The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-27
AMONG THE DEMOCRATS
He Is in Favor of Free Silver
and Low Tariff.
BUTLER AND HIS BOND BILL
The Owner of the New York journal
MAY Buy Up a Number of the
Leading Southern Daily
Papers.
News and Observer Bureau,
Metropolitan Hotel,
Washington, ID. G, May

"A member Ult taiId
a prominent member too, talking yes
terday to North Carolina Democratic
Congressman, said that though he was
"a gold man, he yet did not hesitate to
saw that the Convention at Chicago
would be controlled by the silver men,
and that Teller was the logical man.
1t was noted that Teller had announc-
ed in one of his speeches that he was
against high protective tariff and
that he would have voted against the
Mckinney bill had he not, in his zeal for
silver, consented to vote for it. More
over, Mr.. Teller had said i'm another
speech that the Force bill was the most
disgracefdl measure that had ever
crossed the threshold of the Senate.
Mir. Hill. AN official in the land office of
Illinois, and brother of Congressman
HIT, is here and said yesterday that
Teller would carry every Republican
in Illinois. Senator Dubois said yes
terday that if the Democrats did not
nominate Teller, they would lose one
of the greatest opportunities they ever
had and the one they had now Such
is some of the fotsam and jetsam talk
that draws attention to the Teller
trend. In thus mentioning him here,
there is, of course, no advocacy or non
advocacy of him but simply an attempt
10 give a glimpse of the panorama of
public opinion as it passes.
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The Virginia people here grow more
red-hot touching the vote of Martin, of
Virginia, to take up the Butler Bond
bill. 1t was taken up by a vote of 20
to p and thus Martins negative vote
would have made it a tie. The Demo
Gratis of Richmond are trying to imag-
inc a reason for Martins vote, and be-
lieve that he will yet be recorded
against the bin when it comes up for
final passage. BY the bye, Senator
Aldrich stated yesterday that Ire
thought the gold men would by strenu-
Gus effort yet defeat the bills They
say that not every one of the silver
men are for it and cite Wilson. of
Washington, who changed his vote as
partly proving this proposition and
HIT is quoted as having said yesterday
that the vote upon the bill by no means
tested mans loyalty to silver, but
that the bill involved reputation. This
notion of reputation is the one that
is now beng issued to defeat the meas
ure. At any rate, it is likely that But
Ter Will have a harder road to travel
than was expected from his first vote
of "a to 20. And he is not altogether
biameless in the matter, not because
he has not been in dead earnest. but be-
cause he has permitted himself
TO be bamboozled and outpointed in
stead of acting upon his own iudg-
ment. For example, yesterday, at 2
o'clock, when his bill came up as un-
finished business, Hale, of Maine.
asked him TO give way for one hour
and half in order to let the General
Deficiency bill TO be gotten out of the
way. Hale kept on until o'clock.
when Butler rose and addressed the
chair in an unheard voice. German,
the slick trickster, rushed down to- |
ward the front and moved quickly to
adjourn, and Butler was left high and |
dry. He has lacked the pertinacity |
and "reminiscences of, say Dubois. and |
has been too much after the yielding |
order of PETER. He will have to adopt |
the stiff tactics of Allen, of Nebraska. |
if he wants to hold his own against |
such clique as Hill and Hale and |
Frye, and Allison and Chandler and |
Aldrich and the rest, who laugh in |
their sleeves at him, while they caiole |
him away from his bearings by |
smooth words.
The report of elections committee |
No 3, in the case of Martin VS. Lock |
hart, was yesterday presented and or
dered printed.
There is rumor here that w. r. |
Hearst, the proprietor of the New |
York Journal and the San Francisco |
Examiner, is trying to get control of |
either the Washington Post or the |
Washington Times, and the rumor
goes further and says that Mr.. Hearst |
wishes SO to enlarge his syndicate as
TO include a number of papers in
Southern towns.
The mention of Col. r. NJ Douglass
as a delegate to the National conyen-
ton was an oversight, and was in
tended, of course, in no way to reflect |
upon the high personal character of
that gentleman, but simply to show
that the Republicans were not doing
as fairly by the Populists as the Popu-
lists did by them.
The copy of telegram which Repre-
sentative Sulloway, the tall New
Hampshire member, recently sent to
a Manchester widow whose pension |
was vetoed by the President, has been |
going the rounds OF the House. 1t
reads:
az regret TO inform you that Mr..
Cleveland has returned the bill grant
ing you a pension. In a Christian
spirit and desire to create within him a
spark of patriotism | wish, for fhe re-
mainder of his life, he might receive |
such treatment and rations as our sol |
diers had at Andersonville,"
\ n
Mr.. f. L. Wright, OF Halifax. and
bride are here for few days and are
stopping at the National.
Major W. A. Guthrie returned home
last night.
Marshall Mott is in town.
Col. Douglass is here in the interest
of the Guilford Battle Ground, trying
- o. a..