The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-17
STRADDLER PRiTCHARC.
Says He viii Become a GoIdbug if Nc
Kinley Says So--He and Settle Not
Harmonious Gold Men Buying Dele

Harmonious Gold Men Buying Dele
gates.
St. Louis, Mo, June 10 Especial
to Baltimore Sun)-Senator Pritch-
ard, Of North Carolina, who came in to-
day, IS delegate-at-large, and months
ago announced that he was for Mckin-
ley for President The Senator, there-
fore, was made to feel at home at the
says he is as artently in favor of silver
as ever, and that from two-thirds to
three-foruths of the North Carolina
delegates talte the same view of the
money question.
1--WE made a free coinage fight in my
State" he said, when the Republicans
Democrats, and the sentiment for sill
yer in our section is strong in both
parties
Being asked what he proposed doing
in the event the convention adopts
straight out gold plank, Senator
Pritchard said: mo matter what that
plank may be, / shall abide by the ac-
tion of the convention. and it is safe to
state that all of the North Carnlinians
will do the same. While | am earnest
~ for silver, and believe that DIT would
be for the best interest of the country
To have 1T treated as literally as gold.
| do not think that money is the sole
issue before the country. The tariff
is equally as important, and there are
other issues to bind Republicans to-
gether in times like these"
Senator Pritchard further remarked
that he had conferred with number
of the silver representatives, and he
found most of them opposed to bolt
ing. He admitted, however, the air
was full of rumors of boiling, and it
would not surprise him if some of the
Western delegates should walk out of
the convention in the event the Eastern
men carried the convention for gold
Senator Pritchard and Congressman
Settle are not pulling together here.
Mr.. Settle is gold man, and is doing
all he can for that standard Pntchard
and Settle became cool toward each
other when the fight commenced in
North Crolina for the selection of dele
gates. The Mckinley adherents car
ried a majority of the districts, and
Settle could not be elected from his
own district
The leading colored man in the North
Carolina delegation is George II. White.
| and he is candidate for Congress in the
Second district, having recently been
| nominated He is a brother-in-law of ex-
Congressman Cheatham. who contest
| ed the seat of Woodland in the present
| House, but failed TO get if. White is
| working actively among the negro del
| egates to hold as many in line as posi-
| Die on the silver question He saws that
| 1t IS not an easy matter. The Eastern
| organizers for gold have influenced
| many to turn who came here talking
Tor SILVER and the double standard
Some of the silver men say that if rbev
| could hold the negro delegates in line
| from the South, Depew, Platt and
| Lodge would not be able to have gold
resolution passed by the convention.
| SENATOR TELLER WILL NOT GO
FOR GOLD.
Senator Teller said Yesterday:
see by the morning papers that
the indications point strongly to tbe
adoption of platform in favor of the
existing standard. The general opin-
ION appears to be that the word gold
is TO be omitted.
Il hardly thought that the men who
are engaged in the business of con-
structing financial planlxs would be 81
foolish as to believe they could omit
the word gold and declare for the ex-
listing standard, thereby making peo-
| Die believe fhnt IL
than declaration for the gold stand
| ard.
1T is a mere Juggling with words,
and the silver men would have very
much more respect for the gold men
il they came out for gold, instead of
meaning that and refusing to say so.
'NThe silver men in the convention
will not be misled by this construction
OF financial plank, nor will the neo-
pie at large misinterpret its true in
tent and purpose.
Nothing will satisfy the silver men
but clear-cut declaration for the
free coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
/. Until the situation has thoroughly
crystallized, and the silver men know
what they may expect, I, for one, do
not care to say anything further on
the subject"
COLONEL MCCLURE WILL BOLT.
Colonel Mcclure, the editor of the
Philadelphia Times, intimate friend of
Cleveland and the hacker of Mr.. liar
| rity, chairman of the National Demo
cratic committee, who is here as a
locker on, said publicly that if the
st. Louis convention declared in favor
of an out and out gold platform and
the Chicago convention pronounced
for free silver he personally and his
newspaper would support the ST. Louis
nominee. The gold men and the dele
gates are making the most Of the de-
| claration.
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