The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-30
The Iron Duke and the Endless
Chain of Honey Cults.
FORM a NEW ALLIANCE
Leaving Out the Rest OF the
Fusion Leaders.
PRiTcHARD AND SKINNER MAD
Spier Whitaker's Letter With Woods
Name to it Seems to Have Knocked
Somebody OFF of Their
title Perch.


Watch out for Harry Skinner! He
went to North Carolina last night. As
he pulled out of the station, he had
wicked sparks in his smoke-stack,
nobody in his pilot-house, and no cow
catcher on. He'll gather speed as he
goes, and if somebody don't put log
on his track he'll smash himself up or
somebody else up. One could hear the
gurgle of hot thoughts in his boiler,
and his safety-valve and air-brake APP
paratus were all gone to the bow
vows. He'll be hard man to run
against. Let somebody mention But
Ter and he'll blow a breath-full of
tacks in his face.
Yesterday morning Senator Pritch-
ard and Mohawk Harry sat in close
conference in the House before it was
called to order. Pritchard had at last
caught on to the capers of Butler
and Mott, and later Developments
prove the correctness of the state
ments in my letter of last Saturday
that Mott went away leaving letters
rain-barrel behind him as a memory
only.
But about Harry first: he had a
wounded vanity to nurse: he had
made a talk at the silver conference
last week: it was in the afternoon,
and was pronounced a spinner: it
made such a hit that the great men"
gathered about him and put him on
the programme for a long speech at
night. Night came, but no speech.
Butler had grown jealous and had had
Harry stricken from the list. That's
what first made Harry mad. Then
he began looking about and found that
Butler had elevated Mott to the Chair
manship of the Silver Committee to
be resident here in the spring. This
made him madden. But to be briefer,
a running analysis will better serve
the story. Mott had grown suddenly
very excited on silver, and had prac-
tically, according to my letter printed
Sunday, cut loose from the Republican
party. Anyway, that was the way it
was to go to the Populists. But it
does not take shrewd guessing TO say
that Mott is the same Republi-
can of old in silver guise, and that
Butler will attempt to deliver
the Populist party over to his
silver Republican camp, while
Mott is processing to deliver the
Republican party over TO the Butler
silver camp. And it is all done to un-
seat Pritchard in favor of Mott, and
Pritchard knows it, and he, also, and
Butler are splits on account of this
DY.f nlo hoe
not come forward with his silver views
fast enough for Butler, and on this
will rest Buffers pretext for deserving
him now in favor of Mott. And just
here steps in Mr.. Harry Skinner to re-
mark that Butler has made the worst
break of his life, and stung by the
memory OF speech suppressed, he
vows that Popnlists Of his class viii
never follow any faction under the
management of Mott, whose very name
is politically repulsiye to large part
even of the Populists who left the
Democratic party, and who viii now
return to the Democratic party rather
than follow in his lead. Skinner went
so far as to say that Butler might
have suggested the name of man like
Jarvis for the position To be held by
Mott, but this, of course, is ridiculous.
in the light of a wise remark
made TO me last night by Democratic
Congressman from North Carolina,
namely, that the Democrats should
play 'hands off" fighting shy of the
detestable and disgracefully broils of
the unholy alliance. In this new But
ler-Mott scheme are said to be incIud-
ed Russell. Loge Harris, Jim Young
and others-that is if they can get
Loge 10 stick. Harry Skinner was
more Democratic than Populist i'm his
thoughts when he left here last night,
and the breach between him and the
Windbag of Wayne is distinct and
deep.
Now as TO the other side. The
thoughts Of Skinner have been the
thoughts of others even before the an
nouncement of the Butler-Mott deal.
The Wood letter has history: ask
Mr.. Spier Whitaker will he deny writ
ing that letter? Did not Mr.. Spier
Whitaker put DR.. Wood. the brother
Of the letter-signer, in charge OF the
Raleigh Asylum for the Insane? More
over. are not Wood and Whitaker con
sins? In any event will Whitaker deny
that i'm the writing of the Wood letter,
his object was To create an anti-Buf-
Ter faction Of the Populist party 10 be
headed by himself? And does not Mr..
Spier Whitaker propose III his mind to
deliver this faction over 10 the Dem
ocrats. in case they viii make glIber-
material oyertures TO him? And does
not Mr.. Whitaker know that many
Democrats would prefer even Mott, or
ANYBODY, as Governor To Whitaker"
These are questions called rhetorical,
not expecting answer except IN the
strangely peopled caucus of Mr. Whit
aker's own personality But the SOU
of Whitaker, the person, will carry on
"A whispered conference with the soul
of Whitaker, the politician, when he
thinks on these things.
So that il may be taken as fact
that ''smash" is the word now for the
Populst party. The Mott incident is
the last straw that broke the camePs
back, and Butler is no. longer roosting
on the leader perch.
Jim Boyd was here last night fresh
MS one of Emerson's Bromo Settlers,
buoyant as soap Bubble, spending
his idle time. as he said, trying to be