Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-01-09
Is PRITCHARD DEFEATEDs
A bolt from PopuIist Cnncms-ButIer
All Smiles.

RALEIGH, n. c., January Sat 5
o'clock the Populist caucus met In the
Senate chamber. AS its members-sixty-
one in number-filed in. Senator Nc
Caskey, who IS the leader OF the anti
Butler action, said to Republican: Il
have rebelled against high-handed
tyranny"
The members OF the State Central
Committee were the only outsiders ad-
mitted.
Several speeches were made, and Peace,
of the Central Committee, urged support
of Pritchard for senator. Cy Thompson
followed Peace in the same strain.
At 1890 o'clock the doors were sud-
denly thrown open. and there was rush
Of Popuists through the rotunda into
the hall of the House. of which they took
possession. McCaskey headed the rush,
and in a few moments began to address
the boilers. who were said to number
twenty, among them being Hodges,
Abernathy, Parker. Babbitt, White, New
som, Harrison, and Rountree.
At the moment when the bolt occurred,
Senator Butler and Congressman Skinner
were in a restaurant near the Capitol, at
the same table Butler was informed OF
the bolt, and asked II he was going to
the caucus. He replied that he was not.
His face was wreathed i'm smiles He had
expressed himself early in the evening
as confident of Pritchard's defeat.
POPULIST BOLT PROTEST.
RALEIGH, n. c., January S.-Follow-
ing Is a copy of a protest filed by MEM
bers of thes Legislature who tonight
bolted the Populist caucus:
''The following members OF the Senate
and House of Representatives, in COME
renee assembled desire TO say by resolu-
son that we enter our solemn protest
against the high-handed method OF gag
rule perpetrated upon US by majority
OF the Popuist caucus tonight and af-
ter having listened on our part with
great patience 10 the views of the ma
jority faction. according them one and
two hours for each speaker, without
protest or murmurng, when we asked
to have time to discuss our side of the
question, we were unceremoniously told
by the majority faction that We could
have only ten minutes each. That, after
we had appealed TO the leaders and
members OF the majority faction to give
us time for free and fair discussion or
the senatorial question, and time TO near
from our constituents upon this I'M
portant question. they absolutely refused
to agree 10 consider the matter at any
other time. and so cut off discussion by
unfair and filbustering tactics There
| fore: be IL
Resolved, first, that we inform our
brethren who compose the other faction
that, when they desire the cooperation
Of this faction, they must assure us by
resolution that they are willing to ac-
cord to us free and fair discussion at
some future time to be agreed upon by
both factions, and that then, and not
until then, will we consent to again sit
| together.
(SigneD T. f. McCaskey (chairman), j.
f. Newson, j. NJ. Early, G. l.. Hardison,
G.. II. Harmon, ID. Reid Parker,
| X. r.. w. Barker, Il. f. Wakefield, II.
f.. Hodges, G. r. f. Marlborough j. n.
| Ryan, r. II. Rountree, j. G.. Harris,
Frank Brown L. A. Abernathy. c. Nj.
| Babbitt, ]. II. Parker, }. j. White, G.
c. Fagin.
Two others withdrew, but did not sign