The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04
BUFFERS ATTACK HIT HARD
Senator Pritchard May Resent the
Assault Of His Colleague.
PERSONAL ENCOUNTER LIKELY

PERSONAL ENCOUNTER LIKELY
The Washington Post Thinks Libel Suits May
Result Also.
"FAlsEHoOD FROM BEGINNING TO END
lays Mr.. Pritchard, "and q Deiiber-
ate Misstatement OF Facts'--
Now sick in Washington.
From the way things are going
now, if the following from the
Washington Post counts for any
thing, it seems that the gull be
tween Senators Pritchard and
Butler is getting broader, and
they are liable to get to hauling
each others nose before it is over.
But the article itself, which will be
read with interest by our people,
is as follows:
Senator letter c. Pritchasd, who
has just been elected to succeed
himself by the North Carolina
Legislature, has come back to
Washington. He has not been
very we'll since his return, out his
illness has never been serious, and
he would have been in the senate
chamber yesterday, but lis doctor
advised him not to Grave the
wretcned weather, so he remained
at the Ebbitt. But while the sen.
ator is recuperating from the severe
strain of the hardest fought battie
ever waged in the political annals
of the old North State--a battle in
which he came out victor-he i.
not in a pleasant frame of mind ovel
the recently published utterance'
of his colleague, Mr.. Butler.
In Yesterdays Post, Mr.. Butler
in effect, charged the seventeen
populist members, whose votes
elected Mr.. Pritchard, with having
sold out. He says that they were
branded as traitors and expelled
from the populist party by reason
Iof their treachery, and further on
he accuses Mr.. Pritchard with be
ling "tainted with the questionable
not to say, infamous, methods o
Hanna's agents, Skinner & Co."
i When Senator Pritchard reat
this interview he was mad all tn
way through. The more he though
about it the hotter he got, for to b
spoken of as sstainted with infa
nous Methods" is no light insul
Ito a man of his fair standing 70
honor and integrity. He is more
over a man of sensitive and highly
strung organization, very resolut
and determined when he makes N
his mind as to particular cours
of action.
In the judgment Of his friend
and himself the attack made b
Butler was wanton and utterly ur
called for.
North Carolinians of all shade
! of politics were amazed at the bit
= terness of invective employed b
, Senator Butler, and in more tina
one hotel lobby the affair was b
!, ling eagerly discussed. The opiI
Q ion was general that unless 2
q apology or retraction was fort
I coming a personal encounter b
ell tween the senators was by Z
means improbable. The one Q
d Tended is known not to belong
vi that class that is willing to turn q
It other cheek il smitten on one.
ir the mean time Mr.. Butler is We
d apt to find himself in hot water
II other quarters. His unequivos
st charge that legislators voting
ID Pritchard were bribed with mon
III will cause sensation from one e
ID of the state to the other That
cusation cannot be explain
laway. and there are known to
lamong the men so accused me
than one, who will surely call
be his accuser to account, Lii
suits 'as we'll as personal {
40 ficalties are almost certain to gr
80 out Of the episode before i
- ended, so North Carolinians 5
Il is understood that Sena
avl Butler has gone home with a vi
=. of looking over the field and C
Nc ferring with some Of his parts
ofl who are inclined to start cont
10 with the hope Of keeping Sena
ri | Pritchard out Of his seat. II I
n programme should be determiI
A on i will give the latter no une'
an ness, for he feels perfectly sec
in his legitimate claim to a fair
M, honest reelection. At the Eb
,on last night Senator Pritchard 81
AM. al do not deem il proper Tor
led to enter into a newspaper con
les versy with Senator Butler abo'
Of question which has been alre
re. settled in a way satisfactory
rom myself by the legislature Of NJ
Carolina. | have therefore n
or ling to say except to brand
vho statements he has made as a
The full and deliberate misstatemer
the the facts and a falsehood from