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 foe. 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. I! A LEIGH, N. C„ SAT II! DAY MORNING, MAY IS, 1896. ✓ , ' \ A T T ne Bar * € X J dWvy T Ak/', fKU FV* M. ' ffe mw !i \L ms> SEEN IN THE REPUBLICAN fONVENTION YESTERDAY. 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 (Continued on fourth page.)