The New.:, and Observer.
VOL XL. NO. 83.
HUE UKEST GMCUUTIW OF W NORTH CMOUIIA DAILY.
DUN, BUSSELL
IS THE NOMINEE
He Fraudulently Wins on the
Seventh Ballot.
RUSSELL ROOTERS SEATED
Contests Decided With Not a
Show of Fairness.
MOTT PERMANENT CHAIRMAN
Resolutions Adopted Endorsing Pritch
ard for Re-Election and McKinley
for President--Hi Guciger and Oscar
Spears for Electors at La ge---The
First Ballot for Governor Taken at
Eleven O’clock. *
The following are the nominees:
For United States Senator —Jeter C
Pritchard.
For Governor —D. L. Russell.
For Attorney General —Z. Y. Walser.
For Auditor-Ruff Henderson, of
Wilkes.
For Associate Justice—R. M. Doug
lass.
Chairman (in name only) Executive
Committee —A. E. Holt-on.
Virtual Chairman, with full powers—-
Jeter C. Pritchard.
Delegates to National Convention —
Jeter C. Pritchard, Janies E. Boyd.
It was a pretty fight!
It, was two o'clock this morning
when a young man of strong unshaven
face, stood leaning on the piano in
front of the stage of the Metropolitan
Hall holding his thin lips together
lest the tempest- which was tossing
within him should carry him. He did
give way once for a second under the
leaping passion that seemed to lift
the immense convention billows.
“You go to hell!” he exclaimed with
tense feeling and the j»erson addressed
was Mr. Marshal Mott, chairman of
the convention.
The tellers were hardly yet through
the count,but the total seemed to throw
itself together by some unknown pro
cess and a cathode ray seemed to car
ry it to the brains of a few of the
Russell leaders whose eyes and ears
were throbbing with eagerness.
At least one knew that the fatal
119 3-7 was the figure to Ik* announced,
119 being necessary to a choice and
the young man was Oliver H. Dockery,
Jr. He had made a pretty plucky fight
for his highly esteemed old father,
and hfs .frank and manly tactics were
admired by more than one. But he
lift
was perhaps unaware that he was
bucking up against the machinations
of old politicians steeped in t.he ways
of Satan and his political tactics.
Marshal Mott stifled the storm long
enough to shout 119%, and then a hur
ricane of voices carried everything
before it. He had hardly let the words
go, l>efore Oscar Speares who had work -
ed hard for Dockery got recognition
with the understanding that he
Speares was going to move that the
nomination lie made unanimous.
But Speares was standing against
a crowd of men who were desperate
with disappointment. Among these
was Jim Moody who came panting
down the aisle in a fighting sweat
shouting “Mr. Chairman! Mr. Chair
man!” Speares yielded for a moment.
“Don’t yield!” came to him from a score
-of Russell men. The chairman show
ered the table with his gavel-blows
and called Moody to order. “Mr.
Speares yielded to me!” Moody cried
back.
“Yield to him for God’s sake!” ex
claimed Young Dockery looking up at
Speares with the scant hope that some
times dashes even the face of hope
lessness.
“No 1 won’t!” answered Mott, who
never once lost his self-possession or
nerve.
“You go to hell!” replied the young
man, and that was the last word he
said. For with a step of passion he left
the hall in a few moments.
“I challenge this vote!” roared an
! other young man who shot like a
! rocket from the back of the stage to
the foot-lights. “I challenge this vote.
There were two votes cast fo<r the
county of Dare when the delegates
from Dare were not present in the hall.
This young man was Tom Settle.
Just then young Duncan came for
ward praneingly, and said he was a
delegate from Dare as well as from
i Carteret, and that he cast the vote,
j Mr. Moody’s kick! He said the rep
resentative of Graham-had cast the vote
of Swain. All this time, the mutter
ings increased, throats were hoarse
I with indistinguishable words, and
' there was almost pandemonium. Then
came forward the chairman shod ting:
; »‘M r . Moody w ishes Co say that he was
wrong."
“No 1 don’t!" answered Moody de
terminedly, but 1 will say that Mr.
| Patterson says he lives in Swain and
! was elected from Graham!” Moody
had all the while been standing and the
gavel had lw*en falling like pistol shots
! upon the table. •
j And the 119 3-7 stood unbroken. But
i the Dockery men were a solid phalanx
1 against the decree. The accusations
, v ent thick and fast through the hail
| from lip to lip. Some said that Chair
! man Mott had openly left the stage,
! gone down in the hall, and changed
the four votes of Wilkes which would
have nominated Dockery. Others lash
; td Pritchard with changing the vote
»!' Buncombe.
For it. must be remembered that
Dockery received 116 votes.
So when Spears, standing there all
• ihe while, and all this happened in a
few moments, made the motion to
make the nomination unanimous, he
was swept back, high up on the beach
I by ihe noes that came like angry
breakers against him. His words were
! anwelcome and he fell back powerless
| to renew the attack. The motion was
! never put. The Mott-Russel 1-Har
| ris-Pritchard crowd were content for
the moment wjt.h the 119 3-7. They
had to l>e. And in the midst of the
vengeful glances and interchanges,
there were barbaric pictures of glee,
Logo Harris almost dancing a break
down with a big Russell buck negro
who had run up on the 4tage and
seized both his hands.
It mattered not, if Spears afterward
came forth with the usual oratorical
pledge of fealty to Russell whom he
had fought, nor if he was followed by
Boyd, negro Dancy and Moody, who
could hardly get the words out, the
devil was in the Dockery people, and
even candidate Russell, who was a
few moments later pressed up the
hall through the packed aisle could
not allay the hell-fire that was abroad.
The rest of the proceedings were
merely formal, but the curses of the
Dockery men, who swarmed the streets
this early morning, were entirely in
formal and might be paraphrased by
the utterance of a prornninent negro
politician which rang out on the night
air like a bright blade in the back:
“We’ll beat the d—n scoundrel by 50,-
000 votes!”
And think of such a wicked remark
from him when just a few moments
before Russell had been telling how his
rotundity might have proceeded from
the great amount of nutritious milk
that he once was said to have taken
from the breast of bis old negro nurse.
The good people of this State will
behold the man and the words will
come to them: “The arm of the Lord
is not shortened that He cannot save!”
MORNING SESSION.
The convention was slow in gather
ing yesterday morning. The commit
tee on credentials and the contesting
delegations were sleepy. Andrew D.
Cowles, of Statesville, was the first
speaker who came to the bat. He said
the struggle was for the re-enactment
of the McKinley law. He said more men
are wearing patched breeches than,
ever before. The daddy of the Demo
cratic party is Rebellion, the mother
was Slavery, etc. Then the convention
adjourned until 12 o’clock to await the
rt port, of the committee on credentials.
A FTERXOON SESSION.
Shortly after 12 o’clock the conven
tion was called to order by Chairman
Holton, and the report of the commit
tee on credentials was read by Chair
man Reynolds. A minority report was
submitted by Wheeler Martin (liussell
ite), and George H. Smathers, who
seemed the only man on the committee
trying to find justice. As soon as the
report was read, Mr. Cook, of Warren,
leader of the Russell forces, took the
iloor. “We are here for that which is
fair and right. That committee shows
division. They are not satisfied. We
have no evidence for intelligent action.
I demand that weshall hear the evidence
'ihe committeeman from the Second
district has his seat contested. The
Second district wants fairness. 1 will
go down fighting w ith my colors in my
hand, if I am not treated with fairness.
He moved that each contestant and
eontestee Ik* allowed ten minutes to
present his case. (“That won’t do,”
said Pritchard). Tom Settle, leader of
the Doekeryites, replied to Cook, and
said if the motion ought to be made
at all, it ought to have ben made before
the committee was appointed. The
committee spent all night in their
work, and nobody should question
their integrity. He moved to table
Cook’s motion. Cook demanded the
roll call. Great confusion followed.
While roll-call was proceeding, when
Halifax was called. Cook, of Warren,
protested against permitting Halifax
to vote, Cook, of Warren, and French,
of New Hanover, made speeches saying
Halifax hail reported a contest, and it
could not vote. Then for twenty min
utes pandemonium broke loose, county
after county changing its vote, and a
general melee of hurrahing and holler
ing that looked like a mob of anar
chists, rather than American citizens.
Tom Settle tried to epeak, and they
wouldn’t hear him. Twenty-five men
were on their feet in a moment, and
Pritchard was begged to come forward.
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They wouldn’t hear him at first, and
when he asked them to be decent they
were quiet awhile, but it didn’t last
long. After a great row, Cook with-:
drew bis motion.
Richmond Pearson moved to separate
and vote on each county, and then
when a county had been settled, it be
permitted to vote on the balance.
George H. Smathers, of Haywood,
seconded this motion, and it was adopt
ed by 105 to 95.
Oook and French moved, as there was
eno difference about Wilkes, to let it
vote at once. Marshall Mott wanted to
come in at once. Holton tried to pre
vent this by every ruling he could
make, but French got the best of him,
and Wilkes (anti-Dockery) was about
to be admitted alone, when the Dock
ery men demanded that Wilson, Union
and Perquimans be also admitted, as
the committee agreed upon them all.
This pleased the Doekeryites, for they
got 6 and anti-Dockery got 4.
Another five minutes of confusion.
Carpenters were at work on the roof,
and Richmond Pearson wanted them to
stop. The chairman thought that the
hammering was merely the loud talk
ing.
SEATING RUSSELL ROOTERS.
The first vote was on the Craven con
test. The debate was characterized by
great bitterness, and from one to the
other went charges of corruption,
bribery, stuffing ballot-boxes. Abe
Middleton, Dr. Shepherd, of Durham,
Alfred Lloyd, all colored, took part in
the hair pulling. Dr. Shepherd was
bowled down and hissed. He said that
the folks who tried to stifle the voice
of the people would be downed. Rey
nolds defender l the; majority re
j>ort, and W•*'-./ asked, “Were not ‘East
ern method** used in Craven county.”
This made a negro mad, who howled
out, “Are not Eastern methods as good
as any.” By a vote of 120 to 90, the
whole county was given to Itussell.
This dampened the ardor of the Dock
rryites, who saw that 1 this was the be
ginning of the wholesale seating of the
Russellites which followed.
The vote on the minority report of
the committee on credentials seating
the anti-Dockery delegates was qs
follows:
Ayes—-Alamance, 2: Alexander, 2;
Alleghany, 1; Beaufort, 2; Bertie, 2;
Bladen, 2; Brunswick, 2; Buncombe,
4; Burke, 2; Caldwell, 2; Camden, 2;
Carteret, 2; Caswell, 2; Catawba. 1;
Chowan, 1; Clay, 2; Cleveland, 2; Co
lumbus, 2; Currituck, 2; Dare, 2;
Davie, 2; Duplin, 2; Forsyth, 1; Gates,
2; Graham, 2; Greene, 2; Guilford, 4;
Halifax, 2; Henderson, 1; Hertford, 2;
Hyde, 2; Jackson, 2; lairioir, 2; Madi
son, 2; Martin, 2; McDowell, 1; Mitch
ell, 2; New Hanover, 4; Onslow, 2;
Orange, 1; Pamlico, 2; Pasquotank,. 2;
Pender, 2; Person, 2; Pitt, 4; Poik. 2;
Robeson, 2; Rutherford, 1; Sampson,
4; Swain, 2; Tyrrell, 2; Vance, 1; War
ren, 2; Watauga, 1; Wayne, 4; Wilkes,
4; Yancey, 2 —120.
Noes —Alleghany, 1; Anson, 2; Ashe,
2; Cabarrus, 2; Catawba, 1; Chatham,
4; Chowan, 1; Davidson, 2; Durham,
2; Forsyth, 3; Gaston, 2; Granville,
4; Halifax, 2; Harnett, 2; Haywood,
2; Henderson, 1; Iredell, 4; Johnston,
4; .tones, 2; Lincoln, 2; McDowell, 1;
Montgomery, 2; Moore, 2; Nash, 2;
Northampton, 2; Orange, 1; Perquim
ans, 2; Randolph, 4; Richmond, 4;
Robeson, 2; Rockingham, 4; Rowan, 4;
Rutherford, 1; Stanlv, 2; Stokes, 2;
Surry, 2; Union, 2; Vance, 1; Wash
ington, 2; Wataqga, 1; Wilson, 2;
Yadkin, 2—90
Cumberland came next, and by a
vote of 122 to 90, the Russell delegates
were seated there.
Edgecombe came next, and the Itus
sell-Boyd-Moody-Lusk combination
turned down the Dockery delegates by
a vote of 130% to 76.
In Franklin county the Ttussellites
were elected by 138 to 78.
Mecklenburg went the same way by
a vote of 128 to 86.
Wake was the last county, and Leak
and his crowd were kicked out by a
vote of 143 to 81.
It took four hours to dispose of these
eases. The Doekeryites fought every
inch of the ground,"but with no hope,
as it was clear that, without reference
to the report of the committee, the evi
dence, or fairness to turn down Dock
ery men from every county. It was a
shameless brutality, without even an
attempt of pretending to fairness.
“Which is our d—d rascal?” imitating
Thad Stevens, was the only question ’
George If. Smathers, of Haywood, |
who had presented a minority report \
t > the convention, made several pleas to I
his party to be ordinarily fair and hon
est.
He declared that in several counties
itihere had been sharp tactics and dis
honest methods—methods which he
declared ought not to be tolerated. In
one of bis short speeches, he grew elo
quent in denunciation of the men who
had brought up some contests, wholly
fraudulent, to this convention, and
appealed to ft.he delegates to do justice.
At this juncture, Cook, of Warren,
having in mind the wholesale frauds
perpetrated by the Russell rooters,
rose to a ]x>int of order, and demanded
that Mr. Smathers confine himself to
the particular case in hand. Mr. Smath
ers finished his lashing of the primary
and convention thieves, while Cook’s
mob yelled and jeered at, him. “It is
the hit dog that hollers.”
THE ROW OVER FRANKLIN.
The Franklin county case caused the
most feeling. John Williamson led
the Dockery forces and was doomed
to destruction. Richmond Pearson
and Virgilius Semper Lusk denounced
John, and asked Chairman Reynolds:
“Didn’t John vote the Democratic
ticket in 1894?” Pearson reflected in
severe terms upon the committee on
credentials, John tried to talk and
was howled down. Twenty men were
on the floor at one time demanding
recognition. Richmond Pearson, or
some dusky howler (they were so mix
ed up that you couldn’t tell one from
(the other), asked the chairman if he
hadn’t turned down John in 1894, and
the chairman got up and tried to
speak, and was very severe on Moore,
.John's competitor, and criticized the
whole Franklin county Republican
outfit. The wrangle grew, and after
much crimination and recrimination,
the \ote was reached and John fell
with all the other Dockery men into
the pit digged for them by the “com
bine,”
( hairrnan Reynolds, smarting under
the aspersions of Richmond Pearson,
and with vehemence, denounced the
aspersions upon him as false and out
t rngeous, “I will stay silent, no longer,”
| said he, “ and permit men here on this
floor to speak of me as an in grate and
a traitor”
Another scene of confusion during
which Holton fractured the gavel and
l»eat in vain for order. As he took his
seat Reynolds said: “I will be d -d if
I can stand this thing any longer.”
After he could wedge his way
i through the mass of intermingled
| whites, negroes and mulattos. Pearson
got the platform and said: “I rise to
[a question of personal privilege,” and
said he apologized to Mr. Reynolds be
cause he is “an old Princetonian and a
gentleman,” the inference being that
if Mr. Reynolds had been educated in
the old field school, the apology would
not have been forthcoming. Reynolds
accepted, and blood-spilling was hap
pily averted.
S. M. Holton, of Durham, upon the
several ballots, made himself conspicu
ous, by announcing the local row l»e
--tween himself and his colleague, I>r.
Shepherd (col.), the colored man and
brother declining apjiarently to stay
in Holton’s vest pocket permanently.
During one of the roll calls, a dele
gate from Forsyth shouted out to the
chairman, “I want (to know what T
stand for?” and thus got even with
the man who said, “Mr. Speaker
where am I at?”
MOTT PERMANENT CHAIRMAN.
John C. Dancy, amidst some confu
sion, nominated for Permanent
Chairman Senator Pritchard, but this
movement was promptly choked by the
Senator who stepping forward on the
stage said he absolutely declined to
have anything to do with it. Then
followed the nominations in the order
named respectively of Messrs. G. Z.
French, Marshal L. Mott and Virgil S.
Lusk. There was considerable enthu
siasm created by the nominations of
Messrs. Mott and Lusk and the vote
was followed with interest, resulting
in a vote of 141 for Mott and 97 for
Lusk. The vote, on the motion of S.
M. Holton, was made unanimous and
in the midst of great applause Perma
nent Chairman Mott Was escorted to
tlie chair by Messrs. Richmond Pear
son and G. Z. French.
After the applause had subsided Mr.
Mott having taken the gavel said:
| “Gentlemen of the greatest convention
j that ever assembled in North Carolina,
I 1 express to you my heartfelt
j thanks. Every loyal Republican ac
; quiesces in the will of the majority and
bows his head to the result (applause.)
| Looking over our candidates for Gov
ernor we commence with the rugged,
aggressive Moody. Going to the Pied
mont Section we have the invincible
Boyd. Going farther east, there stands
the old giant oak on the banks of the
Pee Dee, the Hon. Oliver 11. Dockery,
(tremendous applause and enthusi
asm); and going farther, to the banks
of the Atlantic there we are confront
ed with that brilliant son, D. L. Rus
sell. As chairman, I will sit here and
decide honestly and if I were to do
less I would not be a Republican.” Af
ter exclaiming that the Republicans
would put into the Executive Mansion
the choice of this convention, Mr. Mott
thanked and came down to business.
Jim Young was upon his feet at once
nominating for secretaries Messrs. J.
C. L. Harris, John C. Dancy and J. T.
EUinger. They were all unanimous
ly elected.
ENDORSEMENT /IF PIUTCiTTvRD.
Judge IT. G. Ewart came forward
with the following resolution:
“Resolved, that it is the sense of
this convention that the Honorable
Jeter C. Pirtchard be named and he
is hereby named as the candidate of
the*Republican party to succeed him
self as United States Senator from this
State, and that the delegates of this
convention pledge themselves to use
all honorable means to secure his re
election.” This resolution was re
ceived with great applause and was
carried by acclamation by a rising vote.
Senator Pritchard came forward af
ter having been good humoredly intro
duced by the chairman simply as
“Jeter.” 'lhe Senator said he pre
ferred to be thug introduced and began
! to review his record in the United
1 States Senate, and. expressed great sat
| isfaction at this warm endorsement.
!lv “Hid he I 111 3 steadfastly worked to
j maintain fleuLliOtui principles as he
J understood them. He blamed all the
| trouble to the alleged unwise tariff
j legislation of the Democratic party,
and then strenuously advocated the
re-establishment of the McKinley tar
iff. Senator Pritchard was warmly
applauded when he predicted a Re
publican Senate and Wm. McKinley
after 1897. The speaker contrasted
past conditions with fnose of the pre
sent, and claimed that even Calhoun
had been a protectionist. He said he
did not be+ieve that any native-born
citizen with 1 sectional pride could go
with the Democrats if he would re
view their record on the tariff ques
tion. Senator Pritchard proceeded to
score the Democrats and the former
Democratic Senators from North Caro
lina accusing them, by the zig-zag log
ic that ran through his speech, of
joining in with the New England tar
iff robbers. Senator Pritchard touched
upon his course as to the Dingley bill
and continued to thresh our campaign
material. He accused the Democrats
(without any foundation, however) of
having opposed the Dingley bill only
after he, Pritchard, had amended it
by putting on all the raw materials
of the South. (This is brand-new).
The Senator went into silver. “I
made you a pledge on silver,” he said,
“y,nd went there and voted for it, and
so help me God, I intend to vote for
it again.” He maintained that all the
benefits from silver had come from
the Republicans, and accused the Dem
ocrats of trying to raise the silver
question and befog the tariff. Senator
Pritchard here delivered a eulogy up
on his own habit of boldness in poli
tics, and closed by reviewing the
“great record” of the late Douglass
legislature. He praised the Populists
and counselled fusion again, saying
that the Populists could never be led
back into the Democratic party. After
congratulating the convention and
pleading for harmony the speaker sat
down amidst great applause.
THE MCKINLEY RESOLUTION.
Just before doing so, however, he
introduced with considerable beating
of tom-toms the-fallowing resolution:
“Resolved, that the delegates elected
by this convention to the National
convention at St. Louis, are instruct
ed and directed to vote for that typical
Ame ri call and ideal citizen Wm. Me-
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Kinley, of Ohio, for President so long
as his name is before the convention.”
Senator Pritchard asked for a rising
vote, which he got, though about one
sixth of the delegates kept their seats.
On motion of Mr. J. C. L. Harris the
following delegates were appinted as
a committee on Order of Business:
Congressmen Pearson and Settle, Maj.
H. L Grant, Mr. G. Z. French and Jim
Young.
It was now about quarter of six
and a motion was carried, on motion
of Mr. Pearsor, that a committee on
Platform and Resolutions be appoint
ed. one from each county. The chair
man suggested a recess of an hour to
get the committee prepared, and the
motion w as ir.ade and carried.
At the night session it was resolved
to limit speeches to five minutes.
Richmond Pearson read the order of
business, and a report from the com
mittee that had tried to secure co
operation with the Populists, recom
mending that t.he places offered the
Populists he left open and if the Pops,
refuse to co-operate, then the Execu
tive Committee shall have power to
make the nominations. Report adopted.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The following committee was an
nounced: D. H. Abbott, J. J. Martin,
Robt. Hancock, J. IT. Young, Tyre
Glenn, R. M. Norment, John C. Dancy,
C. A. Reynolds, Richmond Pearson.
NOMINATION OF ELECTORS.
Mr. Jim Moody, who always cusses
“Hoppers” heartily when they first
come over and then votes to give them
first place over fire tried Republicans,
nominated Ki Budger for Elector-at-
Large. He said: “We have SECURED
him.” Gizzard French said Ki would
be the most valuable man who could
lie placed on the stump. Semper Vir
gilius vouched for Ki’s Radicalism —
he had been baptized into the faith.
The proudest day of my life was when
I received him into the parity. A coal
black negro moved that he be nomi
nated by acclamation. Carried, except
a number of stalwarts voted “no.”
Col. H. C. Dockery nominated a man
who Lad always been a Republican—
Oscar ,J. Spears, of Harnett county.
Claude Bernard nominated Isaac M.
Meekins, of Tyrell, who was born and
raised a Republican. Young men have
come to us because we give them offi
ces. Hancock spoke for Meekins. Geo.
Smathers seconded Speare’ nomination
and so did a number of others. A coal
black negro from Craven spoke for
Meekins. As it became apparent that
Meekins wasn’t in it, C-ox of Pitt,, with
drew him, and said: “I ipove Spears’
nomination be made unanimous.”
THE CO-OPERATION RESOLUTION.
The report of the committee favoring
co-operation was adopted without de
bate, and unanimously.
NOMINATIONS FOR GOVERNOR.
When the chair announced that nom
inations were in order for Governor,
pandemonium broke loose for ten min
utes, which ‘the chairman finally quel
led.
Gizzard French said: “Thirty years
ago when this country was in the
throes of rebellion, Dnn. Russell was
elected to the Legislature and stood
by the Union, and after the war was
over, graviated to the Republican
party. Elected judge nit the age of 23.
(Weak cheers.) He is the dread of the
Democratic party, and they have tried
to prevent his nomination.” When he
concluded with high prpise there was
a rush of applause. A Pender county
negro seconded the fiomination. The
blackest neirro ever seen from Robeson
{ said If you want T|ol>eson put down
in the Republican cblumn nominalte
Russell. A Sampson county negro said
Russell made Democrats shiver in their
boots. Sutton, who was licked by a
Dockery man last night, sj>oke for
Daniel k. Russell. Fortune, of Cleve
land, rallied for Russell, and created
great enthusiasm. I want Russell be
cause the Democrats don’t want him.
The negroes want him. The Pops
have agreed “to gn extent” to eo-opera
ate. They prefer ltyssell to any man,
Pop. or Rep. Cox, of Pitt, with a
youthful freshness, wanted Russell
named by acclamation. “Coine down,”
called a negro in the gallery. “Russell
kept one of our inen out of the peni
tentiary.”
It. M. Douglass named James E.
Boyd, of Guilford. In mien and bear
ing, nature has stamped him to lead.
As goes the Fifth district, so goes the
State. Settle carried every county in
it, and it did not send a single Repub
lican to the last Legislature. Jim
Boyd is the second choice of nine
tenths of this convention, and his
nomination would heal every breach.
The negro secretary —Dellinger: This
land has for years l>een “resigned” for
all races. Col. Boyd is a white man —
not a negro—and does not have to
carry testimonials in his pocket to
prove his individuals. (“Whar* did
you come from?” asked a negro in the
gallery.)
Tom Settle got an enthusiastic wel
come. He seconded Boyd’s nomina
tion in a short speech.
A negro from Forsyth said: “All
day folks have asked why does this
delegate voted against his delegation?
Because I am a free man and there
fore I am not a Dockery man. I am
for Boyd.”
Oscar Spears was given an ovation.
The Dockery men made the welkin
ring. Twenty years ago I walked
t hrough the blazing June sun to vote
for Oliver Hart Dockery, the grand
war-horse of the Republican party.
One sta-r differeth from another star
in glory! (That’s in the funeral ser
vice.) No man is abler to contest than
Dockery. (Cheers, long and loud.) He
was the morning star, thejnidd&y blaz
ing sun of the Republican partee—tee.
Ingratitude is Iki.sc. People are in
their homes praying for the leadership
of the war-horse of the pee Dee. Don’t
you forget it. PritehaVd will need
every “Republi-Kin.” Will you be
gnrflty of the madness of turning down
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