The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-16
WILL RUSSELL COME DOWN
But Didn't We Get Mary
Ann 2" Said Pearson.
BUTLER SAYS wALsER WON'T DO
The Committee Were Unanimous in
Trying TO Get Russell to Come
Down, But the Fat Man
sat Down Hard.

Hotel Friday night and Saturday
morning. At the close of their so
called labers, a ''caIl, as printed below,
was issued, in which occurs this bra
zen bit of hypocrisy: In testimony OF
our good faaah with the Popullsts, we
accept on our ticket the candidates
named by the late Populist State con-
vention. whose names ill the vacancies
left over by us fer such purpose,
etc. As il the Populists had not gone
ahead and nominated their ticket With
out regard to the existence OF a Repuo-
lfcan party; as if the Populist party
put up Oliver H. Dockery to fill any
vacancy left by the Republicans, 1t
is all in harmony with the crlngln8
attibude of the Republicans who have
been hanging like mendleants ABOUT
the Park Hotel for the last ten days.
Let's see if Richmond Pearson can't
give some explanation of why Oliver ii.
Dockerv was accepted" Yesterday af-
ternoon in the Union station, Mr.. Pear
son was quoted by one of themosb
prominent men in the State as having
said:
But didn't we get Mary Ann (refer-
ring to Butler). We put on Doekery,
which he didn't expect, and beat him
at his own game"
To show the small stiffness of these
Republicans, if they We're simply ac-
cepting the names put up by the Pop
ulfsts, as a filler-in of their skeleton
ticket, why were they unanimous III
wishing Russell to come down. Every
one of them, according to the testl-
mony of one who was present, were IN
70 HnXyTl hjlt this
seated man of the surf said nay, nay
nothing but a convention could take
him down. and down he would not
come. and in the face of the wish and
Judgment of the committee that ne
should come down, a resolution was
nevertheless adopted saying, The will
not be withdrawn" Let's see later II
he will not be withdrawn.
This Russell will stay in the brush
with Guthrie and Watson on the
stump. and If he stays on 'tlie ticket
sixty days longer, nobody will know
he is there. So he will be frozen out
in that way, ii in no other way. lie
will come down, in spite oftheresolu-
ton, and so will Henderson, andthe
Populist ticket viii be accepted by
the Republicans as a whole and not TO
fill vacancies"
y
Did not Russell vince when Doel1ery
was accepted? He fought the accept
aneA of Docllerv. and did not Pritchard
saw to Russell: .'If I, who ana running
for the Senate. can stand having Dock
ery5 on the ticket as a strong rival can
didate, cannot you stand him, Mr. Rus
selI?. And Russef Welded only under
this argument Of the Republican Sena-
tor.
And, too, it may just happen that
these same Republicans may take
down Mr.. Walser before the dance IS
over. Senator Butler told Mr. Wal
ser. both Friday night and yesterday
morning, so Mr.. Walser is quoted by
one to whom he told it, that he Walser
would hove to come down; that his
letter printed in the News and 0bser-
yer of Friday morning proclaimed him
as unfit timber to be used by those of
Populist principles. Mr.. Walser has
said that he would vote for Mckinley.
When Mr.. Butler was confirmed in this
knowledge he saw that Walser would
not do, and so told him. No the Re
publican ticket will have several new
touches to make it tally with the tick
ct put up 10y the Populists.
Here is the Cali"
Rooms Republican State Executive
Committee,
Raleigh, N. c., Aug IS.
To the Republican voters of the State
of North Carolina:
A very important election involving
vital interest which concerns every
citizen in the State is upon us. In or
der to succeed it is necessary that the
utmost harmony should prevail every
where.
We still have to preserve the liberties
assured by our victory two years ago.
Fair elections, growing out of the UNI
restricted exercise of the suffrage,
accomplished by the joint action of the
State, cooperating together for that
purpose, should be maintained, and in
order to the maintenance the parties to
the agreement must keep up the CO.
operation on the same basis locally, at
least, as achieved SO glorious triumph
in 1894.
1t is therefore resolved by the State
Republican Executive Committee in
regular meeting assembled, that we
recommend to the Republican voters
of the State the necessity Of co-opera-
ton with the Populists in all the coun-
ties, where it e practicable, on the
legislative and county officers, with
the understanding that members of
the Legislature of both parties shall
support the nominee of the Republi-
can caucus for United States Senator,
so that each party shall have one
Senator in Congress, and to the end
that the State may be saved from the
Acknowledgement and misrule that
will result form Democratic ascendan-
cy, as it now exists in South Carolina,
and that the enactments of the last
Legislature in favor of popular free
dom be maintained.
We also urge the immediate organi-
cation of Mckinley and Russell clubs
in every precinct in the State, and that
they secure necessary literature to
ednnafa the honest yennanrv of the