The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
will continue to stand there for patron
age sake.
WHAT HOLTON WANTS.

WHAT HOLTON WANTS.
There is Chairman Holton. lie was
q candidate for Senator two years ago,
and even now he and Pritchard arc NOT
the best OF friends, but he IS working
night and day for letters election, Tor ne
wants 20 be District Attorney Tor me
Western District and Pritchard VIII give
il to him if he is reelected. Inc place
il worth about $1,000 year. Marshai
Mott also wants it,
Then Tom Settle will ask for for
eign appointment. if the Dukes do not
employ him as an attorney Tor the
Tobacco Trust. He is said to have his
eve on Consul-General Jernigans place
in case he can't get Minister Ransom $.
Tt is understood that the latter place
will 90 to pritchard il he is beaten Tor
Senator. II he is elected Settle will ask
for it.
The District Attorneyship for the West
nru District also has attractions for jim
BOYD. though he would accept goou
foreign appointment, and if Prltehard Is
aIacte5 to the Senate, he expects TO sue
ceed Ransom. -
As for the Honorable James NJ.
Moody. of Waynesville, be is always
prominent candidate for anything that
comes along. He has no preference AT all,
except an office with a salary, and the
bigger Che salary the stronger the prefer
ence.
Mr.. T. II. Fortune, Of Cleveland who
has The good fortune OF shooting high
ond the misfortune of hitting nothing,
# ono may Judge hy his experience Of The
lest two years in Washington. Is also
out for the strf.
The coon-4kiuner, Ruff Henderson, Is
still hunting for the coon. The chair
man of the populist committee euchered
him out of the skin in The late trade,
bnt If the records of Mr.. Hcnderson's
former connection with the revenue ser
vice will not Interfere he hopes for high
nositiOn in the party in this State. What
that place is he cares but little, but the
one that requires the least fitness with
\ good salary attachment will suit him
best.
The editor Of the Yadzin Ripple, Mr..
f II. Stanford who came very near
being librarian, wants 10 be Assistant
District Attorney. If he fails in this
Stanford will make another assault on
the State Library As principal keeper
If the Journal in the last House of Rep
resentatives he won distinction by the
preparation Of book that no one on
earth. unless II he himself can under
stand. His work in that capacity eXem-
pifes his peculiar fitness for assistant
prosecuting officer Of the Western dis
trict. But Of such is the kingdom Of
Republican office-holders.
I must not omit my excellent friend,
the distinguished Col. Windy Billy Hen
derson. To reckon a distribution Of pie
without considering this statesman from
Davidson would produce panic. He
stands close to the administration and
if he doesn't get anything it viii be be-
cause he is too self-denying to cut out his
friends from the pie-counter.
So much for the West.
NEGRO 70 EE RECOGNIZED.
The Eastern contingent promises music
by the whole band The colored brother
is in evidence and is determined TO be
heard from The collectorship of the
ports Of Wilmington and Newbern are
not considered too important for Honor
ables Jas. H. Young. John G. Dancy and
Ii. T. Cheatham. Their friends say that
as the Republican managers admit that
out of the $4,000 votes given to Mckin-
ley in this State 10000 of them were ne
gro votes@ and when their race possesses
such talent as is represented by Young
Dancy and Cheatham, they are entitled
to have seats high up at the table. 1t
is true Senator Butler rises up just here
like Banquo's host, to fret the colored
brother as well as Pritchard, but Mr..
Mckinley must rec )gnize his friends,
and they are par excellence the negro
voters of the State.
And right here it might be interesting
to note that North Carolina polled more
votes for Mckinley than did any other
Southern State except Kentucky and
Texas. More votes were cast for Nc
Kinley in this State than III South Caro-
lima. Georgia, Florida, Mississippi Louis
lana and Arkansas together.
Hon John Niet OILS has booked himself
for n very important appointment, in his
mind. SO has the Honorable I1lihu
White. But here the ubiquitous Sena-
tor Butler appears again, and the other
fellow is not for them either. These
two statesmen belong to that class who
could see nothing good in Blu lerism or
populism and wanted to take theirs
straight" Nichols would like to be SUI
perintendent Of the Blind Institution
here.
Gizzard French, with Grant, is lead
ing the Eastern contingent in behalf Of
Pritchard, and therefore likely to run up
against Butler in his pursuit of the VIII
mington postoffice.
THE EASTERN DISTRICTS
As to the District Attorneyship of the
Eastern district, Oscar J. Spears is de-
termined, if possible, to down red-head
Charlie Cook But Charles mind is made
up. He feels that the loss Of a criminal
court judgeship can only be compensat-
ed for by the best place at the bar Oscar
must join Bailey Of North Carolina and
90 MS far from home as the limits Of ge-
ography will permit, or continue to chew
the cud Of bitter discomfort while looking
down from the gallery upon Fowler, of
Sampson, who takes Shaw's seat in Con
gress. Spears says he could have had
this seat but for the internal Populists."