The news & observer., 1896-12-27
REPUBLICAN PLAN.
THEY exPGcr r3 guy POPuLtST
SUPPORT W9Tf4 OFFICES.
They Araue That the Fopuists Will
Violate Their Principles For Of
fees will They Do 1t


! fees will They Do itP
u do not understand the new display
u confidence in Pritchard's election
which notice in you Republicans |
said TO well known Republican few
/ days ago. - :.
you will not give me away, ne repilea'
/ And here is his story
| 1--WE believed during the campaign that
I the Republicans alone would be aeie TO
control the House, ard that We would
have four more Republicans than we
have in the Senate. We knew that II
we controlled the House, no legislation
not satisfactory to us would be en-
acted and that we held the key to the
situation. Ii is all fudge 10 say the Pop
nHSt legislators were pledged 10 vote for
prjtchard Some of them gave halfway
nIedges. but we didn't depend on them.
We denended on holding The whipThandle
and the offices Well, when we found
that pritehard was gone 1nless we could
bait the populists with hig offices, we
nut the bait ON the hooks, and unless our
information is all wrong they have sWal~
lowed the bait, hook and MI.
How did we 10 it? That is just like
Democrat 10 ask such question. Why
we fennd out what twenty-five or the
easiest worked Populist nsJmbers wanted
and we promised TO give II 10 taea,
Wasn't that simple?
'tYou want examples? Well I'll give
you few. There is more than one Pop
urst doctor elected to tile Legislature.
We guessed that certain one OF them
wanted to be superintendent of the negro
insane hospital at Goldshoro To be
sure we knew that there would be three
, negro doctors demanding the place, but
neither of them has a vote in the leg
islature while the populist doctor has. 50
we promised him TO give him that JoD
at Goldsboro il he would help us elect
Pritchard. Did NE get him with that
bait? Wait and see. Then we found that
| one of them had his heart set ON having
his cousin appointed postmaster at Z
! certain town. 1t wasn't long before ne
was promised that the aforesaid cousin
should be thus taken care of. Another
wanted to be superintendent of the peni-
Tertiary In fact four wanted that job.
| Through different Republicans, each of
| the four was promised the place. There
! are six good places as stewards OF the
j public institutions. They get six votes
/ certain-perhaps more. There are four
| superintendents Of penitentiary farms.
/; They are good for at least four more
isvotes. There are two or three conductors
| On the a. and n. G.. Railroad-that means
| as many votes for Pritchard. There is
| the position of State Librarian, railroad
| directors, commissioner and Secretary
| of Agriculture. fertilizer inspectors, Rail-
| road Commissioner, Labor Commission
| er, as many judgeships as are necessary,
| and other State jobs on tap or to be Great
/ ed. Each one of these places will he
promised to a popuhst perhaps to more
/ than one) for his support of pritchard.
/ "Will we carry out the promises? Well,
| it is this way: the Senator will be elect
| ed before any legislation is enacted, or
| any other positions are filled. Mr.. Lea
| zar's and Mr.. Lacy's time does not ex-
! pire until February; Mr.. Beddingheld's s
! until April, and we will be careful to fill
! no other places until Pritchard is elected.
/ IL the Populists who make terms with
] us to vote for Pritchard, carry out their
| bargain in good faith. we win give them
! the places promised or something equal
! ly as good il they continue to stick to
US. But after Pritcllard is elected, they
| are ut our mercy. See? They will have
| to do as we say, and you may be sure
I that the jobs will go to those Popnlists
! who Will work for keeping up fusion
| with Republicans until the Populist par
! Is is fully swallowed by us.
! "Does Prtchard make these promises :?
| o, no. He just stays in Washington and
! his subordinates do all the work There
/ is no doubt he will carry out all their
trades that is If he is elected. He asks no
/ questions. His friends just go ahead
and make promises, and if they mater
| ialize the Populists who work hardest
| for Pritchard will get big plums those
who vote for him, get small pums; and
I those who oppose him, get nothing at
all"
Are we not afraid the Democrats will
make some arrangement with the Pop
ulists to defeat Pritchard and Republi-
can schemes? Not bit of it. The Dem
| ocrats havn't enough sense to do it.
Whenever Democrats think OF cooper
ating with Populists, they propose uni
ted action on the principle of free coin
age" They think the Popuhsts are earn
estly in favor Of free coinage We
thought so in a measure in 1894, and
co-operated partly on that understand
ing. We learned better afterwards, and
we would have nothing to do with Popu-
lists except on the basis of united action
ON the principle OF free offices for all
the politicians Of both parties" That is
to say, Democrats talk silver to Popu-
lists in the abstract we talk it to them
in the concrete. We base our claim of
electing Pritchard on the appetite of the
Populist leaders fer Office, and you will
see in January whether we have gauged
them right.
"You don't believe that promises of
big State and Federal offies will induce
the Populists to repudiate their princi-
pies and vote for Pritchard? Well, wait
and see. My opinion is that we Republi-
cans understand the Populist politician
better than you Democrats do. You
may get them against Pritchard il you
can promise them more than we can,
but as Mckinley is President they know