The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-19
THE wouLD-BE GOVERNOR
Nomination Secured by Fraud
and Corruption.
COMMENTS OF THgsTATE PRESS
A;s Violent and vindctive Tempera'
nent Makes Him Altogether I'm
fit For the High Office
of Governor.

ondly, that there WOulu De- nIdd1J A.
sion between the two factions. as there
was two years ago. The Messenger
furthermore insisted that Russeli
would get there" He has got there,
but Just how is not yet known. 1t was
charged in the Jumbo meeting at Hal
eigh that he had bought up negroes
who were delegates. But he rs the can
didate. He is, by odds, the ablest man
in the party. He is very shreWd, oold'
aggressive, and not very popular any
where. 1t was because of that tact that
the Messenger all along has been 1aNor-
able to his nomination. 1t belaeyed MN
to be intellectually the ablest ana per-
sonally the weakest candidate that
could be nominated. He is not any
more of a denagogue than Dockery,
and has many times the sense. We are
very glad that the Colonel has not been
drawn from his farm and put forth as
a gubernatorial possibility. He is as
bitter. as hostile, as uncompromislng
radical as Russell is, for he never
put on record that he objected to or
protested against any of the yillainous
and high-handed outrages that We're
perpetrated in North Carolina by the
Black and Tan gang marshaled by the
scallawags and carpet-baggers
If Russell cannot be defeated there is
no other Republican of any promi-
Rence who cannot be elected. We roc
ognize fully his uncommon abilities,
his party management, his genius for
making the worse cause appear the
better, but compared as candidate
needing votes he is weak. IL the DEM
Gratis, aided by all good and true men
who would save North Carolina from
the ploughshare of ruin and the be
som of destruction" cannot whip out
Russell, they cannot defeat any other
man who might have been chosen.
Russell knows the need of fusion,
and In his speech in the Jumbo he
showed it. His election may probably
depend upon the Populist vote.
Can the Populists who believe in a
low tariff for revenue only support
Russell, who is high robber tax adyo-
cate, and showed his colors in his
speech?
Can the Populists who believe in sill
yer support the candidate of a party
that is red hot for gold and dead
against silver? IL Populists vote for
gold and robber tax candidates they
should take down their signs and pass
over into the arTns of the most vicious,
the most usurping, the most tyranni-
cal, tile most extrasagant, the most
veIisl party known to American poll
tics. In hoe signo they may say.-Wil-
mington Messenger.
- EASIEST MAN TO BEAT.
MANY Democrats have all the while
hoped that the Republicans would
nominate Russell for Governor. He is
so odious that they have felt that he
could be beaten more easily than any
one else. 1T may be SO, but at the same
time h,s would as Governor, be so dan
oerous to the peace Of the State that
the Observer would always rather
have CHANGED a stronger Republican, II
a better one. 1T is frank to say thai
ii would have preferred to see Dockery,
BOYD, Moody, or even IuslS nominated.
1t max be best. Russell will make a
campaign which will greatly infiame
his own party. especially the negroes.
While doing this, he will also greatly
infuriate the white people against
himself and his party. Thus ii may
be that he will prove an instrument in
the hands OF God to bring cur white
people together again and thus accom-
plish the complete redemption of the
State. But q summer of great bitter
ness is ahead of us and if the campaign
should unhappily, end in hhe election
Of this man as Governor, then, indeed,
will North Carolina be q good State to
move from.--Charlotte Observer.
COULD HAYH DONE no WORSE.
They could have done no worse. Had
they racked their brain and searched
the State over for the most violent,
Hi aTX fs3ina4C
character they could have made no Sc
lection nearer coming up to this meas
ure than that of Daniel /. Russell.
His life's history is made up of enmity,
hatred and prejudice. Malice is the
predominant element in the man 8
makeup. IT affords us no pleasure TO
speak thus of q man. no matter in
what party he has been chosen, who
aspires to stand at the head OF our
State. Rather would we that the Re
publicanS nominated some man OF be1r
ter qualities and elected him by a
crushing majority than to have even
Threatened the State with such dire
disaster as the candidacy Of Daniel j.,
Russell. Salisbury World.
A WEAK BUT DANGEROUS MAN.
After a stormy session of three days
replete with old-time scenes of 90
Judge Russell comes to the front az
the Republican nominee Of this good
old State OF North Carolina.
That he is q formidable candidate
cannot be denied, owing to the fusion
combination that is behind the alvey!
and now re-solidified Republican party
in the State.
That he is a vulnerable, reprehensl
BILE, weak candidate, is known OF al
men acquainted with the higtory ans
experiences of our commonwealth an'
her heroic citizens in those times tina
tried true mems souls" in the yicissi
4udes OF war, and in the passing OF th
dark days OF '68.
That Russell Us dangerous man +
epeyate to the highest executive ofiic
within the gift OF the people Of on
safe, his well known yindictive natnr
establishes at the outset. He ID q ma
of abiding resentfulness, and, whll
open in venting it upon those againi