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$ THE WEATHER TODAY. ♦ ♦ For North Carolina: £ : fair. | ♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦ Milt »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ f VOL. LII. NO. 104. Leads all North Carolina Dailies in Mews and Circulation UNANIMOUSLY FOR PUR FOR CONGRESS A Democratic Love Feast Names Him as Choice. A MAGNIFICENT SPEECH Draws Line of Cleavage Between De mocracy and Its Foes. A STRONG PLATFORM WAS ADOPTED Placed in Nomination by Hon. B. H. Bunn, and Nomination Seconded by Every County in Enthusiastic Terms of Eulogy. In an enthusiastic ant! harmonious con vention in Raleigh, well dubbed by the speakers as a Democratic “Love Feast,” * Hon. E. W. Pou, the present representa tive of the Fourth North Carolina Dis trict, was unanimously renominated yes terday to succeed himself in the next House of Representatives byte Congres sional convention of this district. ihe nominating speech was made by Hon. B. H. Bunn, of Nash, and it most * t loquently and forcibly presented Mr. Pou to the convention as an ideal man and an ideal Democrat, recognized for his ability, not only in North Carolina, but in the Union. The platform adopted is a strong one. It represents the voice of the “unterri fled” and it is one upon which battle royal can be made to hold the State as the hands of the Democracy, whose record has proved that it is the best guardian of the people’s interest. Mr. Pou’s speech of acceptance was a striking one. It told in no uncertain terms of the mission of the Democratic party, and it called for a clear line of cleavage between those who posed as Democrats and obtained the beneficient results which came from the successes coming to the party, and those who “abide in the ship” at all times and un der all circumstances stand true and tried. It was forcibly and earnestly de livered. and it is published in full. Its reading will verify and give new heart of courage to all who believe in the best government of the people. Eaxtcly at noon the convention was called to order by Mr. James R. Young, the chairman of the Democratic Execu tive Committee of the District. There wag a splendid attendance from every county and many visitors were in Metro politan Hall where the convention was held. Mr. Jas. R. Young, in calling the con vention to order, made the following speech: “Fellow Democrats of the Metropoli tan District: I have the honor, and it becomes my pleasant duty, as chairman of your executive committee, to call this convention to order. “In doing so I will not make any ex tended remarks, but only wish to wel come you. one and all, to this Demo cratic gathering and to express my pleasure at meeting so many of the true Democrats of this district, assembled under such auspicious circumstances. “Two years ago the victory was fought in this district and won and you sent such a popular and able represen tative to Congress that today you meet only to formally record the will of the white men of this district. For as far as I have been able to learn the Demo crats in every county of the district have unanimously endorsed the work ot their representative and instructed their delegates to vote unanimously for the re nomination of Hon. Edward W. Pou. “Though too young to he in the war between the States, and even called a beardless youth, Hon. Edward W. Pou is learned, able and true and already a veteran in the Democratic ranks, work ing for the best interest of our people and the success of our grand old party. You have good reason to be proud ol your faithful representative, for few have in so short a time taken such a high stand in Congress. You will do well to send him back to Washington again. ou honor him- You bestow your honor worthily. He will do credit to this dis trict and our State. He will always be on the side of the people in Congress. We hear of independents in this district. Let thorn come. We can and will carry this district by an increased majority— -8.000 or 10,000 —against a representative of the Republican party or a deserter from our ranks, or both. “On all sides we sec the bestowal of Federal patronages upon those who have heretofore acted with us. We are told that there are white men, calling them selves Democrats, who are wiiling to have Hon. Jeter C. Pritchard returned to the United States Senate. We are told that Mr. Hanna has promised to open his barrel in his behalf. Fallow Democrats, these things will not avail. The Democrats, the white men of North Carolina, are not to be fooled or bought "ith either patronage or “boodle.” We have redeemed the State from Republi can and negro rule—the same thing in this State at least—and true to our selves, our women and children—the principles of Democracy and the Anglo- Saxon, we will see that the State is kept redeemed and free. The next House of Representatives will be Democratic. With the actions of the last Republican Congress it does The News arid Observer. seem that the people of these United States will go with the Democrats on the Issues as they are now drawn be tween tho parties. “Although the Democratic plan of or ganization provides that the chairman shall preside until a permanent organiza tion is effected, I feel sure that you will endorse my calling to the chair Hon. J. P. Phillips, of Nash county, and asking Mr. It B. White, of Franklin county, to act as secretary.” As temporary chairman, Mr. Young called to preside over the convention Mr. J. P. Philips, of Nash, and named Mr. R. B. White as temporary secretary. In tak ing the chair Mr. Philips thanked the con vention for the honor conferred and at once called for the order of business. The secretary called the roll and found representatives present from Chatham, Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Vance and Wake, the counties composing the Fourth North Carolina District. On motion of Hon. B. H. Bunn each county named Its representatives on com mittees on platform, permanent organi zation, and credentials, also the vice presidents of the convention and the members of the Congressional Executivo Committee, as follows: Vice-Presidents —A. H. Merritt, Chat ham; R. O. Purnell, Franklin; F. Y. Ramsey, Nash; R. S. McCain, Vance; M. C. Winston, Johnston, and W. C. Brewer, Wake. , Executive Committee—F. C. Poe, Chat ham; J. A. Thomas, Franklin; B. H. Bunn, Nash; A. J. Harris, Vance; H. J. Smith, Johnston; W. S. Turner, Wake, Permanent Organization—L. P. Bynum, Chatham; H. C. Kearney, Franklin; A. H. Ricks, Nash; J. R. Young, Vance; ohn A. Narrow, Johnston; W. W. Hold ing, Wake. Credentials—H. A. London, Chatham; W. M. Boone, Franklin: J. C. Braswell, Nash; J. H. Bridgers, Nash; J. A. Wel lons, Johnston; T. L. Honeycutt, Wake. Platform and Resolutions—B. B. Phi 1- lius, Chatham; M. S. Clifton, Franklin; (Continued on Third Page.) THE iUTCQWES The Royal Convalescent on His Yacht. Edward Bears the Journey Well and is Pleased With Ihe Change The Queeu With Him. (By the Associated Press.) London, July 15.—King Edward left Victoria station at 11:35 o’clock this morning for Portsmouth, to board the royal yachts Victoria and Albert. With Queen Alexandra he was conveyed from Buckingham Palace to the railway sta tion in an ambulance by two horses. The vehicle was driven at a walking pace. There were no demonstrations. The doctors and nurses awaited the ar rival of the ambulance and a party of blue jackets removed the King from the vehicle to a royal saloon car formerly used by the late Queen Victoria. Portsmouth, July 15.—King Edward ar rived here from London before 2 p. m. His removal from the train to the royal yacht was safely accomplished by blue jackets and the King's couch was placed in a reception room specially constructed on the upper deck. The warships in the harbor fired a royal salute as the party embarked anti all the vessels dressed ship and manned yards or decks. The royal yacht steamed oil' almost immediately. Cowes, Isle of Wight, July 15.—The royal yacht having on board Kir.g Ed ward. Queen Alexandra and the Princess anchored in Cowes Road today at 4:20 p. m., after a short cruise eastward. It was officially given out this evening that the King was not fatigued by the Journey nor distressed by the transfers and that he expressed great pleasure at the change. WOULD NOT TAKE THE OATH Republican Representative Befossd to Bind Himself (By the Associated Press.) Richmond, Va., July 15.—The General Assembly convened for the first time un der th.> new constitution. The feature of the session was the refusal of E. P. McLean, Republican member of the House of Delegates, from Mecklenburg, to take the oath to uphold the new organic law. When the speaker, acting under a resolution, called upon the members to rise and receive the oath from the clerk Mr. McLean stood. “I will never take that oath," he said. “There is no power to compel me to do so. I emphatically refuse.” He then gathered his papers together and stalked from the capitol. Under the constitution, his seat is thti3 vacated. The members of the Senate took the cath Individually. The session was otherwise without feature. To Move Its Office to Mi bile. (By the Associated Press.) Xew Orleans, July 15.—1 t has been learned here through the officials of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad that the offices of the Mallory Steamship Line shortly will be moved front Galves ton to Mobile. This is said to be the result of the removal of the Southern Pacific’s through freight business for Texas points from New Orleans to Gal veston. The Mallory people are under stood to be opposed to competing with •he Southern Pacific with Galveston as the Southern port of both lines. It sometimes happens that the man who dubs his house his castle has the mast in his eye. RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 16 1902. THE GATE CITY OH CONVENTION EVE The Political Pulse is Beat ing Fast. IS IT CONNOR OR BROWN? The Fight For Associate Justice in the East. THIS THE TOPIC OF DEEPESI INTEREST The Corporation Commission Fight Another Big If Proposition, A Possibilty of Some Big Surprises When the Vote is Announced. (Special to the News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., July 15.—Greens boro is alive with the intensity and rush of a great convention eve. Over twelve hundred people are here tonight and everywhere there are kaleidoscopic changes of faces and men in hotel lob bies and on the streets. The trains tonight brought in large crowds. An immense delegation from the east and west is here in force, with a big representation from the center of the State. Not alone are the prominent men of the State here, but the sterling rank and file of a splendid Democracy is present. As to who is here the answer is, almost everybody that has a touch of politics about them. It is a splendid looking body of men and they represent the very best from every section of the State- Men are here from the extreme east and th extreme west and the crowd here is much larger than on the night proceeding the con vention in many years. The hotel lob bies are filled with throngs divided into groups of four and five and political talk is a4 4he iop notch, but few. speak of Judge Clark, for his nomination is one of tho certainties. The great topic is Con nor and Brown, and the friends of each one are laying their claims before the delegates and endeavoring to cinch every vote to be had. It is the fight for Associate Justice in the last that is attracting the most atten tion for the contest is apt to hinge on a change of fifty to one hundred votes. The friends of Walker, Moore, Armfield and Lockhart are all working like beavers, and the nomination from the West is a great uncertainty as with four in these is apt to be a long drawn out fight. There is some talk of insisting that Lockhart, of Wadesboro, take his chances in the fight in the East for As sociate Justice, but his friends are not going to have it this way. They insist that he is a Western candidate, and that the Eastern fight is between Connor and Brown. Joyner has no opposition for State Sup erintendent. He will go in by acclama tion and there will be resolutions of sympathy for him in his sickness. The Corporation Commission fight is another “big if” proposition. Bedding field, Miehaux, Mason, Brown, Fairley and Watson all have men on the ground working for them, and the friends of each say that their man is to be the winner, but it is all guess work tonight, and thus far in the positions of Asso ciate Justices as well as for Corpora tion Commissioner. Judge Connor's friends say that he is certainly the winner. Judge Brown’s friends say likewise, so there you are. It is going to take a ballot to know the exact strength of each and there is a possibility of some big surprises when the vote is announced. BRITTON. The Vote in the Convention. The vote in the convention, corrected and revised, together w*th the vote, for Governor in 1900, is a3 follows: d o u . Z COUNTIES. <2 * S g So S c & o>* o © X Alamance 2,498 17 Alexander 892 6 Alleghany 784 5 Anson 2,015 13 Ashe 1,659 11 Beaufort < 2,5?33 20 Bertie 2,0.5 13 Bladen 1,589 11 Brunswick 915 6 Buncombe 4.332 29 Burke 1,509 10 Cabarrus 1.915 13 Caldwell 1,248 8 Camdem 545 4 Carteret 1,363 9 Caswell 1.421 9 Catawba 2,008 13 Chatham 1,755 ]2 Cherokee 778 5 Chowan 1,055 7 Cla y H6B 3 Cleveland 2.652 18 Columbus 2,178 15 Craven 2,611 17 Cumberland 2,719 18 Currituck 1,002 7 Dare 524 3 Davidson 2.406 16 Davie 956 6 Duplin > 2,125 14 Durham..,’ 2,765 18 Edgecombe 3,758 25 Forsyth 2,913 19 Franklin 3,021 20 Gaston . 2,514 17 Gates 1,232 8 Graham 396 3 Granville 2.540 17 Greene 1,474 10 Guilford 4,071 27 Halifax 6.618 44 Harnett 1,515 10 Haywood 1,736 12 Henderson 1,121 7 Hertford 1,368 9 Hyde 971 6 Iredell 2,779 19 Jackson 1,118 7 Johnston 3,777 25 Jones 906 6 Uenoir 2.101 14 Lincoln 1,341 9 Macon 1,044 7 Madison .. 1,176 8 Martin 2,002 13 McDowell 1,174 8 Mecklenburg 5,095 34 Mitchell 413 3 Montgomery 1,341 9 Moore 1,890 13 Nash .. .. 1 2,957 20 Now Hanover 2,963 20 Northampton 2,438 16 Onslow 1.548 10 Orange 1,471 10 Pamlico 657 4 Pasquotank 1,502 10 Pender 1,260 8 Perquimans 959 6 Person *1,607 11 Pitt 3.433 23 Polk 534 4 Randolph 2,468 16 Richmond 1,645 11 Robeson 4,100 27 Rockingham 2,913 19 Rowan 3,157 21 Rutherford 2,389 16 Sampson 1,356 9 Scotland 1,065 7 Stanly .. 1,453 10 (Continued on Page Five.) THE GAME ROTTEH And the Gray Fagles Got it in the Neck. Seventeen to Fourteer, the Score of the Gama the Correspondent Thinks Too Poor to Reprrt (Special to News and Observer.) Greensboro, N. C., July 15. —The game this afternoon was too poor and feature less to justify report or the large at tendance. It is impossible to give tab ulated score or summary even, as the scorer requires a 'long time to make it out. Raleigh was simply walloped, Greensboro having two picked up local players at that in place of stick men. Score: R. H. E. Greensboro 0220 14 7 I—l7 22 4 Raleigh 4000 4 4 2 o—l 4 11 10 Batteries: Courneen and McTeer; Childs, White and Rollins. Time of game 1:45. Victory Wrested From Kinston. (Special to News and Observer.) Wilson, N. C., July 15.—Wilson took another game from Kinston by a score of 8 to 2. The game was much better than that of yesterday. The features of the game wore the batting of Reed and the fielding of Cassidy for Wilson, and MacDonald’s work at short for Kinston. Score: R. H. E. Kinston 0011 00 0 0 o—20 —2 5 4 Wilson 00040010 3—B 4 6 Batteries: Krause and Hicks; Troa gcr and Reed. Umpire, Martin. At tendance 250. Rational League. (By the Associated Press.) At Pittsburg— R. H. E. Pittsburg 01 00 03 1 0 *—s 9 1 Boston 0000 00 0 0 o—o 4 2 At Chicago— R. H. E. Chicago 00013000 o—40 —4 15 4 Brooklyn .4 0020 11 0 o—B0 —8 17 0 )\t Cincinnati — R. H. E. Cincinnati 1522 00 0 0 *—lo 15 2 New York 00010000 1 — 2 5 3 At St. Louis — R. H. E. St. Louis 0002 00 0 1 o—3 10 2 Philadelphia .. ..0 0200 100 I—4 10 5 American League. (By (he Aisociated Press.) At Washington— R. H. FI. Washington .. ..| 10 20 200*—5 8 4 Detroit 10000120 o—40 —4 71 j At Boston— R. H. E. Boston 0000 0 0000—0 5 2 | Cleveland 1100 00 0 0 o—2 10 2 At Philadelphia — R. H. E. Chicago 1.2 000000 o—3 8 2 'Philadelphia .. ..010 201 3 2 * —9 17 2 At Baltimore — R- H. E. Baltimore 10500000 0— 6 13 4 St. Louis 10 1 5:2 00 4 0-13 17 1 Eastern League. Jersey City 0; Montreal 5. Providence 5: Rochester 1. Newark 1; Toronto 0.; Southern League. Nashville 7; New Orleans 1. Birmingham 1; Little 7. Atlanta 5; Shrevport 1.. Chattanooga 9; Memphis 12. A STUNNING ARRAY OFTRUSTFIGURES The Steel Corporation’s Value and Earnings. SCHWAB’S- STATEMENT Answer to Suit to Prevent the Fond Conversion Plan. ONE BILLION FOUR HUNDRED MILLIONS This Represents in Dollars the Corporations Value. Its Earning at the Rate of More Than One Hundred and Forty Millions a Year. (By the Associated Press.) Newark, N. J., July 15. —The answer of the United States Steel Corporation to I the suit brought by J. Aspinwall Hodge, | William H. Curtis and Bernard Smith, who asked for an injunction to prevent the company from carrying out its bond ' conversion plan, was filed today before Vice-Chancellor Emery. The case was 1 put over until July 23. The answer was sworn to by Charles M. Schwab, as president. The assets of the properties of the subsidiary companies, it is stated, include four hundred producing mills of the value of $300,000,000; seventy-five blast furnaces of the value of $48,000,000; iron and Bessemer ore properties of the value of $700,000,000; coal and coke prop erties of the value of $100,000,000; natural gas fields of the value of $2,000,000; cash in bank to tho amount of $66,000,000 and over $80,000,000 of material in process of manufacture. The total value of the company's property including cash and cash assets is placed at $1,400,000,000 by Mr. Schwab in an affidavit which is part of the corporation's reply. The com pany’s earnings are stated to be at the rate of more than $140,000,000 a year. A saving of $30,000,000 a year is credited to the ore properties, and it is estimated that the ownership of transportation fa- cilties saves the company $10,000,000 an nually, The earnings of the coal and coke properties are stated to be more than $1,000,000 a month. These state ments as to values and earnings were presented to disprove a charge by the j plaintiffs that Mr. Schwab, the president, | and Mr. Trimble, the secretary, made a j false certificate when they certified that i ntheir judgment the properties were worth at least the par value of the pre ferred stock after deducting all indebt edness. The corporation declares it has no knowledge that Hodge is the owner of 100 shares of its preferred stock but admits that in August, 1901, one hun dred shares of the preferred stock was transferred to his name on the company's books. It is denied that William Curtiss is the owner of any of the com pany’s stock and it is declared that Ber nard Smith is the holder of 200 shares of preferred sto?k which was transferred Ito bin: on June 26. 1902. The conversion plan was agreed upon at a stockholders’ meeting on May 19. The answer admits that the conversion plan includes a pay ment c! $10,000,000 to J. P. Morgan & Company, It denies that any of the acts contemplated will work fraud on injury to the complainants but says that on the contrary such acts, when consummated, will be greatly to the benefit, of the cor poration and of every stockholder. The answer says that some of the directors are members of the syndicate formed by J. P. Morgan & Company to float bonds and that that fact was communicated to stockholders in a circular dated April 17, 1902. It is further declared that the di rectors so interested constitute a minor ity of the board of directors that they were individually at the time of the for mation of such syndicate and now are owners and holders of large amounts of ! the stock of the defendant corporation, and that they became parties to said syndicate and assumed their proportion I of the liability thereof i norder to as- I sure the success of the plan of purchas ing and retiring the preferred stock, as they believed such plan to he of great value to the defendant corporation and its stockholders. i Mr. Schwab’s answer contains tlm fol lowing statement of the value of the r-orporat ion’s property, which estimate he says rc regards as below its real value. Tron and Bessemer ore properties $700,000,000. | Plants, mills . fixtures, machinery, | equipment, tools and real estate $300,- 1 000.000. Coal and coke fields (87,589 acres) $100,000,000. I Transportation properties, including I railroads (1,467 miles) terminals, docks, ships (112), equipment (23,185 cars and 428 locomotives), $80,000,000. I Blast, furnaces $48,000,000. Natural gas fields $20,000,000. Limestone properties, $4,000,000. Cash and cash assets as of June 1, 1902, $148,291,000. Total, $1,400,291,000. Mr. Schwab calls attention to the value of $320,000,000 placed on tho Carnegie properties, as a result of the Frick liti gation. The present fixed charges of the United States Steel Corporation are 5 per cent per annum on $303,057,000 of bonds, and an annual sinking fund of $3,040,000, making an annual charge of $18,227,850; and when the proposed issue of second mortgage bonds is outstanding, j namely $250,000,000 at 5 per cent, to gether with an annual sinking fund of $1,010,000, the total fixed charges of the United States Steel Corporation for in terest and bonds and sinking fund will be $31,737,550, against $140,000,000 per annum net earnings. “The profits of the United States Steel Corporation,” the affidavits continues, “could be reduced more than 75 per cent, and there would still be ample funds to pay the intrest and sinking funds upon the fiist and second mortgage bonds.’ NEGRESSES IN A DUEL. They Fight With Razors and One Woman is Killed. (By the Associated Press ) Stockbridge, Ga., July 15. —Four negro women engaged in a duel with raors at the door of a church nar here. Dollio Miller was cut to death and Rachael Roberts was seriously wounded. Jeal ousy was the cause of the fight. Old Sol is Blazing. (By the Associated Press.) London, July 15.—With the thermome ter at 86 degrees in the shade and 127 in the sun today, the hottest day of the year m London, there were many cases of sun stroke treated at the hospitals and the St. John ambulance men were kept busy treating prostrations. The omnibus and street car companies had large forces of men engaged in supplying the horses with oat meal water. The Torpedo Boat Flotilla. (By the Assoc ated Press.) Norfolk. Va.. July 15.—Tho torpedo boat flotilla, consisting of the Decatur, Thornton, Stockton, Barney, Biddle, Bagley and Shubrick, left the navy yard today for Newport, under command of Lieut. Chandler. The converted yacht Gloucester, the captured Spanish gunboat Alvarado and the torpedo boat Gwynn left for An napolis today. killed [This cab Engineer Watson Dashes Into Loaded Flat Car. S. A. L. Fast Mail Runs Into a Car Loaded With Railroad Sills Just Beyond Crab ree. Engineer James R. Watson was killed yesterday morning at two o’clock just north of this city, while running his train on the Seaboard Air Line, as he had been doing for many years. The Seaboard Air Line fast mail train from the south arrived in Raleigh at 1:30 a. m., and Mr. Watson took charge of the engine. Just beyond Crabtree bridge, two miles north of Raleigh, there is a sharp curve in the track. When the train turned this curve, with out warning the engine dashed into a flat car, loaded with railroad sills, which was standing on the track. The heavy timbers crashed through the engine, bat tering to pieces the cab. It seems that a fiat car loaded with lumber had run out of the derailing switch at Johnson street and down the hill for two miles where it struck the grade. After going up the grade for some distance, gravity started it down the hill again and it was then that it met Mr. Watson’s train ou a sharp curve. As the two collided a large sill crashed through the front window of the cab and struck Mr. Watson on the neck just below the chin, breaking his neck and instantly killing him. The fireman was bending down immediately in front of the fire box and this protected him and saved his life. An engine was sent from Raleigh and brought the mail train back to Raleigh. The broken engine and the flat car were then brought to Raleigh and the mail train carried out by another engine. Mr. James R. Watson was one of the most faithful engineers on the road. His body was brought here and carried to his home, corner of McDowell and Lane streets. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Eliza beth King \»atson, who is a sister of Mr. D. M. King and Mrs. J. B. Young, and four children, Messrs. Archie V. Watson, of Raleigh; .John B. Watson, of Harrisburg, Va.; James Watson, and Miss Elizabeth Watson. Mr. Watson was about 45 years old and has been an employe of the Seaboard Air Line all of his railroad life. He has been an engineer for tho past twenty five or thirty years. He was a consistent member of Eden ton Street Methodist church. The funeral will be held this afternoon at. 5:30, from the residence, corner Lane and McDowell streets. BITTEN BY A CAT- Club Women of Winston Form a Town Federation. (Special to the News and Observer.) Winston-Salem, N. C., July 15.—Mr. Lee A. Smith, of Guilford ('ollcgc, College, brought his ten year old daugh ter here this afternoon. She was bitten through the nose this morning by a cat. Two mad stones were applied on either side of the nose and they are adhering nicely. The representative women's clubs of the city met today, when a town federa tion was organized. It has been decided to call a convention of the State Federa tion of Women’s Clubs in Winston- Salem during the fair in October. Promi nent women from a number of States will be here on that occasion. l THE WEATHER TO-DAY.£ ♦ For Raleigh: X | FAIR. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SURPRISE SPRUNG IN I HE ELEVENTH Candidatefor Solicitor Named For Judge. E. B. JONES IS THECHOICE t He is Nominated on the Twenty* Seventh Ballot. STRONG FIGHT FOR THE SOLiCITORSHIP \ Mr. Jones’ Acceptance a Rtlkf to the Other Can* . didates For the Solicitorship. Council and Coffey Named in tho 13 r h District. (Special to the Nows and Observer.) Winston-Salem, N. C., July 15.— The Democratic Judicial Convention of tho Eleventh District met here at 10:30 today with a large attendance. Pink Johnston, of Reidsville, was chosen chairman. Tho counties composing the districts and the number of votes to which each couiuy in the convention is entitled are as follows: Alleghany 16, Caswell 28, Forsyth 58, Rockingham 58. Stokes 30, Surry 43. Wilkes ,34. After a short recess nominations for judge were declared in order. W. C. Fields, of Alleghany, was nominated by R. A. Doughton. A. E. Henderson, of Caswell, was nom inated by Yancey Kerr. W. W. King, of Stokes, was nominated by John Y. Phillips. J, H. Humphries W'as nomi nated by J. Spot Taylor. A number of speeches seconding nominations were made. Twenty-four ballots had been taken without a nomination up to 1 o’clock, when the convention adourned for one hour for dinner. Then to the surprise of many, Mr. E. B. Jones was nominated for judge on the twenty-seventh ballot. He received 0 votes from Caswell, 58 from Rockingham, 43 from Sufry and 34 from Wilkes, a total of 144 votes. Mr. Jones was notified of h's nomina tion, and after consulting with several friends he accepted the nomination in a brief but earnest speech- He stated that for several reasons he was not a candidate for the office, besides he con sidered his nomination an injustice to the other candidates for judge. The.* nominee said: “As I belong to the great Democratic party of North Carolina I will have to accept. I will endeavor to discharge my duty to God, my country and the office.” His speech was re ceived with hearty applause. Mr. Jones' acceptance was a relief to the candidates for the solicitorship, who manipulated the scheme to get him out of their way. Many members of the convention predicted that he would fiot accept. Mr. Jones was in the race for the nomination for solicitor and he had more votes pledged to him than any of the other applicants, i The following were placed in j nomination for solicitor: Reuben I Reed and C. O. McMiehael, of Rickingham; S. P. Graves, of Surry; H. E. Green, of Wilkes. On the sixth bal lot Rockingham dropped McMiehael and voted solidly for Reed. After taking twenty-three ballots without result the convention adjourned at 6 o'clock to give the various delegations an opportunity to hold conference. ■ The convention reconvened at 8:15 to- I night. At D: 15 the fiftieth ballot was! taken, and the vote for the several cad- I didates was about the same as on tlije I first ballot. J 1 COUNCIL AND COFFEY NAXED \ Judicial Convention For 13th Di«tr:ctNom.nl ates Judge Council For Be-electian (Special to News and Observer.) ■ Lenoir, N. C., July 15.—The Democratic 1 I Judicial Convention for the Thirteenth ' [ district was held here yesterday after j noon, five of the six counties making up JUDGE W. B. COUNCIL./ ; Unanimously Nominated for Judge in the Thirteenth. this district being represented. There being no opposing candidates before the convention its work was done in short order. \V. B. Council, the present incum bent, was named for judge, and MivK S* Coffey, for solicitor, both by acclama tion. i.