The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-12
AGAINST GOLD-BUGS
Senator Butler Proclaims War
on Pritchard.
HOLTON'S ABSURD CLAIM
mo Populists Will Vote For a
Gold Man For Senator"
IOLTON'S ABSURD CLAIM
CONTROL OF SENATE AT STAKE
The Action of the North Carolina Legis-
Iature viii Determine Whether the
Gold or the Silver Men Con
troll the Next Senate.
troll the Next Senate,

Yesterdays Caucasian contained two
editorials, evidently written by Senator
Butler, on the Senatorial question that
will be read with interest all over North
Carolina. We give them in full below:
WILL THE GOLDBUGS CAPTURE
THE u. s SENATE?
Now, since the smoke of the National
campaign has cleared away, it is evil
dent that the gold men were not only
determined to elect Mckinley and a
gold House, but that they have made
desperate efforts to capture the Senate
also.
For the last few years the United
States Senate has been the only protec-
ton of the people against further schemes
and designs of the gold men and monop-
olists. The anti-bond bill and free coin
age bill both passed the Senate last ses-
sion by a majority of seven. The supreme
effort of the gold men has been put for
ward to wipe out this majority. To ac-
complish this they have centered their
| forces, and spent more money in small
State like North Dakota which has only
| three electoral votes, than they have in
other States that have three times as
many electoral votes. Their purpose was,
| Of course, to get a gold Senator from
| North Dakota. The same thing is true Of
South Dakota, another small State.
The remarkable and tremendous eff
forts which they put forward in Indiana
was equally directed toward capturing
the Legislature as well as the electoral
vote, for in that State the term of the
free silver Senator expires. They sue.
ceeded, and gold Senator will be elect
ed there
In Delaware and Kentucky Republi-
cans have been instructed from headquar
tiers to vote in the Legislatures for gold
Democrat for Senator, in order to get
the cooperation of few gold Democratic
members of the Legislature in those
States.
The gold men now claim that they win
have one majority in the next United
| States Senate, and if they get a gold
Senator from North Carolina, which they
are claiming, they will have captured
the last bulwark of the people.
Mark Hanna has already arranged to
keep open Republican headquarters in
New York until after the various Legis-
latures have met and elected Senator's
On last Friday night he had conference
est men in America, composed OF gold
Democrats and gold Republicans, includ-
ing J. Pierpont Morgan, the American
agent and representative Of the Roths-
childs of England 1t is reported that
he laid before them his plans for captur-
ing the Senate, and that they promised
him the money he needed for this pur-
pose,
We do not believe that their scheme
can succeed with the Legislature Of
North Carolina, unless there are enough
gold Democrats elected to the Legisla-
ture to join in with the Republicans for
this purpose, as they have arranged to do
in Kentucky and Delaware. Or one
thing we feel sure, and that is that they
cannot control the vote of single Pop
| ulist member of the Legislature. But let
every citizen of North Carolina realize
the tremendous issue at stake. 1t is
| not question of how much money would
be used to capture gold Senator from
| North Carolina. 1t is q question Of
whether any member of the Legislature
can be tempered with or not, for the
amount of money that the gold combine
would use is unlimited.
| Let every North Carolinian fully re-
| alize that the action OF the North Caro-
| lima Legislature determines wheth-
er the people will control the
| United States Senate or wheth-
er the gold combine shall control
| it. If the gold men get the Senate, then
| they will have full possession Of every
branch of our government. A gold Sen
| ator from. North Carolina gives the gold
combine one majority; a silver Senator
! from North Carolina gives the people
one majority in the Senate.
Which shall it be?
HOLTON's ABSURD CLAIM.
We notice that Chairman Holton, of
the Republican State committee, is quot
ed as saying that he had twelve Populist
| members of the Legislature pledged to
support a Republican gold man for the
| Senate; and when further questioned
as to whether or not he had enough of
| them to elect gold man, he is reported
to have said that he looked after that
| and fixed it during the campaign. We
| cannot believe that Chairman Holton is
correctly reported, for such a statement
| is absurd, not to say an insult to every
| Populist member OF the Legislature.
| While the Peoples party has co-operated
with the Republican party in this cam
paign on State and local matters, yet,
| it has not surrendered to the Republican
party, and, more than that, we do not
| believe that single member of the
party is pledged or mortgaged to the
| Republicans.
While there has been some difference OF
| opinion among Populists as to the best
methods in this campaign, yet the Peo-
pies party has always been united and
| solid on one thing; and that is no mem
Der of the party would vote for gold
man for the United States Senate. This
the Republicans have been fairly told,
and have clearly understood all the time.
In fact, the Peoples party would have
had the Governor in this cooperation
had our party been willing to support a
Republican goldbug for the Senate. That
was the condition, and the only one on