner Kate Burr Johnson,
who rolled the Surry county Demo-