The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-01-21
CY. THOMPSON
THE NOMINEE.
On the First Ballot for Senator
P.itchard's Claims Fall
Dowc.
BIG LYING By TEE COMBINE.

ard.
The Senatorial contest began in all
its yigor BY The action of the populist
caucus on Friday night OF last week.
Al that meeting, DR.. Cyrus Thompson
of Onslow county, the present Score
tary OF State. was declared the nomi-
nee Of the Peoples Party caucus for
L nired States Senator.
Among the names presented TO the |
caucus for this honor were the follow
ing:
Cyrus THOMPSON, Of Onslow: oliver
II. Dockery, u Richmond: j. j. Mott,
OF lredeil; 4. r. Hileman, of Cabarrus;
w. \. Guthrie. OF Durham
The first ballot resulted as follows |
Thompson u: Dockery IL: Mott 3 |
Hilemen ]; Guthrie ,.
Before the second ballot was taken |
the names of Guthrie, Mott and lille |
nah were withdra -. In this ballo
the result was: TLomrsop, "a: Dock |
cry, 9.
DR.. Thompson was declared the
nominee amid great applause. He ap-
peared before the caucus short time
afterward, having been sent for, and
in a graceful spe. ch of a few minutes
accepted the nomination.
SOMETHING or A CoMMoTIoN.
The nomination produced something
of a commotIon. The Republicans who
were ardently supporting Pritchard,
and were hoping To break still further
into the Popnlist ranks by means OF
the PritchartSklnner combine, aclu u
ally became alarmed. They knew thai
20 true Populist could afford 10 vote
against Thompson, and their fear wa
that some Of the Popllists who tao
| been r3ped in might finch at III.
| thought of trying 10 explain To their
constituents why they allowed The
scent Of ofiice to lead them away from
| the support of Fopulist Ike Thomp
son. AT the came time they lest all
hope OF persradjng" my other Pop
uiist to 60 10 Pritchard'e support.
MUCH RUNNING Tc AND FRO.
All day on Saturday, even onSunday
and on Monday, there was much run
ming to and fro and great guessing
and speculation. The Pritchard forces
sought in vain to discover something
which they could regard as a sign OF
growing strength. In the meantime
they were asserting that they would
elect their man on the following Tues
day by clear ma ority in both houses.
On Monday night they began to add
lying to their nefarious methods of
contest.
Some of the Lies.
One was that DR.. Thompson. the
Senatorial nominee, and Senator But
Ter had had words of an unpleasant
character, and that the Populists were
weakening: and that DR.. Thompson
had sent messenger to Col. Skinner
room where sort of caucus was be-
ing held, asking Populists to vote for
PrItchard.
Another was that THE CAUCASIAN
and the News and Observer were to be
consolidated on Tuesday morning.
Another was that Skinner bad re-
ceivPd letter from Gov. Russell in
which the Governor had declared that
so far as he was concerned, he would
give recognition to the boiling Popu-
, lists only.
There is no doubt that these reports
all came from the Skinner
com bine, and were intended TO act a;
demoraliZing agencies; but they fell
fat.
, Senator Butler for one, heard the ~
> aud without a moments hesitation ds
, nounced them as infamous lies. and
. dared the man or men who started
> them to face him.
, An interview was soon afttrwarC
. had with Dr.. Thompson, III which h'
: said -
: Senator Butler toldme th.t he had
denounced each of these statements a.
nnGualifiedly false. OF the last two
told him that / knew nothing, and
: thanked him for denouncing the frs,
d, as false"
: There is another report continued
DR.. Thompson" that Senator Butler
9 told me of, and that is that some of tn,
minority Populists had met in Col
3, Sainner's room and passed a resolu.
. ton that they would vote for Senator
, | Pritchard, and in voting for hin
: would ask leave to explain their votes
;. | That they would announce thei
), friendship and admiration for me, bu
!, that they had my permission to cas-
their votes for Senator Pritchard."
! Senator Batter added that he hat
= denounced this as finely embellishe'
= lie
: Il told him that re had done RICH
/, and that [ would go myself and de
o nounce <he report as false. Where
upon [ went TO Col. SINNERS room
(, aud there in the presence of Senate
: Pritchard. Mr.. Gudger and others de
;. cared that the report was untrue"
= Col. Skinner said he did not mean t
do me any injustice bns il was LIT
, TIE GAME OF BLUFF.
t THE BALLOT on Tuesday.
: On Tuesday the Senate and Hous
met in their respective chambers fO
, the purpose OF taking ballot for [
:. 5. Senator.
In hn -
= ncminated by Senator Smathers.
\ Dr. Thompson was nominated b
= Senator Maxwell.
EX-Lieu'-Governor Doushtou wa
- nominated by Senator Abel.
a There were number of speecbe
,. seconding the nominations, those {
70 Senator Utley of Wake, and Senate
Atwatsr of Chatham, in favor of D.
Thompson being unusually eloquer
IS and forceful.
lie The following Senators voted fc
Pritchard:
- Anderson, Ashburn. Barker, Car
y non. Dickson, Early, Grant, Hender
=, son. Hyatt. Maulr<by, Mccarthy. No
1 Neil, Ne1some, Odum, Person. Ran
: say, Rollins. Sharpe of Wilson
Z Sharpe of Iredell, Smathers. Shor,
y Wake Geld, Whidbee and Yeage
T Total. "a
l. OF these, Barker, Cannon, Earl,
Newsome, Odum and Wakefield cIaiI
it TO be Populists.
ps Senator Earnhardt, Popuiist,
e Rowan. was at home dangerously il
Is He would have voted for Thompso
l. If he could have been present.
is The following Senators voted fe
ID DR.. Cyrus Thompson:
AtexNnHap pnflz. II
N Credible, Harrison, Lyon, Maxwell
+ Mitchell, Mo5e, Merritt. McCaske,
re Parker of Randolph, Patterson, Robei
1t son, Shaw, Utley and Walker-lp.