The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
PEN POINTS POLITICAL.

PEN POINTS POLITICAL.
WHAT HONEST Pc 7ULlSTS SAY
OF VOTING FOR GOLD BUGS.
VINO Paid for Ohio Wilson'S Train
When He Went TO Carteret to Fuse
on Pritchard's Private Secre-
taryq--!tems from the Field.
Mai Guthrie warned his constitu-
ente NOT to vote for any man for the
Temielatl1re who would vote to return
MT I q Pritchard to the U. S. Senate,
or any other gold bug, for, if they dld,
tbey would stuItify themselyes.-Waf-
renton Record.
Hon. A. G. Cowles, of Statesville,
father OF the great l Am Andy CoWles,
the little fellow that spoke here
Thursday night, who has always been
a full-fedged Republican, has come
out denouncing all utilization with ms
former party and declares himself AN
advocate OF free silver and Bryan
Concord Standard.
The Gastonia Gazette says: III the
rest of the district is in the condition
of CASTOR, Linney is already over
thrown" When Doughton had finish
ed speaking at Horis's store, many
Populists, including Moses Stroup,
Populist candidate for the House,
openly declared they would support
Doughton.
Mr.. NJ. t. II. PEBBLES, of this county,
who has been in Johnston county, this
week, says that the campaign is pro
pressing finely in Johnston. The best
speech / have heard in years was the
speech of Sheriff Ellington in Cleye-
land township. He carried the crowd
with him. The negroes have drawn
the color line and the white people are
coming together for good government.
The county canvass in Wake is pro
crossing finely. Of the speaking at
Hutchinson's store friend writes:
I'VE had a large crowd and the people
were well pleased. The outlook for
carrying Wake gets better every day.
10 Rogers, Fusion candidate for Regis
ter of Deeds, was heard to say few
days ago: Eve have nobody to hear us.
If this does not change, the whole fu-
sion ticket win be defeated
Say, white mani Did you see the
parade that followed Walser and Rey-
nolds, Republican speakers, from the
train Wednesday afternoon. 1t was
pitch black, except a few small white
dots. 1t was procession of negroes.
1t was Republican parade. The ne
groes are all on one side. The true
white men should all be on the other
side. What side are you on? If you
are Populist can you stomach fusion
with such crowd ?-Kinston Free
Press.
1.-THE enormous registration of I'M
qualified negro voters is the founda-
ton of Chairman Holton's hope that
North Carolina will go for Mckinley.
So says the New York World CORES
ponent. There is very large regis
tration of imported illegal voters, and
Mr. Creelman is correct in saying
that this is the foundation of Repub-
lican hopes. But the negro registra-
+ JiOIl IL 1lOl 81 as bitG
claim. The white people have a large
majority, and Russell viii be defeated
if they do their duty.
The Populists of Arson put negro
on their ticket, and now comes Mr..
Jno. S. Myers, the Populist chairman
saying that he was opposed to it, that
it was done when a quorum was not
Al 4. l.
upon the voters OF the party. In his
card in the Intelligencer, he says:
81 say again, as have said before.
| will not, under any arrangement,
support gold bug. believe the way
to kill gold bugs is to fight them
wherever you find them, from the
least to the greatest
Holton, Republican ehairnSm, S.
0tho Wilson, Populist district chair
man, and Col. Harry Skinner, Fusion
candidate for Congress from the First
district, had conference at the Park
Hotel Friday night. They wear a
confident air, but are greatly disturb
ed and badly frightened. Skinner
says that Lucas is the hardest man
to meet on the stump in the State.
and admits that he gives him all he
wants. He talks confidently of his
election, but the gains Lucas is maxi
ing caused him to come to Raleigh
to beg Holton to see to it that the
negroes vote for him solidly. In some
counties he will lose some negro votes
unless the Radical leaders crack the
whip ovr their heads. He knows he
will make losses in the Populist vote,
because they have lost the enthusiasm
they manifested two years ago. 1t is
fhis loss of enthusiasm among the