The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-28
HATTON INTERVIEWED
He 6iyes His ViGws on the Question Of Fu-
siOn Between Democrats and POpuliSts.
A MOVE TO FORCE THE REPUBLICANS

10 Accept Their EerntS-tIe Suys IL
is Now Strnggic Between the
Lenders of the Republican ana
PopuIist Parties for Supremacy
The Caseorn. r.. BALDWIN.
Raleigh. ~ c.. March 27.-(SpcciaD
Republican state Chairman Ha:ton was
here to-day tn attend the Supreme Cour:
and was interviewed specially in regard
10 :hc matter OF the fusion between
Populis5s and Democrats In Tyvrcll
county. IL. the FRS: District He showed
your correspondents the following le;-
ter. which he has written Congressman
Hairy Skinner. of ,hat district: II
sac rumors of fusion betWrcm Pupulis::s
and Democrats In TyrrCl county with
Indications on This same l:nc cropping
GU; in other counties IN YOUR district
l trust this is not with Your approval.
No doubs you can control your people
VI J. continues Ii VIII aiOusr our Re
publican friends and bring aholi. fric-
ton tina: will be hard to heal think
our people are willing 10 deal fairly
with the Populis.s. bat Your friends
must no: show Il disposition 10 form
an alliance with the Democrats and then
appeal 10 us for suppor;. call this To
Your attention, :ha. you may know the
situation and act a. Your Judgment
':iay advise" THIS let.c" bears date
March n, and is certainly an important
d"climen; a; this junc:urc.
Chairman llatton said 10 your CORE
s'tond"n;: II think this Is Il movement
of some of the PopulS;S leaders Ia force
our people in 10 their trlns. think
that now II Is Il struggle between III"
Republicans and populiSt parties for the
supremacy In the STATE. If Senator
Butler and his friends, lei 80 of their
81 N.,. i.sI
their party. they see they are failure.
senator Butler has forced the Democrats
ana some Republicans ~ :sach his Iopu-
listic doctrine and he now thinks he has
got the People Ia that point under the
education of the papers. For instance,
some leading Democratic papers have.
been teaching ius; the things shat Sena-
Tor Butler would have them teach had he
been paying them for it. He knows
very well that neither the Republican no,
the Democratic party will adopt tn. free
and unlimited coinage of silver "A, the
ratio Of 10 IL |, independent of intcrna-
iional agreement. ana when the National
Conventions have uttered their pullcv
the leaders and papers who have been
teaching this doctrine undertake 10 fan
III tine with their respective parties i:
will be an easy arEumen; 10 say 10 The.
people that.if they wer. right in the past
they are now wrong and that the pco-
either of the old organizations"
Gov. Carr offers n reward of slOO for
the capture OF Angus Archie Brayboy. a
Croaian Indian who in Rohrson county
December | last murdered his sweet
heart Mary Strong. ana is supposed 10
have fled the State
The Republican Congressional Com
m;;"e of the Second Dis:lic; met al
Wilson This week. and III is said that all
lis members. save Dobson and Grant
were with cX-consr= ssman' II. T. Cheat
ham. WAC. as /; well known. stands
sGuarely with Chairman IIatlon
AT bridge on Ora htrce Creek. three.
miles from here. las: night footpads held
up young whit" farme" named Massey.
knocked him from his buggy and robbed
him. KS horse Went home with the
buggy
The |. o O. +. here have been organ
lied theatrical COMPANY of seven; en
members ana i, WI! appear nj several
place" ifs the stat" lin aid az the Oda
Fellows orphanaa' p: Goisbora. The
ro"iauy VIII llar -; r;a!asharn In! ing
the session OF the G.auti r.n,ie IN A,a.
on" of the negro i publican PAGERS
ii"r" to-day adv!s he Dorl,.ly men
not 10 send t'"i r'",i.ntials II j G. l..
Itlrris. the new Secretary of THO Rrnr,h-
lican State Committees ii they van: =
scat In III" State Convention. The parnr
saws: IF he cr:< on them Won may
r"ver see the insid of the convention
hall"
This same rnre- rlnre"s tina, the
Porul!sts and Senator Eutler are 10 work
for D. L. Russell for Governor on con
dition that the latter is 10 form u silver
electoral ticket.
The cos, of the admirably macadamlz-
ed roads In Mccklenburg county is 80 nN0
Il mile In this county. where abort
twenty-five miles of such road have been
built, the cost Is from $1,000 to $1,000
The cost of the convict labor i'm use.
is abou. 20 cents Il day
Tn. cas-" Of X. l.. Baldwin, the young
1rcdcll county man who is charged with
murder in Tazawell county. Va. come.
up on habeas corpus April 3. Detective
l3ottimore. who is al Scottsville saws
there is no doub; Of Baldwin's guilt: tina;
the latter w!ote him he was not I'm North
Carolina between January 30 and Feb
ruary 5.
The will Of Maj. John &. Winder was
probatcd here. All his property Is Icrt
To his wife. VIII" Is made sole cxccu.rix
with bond. The estate is valued AT inv
five thousand dollars.
HEREFORD