The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-04
RESERVES HIS FIRE
Pritchard Not Yet Ready to
Reply to Butler.
BUT WILL DO so LATER
Waiting to See a Copy of the
Other Letter.
AND FIND oUTHls TRUE POSITION
He is Also Hopeful that Affairs viii
Take More Favorable Turn
When the Fusion Confer
ence Meets.


Washington, April 3.-(speciaD ~
Senator Pritchard, when interviewed
by me to-day touching the circular Of
Senator Butler, published in Thurs
days News and Observer, said:
81 have read the circular, but must
decline to discuss it for two reasons.
One is, as / am informed by Senator
Butler, the letter published is not q cor
| rect copy of the communication adj
| dressed by him to the county chair
men of the Populist party in the State,
| and until | have the opportunity to
read the correct copy, and know exact
| ly what his position is, it is certainly
| not good taste to criticise Another
| reason is, that Mr.. Holton, chairman of
| the Republican Executive committee,
| has invited the chairman of the Popu-
| list party to meet our committee in con
| ference, at an early day, to consider the
| question of cooperation, and the Peo-
| pies party Executive committee will
meet, SO / am informed, within the next
| ten days, for the purpose of considering
| the question, and will appoint com
| mittee to confer with our committee,
| as requested by Mr.. Holton"
| The Star this afternoon has q col
| umn story on Buffers circular, in
which ,Pritehard is interviewed as fol-
| lows:
II have heretofore said to the people
| Of North Carolina that I was willing
| to make a cooperative fight in the
| State, but was not willing to support
| an independent free silver man on the
| electoral ticket. I said I favored q
| division Of the electoral ticket so as to
/ give the Republicans a share of the
| electors, pledged to vote for the noni-
| nee Of the St. Louis convention, while
| / was ready to give the Populists
| certain number Of electors who might
| do as they pleased. In other words, /
| favor an honorable cooperation be-
| tween the Populists and Republicans.
/ said / was not willing to vote for an
| independent free silver ticket for the
reason that such action would be an
abandonment of the Republican party;
| and while / was for free silver / was
| for it inside of the Republican ranks.
/ believe the Republican party Is the
only party that viii do anything for
| silver"
"What will be the effect of Mr.. But
| ler's movement on your reelection to
| the Senate?" Mr.. pritchard was asked.
| II am satisfied" replied Mr.. Pritch-
| ard, that the Republicans will carry
| the State and / do not think there is
much doubt about their ability to carry
| the Legislature. We made fight be-
! fore very successfully and succeeded
| in electing good many Republicans
and / think it would be treating those
men unfairly if were to consent to
| breaking up of the arrangements then
made. There is every disposition on
the part of the Republicans to treat
the Populists fairly, but there is no
disposition on the part of the Republi-
cans of North Carolina to go over to
! the Populists of that State"
Col James +. Boyd left tonight for
Greensboro on Col. Andrews private
car Touching Buffers circular, Col.
Boyd exclaimed in the station: 'You
can say this for me, that Butler can't
dominate the Republicans of North
Carolina, nor ever control the rank and
file of the Populist party.
Congressman Linney standing by
added: That's right" and said But
ler's circular was what he would call
shocking.
Mr. Linney will meet his wife
tomorrow at Statesville and both
return tomorrow night He said that
this morning his committee on Elec-
tions had decided against contestee
Cobb and in favor of contestant Harri-
son, of Alabama. He said a Republi-
can member of Elections committee,
No. 2, had told him to-day that Wood
ards case would be close one.
mn. n = I,sl
ported to-day, contains the following |
items for North Carolina:
Improving inland waterway between
Beaufort harbor and New river, $1,000, |
Improving Cape Fear river north of |
Wilmington, $4,000.
Improving Cape Fear river at and |
below Wilmington, 100000.
Improving Neuse river, $4,000.
Improving Pamlico and Tar rivers,
$4,000.
Improving Trent river, $4,000
Improving Black river for mainte-
nance, ST 600.
Improving Island water route from
Norfolk harbor via Albemarle sound
through Curritucl1 sound, $4,000
The Secretary Of war is directed to
cause preliminary examination to be
made at Cape Lookout harbor Of refuge
and for jetty near Bogue inlet to run
over a sand bar.
Skinner followed Boutelle to-day in
a rather fiowery speech on the Cuban
question, fayoring annexation. 'Pcr-
haps," he exclaimed II represent the
most ancient and most patriotic terri
tory within this government, the terri
tory where Sir Walter Raleigh first
landed, where the first form of civic
government was organized. "Mhen."