The Charlotte Democrat., 1896-08-13

3Q2 rl pOpOIet, l4S,~
9oS: 'oS The democratic loss from 1894 10
1892 was l2.ss7; republic o loss 70 M S4o. p
total loss OF both parties 50 900 IT,
poPulist vote of 1892 was Al $40 and IN.
question 10, whence did il com.P The
oSmocratic loss from 1888 10 1894 "a.
zO,le3; the republican gain, ipcIudino
popuilsts, IA .3O8 It 10 broadly america
mat the republicans whom Senator But
ler appears to represent will 20 back to
t0e'r cid party and that he really repre-
oents sent only the prOportionate parts Of l2-
oe| OF the democratic loss which went 70
make up his AZ 7,840. THIS corroboratea
Waat some democrats say, aud HI.
| Grent OF the republican state committee
| 9eclares that Senator Butl.e dare not
nave count OF noses Of bis people this
year.
| Dr: J. J. Mott says it will assursdly bs
lound to be . grert mistake to believe
tnat the silver republicans in North Car.
0nne are going TO stick to the party,
Hs declares they will leave it, and re-
news bis assertion that there are NO manv
OF Them in this state as there are silver
Democrats. He hints more or less open.
ly that several members of the republican
state committee favor . silver ticket. He
says: Lot the opposition think that they
will lose very few votes to the silver
ticket. They will be deceived Some
years ago l advised the party to hold
aloof from the ticket then up, aud $4,000
did not vote.
Great pressure is being brought TO bear
| upon the silver republlcxns to keep them
| in line. In Beaufort county there 10 troub
ls, for the free silver idea has txkcu .
deep hold on the party. State Chairman
Holton has written . letter to ths chair.
&c An of that county saying that unIess
this free silver foolishnsss" which il
sweeping ovSr Beaufort 10 stopped tho will
allow no campaign funds 10 be sent there.
The Republican leaders are claiming
that their party j" 90 q rule perfectly in
hand for Mckinley. This they declare
10 particularly the caSa as to Mex lnley.
Yet queer things happen 60 far as the
Populists, such is their endorsement Of
Pritchard in Cleveland county, where
they fuse with the Republicans. AT their
county convention bers the populists g.
dopted D resolution thanking the repud.
licans for their aid in giving them SEN
ator Butler, and plSdging support.
A strenuous effort has been made to AS.
certain how the rural democratic popu.
liet votes stand on the fusion gu stion.
Populist delegates to their state conven>
tion from eleven c, uHtiSs said they offer.
| ed it. On tho other hand Rev. John e
White, tho ecretary of the Baptists board
of state missions who 10 visiting the va
rious associations of that church says he
finds the populi'ts and democrots in the
| piedmont section solidly united on silver,
| nearer together than they have been
since the war. The churches, he says,
have been rent aud torn by political dis.
.entions, but declares that eli ale now un.
nited on silver.
National popullse headquarters will be
at Washington, Senator Butler, national
chairman, informs MS. His committee
meets there next Tuesday.
DR.. J. J. Mott 10 very much in evidence
here this week. He tries to play god
father to the silver democrats. He said
Yesterday that if the "a, 600 anti-tusiOn
democrats said to be- in the state will not
'connubiste' wife the populists they can
20 and vote with the radicals" "Aud who,
| pray is this DR.. Mott, who advises dem.
ocrats what they shall do. What author
ity has he to speak for any Of IL en-? "raid
democrat to-day.
The republicans seem to be rather in.
cIined to make thiugS lively for Jim
| Young, the member of their State C0m-
mittse who has como out for Bryan. DR..
Mott says the silver republicans will be
snsaked out of their party
The work on the Baptist Female Uni
versity 10 not TO be resumed until spring.
The trustees decline to use borrowed
money.
The Democratic State headq uArters
here are in o large building. The sessions
of the committee last night and today
were held in the Senate Chamber.
Most of the revised lists of pensioners
have been received by the State Auditor.
The annual report Of the beauro of la.
Dor Statistics will be for the hrst time
complete this year, Mr.. LacY says. He,
ithis tim meets no obstacls in obtainin
full information regarding factories.
The States loss by the floods in the Ro-
anoke which ruined 50 many thousand
acres of cotton and corn ON the great pen.
itentiary farms 10 carefully estimated at
S65, 900. 1t 10 . severe blow and has Grip
pied ths penitsntisry badly.
There vas no little surprise At the
change Of the date Of the meeting of the
Republican State committee from today
to next Saturday. Some surmissd that
it was to give the Republicans the las,
whack at the PopulistS. But others cay
> it was to complete the Republican ticket
in case The Populisls declined TO fill the
places In it left for them.
Governor Carr returned today, with hia
family, after fortnight's absence.
The August Bulletin of the Agricultu-
raj Department will contain complete
list ali the manufactures in the State.
Nsreus C. English, the P0pulist> Ro'
D publican who in May was nominated fol
t Congress from this district, at this lat
1 dAv declines the nomination. The Re
v publican Committee met todsy to fill th'
vacancy.
Richmond Pearson has, it 10 said, bees
, trying to make deal 20 Republicans il
& | the 9Th. district will vote for Harry Skin
10 nsr for congress and Populsts in the 9Th
will vote for Pearson. He will 6nd it up
:. hill business getting Populist votes.
Winning Combination.