The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-03

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the dogs had killed him. IN my boyash
ylera cut off hoah ears and hung draln up
4 tree to catch another. In the evening
came for my fox, and he was gone. Two
wears thereafter l caught THAT fox again,
this time | cut his head off and cooked
him with hash for my dogs, and have mot
seen him since,
The thing to do when YOU want 10
kin N fox. is TO I've sure YOU lSll him.
Now. Butler. Hal Aver and Company
have. go far as they could, expelled Harry
Skinner and his sixteen brethren from
the popnlist organization. ! hardly
think this Will damage either Skinner or
his brethren in reputation IN the eyes OF
honest consistent men. but Will rathT
he a feather &n their cap, "a diadam I'm
their crown.
They at least have heen consistent.
Rusler, ptto and Had have mot Each Of
these gedlflemen Butler, Skinner, Otho,
Hal and sh, sixteen members OF the leg
6staf,rre who voted for pritchard, were
elected to the offices they now hold
from SeilsaUorship 10 the Legislature 10y
this, votes OF gold bug Republicans; and
without these gold bug Republican votes
not a single one OF them would ever have
been where they are.
One good turn deserves smother. In
gratitude is ''aihhorred by God and man. ~
This. sir is not ON Skinner and Compa-
nys shoulders; it rests upon THE should
ers OF others
No man sn the populist party, begin
ming with Butler, Including all
who voaed for Repubh
can for the legislature or for
or for a State officer. or for county
~ has ksAs..
/ legitimate right or even plausible excuse
to complain of the so-called boilers voting
for Pritchard.
| lit certainly is no greater sin or crime
to vote for Pritchard than it was to vote
| for Iinney. Settle, Pearson. Russell. Zeb.
Vance Walser, or any other Republican
or goldbug.
/ 1t certainly is no great political
wrong. crime or sin to vote for Pritchard
for United States Senator, than it was to
vote for goldhugs for the Legislature to
vote for Pritchard for United States
| Senator. and negroes, at that, as our
| Populist Senator did in Halifax county,
and as the Populists did all over the
| State, except in the Fifth district.
/ If it had not been for the Republicans,
| there would not have been ten Populists
/ elected in the State. If it had not been
| for the Populists there would not have
been fifty Republicans elected in the en-
| tire State. Neither can live without the
other. They are one and the same, and
| why all this stir about boilers, traitors
and rascals?
/ They are all who voted for goldhugs for
| any offices traitors to the principles, plat
| forms. declarations and purposes of the
| Populist organization, and understood by
| honest, patriotic, notwithstanding Pop
| ulists.
| OF all men living who ought to keep ST.
lent on voting for goldbug Republicans.
4 it ought to be Butler, Ohio and Hal
| They are all tarred with the same stick.
/ They deliberately made a contract last
summer or fall with Pritchard & Co. to
| defeat every free silver Democrat in the
| State, and to elect instead Of Democrats,
/ goldbug Republicans, and after accom-
/ plshing their nefarious, corrupt and
wicked conspiracy against silver and
1 financial reform and the Populist party.
they, with malice aforethought and blood
| in their eyes, wheel upon Skinner and his
| so-called boilers, and curse and damn
them for carrying ont their wicked con-
/ tract, doing what they advised them to
do, and what they themselves did do. and
what they intended should be done, the
election of Republican to the United
States Senate.
Buffers purpose was to elect Repub-
lican. He no doubt preferred Marshall
Mott to Pritchard, but he preferred Pritch-
| ard to any Populist or Democrat. To
have elected Populist, would have end
ed cooperation with the Republicans,
and no one knows this so well as Butler
Cooperation will now continue between
the Republicans and Buffers heelers,
clackers, pie hunters and slaves.
Butler never did intend, and don't i'm
tend now, to build up a majority Populist
party. lit would defeat all his designs
and his bossism. He cannot or will not,
stand brain power, honesty and patriot
ism combined within his own household
The height of his ambition is to control
and dictate. With q contingency Just
large enough to wallow between the two
old parties, and dictate the distribution
of spoils and offices to himself and his
Gideonite followers, accomplishes all the
desires of his heart.
He is responsible for the election of a
single standard advocate to the United
States Senate. He may twist, squrnt
and shuttle as much and as long as he
desires. but he will never convince any
one except the unsophisticated, that he
desired the election of a silver Senator
or that he desired the election of Bryan
or Watson, and at the same time the cleo
ton of silver Congress.
If he and his committee had struggled
as hard to elect true and tried silver men
10 offices in this State and in Congress
as they did to elect goldbug Republicans
over silver Democrats, there would exist
to-day no cause for his denunciations and
anathemas against Skinner, and his
crowd, and Major Guthrie to-day would
be Governor of North Carolina and Cy
Watson United States Senator, instead of
Russell and Pritchard
Now one Of two things must come TO
pass. Butlerism must be killed and bur-
led or the Democratic party must die.
/ RntlpPicu1 and Dam0G4,ac papunf iSL