The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-18
THE CLANS GATHERING
Interest In the Meeting Of The Rspuhli-
can State Committee Intense.
THEY WILL FUSE WITH THE %POpULlSTS.
Mckinley Ahead Four 40 0rc-Re-
publi"nns Will Take No Pledges
Republican state Chairman HIT
ton Interviewed Tile Vance aEonu-
mcnt IN Sow ON IL Boom.

Raleigh. N. c.. March 17.-(Special)-
RepublicanS of prominence are rapidly
arriving here and interest In the meet
ing Of their State Committee tomorrow
is intense. III. l.. Grant. who Is the right
hand man OF d. l.. Russell. arrived to-
day. He was interviewed and said:
"rherc will he total fusion with the
Populists. l know the rank and file of
that party favor this. The committee
Will tomorrow discuss the matter. or
Ills sixteen members, ten or eleven fla
vor 1t; that is. are for fusion on State
and electoral. MS well as local tickcts.
Mckinley is ahead III North Cnrolinu,
four to one. There is now really no
Reed sentiment now. Those who were
for Reed are now for Morton. The fight
really is on the line of anything to beat
Mckinley"
The Republicans will take no silver
pledges. see some papers say | have
attacked Senator Butler N charged
him with f%alsehood. This is untrue. /
have never made any charge of evasion
or politicai prevarication; have neither
thought such Il thing or given it utter
ance."
Senator Btuler in his Iapcr. the eau
casian, will tomorrow answer IL series
of questions asked by Populists. To
one. do o favor fusion with Demo-
Gratis" he replied, No" To another,
IF the Republicans can afford To vote
for six silver electors can we not af-
ford 10 vote for five gold-buE electors?"
he replied. NO" To the question:. IF
the Republicans do not agree to AN In
dependant cooperative electoral ticket
pledged not to vote for any gold man
for President, but il they will not agree
To this. had we not better accept their
terms" senator Butler replied: "low
can the Peoples Party advance its prin-
ciples by sacrificing them"
IL I - 4. yn N IL Snnn IN 1sp en- n I1nnun I'm
the committec-meeting. He makes an
attack on the Nash County Convention.
which declared for Dockery. and an
nounccS in advance hat there will be
contests in all the Eastern counties. In
other words. he make what the Dock
cry men constric as Il threat before the
convention meets.
:x-Chairlnan John y. Favis is here,
but declines 10 be interviewed.
w. II. Day was in conference with
some of the Republicans last night. He
says the true reason the Republicans
want fusion on the State ticket with
the Populists is because they fear that
the Democrats will again carry the East
ern countics-the negro. counties.
The Vance monument is on quite n
boom" just now. Both towns and
counties are int,vtNcd Rockingham
il Will give when Polk Miller gives his
recital there.
David l.. Russell was specially inter
view by Your CORES pondent. and said
regarding his prospect OF getting the Re
publican nomination for Governor: Il
Will get IL on the first ballot. ! give
Dockery and Boyd only 60 out of the o4O
in the convention, and some of the Boyd
men VIII not so to Dockery. 7 believe
there will be an electoral fusion between
the Populists and Republicans. The
whole hin is lining up into a fight
hE,u-nn, AIcIyinlaI. 1Drit cIa rj p,.-nll
and fusion ON the one side. and Reed.
Dockery, Hatton. Settle and no fusion
on the other
Republican State Chairman Hatton.
who Is here. says "Unqucstionably the
Republicans propose TO names the candi-
date for Governor. The friends of Dock
cry. Russell. and Boyd. are not fighting
a sham battle. We will take no silver
pledge. such as the Senator demands
we shall take. There will be State fusion
unless the Populist6 spurn the PROPOSE
tons our State committee makes. The
masses OF the Republicans favor this
cooperation. The populists have too
much at stake to decline it. There will
unuucstionably be no electoral fusion.
Neither the Republicans nor Populists
save very few want il, and the Populist
State Committee has declared aEaist II.
The nation regards the silver party as
a fourth party, and the Populists are not
ready to join it,"
Among to.day's arrivals here are Thos.
i. keogh. Of Greensboro; Claudius Dock
cry. of Rockingham; and =. II. Griffin.
Of Goldsboro.
Senator Pri.chard is expected to arrive
here tonight. He has engaged quarters
for himself and a party of his friends n,
the Park Hotel. He knows the fight Is
on TIVE him and the Dockery-uat-
ton-Set;lc combine. Pritchard is n de-
voted Russell man.
The Rpnl1hlirln ne a ~. n,irh ;,oo... -.
the Porulist demand hat the latter must
have the naming Of the g~ubernatoria
candidate on the fusion ticket. They say
many harsh things about Senator Butler
the originator of this scheme.
The general travelling agent OF the
Nirginian is here. Wherever he goes he
finds the Virginian popular, and sub
scribers arc easily obtained. The strength
of the papers foothold in North Carolina
Is plain.
There was no observance of st. Pa
tricks Day here. save the wearing Of
the green"
Bishop Rondthaler. OF Salem. NJ. C.
Is to preach the baccalaureate sermon at
the State University