The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-18

THE~<EORTH CAROLINA SENA-
TORS VOTE.

Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, pre-
sided over the convention that nominated
Mr.. Mckinley. He ought to be good
Republican authority, and stands SO hlgh
with Mckinley that he would give him
A place in his cabinet if it were not for
the fact that such appointment would
make vacancy that the Nebraska Leg
islature would utilize by electing MIR.
Bryan to the Senate. Mr.. Thurston, in
answer to question about the complex
ion of the next United States Senate,
said:
II think Chambers analysis of the
standing of the United States Sen
ate. as published in the World, is
absolutely correct. The Republi-
cans are certain of 43, are sure of
Blackburn's successor and have
strong hopes OF Pritchard's re-elec-
ton in North Carolina, making 49,"
That is to say: the Republicans have
no hope of controlling the Senate after
the fourth Of March unless they can
elect Senator Pritchard His election,
according to Senator Thurston, would
give the Republicans absolute control,
and the present populist balance of pow
er in the Senate would be destroyed
What else does Senator Thurston say?
Discussing the question what chance a
high tariff bill would have from being
loaded down by a free silver amend
ment," Senator Thurston says Of such a
measure:
"It will have A votes, and il
pritchard is reelected As, which, with
the Yice-President's vote, would pass
it."
These extracts are given to show the
far-reaching importance of the vote Civ
en- by the Senator to be elected by the
coming North Carolina Legislature. In
PARKWAY Nebraska and in New Hamp-
shire, as we'll as at Mark Hanna's Bel
shazzar's feast in New York, this vote
is discussed, and its Importance admit
ted. 1t is recognized that it may deter
mine whether this country shall be alb
solutely in the hands of the money power
or not. Hanna, Thurston, Chandler, as
well as Cleveland, Carlisle and j. Ster-
ling Morton will be glad to see Senator
Pritchard elected. They know they can
depend on his vote to sustain their policy
that booms stocks and depresses agrieul-
tural products.
Senator Butler spoke truly when he
said, in his letter to Senator Pritchard:
There is no longer any half way
or straddling ground in this contest.
Every man in Congress will have to
vote for the free coinage of silver
and more full legal tender money for
the people, or he will vote with the
bankers, bondholders, spectators
and gold gamblers who live and grow
rich by making money dearer and
scarcer. If this is your position, then
no member of the Legislature, who is
not himself q goldbug, can vote to
send you to the Senate. You certain
~ cannot expect the vote of any Pop
ulist, neither can you expect the vote
of any silver Republican, for when
your State convention passed a reso-
luton approving your course, you
had not given public notice that yeu
had changed your views"
The question is: Can Mark Hanna elect
pritchard? He tried to buy the electoral
vote of the State for Mckinley, but our
people were too true to silver to sell
themselves. After having refused to
sell the Presidency, will men elected as
silver advocates permit the gold men TO
control the United States Senate by
sending a gold man to represent the
State?