The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-10

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gether again.
Pursuant to adjournment Tuesday
afternoon, the Republican State Exec
utive Committee met yesterday morn
ing at nine o'clock. The Populist com
mittee was to meet at five in the after
noon. Meanwhile there were several
meetings of Conference committees for
two purposes, first to consider the mat
ter of Rep-Pop fusion on the State tick
ct; second, to take up the matter of
emocratic-Populist fusion on the
Electoral ticket. Both full committees
met in the afternoon, and also last
night at nine o'clock. The Popullst
committee had given its uItlmatum
that Russell should come of the ticket,
and at this writing it looks like that
will prevail, as Russell as early as
Tuesday night expressed his wiling
ness to come off, if necessary. The
nesting was booked for two hours, and
everything pointed to a final decision
by IL o'clock.
After his speech aft Metropolitan Hall
Tuesday night, Daniel L. Russell, Re
nublican candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, consented to have his
name taken down from the ticket.
All this is strictly in accordance with
the forecast given exclusively IN the
columns of the News and Observer.
Referring to this matter ] uesday
night, Russell said in his speecA (and
this is a verbatim report of his lam
guage):
1T is as wen," said Judge Russell,
that everybody should understand the
status about the Governorship. We
have heard enough of this talk of my
coming down, mostly from 'skeered'
Democrats. (Laughter). / want to say
that I am the nominee Of the Repubil-
can party for Governor of North Car
Dina, and | propose to remain so until
the last ballot is counted in November
(applause)- provided- provided he
exclaimed, and here a silence fell upon
the negroes, as of some fear OF dlsap-
pointment ahead, provided" he said
for the third time, IF / die the banner
will fall from my hands into those of
another Republican (applause and
laughter), and provided if he dies it
viii fall into the hands Of another Re-
publican, and if he dies, into the hands
of another Republican, and so on, UNI
til all the 10000 Republicans in the
State shall have been exhausted"
(Great applause).
The very next thing that should inn
mediately follow what has been said
above is the question that will natu-
rally come into the minds of everyone
who reads this.
That query is: what did he get for
it?"
This was the question that a News
and Observer reporter yesterday put to
to. the big-wig in the ranks who had
the story of Russell's consent to come
down straight from Chairman Holton.
'Well,' replied the big-wig, Il suppose
they will at least pay him back the
money he is out" How many dollars
would this be? $4,000 or $4,000? They
say Russell loves money, and some may
say, therefore, that this would be
enough to fetch him, but few viii be-
lieve it. The exact consideration, how
ever, had not been ascertained up to
Yesterday afternoon. Of course, Russell
seemingly must have known of the
cruelty of his fate, even while he was
swearing in the Metropolitan Hall
that he would not come down. 1T was
natural for him to make such a state
ment if he wanted to hold himself high,
and thus put Chairman Holton in a
liberal state of mind at the conference
which should come between them later.
But Russell's visit TO Wash
ington lis as certainly con-
nected with his coming down as it is
certain that he went there. As was
said yesterday he ingloriously aban-
doned his dates, and that without
handing the gate money back that
Spencer Blackburn had squandered in
getting up that necessarily expensive
cayalcade-for Spencer never does any,
thing by halves. So that after read
ing the News and Observers exclusive
story, everybody expected Russell to
do just what he has finally been forced
to do. Tt is tough shedding when n
party says ''Come down for your coun-
try's good" but more honor lies, per-
haps, in being down; so Russell is none
the loser in that respect.
Such was the status of affairs when
the Republican committee, pursuant to
adjournment the afternoon before, met
yesterday morning at O'Clock. They
bow touch with the Populist commit
tee meeting set for yesterday. Thus
the two committees met yesterday
morning and appointed, the Republi-
cans a subcommittee, and the Popu-
lists a provisional" committee, the
two to meet for conference.
Then the committee met about noon
at the Park, the Republicans having
been represented by Chairman Holton,
Marshall Mott and r. o. Patterson;
the Populists by Chairman Aver, Sher-
if Simms, of Cabarrus, and Nat Carrot,
of Vance.
AS told exclusively in yesterdays
News and Observer, the Republicans
and Populists had come here to take
Russell down, and that, therefore, was
of course, the special subject under
consideration at the noon conference.
The story of this meeting is that Chair
man Aver just said up and down that
Russell had to come down before an
other step was taken. The Populists
were with him, and, according to the