Evening star., 1896-07-02
North Carolina Populists Willing to
Tie to Either Party.
THEY WANT GUTHRIE FOR GOVERNOR
Free Coinage Of Silver is the Su-
preme Issue in the State.
THE COLORED VOTERS
'e eciai Correspondence of The Evening Star.

an overwhelming vote their state conven-
tion decided not to defer the nomination of
state ticket until after all the national
conventions had been held The action
taken has strengthened the party immense
ly The nomination Of Cyrus B. Watson, a
straight-out silver man, for governor has
had distinctly beneficial effect The ac-
| tion Of the gold men in the convention, in
their earnest work for the party, has
brought about unity of purpose to carry
| the state, which is exactly what the party
| needed.
The populist plan, The Star correspondent
/ Is assured on high authority, was to seek
| in all sorts of ways to induce the democrats
| to postpone nominations and then the popu-
lists would have Immediately held a con-
vention, named William A. Guthrie for gov
ernor and given literally to democrats
places on a mixed state ticket. That this
plan would have caught many democrats
| goes without saying the more particularly
| as the populists would have said: This is
| the way to get silver This is the way to
| defeat ID. l.. Russell. the republican nomi-
nee for governor" But the action of the
| democrats has nullified all these plans.
| Populfsts and Republican,.
democrat of prominence, who enjoys
the confidence and respect of the populists,
says that he feels sure the plan of the
populists and republicans now is to have a
JOINT state ticket to put Guthrie at it's
head, to make Russell United States Sena-
tor, and Senator Pritchard to go in Nc
kiniey's cabinet The source from which
this news comes makes it particularly in
tefeStlng. Though 1t has been repeatedly
denied that RusseH ever wrote a letter Of
1erlng to come down as the head of the
tlcket, The Star correspondent is assured
Dy James &. MacRae F. II. Busbee and E.
nf fhof
written and placed in the hands of Senator
fntchard, to be acted on whenever thought
pest. russell declines to deny that he has
written such a letter Russell is silver
lepuohcan, and the plan is that he is to be
silver republican Senator, it is asserted
AS TO the electoral ticket put up by the
republicans. 1t is said a majority of their
state committee favor taking it down and
substituting populists. James H. Young,
member OF the committee, says this is the
state or the case. Senator Pritchard whose
prospects of election have for several
I .iiohtns peen regarded by many as in grave
jeopardy, mas favored giving the populists
tne governor and half the electoral ticket
mere Is, personally speaking, no love
lcSt between Senators Prtchard and But
ier. rms Is well known The friends of
Senator Pritchard declare that Butler has
not lived up to his compact made in .Ja1-
uary l. 1895. that he and the popuIists
would work and vote for Pritchsrd's re-
.nection IN 1891 They charge Butler with
active chamDionir & of Senator PritcharI
is Representative Pearson
O. the other hand. the friends of Senator
Butler say Pritchard was one of the chief
promoters OF the populst revolt against
Butler; that pressed Representative Skin
fer, cyrus Thompson and others to issue
manifesto against Butler. and that they
have melted James NJ Mewborne and other
populiSts to do the same thing They fur
ther allege that one of Buffers clerks in
washington was regularly betraying office
secrets to Pritchard.
POpulfst Committee Meeting.
The ropulist state executive committee
Is called to meet here on the Sd of July.
This was decided on last Saturday. Guthrie
came here that day. He said that great
movements were on foot. More than this
he declined to reveal, but said the COM
mittee would call the state convention 10
assemble between August l and Is. Incl
oents are often straws to show the direc-
tion of the wind, and it was significant that
repubiican-populist State Treasurer Worth.
while at the station Saturday with Guthrie,
introduced the latter to some relatives as
Governor Guthrie" Guthrie said the dem
ocrats had put up Cy. Watson to beat Rus
sell. and that now the populists will put
up man to beat both
Guthrie has insisted that the republican
party is honeycombed by popuIism. and
that he would get 2;I.OOO of its votes and he
also said if he could not beat Russell he
could not beat anybody. There are demo-
Gratis who declare now they have all the
while believed that the populists would
fuse with the republicans again simply be-
cause they were not willing for the world
to know how small their real strength is
1t has been one Of Senator Buffers objects
to keep his party the balance of power
IN both the state and ma ton.
The COlored Vote.
The negro voters claim that their race
holds raQl ho1 opoo Of
their attitude this year will be far more in
depe ndent than ever before. The conven-
ton of anti-Russell negroes which will be
held here next Thursday. July 2, is awaited
with some interest. as the signers of the
call Tor 1t embrace many of the best edu-
Gated negroes in the state. The claim is
made by populists that there is a great and
deep-seated sentiment for free silver among
the negroes but negroes say this is untrue:
that they are for Mckinley and what he
represents; Pases, It's, -. Many negroes declare that
on to the skirts Of Mckinley and Pritchard
Free Silver the Supreme Issue,
With the mass Of the people free silver is
the supreme ISSUE 1T far overshadows
such issues as state banks of issues &C."
says ex-senator Jarvis. who is to be the
chairman of the North Carolina delegation
to the democratic national convention, and
of the Democratic Silver League
Senator Butler made the opening speech
OF the campaign at Wilmington a day or
TWO ago. and much of 1t was denunciation
OF the democratic party as traitors and
hypccrites. He urged democrats to desert
their own party and join the silver party.
and denounced their party as opposed to
silver, asserting that IL it declared for free
silver at Chicago 1t would prove false to its
pledge. He made :he strange statement
that gold men controlled the democratic
state convention last week at Raleigh. At
the end Of his speech rising vote of
thanks was given the Senator, in which
strange to say, many democrats Joined. If
is said here that if the latter did this
strange thing deliberately, then they are
not democrats. but silver party men: thai
is, they put silver above their party. This
IS what Senator Butler has for over q year
peen endeavoring to induce democrats to
Ex-senator Jarvis says Of the North Car
olina delegation to Chicago: TT will 60
mere without any personal preference. its
sole OBJECT being to make a platform for
the coinage of gold and silver at Ia tn 4
which cannot. by the ingenuity of man he
misunderstood, and to nominate for Presi-
denf the ablest man to be found whose sin.
cere convictions are in harmony with that
platform" VIII 'Aa'
Where jackson Fought a Duel.