The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-31
THE NEXT u. S. SENATE
REPUBLICANS AND POPULISTS
MAY UNITE FOR THE Or
GANIZATION.
WILL PRITCHARD CONTROL BUTLER

WILL PRITCHARD CONTROL BUTLER
If Fusion is to Continue In North Car
DINA There Must be a Bargain to
Divide the Fishes and Loaves When
the Senate is OrganiZed--Maj.G Grant
Wants to be Secretary--The Presi-
Dental Question Dividing Settle and
Pritchard.
WASHINGTON, D. O., July 30.-The
usually we'll informed Washington cor
respondent of the Baltimore Sun, thinks
the Republicans will now ask the aid of
Populists in organizing the Senate, pre-
ferring to divide the leading chairman
ships with the Democrats, and wait to
organize in 1897, if they have ma
iority. In this connection he gives
DINA readers.
"The members of the fusion party in
North Carolina are said to be exercising
themselves over which of them Is to be
the next Secretary of the Senate. The
statement has been made that prior to
his election Senator Pritchard, Republi-
can, who succeeded Senator Jarvis, had
agreed with the consent of a number of
leading Republican Senators to obtain
the position for Major Hiram L. Grant,
an influential member of the North
Carolina Legislature. In consequence
of this promise Grant, it is said,
supported Pritchard for the Sena-
torship and aided in his election.
1t is now becoming apparent
that Mr.. Pritchard will not be able to
fulfill his contract, whatever it may have
been, and that the reorganization of the
next Senate will be the result of COM
promise between the Republicans and
the Democrats, which will ignore the
Populists entirely, and will make it i'm
possible for Mr.. Pritchard to keep any
promises he may have made to the Flu
sionists of his State. So far as can be
ascertained there seems to have been
some agreement among the Eastern Re-
publican Senators by which the Populists
were to be engaged as allies for the pur-
pose of organization, il for nothing else,
but the Western Republican members
will not consider the proposition at all
and it will therefore be dropped
''Some of the Republicans, however,
are not entirely without hope that they
may be able to organize the Senate with
out making any concessions to the Popu-
lists, and IN doing 80 they expect to be
aided by Senator Jones, of Nevada, and
probably by Senator Marion Butler, the
Populist from North Carolina. If these
two men voluntarily go into the Repub-
lican caucus and agree to abide by its
action, the Republicans will have ma
iority of the members.
Zone of the Republican silver Senators
said to day that Senator Jones is about
tired of playing Populist and will prob
ably get back into the party lines Just as
soon as possible, for the simple reason
that he can do more for silver by acting
with the other silver Republican Senators
than he can while affiliating with the
Populists. His reelection to the Senate
according to Republican statements is
also said to depend upon his renewal of
party allegiance. The hope that Mr..
Butler will vote with the Republicans is
based upon the supposition that the fu-
organization in North Carolina, and
they can do this better if the representa-
tives of the two factions that compose
tn party act together in all legislative
matters. For this reason it is said Sen
ator Pritchard is relied upon to bring
Butler into the Republican party, and
the latter's aequiescenee in the scheme
is taken for granted because it may
be expected that he can Sc
cure more for himself and his followers
in the next Congress through utilization
with the Republicans than he can by
an independent attitude.
The success of this plan is dependent,
however, upon SO many contingencies
that its success is very doubtful.
''Mr. Butler has repeatedly declared
that he will not join either of the old or
CARNATIONS in the Senate, while Senator
Jones is not likely to assist his former
political associates, unless they are will
ing to promise him some concessions to
silver. Nor have the Republicans elect |
ed the Senators from Utah, and though
they will probably do so, the recent ex-
periences of the Delaware Legislature
shows that the votes of Senators can not
be counted upon until the Senators
themselves have been elected. In the |
meantime there are indications of storm |
within the ranks of the fusion party in |
North Carolina that may separate the |
Senators from that State very effectual-
ly. The Republican followers of Pritch-
ard are sald to be indignant over the |
promises he is said to have made to
Major Grant, because they regard Grant !
as d friend of Butler, ana think that the |
which the Republicans should |
rec i've is being monopoliEed by the Pop
ulist wing Of the coalition.
"The question of presidential candi-
dates is also said to be cutting some figure
in the dispute Congressman Settle is
working hard to secure the North Caro-
lima delegation for Reed, while Pritch-
ard wants to see Mckinley nominated.
''As result of this difference of senti-
ment it is said that Settle will oppose
Pritchard's reelection to the Senate"
Gen. A ]. Warren, president of the