The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-14

for Associate Justice of the Supreme
court if he would retire from the con-
test for chairman, but thar Hslton
said: "Get thee behind me, am not
for sale" and went into the fight
hotter than ever.
PRITCHARD JOINS THE RUSSELL
SHOUTERS.
At five o'clock yesterday afternoon
the delegates from the Ninth district
held q meeting, and decided to hold
a caucus in the courthouse at eight
o'clock last night, ''to endorse Pritch-
| ard and Mckinley" The object was
not only to endorse Pritchard for re-
election, and to arrange for the nominal
ton of Mckinley delegates to-day, but
to nominate Pritchard for chairman of
the State Executive committee to sue
coed Holton.
Peter Cobb kept the door at the
| courthouse, but q good many Doclzery
men were already in the courtroom,
and the Pritchardites then decided to
go to the Academy of Music and try
it over again.
When they filed in a long line down
to the Academy the Dockery men fol-
| lowed.
~ ttlC 1tOOB "SJC sA3E AIlIE1EUOil,
| Chadborn and Sutton, all Russell men.
When Fl. c. Docl<ery got to the door
| they told him he couldn't enter A
| dozen DoclSery and Boyd men were
| repulsed one after another and Rus
sell men were admitted as fast as they
came.
II. G. Dockery rushed out
into the street and mounted
I a box. Il want to protest against
this outrage" he said, my county en-
! dorsed Pritchard for the Senate We
are all for Pritchard. Yet | went there
a moment ago and was repuIsed and
shut out. 1T is not a Pritchard eau
Gus, but a Dan Russell meeting! Let
all who oppose Russell for governor
follow me to Metropolitan Hail.
A crowd followed him shouting for
Dockery.
Pritchard had been sent for. He
arrived at the Academy too late to stop
the first Dockery contingent but got
to the spot just in time to prevent a
stampede. There were curses and
groans.
After moment the crowd Quoted
down, and he got a hearing. 'This cau-
Gus is to get together the friends Of
| Mckinley and myself" he said, $50 as
to insure the nomination of Mckinley
delegates from the convention to-mor-
row..
ITS a trap through Pritchard and
Mckinley to settle the Craftsmanship"
said one of the crowd.
'This caucus" he went on has
nothing TO do with the contest for
! governor"
'.Nyill the Craftsmanship come up?"
yelled a voice IN the crowd
I They'll settle that after they get
in there" replied Pritchard. II won't
| 20 It'd there myself. / take no hand in
this contest for Governor. / want
every man TO have fair show, and
! the best man win"
! Under pritchard's orders q num-
! Der Of Doclsery men We're then admit
ted.
! Pritchard hurried over TO Metropoli-
. tan Hall, accompanied by one Of Rus
sells rustlers.
He found in the street in front of
the hall a crowd Of Dockery delegates
whose tempers were at the boiling
point They denounced as a vile out
rage their exclusion from the caucuss
and one Of them said, 'Pritchard, it
was damned outrage and If you don't
mind it will prove fatal"
Pritchard explained personally and
collectively, and urged them to re-
turn to the Academy. At last he gave
it up as a bad job and said well,
settle it as you please; I'm going back
to my room"
The Dockery delegates then marched
over to Dockery headquarters in the
Briggs building, and there held
meeting. II. G. Dockery and others
spoke. 1T was no regular caucus, and
all those in 1T claimed 10 be for Pritch-
ard and Mckinley.
The caucus in the Academy of Music
endorsed Mckinley for President, and
called for Pritchard's return to the
Senate. Passing quickly from this
cut-and-dried business to the matter
Of the craftsmanship, resolution was
introduced nominating Pritchard for
chairman of the executive committee
to succeed Holton. After a good deal
Of specch-mal-ing the resolution was
adopted by two-thirds majority, all
the Dockery men voting against it.
Hezekiah Gudger, with the fire-new
zeal of a fresh convert, made wild
Republican speech, and nominated
Pritchard for chairman.
Judge Russell said last night: THAT
caucus was not gotten up as Russell
meeting at all. All statements to that
effect are false. The meeting was in
tended to be caucus of the friends OF
Pritchard and Mckinley, and nobody
was intended to be excluded except /
those who were hostile to Pritchard"
The Dockery men denounce their eX-
cIusion from the pritchaTd caucus as
a high-handed proceeding, and say it
vas a one-sided attempt to settle the |
craftsmanship
PRITCHARD vs.. HOLTON.
Ii is a fight to the finish between |
HoIton and Pritchard, with Settle and |
Docl<ery men backing Holton and |
Gudger (the new conVert) NJ. l.. Mott, !