The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1897-02-04
PUT1ER TALKS HOT STUFF.

ington Post reporter, published
yesterday morning, Senator Butler.
of this state, talks some hot stuff.
The Post says:
Senator Marion Butler, OF North
Carolina, has returned to Wash
ington from his recent fight against
Senator Pritchard, in which the
later was successful, through the
votes Of the republican members
Of the legislature, aided by seven
teen populists. Mr.. Butler yester-
day let loose all the walls Of his
wrath upon the boilers, and spoke
to the reporter Of the Post with
great freedom. He is not, how
ever, respondent over the result.
On the contrary, when asked as to
the present situation, he said, in an
interview, which was mailed last
night to every populist paper in
the United States:
1.-THE peoples party is in better
shape than it has ever been since
twas organized. This is especially
so just at this time in North Caro-
lima. The election Of Pritchard by
some boiling populists means that
we have simply lost seventeen
voters, for whom we have the graf
ification of believing that the OPP
position paid extremely high. Not
single one of these boilers could
have been elected as populists if
they had said on the stump that
they would vote in the caucus for
Pritchard, much less if they had
said that they would bolt their
party's caucus to vote for him. II
they were for Pritchard during the
campaign, they were elected under
false pretense. At any rate, they
have sacrificed their principles and
betrayed their constituents.
"Mark Hanna and his agents have
gotten these seventeen individuals,
but they cannot get another man,
unless they should be able to lind
some one or two corrupt men In
some county who is willing to de-
sert his party and join the repub-
lican party for a fat federal office,
and am sure that there are not
to exceed one hundred Of that kind
of cattle in the state, Every time
the republican machine finds a
member of our party to accept a
federal office, it means that the re-
publicans have bought one vote,
and one only, with the Office, and
such loss to (but publication
and a strengthening of our party.
This purging and purifying OF the
peoples party is an indication OF
health, and will surely result in
great growth to the organization.
GAS soon as the boilers and trait
ors voted for Pritchard, the peo-
pies party members of the legis-
lature at once held a caucus and
expelled and branded every bolter,
so as to render it impossible for
any of them to ever be in a posi-
ton to again betray the trust Of
the people, and also to make it i'm
possible for any one of them to
ever find admittance and gain
membership in any respectable
party.
"The peoples. party, by its ac-
ton in this respect, has shown it.
self more reliable and trner than
any other political party that ex-
lists. When Cleveland corrupted
the democratic party by patronage,
if not by other means in failed to
denounce and expel its traitors,
who had betrayed thier constituency
and trampled upon the principles
Of their party. But, on the con-
trary, the traitors in that case are
still men Of high standing and po-
sition in that party.
"Tnerepublican party, in dozens
Of instances, has been guilty Of the
same crime in not branding and
expelling traitors from its ranks.
"Thus, the peoples party has
demonstrated the necessity for its
existence, and will henceforth draw
rapidly under its banner OF politi-
cal integrity every honest man and
patriot still left in the rank and file
Of both Of the old parties.
Referring to Representative
SINNERS part in Pritchard,s con-
test, Senator Butler said:
"Mr. Skinner is probably the
most despised and contemtible
character in North Carolina. He
could not, today, be elected even a
delegate Of the peoples party from
any township in his own county to
a county convention. He has no
future except N the republican
party, and he will have no future
in that party for the reason that
that party has no future in the
state. The treacherous and de-
spicable methods and conduct OF
the republican party in breaking
their cooperative contract with the
peoples party, and IN corrupting a
small faction Of our party in the
Legislature, to secure Pritchard's
election, and to control and divide
It the state patronage to the UNI
holy combine, make il, in the fu-
ture, the party Of perfdy and dis.
honor in North Carolina.