The news & observer., 1897-01-23
The Senator Has the RAIDS in a
Another Hole.
WHAT TO DO ABOUT 1T
IS WHAT'S TROUBLING THE ERST
WHILE BUTLER CUSSERS.
GOV. RUSSELL AND THE BoLTERs
He Tells Them to Make Terms With
the Majority of Last
Nights Caucus's.

There is trouble in both camps.
The Legislature has hardly begun, but
the war is on in earnest. The Republi
cans staked their all for the time being
on Pritchard's reelection. They needed
sixteen Populist votes. They got seven
teen. Butler says they invaded the
Populist ranks and by all kind of trickery,
debauchery and Doodle took them out of
the Populist party.
Since Pritchard's election the Repub-
leans have had time to think and they
have been thinking some pretty serious
thoughts. The boilers, too, have had time
to think and some of them have heard
an approaching thunder storm that is
coming up from their indignant constit-
uents.
Mr.. j. S. C. Carpenter, who is State
agent of the Farmers Mutual
Protective Association, returned yester-
day from Eastern North Carolina and
declares that the Populists in that section
are boiling over with indignation at the
action of the boilers. In Hyde, Pamlico
and other counties they are roasting
there representatives and some of them
are not at all particular about the Ian
guage they use in giving vent to their
feelings.
Not Wake county Populist has yet
been seen who even tolerates the action
of the boilers and ninety-nine out Of a
hundred of them declare that they will
hereafter have no affiliation with them.
The Republicans go into caucus with
fear and trembling. They know that they
are in a hole; half of them are afraid
to hold a caucus for fear that they will
get into a wrangle and go all to pieces.
A number of them declare that they cam
not afford to turn away from the regular
Populist party, and others declare that
they will never affiliate with the bolters
and that they will vote against anything
that means either recognition for the
bolters or the eyeleation of them to any
prominence or position.
There was two conference committees
appointed early in the session. Now But
Ter demands another one on new lines. The
Republicans are afraid to accede to this
proposition. and every one OF
them say that they must not go back on
their friends This was a sort of a stereo-
typed expression yesterday, but it had 10
genuine ring in it, except when it was
shot from the eloquent lips of the young
oratorical bump from Ashe. OF course
every sentence he touches vibrates with
poetic eloquence. and so when he said
1--WE will not desert our friends" the
winds took it up and waited it about until
it finally rained a perfect shower Of
musical eloquence all over the city.
Major Hire En- Grant gave utterance
to the same sentiment, but it was in
that cold austere manner that caused the
words to freeze up into little hailstones
and go whirling through the air as if they
were going to NOW down the tribe of But
ler and leave it there unwept and unsung
But Governor Russell handled the
phrase little more carefully. 1t is said
that he sent word for the bolters to call
on him at the executive office, and that
he there related some things that made
Hodges side whiskers tie themselves
into little knots, and caused
the pipe of Harris of Hyde to spill a cup
full of half burned Jam of the Fence
on the gibeunatorial carpet. He told
the boilers, so it is related, that they must
go back and make terms with the ma
jority and reunite the Populist forces
This was not relished much by Brown
of Jones, who has declared that he
would never bow down to Buffers one
man power.
Odom is sick, and has left for his home
not sick with the grip-not even with
the grip he thought he had on the Wades-
boro postoffice, for they do say that the
exposure of his little deal has lessened
that grip considerably, but he is sick, sick
in mind, sick of that deal he made, and it
makes him sicker when he thinks about
the medicine he has got to take when he
gets back to his constituents. But he
bought him bran new trunk yesterday,
and packed it full Of merchandise-aIl
sorts of merchandise from bolts of linen
to bags of apples, and has had that trunk
checked to Wadesboro, and both he and
the trunk have obtained leave of absence
and are burning the wind towards
Wadesboro.
CAUCUS PROCEEDINGS.
The town was full of caucuses last
night, and in the parlance of the newspa- |
per reporters there came "hot stuff" from |
each caucus. q
The minority Populists held their little |
side-show in the court house.
McCaskey, whom the majority dis |
Ia fpnad al flor hiu ofTort IN dodua ba x,nfo /