New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-17
NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
THERE WILL PROBABLY BE THREE
TICKETS IN THE FIELD.

SLIGHT PROSPECTS OF FUSION BETWEEN THE
REPUBLICANS AND PoPULIsTs UNLESS But
LER GETS OFF HIS HIGH HORSE
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TEIDrHE]
Washington Jun, ,6.-Unless Senator Butter, "ne
seems 70 hold the bulk of the North Carolina fopu'
lists in leash shall reverse his present programmes
there will be two tickets in the field IN that STATE
besides the Democratic The straght-out Repuph-
can leaders are doing all they can to hold Gown
tber more jealous writer's and takers for the ttne
being A Tribune correspondent has learned on tne
authority of one OF the most Trustworthy anu ~"
tellisent of the Democratic silver leaders IN 'ns
Senate that Senator Teller has recently sald 70 I'm
that the silver Senators would be pleased Win inc
nomination of Ex-Governor Boies. Of Iowa, oy the
Democrats: that the silver States did tdesre tne
nomination for themselves. and that they would %
content with Boies. This Information. which seen.
10 tally with chat received from otner sources
shows when applied to the stuaton IN North NafO
lima that the Republicans cannot be sure what t"cy
will do on the State and legislative tickets uh.''
they see what the Populists are going TO DO on inc
electoral ticket II the Democrats nominate boies
on a straight free-coinage platform and the Teiier
Republicans Join hands with them, the fopuns"
elsewhere than In North Carolina may also ran IN
line II So Buffers people will be In a nix II they
decline TO cooperate merely because the Democraue
State Convention refuses TO make deal with nu'
The world at large does not take Butter AZ M
own valuation But while he Is extremely bitter AZ
the Democrats for rejecting his alliance ana asserts
in his newspaper that 1t was the Popuist party "c"
spurned Democratic overtures he really mas no love
for the Republican party beyond what 1t may con-
na, IN Mn, How much is that? North Carolina
Republicans say that they cannot yield everything
IN order to keep out the Democrats Tnat wo"'u
merely be- they declare. the substitution OF ono
anti Republican gang for another. and even II nA'i
the places OH the State ticket are yielded 70 'hs
Republican party and the whole or greater part OF
the electoral ticket surrendered to the Popuiists'
how much solid advantage is in that for the ne
publicans? Letters received here from Repupi'cahs
of prominence in North Carolina show tha' the de-
termination to withdraw the electoral ticket IS not
we'll received. They also show that the lec'ns
against the candidate for Governor because ne %
longs 10 the wing desiring concede TOO much v
the Popus;s is on the increase ,h., N. cor.
An intelligent coored man declares that tne III T,
venr,on OF his race to assemble in Raleigh on July
will be large and representative one smu ' ta,e
m eomes from Raleigh conrmatory Of wha, was
in these y pss Rnsss Tns 70
Draw Major william A. Guthrie the Popml;s 81
ayoTe for the ksa fG Sv Tribune
spodn wha he had to say n your seorepond
p0rts more he gtR San knew knew is f your
He had heard that the plan Of the sysr PATTY ana
poSPs sa @af The 20 from ac:e
that nomnaton. 1t news indeed i ss enaspf
oes Major ' Guthrie expressed great doubt as II
did not tally with his information wncn was nc,
however, derived personally from ne C 3isr
senator Until after the conventions Major Gden,Ae
thought nothing positive could be predicted as 70 tns
action OF the voters Of North Carolina and perhaps
n is ascertained that the Republican opposition 70
Judge Russell l. personal to large extent, ana tnat
~ Tho alleged plan Of substituting Guthrie for him
could be effected and involve the sacrifice OF the
electoral ticket many OF the anti, Hepun oH
cans n not most OF them, would be reconce1
Otherwise there IS going TO be straight ticket. Az
the while the Republicans OF North Carolina pave
been wiling 10 concede a great dea. to the Popusts
on State and local matters What they refuse to 40
Ia "a slrrender the electora. ticket. Butter. driven
into hole by the failure Of his programme Tor the
disruption OF the Democratic party IN me sac S,
nominate Guthrie's brother-n-aw the weetny
tobacco manufacturer Julian s. Carr for governor
NAV be willing 70 come down from his high horse
and agree to some arrangement by which there snaI
be Republican Popuiist cooperation only on ssase
tIckets but he prefers the Republicans TO the Demo-
Gratis.