The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-30
LOSTA SENATOR.
here is Senator Pritchard?

for three hours in a Wilmington
sweat-box ON silver, Senator Jster c.
Pritchard preserves, on the unpent-
up mountain tops, a silence which is
golden
Since Senator Pritchard returned
| from St, Louis, rumor says that he
even absented himself for several days
from his neat little Office at Marshall
only two miles away. Senator Pritch-
ard doubtless knew that any man who
was trying to square the circle could
not afford to be distracted by such
rush of clients as lawyer Pritchard
has at Mitchell.
Now that Senator Butler has shaken
the Honeycutt huckle-berry dew from
himslf and spoken on silver, which is
a tenet of his party, why does not
| Senator Pritchard cleanse his lips ofthe
| black berry stains and come down out
| of the mountain, and tell the people
| something about the gold that is in
| the platform of his party?
VIII he not support his party? Is
| he trying to find way TO explain to
| the people how he can support Nc
| Kinley and a gold plank, and at the
same time consistently to sit in the
United States Senate and vote for
silver?
Or. going to the Senate, will he vote
| for silver? He expects fusion to take
place in some counties between Re
publicans and Populists to an extent
sufficient to re-elect him to the Senate.
Can any Populist enter into any such
fusion unless Senator Pritchard
promise to stand for silver? and he
should be made to write a copper
fastened j. j. Mott ''sign-the-pledge,"
before self-respecting silver men sup
port him for any office within the gift
of this people who are sincerely and
| not merely professedly for silver.
But without questioning Senator
Pritchard's sincerity, and taking him
to be a silver man up to the full meas
| ure of his vote in the convention, will
the restoration of party to power
whose chief aim, unless it be based
upon lie, is to stand upon an ultra
gold basis?
Will he talk silver TO North Caro-
| linians, as to himself, and be silent
touching gold, as to Mckinley? VIII
he rather try to make North Caro-
| inians think that the gold plank in
the platform is merely a piece of
| fricasse work, and that the tariff
is the chief end of man.? If he does
| this, it will be quite enough to get him
the ieers that such insolence will
merit, and such jeers that common
sense Tar-Heels know how to give
| when trifers would, for the sake OF
place, thus make mockery of their
most earnest convictions.
Finally, granting even that he
should be reelected, will he sit in the
United States Senate and vote for
silver, when his party stands for gold
and gold alone?
He said last winter that he was
forsooth for silver, but for silver
within the Republican party" VIII
he kindly now translate this declara-
ton of principles to the people?
Where is the Senator? Did he take
lessons in dumbness from that master
of Silence in Canton? He was an apt
scholar.
Come out from among the encir-
cling crags, and put your feet on
earth where the people are wrestling
with one of the greatest problems
since the slavery question. You are
their Senator; come and bring the
good tidings of great joy that you
bear.
Senator Butler is three hours ahead
of you. Make tracks down the
mountain and catch up with him, and
tell him what you want him to fuse
with.
AT any rate. speak, speak, only a
word. Send up a shout that will go
winding along the gorge in order to
let the people know that life is not ex-
tinct.
Companion-piece of Butler, come
forth, let your tongue strike against
the bell of your heart and the people
will detect whether the music is silver
or gold.
For silence now is nothing less than
| brazen.
| Referring to the manly surrender of
| Col. Means in the convention, the
Petersburg Index-Appeal says: EEK
| peotations were disappointed, however,
y,-hap altar an advarCa vote 6uC5laod Of