The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-31
Senate Floor and Gallery Crowd
ed to Hear Him.
SARCASM WAS HIS WEAPON
Many Of His Expressions AL
most Communistic.
ONE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
Pritchard Says he is Silver Man But
That he is Silver Man on
Republican Lines
Only.

Washington, Jan. 30 Especially
Senator Pritchard seemed surprised
yesterday when / told him about the
high jinks" that had been kicked ,lp
in the Fusion ranks, the last day or
two, and said his personal relations
with Mr. Butler were the most pleas
ant and were entirely unchanged; that
he was still in favor of Fusion from
top to township constable, believing
that half of the electors should vote
for the Republican nominee, and half
for the Populist nominee for the pres
idency; that he was for silver-but for
silver within Republican lines; and
indeed that he had received letters
from the ajority of the members of
the State Republican Executive Com
mittee endorsing him as to electoral
fusion; that he received many letters
from others, also, expressing similar
endorsement. All this in fairness to
Senator Pritchard to whom | do not
wish to do injustice. But the fact
remains that he has been exceedingly
blind to the signs of the times, of late,
if he has not caught a glimpse of the
House of Refuge, that Mott was
building for himself during his stay
in Washington. Can it be possible that
Mr.. Butler has not had time to am
prise Mr.. Pritchard of his new friend
ship for Mott? He will learn of it lat
er. Moreover he will learn of a line
drawn more distinctly than ever be-
tween Mott and the stalwarts repre-
scented by Boyd-Settle-Holton and
Company / told Mr.. Pritchard that it
was possible that in this new silver al
lance with Mott, Butler might say that
he (Pritchard) had not gone far e.
nough for silver, and it was in reply
to this that he said he was silver
man but a silver man within Republi-
can lines only.
The galleries began filling early 10
hear Tillman yesterday. All the Sena-
tors nearly were in their seats. The
South Carolinian added nothing to the
argument for silver; his speech was
venomous arrangement of Cleveland
after running over into expressions
that were almost communistic. He
was sometimes filthy in his language.
always trenchant, sometimes academic
in seeming attempts at extemporan-
eous wit, but oftener mature in shrewd
thrusts. Some said he was full of him
self; it may have been so; he did not
so appear to me, unless it were that
he seemed to gloat over the power to
appear in the well-ordered china-shop
of Senatorial courtesies, with the
capers of prairie bull. Hill enjoyed
all the china-breaking antics. and
laughed with much zest when Till
mans sarcasm would reach in that Iii
rection. And just here, the sarcasm
L., I.rssit linn
weapon. Sometimes it almost carried
a shiyer. Then Vest did his
laughing when one member of
the Supreme Court was accused
of corruption apparently" the
very charge that Vest had made Ill
most adroit way in his recent speech;
and Vest was moved again, when, blue
with passion, Tillman threw himself
into the face of the Chamber, asking
if Cleveland had taken any of them in
to his counsels. Speak he exclaim-
ed, IF there be one among you" Then
the pause was full of dramatic effect.
And then a gentle smile of approval
went around. And the old Republicans
pricked up their ears approvingly
when the speaker shot forth his lurid
denunciations Of Cleveland for hay
ing issued over $500, 100000 Of bonds,
which he learned was to meet the de-
ficiency in revenue SO that the bitter
feeling of the Senate toward Cleveland,
and the pet passions Of the different
Senator's were played upon IN rapd
succession. Thus there was not mo-
ment when there was not close atten-
ton, and silence, and every available
place everywhere was taken. 1t was
a cruel leer, that upon the speaker 5 lace
as he walked to the seat in front, offer
ed him by Jones of Arkansas. 1T was
a face that seemed TO he full OF the
sense of oppression, of financial OPP
preston. of grievance against society
as he found it. Of brutal triumph in the
consciousness that he had brought de-
feat to the class that he hated most
in which were Wade Hampon and NJ. c.
Butler. His was a soul that was in
pandemonium. possessed at last of the
power to give vent to itself, and too
riotous with hate TO aim a cool we'll
directed blow Thus the explosion of
the man scattered as a flash from
dynamite bomb. If the devilishness of
the bomb was there, so was the bril-
lance And when old man Vest would
sometimes shake up and down with a
laughter as vicious as was the cause
which prompted it, he would look in
yitingly at German, sitting next to him
expecting the Maryland statesman to
Join But German did not move a
feature in his face of marble once dur
ing the whole harangue, with all his
defeat upon him. The speaker was
dressed in plain black, with pants
baggy and too short, and he paused
on first rising to button up his Prince
Albert, which he did in a slovenly
way and imperfectly. His head is
well shaped. head of dogged-shape,
not unsuggestiye of finer grades OF in
teiiect, either. In fact, strange to say,
it is an intellectual head of literary
shape, but the muscles around the chin
are fairly knotted in twists almost
wiry with animal resolution. a clean
cut face withal, ill-omened by the loss
of an eve, reckless somewhat in the
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