The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-31
HAS JUDGE DICK
YET RESIGNED 2
Reports From Washington
Say He Has.
WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM
PROBABLY EITHER PRITCHARD
OR DOUGLAS.
WHO WILL SUCCEED HIM
cowLEs SLATED FOR PRITCHARD'S PLACE
The Adiutant General Said to be the Govern
or's Choice for United States Sem
ator If Senator Pritchard
Resigns.

Judge Dicks, resignation, am told,
is now before the President. r..s q e.
In due time it will be accepted and \
successor appointed. s.g ,'-. .."<
i Who will it Ex-senator Pritchard or
Judge Douglass 70
Both of them are candidates, but some
time ago Judge Douglas wrote to Mr..
Pritchard saying: IF you want the
judgeship will get out of the race and
endorse you"
Pritchard uoeS want it-no doubt a.
bout that. He has said as much. But
the question is: Will the administra-
ton allow him to resign his seat in the
Senate? Can the national Republican
party afford it? Let's see.
In the first place, Pritchard has five
more years of his term to serve in the
Senate. If he should resign, the next
Legislature january, 1890 would have
to elect his successor. That Legislature
will be Democratic 1t takes no iprOphet
to see that. So the Republican party
would lose Senatorial term of four
years by allowing Pritchard to resign
and take a Federal judgeship.
or course the Governor would make
temporary SENATORIAL appointment, but
that would be good only until the meet
ing of the Legislature. And in this
temporary appointment arises what may
be d second fatal objection to Pritchard's
resignation. G&
In considering the question, Hanna
and his crowd will first want to know
what manner Of man this new Temporal
/ ry Senator is to be-gold bug or silver
bug, monopolist or anti-monopolist, adj
ministration or ton ?They
have heard even in Washington that
Gov. Russell sometimes has a way Of
dong to suit himself, without consulting
or trying to please anybody else. They
are afraid he might play this little game
on tneIn in the appointment of Sena-
tor. ~
How necessary it is for them to be
cautious, will be seen when it is remem-
bered that, the silver men in the Senate
have only two majority. 1t is only nee
essary to have a change Of one vote to
the gold side to make it tie. Now
the gold crowd, though in the minority,
by two, don't want to get any more so.
1t is easier to buy one or two votes than
it is three.
Thus, it will be seen that if the Repub-
leans do consent to Pritchard's resig-
/ nation, they win only do so knowing
beyond all peradventure who his success
sor will be.
If it were to be made to-day, I have
it on good authority that it would be
Andrew d. Cowles, Adjutant General
of the State troops of North Carolina.
Gen. Cowles is man after Hanna's
own heart and would in every particu-
lar overcome the last objection urged
against Pritchard's resignation. He is
strong, straight, moss-back Republi-
can, with all that that means gold
bug. protectionist, monopolist and a
-AcKinley shouter. Indeed he has the
whole outfit. He comes of long line
= moss-back Republicans, being the son
of Calvin j. COwles, a son-in-law of
| Gov. Holden and president of the Con-
stitutional convention of 1868; he is a
nephew of Ex-Congressman w. FL. III.
Cowles, of the Eighth North Carolina
district. Gen. COwles was Mckinley
! electOr during the last campaign and
was in 1896 endorsed by Iredell county
| for Congress. He is man of about IS
! years of age, and is a practicing lawyer
| a. StatesvAne.
This, | am told, is the man whom the
! Governor would appoint in case Pritch-
ard resigns to accept a place on the
/ bench.
If he does not resign it seems pretty
well settled that Judge Douglas, of the
Supreme court of North Carolina, will
! succeed Judge Dick. Being a son oil
! Stephen A. Douglass and having beer