The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-14
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FOR #RRD 8UTLEH's PLANS.


Senator Newson's Letter--WoGd-
ards Deserved Distinction.
| Washington, Jan. 13.--(special)- The
| North Carolina Senatorial fight seems
likely to become historic in more ways
than one. 1t may not only determine the
| fate of silver for years to come, but il is
/ almost certain to involve the Southern
| Railroad managers in controversy
| which will cause the withdrawal frem
them OF the $4,000, which they have
| received annually since 1885 as n subsidy
| for their fast mail service Representa-
| tive Kyle. q member from Mississippi,
/ has been fighting this subsidy for years,
and his following has been growing grad
/ ually stronger. Last year he was nearly
! successful in defeating it, and the fact
! win there, will make the subsidy an issue
| are known to favor the subsidy, and
! have received in consideration OF their.
| good offices past and future the active:
| assistance OF Col. A. b. Andrews and
! the railroad lobby here, while the free
/ silver men are all with Butler in the
/ fight at Raleigh, has made the special
/ facility appropriation" sort of national
/ issue. 1t is indefensible upon any prin-
I ciple of justice or fair policy, and is in
direct conformation of Democratic ideas,
It's opponents say that If the Southern
! Railroad people persist in using their in
fuence in favor of the gold-bug candidate
for Senator, and thus fayoring all other
monopolies and steals, they viii take a
hand in the fight at Raleigh, and if they
win there, will made the subsidy an issue
in the United States Senate, asking all
! free silver men to stand by them. If
Col Andrews thinks that deal with
Pritclard, Grant and HoIton will help
him, he is mistaken. He may rest as
sured that the Democratic, populist, and
silver Republican Senators viii hold
him and Pritchart. 41sp 0ns.ble fer amy
+. chicanery on their part in respect to the
! election OF a Senator pledged to that
subsidy.
1t is not q good time for railroad steals
anyway. The overwhelming defeat of
Huntington's Pacific Funding bin in the
House last Monday shows that even that
body is at length Disguised with the ever
lasting horse-leech proclivities OF insati-
I able corporations. The loss of 5000 900
/ a year would be pretty heavy considera-
ton to give in exchange for the use OF Il
! man like pritchard in the Senate. but
that is just what the Southern Railroad
| is risking in this controversy. Noow
that Hearst has wiped out Huntington,
| he will be sure to turn his attention to the
/ Huntington-Hf MAJ ritchard combine,
(. and wipe out the special facility" sub
sidy along with the political aspirations
| of Messrs. Boyd, Settle, Holton, Grant
and Skinner. The railroad lobby must
| keep its hands off the Senatorship in
| North Carolina or prepare for general
war here when the Postoffice Appropria-
! ton bill comes before Congress. Sllillful
and determined men are already putting
| in train measures to punish the audacity
| and rapacity OF the Southern Railroad
| lobby, and those measures are likely to
! materialize before the 18th Of March.
| Pritchard may come higher than his
| hackers bargained for.
Gussom, one of Pritchard's col0red
| mana gers here, says that he has just re-
ceiyed letter from Senator Newsom,
of Hartford, declaring that every one Of
| the seventeen populist boilers will stand
for Pritchard to the bitter end. But it
is rumored also that Dockery has II Re
publican votes pledged to him for Sena-
tor.
None of the nominations made during
the recess of Congress of gold Democrats
to succeed silver men who were removed
from Office for partisan cause, have been
confirmed to date. Republicans are en-
couraging the silver Senators to hold
up the combinations ON the idea that the
offices will be vacant and waiting for
their own appointing power to fill. Nota-
bic among these nominations is that OF
George It. Moore, appointed district at
torney for the middle district of Alabama.
Moore is here and anxiously looking af-
ter his chances. His predecessor, H. d.
Clayton, who was removed, is also here,
but taking no part in the scrap. Clayton
is nephew of Senator Pugh, and the lat
ter's well-known stalwart disaffection
with the administration makes 1t not inn
probable that Mr.. Moore's hold-up will
continue indefinitely.
Representative Woodland has been Sc
lected by the Georgia delegation to speak
i'm behalf of the North Carolina represen-
tatives on the occasion Of the House pay
ing its last tribute of respect TO the memo
ry of the late Speaker Crisp. Mr.. Wood
ard was a warm personal friend Of the
lamented Georgian, and knew his worth
and virtues, and, no doubt, on next Sat
urday, the day set apart for tie memorial
remarks in the House, will pay one IF the
most eloquent Of the tributes that will
write the last lines Of the history Of that
good and true representative Of the peo-
pie.
AN OLD SETTLER