The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-06
TO HELP ELECT M'KlNLEY
But Who Is to Handle It IS the
Question.
SENATOR QUAY HAS THE DOODLE
And the North Carolina Republicans
Want 1t but The Shrewd Managers
Are Afraid 10 Trust
Them With 1t.


eyes toward the South. They hope
and expect by the plentiful use of
money to carry Maryland, West Nlr-
ginia, Kentucky. and North Carolina.
They thought West Virginia was
theirs a month ago, but the wholesale
exodus of miners and laboring men
into the Bryan and SewaN clubs, has
made it most improbable that they can
carry it. Senator Quay has been put
in charge of the work of the Southern
States, given a blank check book with
authority to draw to any amount ne
cessary 10 carry two or three Southern
States You may expect him to spend
a million dollars in North Carolina
alone if he thinks it possible to carry
the electoral vote for Mckinley. He
has more hope of North Carolina than
of any other Southern State. Repre-
sentatives Pearson and Settle, who
have been here this week, assured the
officials of the Republican Congress
sional campaign committee that there
was a great deal more sound money
sentiment in North Carolina than Is
generally supposed, and that with
enough soap" the State could be car
ried for Mckinley The committee
was impressed with the ease with
WnlCl NOfIn AdIOIilld CStit bC StaitiSN
if enough money is forthcoming.
There is a difference of opinion about
the North Carolina Republicans and
the members of the committee about
the best way of spending money in
North Carolina Pearson, Pritchard
d Co. think it ought every dollar TO be
expended by them, as they are more
competent TO use it wisely than any
others Settle, Holton a. Co. think
it ought to be spent by Mr. Holton. the
chairman of the State executive com
mittee This proposition is vehement
" opposed by the Pritchard crowd.
They want TO handle it. While they
are quarrelling about this, the COM
mittee is strongly of the opinion that
the bulk of the money ought TO be
expended with and by sound money
Democrats and ''middle-of-the-road'
Populists. They argue that the Repub
licans will vote for Mckinley anyhow.
No use to buy them But that money
expended by boiling sound money.
Democrats among Democrats would
secure many votes for Mckinney tha5
would be gains from the opposition.
They are looking now for some sound
money" Democrats who could take
their money and use it discreetly Tor
Mckinley. They 0et no help IN find
ing the traitor agents from either fac
ton because they want to handle 1T
themselves. They are also diligently
searching for influential Populists who
will use their money to prevent Popu-
lists voting for Bryan under any cir
cumstances. They would give $250,000
gladly to insure straight antiBryan
Populist electoral ticket which they
could control, and which could be
elected in North Carolina. The local
Republican leaders say they can make
these trades if the National committee
viii turn the money over to them.
Here is the rub. The National mana
gers fear to trust them, believing some
would use it unwisely and that some
wouldn't use it for the party at all.
what will Cleveland do?" is still the
query here. Nobody believes he will
vote for BRYAN. The curiosity is as
to which method he will take to- inf1ict
the severest blow to the party that has
honored him. Don Dickinson, who re-
Gently visited Gray Gables, used these
words in private telegram to friend
here. after leaving Gray Gables:
Reeds Speech is the keynote.
The time has gone by for partisan~
ship. Tt is now question Of pa
triotism."
Does this mean that Cleveland and
Dickinson mean to support Mckinley?
1t is so interpreted here. Prominent
officials decline to be interviewed.
The attempt of the gold men and
Republicans to make big thing out Of
Senator Jones' interviews, the objec-
= I, Il Of iah ha ofATI Kg
repudiated, fell fiat to-day. The word
OF the Arkansas Senator has never
been questioned by any man of any
party, and POpulists as well as others,
who Yesterday were criticising Sena-
tor Jones, to-day are denouncing the
New York World. The saddest man in
Washington over the turn of affairs Is
Congressman Richmond Pearson.
When he first read the interview, the
mountain Congressman was yolublc.
He told his friends that he was going
to see that a copy OF the interview
was put in the hands of every Populist
in the State When he came to read
the denial, which everybody accepted,
it made Mr.. Pearson very sick at heart.
I'm speaking of the general status of
the campaign, Chairman Faulkner said
Yesterday Il am beginning to fear
that our opponets will force the issue
away from one on economic questions.
and make it an issue between corpora
tons and wealth on one hand, and the
poor people on the other; in short, a
class issue. That is the danger ahead,
when a class issue comes no one can
tell where il will lead. We have not
sought such an issue We have been
willing to discuss such an economic
question. But our opponents will not
discuss the silver question further
than to ridicule it, and assail it's OPP
ponents and now, by the organization
of their committees, they have made
their contest one essentially represen-
tatiye Of wealth and corporate infiu-
ence. As ] say, | regret to see that the
opposition is surely forcing this dan
gerous class issue to the front"
It is obvious at the Republican cam
paign headquarters that the literature
being sent out is almost altogether
snepches against free silver III is talk.