The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-20
TO FIGHT PRlTCHARD.
Meeting of Colored Leaders De-
clares For Dockery For
Senator.
The Russellites Deny They Have Black
Listed Dockery Men--North Carolina
Not Solid For Mckinley,

Not Solid For mckinley
letter Pritchard, Boss and Lord Pro- |
prietor Of the Republican party in
North Carolina, is on shalSy ground |
When one looks back at the late Repub- |
hcan convention, he sees that it was all
the handiwork of Pritchard-Prltch-I
ards platform, Pritchard's convention,
Pritchard's nominee. The wave of in
dignation that has followed the nomi-
nation of Russell is rolling ON up the
beach toward Pritchard.
The Dockery men look back upon 1t
all and see what paltry trick Prltch-
ard played them. Pritchard took eF-
erything i'm sight. He named Mchln-
ley delegates for st. Louis, engineered
the combine" made Marshall Mott
chairman, named Russell for Governor,
put through the convention the most
ambiguous financial straddle, and took
possession of the party organization;
he would be chairman to-day If he
could under the law Che is in all but
name).
One week ago Pritchard was the unan-
imous choice of his party for United
States Senator. He was endorsed by
the State convention before he showed
his hand.
To-day there are mutterings aginst
him that grow louder every day.
The supporters of Col. Oliver II.
Dockery are urging him for the Senate
in Pritohard's place. Col. DoclIery in
sists that he is not candidate, but that
cuts no ice with the men who are start
ing the fight on Pritchard.
A number of colored leaders met in
this city night before last, and resolved
that they would support no man for
the Legislature who will not pledge
himself to vote for Dockery for United
States Senator, to succeed Pritchard.
And the Dockery men are not the
only ones who protest against Pritch-
ards course. The free silver element
of the Republican party are saying
that Pritchard betrayed them in his
miserable straddle." The goldbug
sound money element is after him for
the same reason.
In fact, the straddle fools nobody
and pleases nobody. 1T was a combine
ton of the dodge and straddle, Ia
| Mckinley.
In one short week Pritchard has
''slubbered the gloss of his new for
tune" and endangered his political
future.
IS THERE A BLACKLIST?
The half ocular, half triumphant
remark of a Russell supporter that lit
Will be more tolerable for Sodom and
Gomorrah in the day of judgment
than for a Dockery man when Russell
gets to be Governor" stirred up both
factions yesterday. The mention of a
blacklist on which Russell had set
down the names of Dockery supporters
confirmed the suspicious Of the Dock
cry men. They put together the facts
in the case: That every Dockery sup
porter was turned down in the State
convention; that Chairman Holton was
shorn Of his power; that Tom Settle
was turned down, and that so far as
Russell and Pritchard were capable,
the Dockery men had been shut out OF
the party. They put it in their pipes
and smoked ii.
The Russell men were stirred an. be-
cause it would never do to frankly avow
any intention Of shutting out the Dock
cry people. They were trying to find
the man who stated things in such a
terse and taking way, and BLACKLIST
him.
Tom Bailey said: ''No friend Of Rus
sells could have stated that; the Dock
cry men are not black-listed There is
no blacklist, and never win be. You
can state that as coming from me-"
When Bailey says ''Yon can state
that as coming from me, the thing lis
settled right there.
The Russell men are bound to have
the Dockery votes, and they are afraid
the Docl1ery men viii see the trap, and
jump the game.
NOT SOLID FOR M'KINLEY.
II has been stated time and again that
this State viii send solid delegation to
st. Louis for Mckinley. There are
twenty two delegates from this State
to the Republican National convention,
and IN his latest estimate Mark Hanna
puts down only nineteen votes for Me-
Kinley. 1T is claimed that the anti
Mckinley men from this Stae are Mai.
w. IL. Martin and II. A. johnson, from
this (the Fourth Congressional dis
tFict, and Mr.. w. 7. O'Brien, of Dur
ham, from the Fifth Congressional dis
trict.
CAUCASIAN IN THE FASHION.
The Caucasian, Senator Buffers or
gan, will be in the fashion this week. |
In it's forthcoming issue Rule-or- Ruin |
Russell gets a roast that does not
sound as if he and Butler were com |
rades. Editor Aver sat on the plat |
form during the entire convention, and |
he writes the story of the disgracefuI |
proceedings. Russell must be getting /
used to the unanimous roast that has |
been given him since his nomination. |
But for Senator Buffers organ to pour
on the boiling water! EFT tn, Brute!"
as Caesar once shriekad
DIR. MONTAGUE QUITE I'LL.