The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-22
FOR FUSION MEANS RUIN
Defeat is Sometimes Prefe1apio
to victory.
v,gws or CONGRESSMAN SHAW
The North Carolina Postmasterships
Have Been Hung Up in the
Senate by Senator
Butler.


pie who suspect the hand of Senator
Butler in this unusual and unnecessa-
ry delay. Among these might be mem
toned Representative Shaw, who has
been looking vainly thus far for the
confirmation of Mr.. w. ID. Caster, NOM
mated recently for the Fayetteville
postmastership. Butler is a member
of the Committee on Postoffices and
Postroads, and / am told has in his
pocket the nomination of Caster. 1t
must be remembered, too, that the
nominations for Burlington and Cha
pei Hill have met the same fate as Fay
etteville. The meeting of the Postof-
fee committee was held Wednesday,
but Senator Butler was absent,
though yesterday he was in his seat
in the Senate and looked flip enough.
At the Wednesday meeting Chairman
Woolcott presided, and Senator Hill
called some attention to the North Car
DINA cases. 1t is understood that Mr..
Butler has been kind at theshrdlushr
Butler has been urged to make a re-
port of some kind at the next meet
ing, and under the eye of Hill, who
seems to be taking unusual interest in
North Carolina matters, early action.
is looked for It is as well to note that
the nomination of Mr. Caster was
placed in the hands of Butler on JAM
uary 27th, and that the term of the
present incumbent, who is negro, ex-
pired January 21st. / went to Mr..
Shaw yesterday to try to find out some
thing about all this funny business"
He said he hoped things would be all
right shortly; that he had tried to get
Butler to make report, but that he
would never give him any satisfaction.
Mr. Shaw had been reading the News
and Observer of Wednesday, i'm his
seat, just before the House had been
called to order, and laying aside the
paper he said he regretted to hear of
Democrats in North Carolina talking
of severing party ties. ''The silver
question" be continued, lis a vital
one, but, in North Carolina, there are
many things of equal ii not Of more
importance. Under Democratic adj
ministTation we have had good laws,
fairly and honestly administered; our
schools have been built up; our State
institutions have been maintained,
our homes protected and the admins
tration Of the law has been in the
hands of competent officials. A dis
rupfion of the party organization in
the State may mean that our State and
county Offices may pass into the hands
of incompetent and corrupt men. The
record of the last Legislature points
to some extent to that condition of af-
fairs If we surrender our organization.
These matters are near home and APP
peal strongly to our sense of self-pro-
lection 1T may be true that we will be
defeated in the next election, but de-
feat. while fighting for principle and
right, is preferable to victory bought
at the price OF an unholy alliance with
any faction which was connected with
the last Legislature. Fusion with any
other party, directly or indirectly, will
ruin us as a party and leave us in the
same condition of the Democracy in
some of the Western States. If, how
ever, we keep our organization intact,
the tide will turn and the time is not
far hence when good men who have
left us will return. Then we viii re-
ceive them back as Democrats and we
will go forward in the future as we
have in the past. Let US, by all means,
keep up our party organization, If we
would put North Carolina back among
the States of the Solid South"
Mai. VIM. A. Guthrie, of Durham,
arrived late last night and is at the
Metropolitan. George 20. Scurlock is
in town. He is the negro ex-nominee
flour years ago. of the Republican
party, and is from Fayetteville, and an
anti-fusionist at that.
am informed that when Col Julian
S. Carr was here with Mr.. Frank
Barnes, from Wilson, they closed
trade of the Morehead City property
for property at Laurel Maryland,
Senator Germans home.
IT now turns out that Senator Hills
"Christnas gift to Confederate veter-
ans has not been allowed to lie in the
House committee, as was suggested in
a Richmond paper, which mentioned
the name of Congressman IockhaTt in
connection with the alleged delay, but
that through the efforts of Representa-
tiyes Lockhart and Tyler (Virginia) it
was fayorably reported as early as
January 18th. What delay there was,
Vas studied and unavoidable. For 1t
IS whispered that the bill will meet
with opposition by Republicans of the
Barrett and Boutelle style. The de-
lay, il was said, was effected in order
to let such Blatherslites prepare
speeches against il.
n y
/ am informed that Congressman
Settle has been confined to his room
with bad cold, but he is out again.
Congressman Tazewell Elicit, of Vir-
ginia, who has been so critically iii in
Richmond with pneumonia, and whose
death was reported at one time, is.
eonvalescing. He is one of the most
popular and promising of the new Con-
s<ressmen, and much qualification was
expressed by members at the good
news from his bedside.