The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-02-07
from the New York Sun. |

From the New York SUM-
Last Thursday afternoon the Hon.
Jeter c. Prltchard was sworn in as
Senator in Congress from North Caro-
lima. He was elected by the combi-
nation Of Republicans and Populists
that co nlrols the present North Caro- |
lima Legislature, and will fill the un
expired term Of the late Zebulon b.
Vance. He Immediately displaceS
the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Jarvis, ap-
pointed by Governor Carr to hold
office until a successor to Senator
Vance should be elected by the Legis
lature. Mr.. Pritchard is the first Re-
publican that has represented North
Carolina in the Senate since 1873.
Although his election is the result of
fusion, Of which the Populists get the
bigger place, the long term going to
them, and the short term, ending
March 3, 1897, to the Republicans,
even this partial resurgence Of Old
North State Republicanism should
have been greeted affectionately by the
Republicans of the Senate. The Re
publican cloak room and every Repub-
liCan desk should have been garlanded
with roses, and Joe Hawley, as an old
Tar Heel graduate, should have vel
coined the newcomer to the Senate
with a fervid hand and speech. The
Hon. Jeter c. Prltchard Is not only
the first Republican Senator from
North CorOlina in twenty-five years,
but he is young, beautiful and wise.
The overpowerlng effect Of his physl-
cal eminenCe upon the usually calm
person who writes the "Capitol Chat
for our esteemed contemporary, the
Washington Post, was such that that
observer describes him as ga man of
medium size' and as ga finely formed
man, about SIX feet tall" AT any
rate, the Senator has "blaCk hair and
moustaChe, a face which Instantly i'm
presses one as indicating a strong
character and temperament, and
manly and attractive manner" On
last Thursday afternoon he ''wore
black Prince Albert suit, but his shoes,
thick soled, and made of heavy leather,
suggested his mountain home"
Why didn't Gen. Hawley make a
bright-spangled speech of reception
when the Hon. Jeter G. Prtchard ap
reared for the first time in the Senate
chamber with his comely Republican
head and his free mountain feet? Why
did no other of the numerous Repub
liCan orators of the Senate make the
occasion one of eloquent reminscence
and brilliant welcome and Congratu
lation? The answer must be given,
mortifying as it may be to the pride
Of Republicans They did not dare
to speak, because the Hon. Jeter G.
Pritchard had already been cele-
brated with a buxomness of expression
and wealth of metaphor beyond rival
ry Becau,e an orat " of North Caro-
lima, Hunter, of Madison, had de
| livered in the House of Representa-
J
blends the State and the Hon. Jeter
| &. Pritchard IN immortal union. For
convenience we shall dislocate the
exact order followed by Hunter, OF
Madison, in a speech that no compe
tent Judge will fail to pronounce the
| greatest specimen of its kind, the
crown and turret of nominating elo-
| QuenCe. Hunter, of Madison, natur-
ally begins with nominating the Hon.
| Letter c. Pritchard. We begin with
the time when the future Senator was
''born and partly reared upon the YER
dant banks of the rushing and roaring
Nola Chucky," where '.his boyhood
days were passed amid the gentle un
dulatlng valleys, the frOwning Crags
aud nigh mountain barriers of that
land OF poetry and romance, the lovely,
the peerless, East Tennessee. Young
PritChlrd lett East Tennessee for
North Carolina, or, in the nobler style
of Hunter, of Madison, "actuated by
the motives that have 50 long fired the
! Anglo Saxon heart and carried
thrUug bout the world the record OF
their tame, in early youth he forsook
the land Of his birth anG turned his
footsteps in the direction of the rising
sun. There in the Land of the Sky
he has pitched his tent in the Repub-
lean fold, and ever since his voice has
been heard around the council fires,
and the powers of his arms have been
directed against the serrled ranks of
the people,
But we mus. not crack the chryso-
lite. Observe these SMILES of Hunter
of Madison, celebrating the Nonparell
OF Nola Chucky:
"Like brave knight-errant in the
days of chvalry, he has met the mos,
valiant of the enemy in the arena OF
single combat, and he has never yet
met the adversary but who can attes,
his skill.
"On the hustings, in these legisla-
tive halls, and in the rough and tumble
of political debate overwhelming mum
bers Of the Bourbon Democracy have
hurled themselves at him like furiou:
Alpine avalanche OF destruction, anC
yet he held his own; and when ths
lerr!.lc onslaught had subsided, his as
sailants had melted into 'innocuou:
desuetude,' like the national treasury
. surplus under the potent hand of ths
present Secretary Of Grover the
, Great
Like the three hundred Spartan
in the pass of Thermopyle, he hao
ever stood willing and ready to inter