The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-09-01

himself as GIN nowise having abandoned
Republican principles; he stands with
Teller and Congressman Towne, saying
that consistency alone forced him to
on the freesilverStateR Republican
platform of two years ago, ON Whlch
pritchard and Pearson have for some
reason best known to themselves, so
suddenly turned their backs in favor
of the gold standard He refers to the
Republican National platform of 1888,
which denounced the Democrats be-
cause. as was alleged, they favored the
decentralization of silver" Now that
fine Republicans have repudiated their
pledges, Col Doclxery repudiates them.
I'm this connection. may be mentioned
report made by a Republican Con-
g,,ess i'm 1876. The whole report bris-
ties with arguments against the gold
standard, and prediction that the
gold standard would do just what the
free silver forces now claim it has done,
| take at random from the report, sec.
Z DIT was all printed in the News and
Observer of July 30th), which is as
follows: ''To propose to this county
contest for a gold standard with the
European nations, is to propose to 1T
disastrous race, in reducing the price
of labor and commodities, in aggrayat~
ing the burdens of debt, and in the di-
minuuion and concentration of wealth,
in which all the contestants viii suffer
immeasureably, and the victors even
more than the vanquished."
haven't room for more of
this report. But this much is
| said to show the consistency claimed
by Col. Dockery for his present posi-
4 4 a -
publcanS were listening for the old
mans deIiverance! News comes here
| to-day that as early as Saturday night,
Pearson, Pritchard. and Setle had
met at Salisbury where they together
boarded the train nominally for Wash
ington There they will doubtless
meet Hanna's agent, but if they do
| not, they will doubtless keep on TO
New York. Just why Pearson goes on
all these jaunts is something hard to
explain. | wonder if Pearson thinks
he is taken seriously outside Of the
expenses" he puts into a campaign
even by his own party How he nearly
tumbled over himself coming down
the steps at Raleigh saying as how he
| had put the Populists in a hole. And
now Dockery splits on their nomination
saying ''it will be late in the day be
fore / will accept it." No, Pearson
simply wants to be a big boy in school.
He should not deceive himself into
thinking that everybody don't know
| this. He is only piece of fricasse
work in the party. He must be fright
ened to death in his own district right
now. Does anybody know where he
stands? win he dare say that he will
vote for the free coinage of silver if
elected? And yet he is cringingly go
ing about here and there in other
districts asking for help. He has ask
ed Skinner for help. Has he not asked
| Cy. Thompson and Martin, too? This
anti-free silver candidate actually beg
cling PopulistS in other districts
PopuliSts whose heartbeat is free
silver-to come to his relief, though he
knows, if his speech at Henderson,
vile speaks his sentiments, that he
Is against free coinage of silver, for he
| said so there in so many words. But
the Populists in the 9Th District have
not endorsed him, and they will not.
Oh, no! Had Colonel Dockery been
less than a lightning-change artist
he could not have kept up with the
gold Republican procession. In
| night one might say, and Presto, al
L
| Prtchard, all repudiating free silver.
Why so sudden? People would like
| TO know the cause of their quick con-
version Had not Pearson and Pritch-
ard had a private conference with
Mark Hanna, and do they not know
| that Mark Hanna is reliably quoted as
| having said to them that it must be
gold and nothing else?
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But about some more things here
abouts. Young Mr.. Leak, who has just
| received the nomination for the Legis-
| lature, is one of the strongest young
men i'm the county OF course, Raleigh
| will miss Mr.. Robinson, who left such
a fine impression at THE Capital dur
| ing the last General Assembly. But
| am told that he absolutely declined
a denomination and is working as hard
| for Mr.. Leak as he would for himself
| Mr.. Leak is young man of means, and
of family known and loved among
these people. He hasn't an enemy in
the county, and me knowing ones say
he is certainly going to be elected. He
has fine business qualifications and
| is good speaker as well.
On Saturday just after the Dockery-
Guthrie speaking, Republican county
convention was held in the courthouse
| here. While this convention was in
progress, a committee of the Populists
were in the back room. They came in
| with propositions of fusion, and this
| is what started the fun. To be short,
none of the propositions were accepted,
and the Republican convention broke
up having done nothing more than
to divide up into two factions. One of
these factions was lead by the negro
editor Hargrave, who is smart and
no mistake. He ran the meeting, Civ
ing the chairman little chance to say
anything at all. He was
against silver and fusion, say
| ing that he was a true and
| tried Republican, and wanted to hold
later meeting into which only true
| and tried Republicans would be adj
| mitted. Hargrave was opposed by q
| ,,aorro papoa1 Chg.iStair who came to