The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-06
MIR. STROWD is FURTHER EN-
HEIGHTENED.

in which the Senator said he stood on
the Republican platform. Here is what
/ that platform said:
+, "The Republican party is unre-
: servedly for sound money. IL
I caused the enactment OF the law
/ providing for the resumption OF
! specie payments in 1879; since then
! every dollar has been as good as
! gold.
eve are unalterably opposed to
! every measure calculated to debase
| our currency or impair the credit
| of country. We are, therefore,
! OPPOSED TO THE FREE COIN
AGE OF SILVER except by inter
| national agreement with the lead
! ino commercial nations of the
! world. which we pledge ourselves
| to nromote, and until such agree
ment can be obtained THE EXIST
ING GOLD STANARD MUST BE
PRESERVED. All our silver and
paper currency must be maintain
ed at parity with gold, and we
favor all measures designed to
maintain inviolably the obliga-
tions of the United States and all
our money, whether coin or pa
per, at the present standard of the
most enlightened nations of the
earth"
In Mars Hill, at Republican rally
on the goth of September, Senator
Pritchard reiterated the statement that
he stood "squarely on the Republican
platform" and added this incorrect
statement: THAT platform is the same
IL has always been" AS a matter of
fact. Senator Pritchard knows that
never before this year did the Repub-
leans declare in favor of maintaining
1.-THE present gold standard"
But, if Mr.. Strowd will not accept
Mr.. Pritchard's own statement that he
is in favor of maintaining the present
gold standard" until England viii help
us let go, perhaps he will accept the
opinion of his own candidate for Gov
ernor, Maj VIM. A. Guthrie, who said
at Rutherfordton:
81 warn you to be careful who
YOU vote for to 60 to the Legisla-
ture. Vote for no man until he
pledges you that he will not vote
for Jeter Pritchard, or any other
gold bug, for the United States
Senate"
Here the chosen leader of the Popu-
list party in the campaign declares that
| Pritchard is a gold bug, and being a
gold bug, he warns Populists to vote for
no candidate for the Legislature who
viii vote for him ''or any other gold
bug" In doing so, Maj. Guthrie but
re-echoes the editorials that appeared
in the Caucasian on April End, and
| April 10th, of this year. On the 2nd
of April, the Caucasian said:
Senator Pritchard says that his
course in the Senate has parallel
ed Senator Buffers on the great
| and vital question of financial re-
FORM We trust that Senator
Pritchard will hold out faithful to
the end, and that his course will
| continue to parallel Senator But
ler's on this and other great ques-
tions of vital Importance to the
people. IF HE DOES HE WILL
NEVER VOTE FOR A GOLD BUG
FOR PRESIDENT"
Senator Pritchard is not only de-
| claring that he will vote for gold bug
for President, but is defending the
single gold standard platform. Again
on April 10th, the Caucasian said:
Senator Pritchard declared for
free silver at the time of his cleo
ton to the United States Senate
4, x,~N4a1 fOrs
since his election; and it was only
when he expressed his intention
(by action) of repudiating his
principles, if his party required 1T,
that there was any suggestion OF
his possibly having a successor who
would stand firmly in his place.
1.-THE way is clear for Senator
Pritchard to continue to receive
the support of the Peoples party
| He has only to choose that way it
he wants the support. He has the
| option of choosing between Pop
| ulist support in North Carolina and
| gold bug support from Wall street.
| Let him choose this day whom he
will serve"
| Senator Pritchard has openly chosen
''gold bug support from Wall street"
and is trying also to secure ''Populist
support in North Carolina" thus COM
pelling the lion and the lamb to lie
| down together, with the lamb inside
the lion. If reports are true Mr..
| Strowd is willing to aid Wall street in
returning Mr.. Pritchard to the Senate,
| if Mr.. Pritchard and Wall street will
aid Mr.. Strowd in getting back to Con-
| gress. 1T cannot be that Mr.. Strowd
| win be willing to be a party to such
d scheme when he is acquainted with
Pritchard's position. Every public
| utterance he has ever made makes it
certain that he will join Maj. Guthrie
| in dehouncing Pritchard as soon as he
is made acquainted with the truth. He
must do this or repudiate the position
he has Heretofore taken.
THE NEXT HOUSE.