The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-08
SENATORIAL FIGHT
Will Pritchard Get the Pop
ulists Vote?
OR WILL "A SILVER MAN WIN?
The Populists Can Dictate
Legislation.
CAN ORGANIZE THE SENATE
Without Any Tr 5uble and Can Do the
Same in the House With the
Help OF Other Silver
Men.

| rep OF OtnGT GitNeF
Men.
| Will Senator Pritchard be reelected?
| When he was chosen two years ago,
| Senator Pritehard had made campaign
| declaring that gold recommendation and
| free trade were twin evils, and he pledged
/ himself to the Populists if elected to vote
| in the Senate for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. When a bill of that
character came up in the Senate, Mr.
| Pritchard voted for it, and afterwards
boosted of it, saying my record in the
| Senate for silver parallels Senator But
| ler's."
| So much for the past. In the late cam
paign, Senator Pritchard declared that
| at the st. Louis convention he changed
from silver man to an international BIZ
metallist-that is gold-bug. He went
all over the State preaching that the tar
| if was the issue, and standing by Nc
Kinley, and the st. Louis platform.
Now that the Populists have the power
to elect a silver man to the Senate, will
they do it, or will they elect Mr.. Pritch-
ard, who says himself that he is against
the free coinage of silver?
| That is the issue that will be presented
| when the Legislature meets. The Popu-
| lists who believe in silver will gladly
| embrace the opportunity to elect a silver
man. Those who care nothing for silver
except as a cry to get in on, will vote
| for Pritchard.
AS IT is LOOKED AT IN WASH
INGTON
Yesterdays Washington Post said:
/ no GoI,+ 4,Dv, 10 Totn
| G. Pritchard, in North Carolina, is al
ready on. In the Legislature just elect
| ed the Republicans will have IS; Popu-
lists, 81; Democrats, 80. Pritchard or any
| other Republican cannot be elected with
| out the aid of Populst votes, and that
| means a pledge to vote with the free
silver men of the Senate. Either two of
| the three parties by fusion can elect the
| Senator.
| A special to the Post from Raleigh, n.
| c., says: Republicans will re-nomin-
ate Senator Pritchard without opposition.
If he fails to receive the support of the
| Populist caucus and can secure the votes
| of twenty-one of the Populist members,
| he will be elected. 1t has been stated at
Raleigh by Mr.. Ohio Wilson, Railroad
| Commissioners, and Fl. w. Aver, chairman
i VI NiE OUutASb CtdAG GbIuIOltlGCs ODJ1 u
| whom are close friends OF Senator Ma
rion Butler, that Senator Pritchard can
| not get the Populist vote. 1t is under
stood that Senator Butler does not desire
| that Pritchard shall succeed himself.
| Democrats are already declaring that
| they viii support William A. Guthrie, the
| defeated Populist candidate for Govern
| or, in return for his effort to throw the
/ nf 49, A.
| candidates for Judges and to Kitchin, for
Congress, in the Fifth district The cleo
| ton of Kitchin over Settle is due in part
| TO the advice Of Guthrie to the Popu-
| lists to vote for Kitchin. Senator But
Ter is for Guthrie, but Railroad Commits
| sioner Wilson and Chairman Aver are
against Guthrie, as are a large majority
of the Populist members. Wilson hopes
to see a condition Of affairs that will
| enable him to succeed Pritchard. If a
| Populist is to be Senator, the Republi-
| can leaders would rather have Wilson
than any other Populist.
| "Col. Oliver I'll. DOckery, who was de-
| feated by Russell for the Republican
| nomination for Governor, and who then
| deserted the Republicans and declared
| for Bryan, and was nominated by the
4 OputiStS AO1 4@1GubcDdub oONEIIOis -
| also a candidate to succeed Pritchard.
He win also be supported by the Demo-
| Gratis as against Pritchard, if Guthrie is
| found not to be available. If the Popu-
| list caucus decides not to support Pritch-
ard, Dockery will probably receive their
| support. The Democrats will jump at
the first opportunity that presents itself
| to defeat Pritchard.
| 1.-THE Republicans will make a great
| fight to re-elect Pritchard, and they ex-
pect to have the active, earnest, and ma
| terial support of President-elect McKin-
ley, who is thought to be intensely inter-
ested in the reelection Of Senator Pritch-
ard. The Federal offices due this State
and others outside the State in their dis
position are expected to play an important
part in this contest. 1t is already I'M
derstood that Wallace w. Rollins, of
| Asheville, is to be Collector Of Internal
Revenue; James e. Boyd, of Greensboro,
to be United States attorney; and Brodie
| Duke, of Durham, to be United States
Marshal each for the Western district;
and George w, Cobb, of Elizabeth City,
| to be Collector of Internal Revenue;
| Charles A. Cook, Of Warren, to be United
States attorney, and Joshua B. Hill, of
| this city, to be Marshal each for the
Eastern district. These gentlemen are
| supposed to be subject to change in the
| interest of Pritchard's election.
"The election of Senator will occur on
the Goth of January next, and promises
| in advance of the 18th Of March, 1897, will
be plenty and profuse. Performances
may or may not come later. The election
of Senator Buffers successor not coming
until January 1901, robs Pritchard of the
| means whereby he could compel Butler
to line up the Populsts in his support,
and in this view it is suggested that But
Ter may force Pritchard to divide the
| Federal patronage with the Populsts in
return for their votes 1t is believed that
is the plan Of Butler and that the sug-
gestion that Pritchard cannot get the
Populist vote was made deliberately to
force Pritchard's hand. Altogether it is
lively and interesting fight.
| "SDeaking of the situation, Chairman