The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
SOME PROBABLE APPOINTMENTS.

Settle, 10 ~rltcHaro - SiSGs@1'
Consul General to Shanghai ON
Settle. il he Ra1&s it, G. 7. Bailey
does want il.
for IL If Noiton is appointed District
Attorney.
pistriot Attorney for Western Dis
trick- "A. z. Ao!ton, If ne wants ~
Marst.ali Mott ana 4iG 5ogd want IT,
CnHactor for Western District w
w. Rollins, if ne vents Il, FiezeNia1
Cueeer rs also candidate. th9ugh ne
prefers 8 aorsi9o appointments.
District Attorney for eastern Dis
Srlct- -Chas. q. Cooke IS a!n2st GER
tain to oct il. Tom Purueii ana oSc2r
Spears want it.
coIIector for Eastern District iii
ram /. Grant, If he IS not appointed
Searceant- at Arms OF the Onltsd
States Senate, George Cobb, OF Eliza
beth City, candidate.
United States Marshal for Eastern
District Joshua 3. Hill will get 1t,
Or. Norment is 4 candidate.
Collector at the Port at Wilmington
--James n. Young, it he wants IT.
John c. Dancy, second best.
Collector at the Port Of Newhern-
H.P. Cheatham is q candidate.
Railroad Conmissioner-W.E &. White
of Aiamance,
Raleigh Postoffce- C. 7. Bailey,
or a. w. Shaffsr.
Commissioner Of Labor Nobody
seems to want it now. but there wis
be plenty of candidates later.
There is serious doubt as to whether
Mr.. Pritchard will be chosen to succeed
himself in the United States Senate.
By the Republicans own figuring he
lacks 10 votes of having enough to elect
him unless the Populists give him their
support. There are, according to the
figures given out at Republican head
quarters, % Republicans in the House
and Is in the Senate, making II on joint
ballot. 1t requires SO to elect. This
leaves Il votes to be secured from either
the Populists or the Democrats. 1t is
certain that no Democrat viii vote for
him so he viii have TO rely on the Popu-
lists to come to his support.
Will the Populists do so?
That is the question that | have been
asking both Republican and Populist
leaders since the election.
The Populists were disposed ut first to
favor Pritchard. They began by making
excuses for him. They said that he was
silver man enough to do. The
fact TINT Pritchard had always voted
with Senator Butler on the mon
ey question they held to be suf-
fcient. They were not disposed to count
up against him his gold speeches in the
campaign and his denunciation of them
for voting for Bryan. But this did not
continue long. The tune was soon
changed or rather there was no tune
at ALL The Populists have grown non
loot M E1f
clare that no goldbug can be elected Uni
ted States Senator from North Carolina
and refrain from expressing any opin-
ion as to the color of Pritchard's money
sentiments This change of sentiment
was brought about by Senator Butler,
who renewed his contest against Senator
Pritchard first by an editorial in the
Caucasian and then by an open letter
to Pritchard. The Endless Chain from
Honeycutts has entered the lists against
the Yelled Prophet of the Nolachucky.
The war is on in earnest: the old
fight is opened up again. The
colors Of one Of the knights is yell
low and the other is white A Senator
ship is ut stake. Two Populist Sena-
tors from North Carolina or one Popu-
list and q Republican-which shall it be?
BUFFERS OPPOSITION.
As soon as this happened a great panic
seized the Republican forces. They sud
denly awoke to a realization Of the fact
that they had no easy time ahead of
them They found that the Populists
they had counted on to vote for Pritch-
ard were either undecided or dead against
him. The State headquarters were or
dered kept open here and were not closed
until Yesterday and every Repubi-
oud TPapuI,tioaya GRO piza fian fhe
State were ordered 10 make common
cause to re-elect Prtchard. That his
defeat viii leave the party without a
representative in Washington and greatly
lessen the amount of patronage that
would otherwise come to the State, is
being used among them with great eff
feet. The Republicans, almost to a man,
say that the Populists will be forced to
vote for Pritchard, because that was the
understanding when he was given the
short term and Butler the long one.
They are arguing further that they
aided in the election of five Populist
Congressman, and did not break faith
because they were silver men, and now
it would be the basest ingratitude for the
populists to desert them They have
called Richmond Pearson down for his
ugly talk, and now they speak of
the Populists as being heightened
Christian gentlemen and say that those
who were chosen as members of the
Legislature were elected by Republican
votes and that now they could not be so
ungrateful as TO 90 back on the men who
had kept them from being defeated. But
not a one Of these Republican leaders
has ever denied that Pritchard was a
gold man. To do so would be to put
him in bad favor with the incoming ad-
Gfrssf igF md
that. They want North Carolina to have
a good place at the pie counter and
each one Of them wants a choice slice
Of the pie And that is why neither
Senator Pritchard nor any of his friends
are making any explanations as to his
position on the money question.
This also explains why Pritchard has