The news & observer., 1896-12-24
He Gave Out An Authorized
Interview and Then Later
Withdrew It.
REASON FOR STRANGE ACTION
The Republicans Are Believed
to Have Brought Pres
sure to Bear.
GETS MIGHTY MAD ABOUT 1T
A Prominent Republican Says the Fight
against Pritchard is Simply an
Attempt on Buffers Part
to Control the State
Patronage.

Patronage.
The fight against Senator Pritchard is
growing hot-it is already beginning TO
simmer and bubble and unless something
happens to check it, soon it VIII reach
the boiling point. Populsts are cussin'
while Republicans are doing worse. And
the interview with Ewart and Gudger
nublished exclusively in the News and
Observer has caused it all.
No less a person that a member of
..our non-partisan judiciary"-a Justice
of the Supreme eourt-has thrown u
brand into the burning that will not do
much to cool the temperature of the con-
test. / refer to Judge Furches.
Early yesterday morning IT was report
ed on the streets that letter attacking
Pritchard and opposing his reelection
had been written and given out for pub
hcation by Justice Furehes.
I went to Judge Furches to inquire as
to the truth OF the report. He was very
gruff, and seemed to fy into fury when
asked about the matter. He said that he
had neither written letter nor given
out an authorized interview.
Then when / told him OF the. repOrt
had heard on the street and desired to
have anything he cared to say, for pub
lication in the News and Observer, he
replied that he had nothing to say, and
that if he did have he would not say It in
the News and Observer.
''And why?" modestly inquired.
Because that paper has criticised me-
l have no use for it and want nothing
to do with anybody connected with it.
I don't want to ever see my name In 1t
again. II / get drunk or do something
Of that kind you can print it, but | want
you to understand that you shall not
criticise/ me in the discharge Of my Of
fetal duties and say that l am trying
to make political capital"
"Shall / say then, Judge, that you
deny either writing letter or giving
out an interview or anything else con-
eerning the Senatorial question with the
understanding that it will be publish
edY" 0
"Well," said he, standing-tn the middle
OF his room while / stood near the door,
never having been invited to sit down,
~ did tell certain newspaper man that
II Pritchard pledged himself to silver
I would no longer have any interest in his
election. But now that it has gotten out
I'm going to recall the statement and
I demand Of you not to say q word 4
bout it. Please understand that"
I ventured the statement that nay &C
tion in the matter would be governed
entirely by = sense Of duty to my papcr.
This threw the Judge into another
rage and he said that when he made
the statement in regard to Pritchard he
had no idea the reporter to whom h
made il would tell it and cause him to
be annoyed by newspaper men.
"And / will not be. If it is publish
cd in other papers you can then copy
it into your paper with any proper COM
nent you wish"
Assuring the testy Judge / had no de-
sire to longer annoy him and telling him
that would not publish the authorized
interview he had gwen the other papers
unless / saw it in them first, ! bid him
good-day.
What the exact words of that inter-
view was may perhaps never be known,
as the Judge was true to his threat and
recalled it, for which / am very sorry.
But one thing is certain-he is opposed
to Pritchard and if the Senator signs
pledge to support silver this Judge Of
"our non-partisan judiciary will have
none of him. And-there are others.
the Nolachucky Tumbler.
AS / left the Judge he called out to
me-by way of a Parthian arrow
that he would be here to-day to see that
his injunction TO print nothing was car
ried out. But he is not here. He went
away on the afternoon train for his home
to spend Christmas, and l hope he win
be as merry as Jeter must be when he
reads this.
Now the question naturally arises:
why did Judge Furches withdraw his
Interview from publication? Was it sim
DIV because he has such a hatred for the |
News and Observer that he could not |
bear FOR 1t to publish his views stimuli |