The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-02
CLANS ALREADY GATHERING.
Butler and Pritchard Will Not Arrive in
Raleigh TIL Next Week.
Father Worth says Butler will be here

Father Worth says Butler will be here
Monday. He is now in Washington.
Secretary Hyams says Pritchard viii
be here Tuesday He is now at Mar
shall. Jeter, like Demosthenes of old, is
no doubt at this very moment rolling
pebbles under his tongue while he re-
hearses his speech of acceptance TO the
classic waters Of the Nolachucky.
When these two giants get here the
battle will begin in earnest and merry
fight it win be. The advance guard Of
the Republicans are already here-Judge
Ewart, Tom Settle, Marsh Mott, Claud
Bernard, u. O. Duncan, Secretary Hyams
and several others. All Of them say
Pritdhard is sure to win. But the only
two PopuHsts here-Dr. d. Reid Parker,
Of Randolph county, and w. b. Mott, of
Iredell-tell different story. They don't
think the Popuhsts win vote for him.
None of them are talking much, ex-
cept to one another. The bad blood hasn't
been aroused yet. Wait till the scramble
for office begins. Already there are out
groupings of it between Marsh Mott
and Holton, for instance, both Of whom
are candidates for District Attorney of
the Western district.
| asked Mott yesterday if the reports
that he wanted to be District Attorney
were true.
81 am a candidate for District Attor-
ney and I'll be appointed. You may say
that, and as coming from me-" he replied.
As he did so he threw back his head
opened wide his black eyes and looked
as il he would defy a whole regiment to
prove that his statement was untrue.
I suggested that Chairman Holton was
an aspirant for the same position.
Yes" he said slowly. Then quickly
Kissed between his teeth in a stage whis-
per, "but he doesn't stand a ghost Of a
show"
Now why does Marsh Mott say this /?
Does he know whereof ne speaks? |
suspect he does. or thinks he does
learn upon good authority that Pritch-
ard has promised him the place And
there are some facts that point strongly
to the truth of the report. Mott is a silver
Republican,, yet he is supporting Pritch-
ard whom he knows to be a gold-bug, and
in the face of the further fact that his
father, DIR. Jim Jeremiah Mott, is a
candidate for the Senatorship. Why this
excessive ardOr for the Nolachucky
statesman?
Speaking of this buying Of support
with an office, one of the gentlemen
above named told me yesterday lie had
heard in Charlotte that Pritchard had
said that If reelected he expected to give
the Populists a pretty fair share Of the
Federal patronage and most Of the State
Offices / asked a Populist what he
thought Of this, and lac said any man
that would accept an office from McKin-
ley through Pritchard was a Republican
and not a Populist, and could never
again lay claim to the name 1t would.
he said, not only be sell-out, but "a
publication of the fact to the world.
But as / have said above they are not
talking much. Some Of them say, appa-
rently upon authority, that Pritchard
will not declare for silver-that to do SO
would lose him the support Of his own
party and not gain him that OF the Popu-
lists. Others say he will declare for sill
yer. All Of them agree on one point
Pritehard viii, before the time to elect
a Senator, give public expression to his
views on the money question. What
the form Of that expression will be-
letter, Interview or PLEDGE am unable
10 say. l doubt whether Pritchard has
decided himself yet.
Notwithstanding their ignorance and
unconcern as to these details. every Re
publican who has yet struck the town
is dead certain that "Jeter will win"