The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-17
But Hanna is Bound to Have
Pritchard.
SO SAY HIS EMlSSARIES
Republicans Need Him in Their
Business.
THE GOLD MEN cLAMoR FOR HIM
Kinney Would Like TO Have the Place
and is Willing to Swear he Never
Lovec Anything but
CiIvar

ard is to be elected Senator, cost what
it may, so say the emissaries Of Mark
Hanna, and in order to bring about his
election, promises have been made to
the Populists that they may have any
thing within the gift Of the Mckinley
administration. The Populists in the
House have been urged to use their infiu-
eRce in the interest of Pritchard, and in
return they are to control the Federal
patronage within their several Congress
sional districts. This is very tempting
bait. and explains to some extent the in-
difference on the part Of the Popuiist
Congressman in the matter of having
straight-out 16 to I silver Senator elect
ed by the North Carolina Legislature
President-elect Mckinley knows that
Pritchard is q goldbug at heart, and that
he will do the bidding of the administrs-
ton, II he is reelected. A prominent
PopulSt from Alabama said to-day that
if the Republicans win only nominate
Linney, they can elect him, as he has as
surance from the silver Populists in the
Legislature that they will vote for him.
Representative Linney is free silver
man first, last and all the time, and there
is no question but that could he be elect
ed he would prove faithful to his trust
Linney's friends here say he is pledged to
Pritchard, but nevertheless, it is believ-
ed that if his name is presented as COM
promise, he viii not object. Not in re-
cent years has a Senatorial fight excited
as deep interest as that now on at Raj
eigh, nor has ono occurred where the OPP
portunity for Doodle and patronage was
so conspicuous as appears i'll this contest
Prominent POpHlists here cudgei their
brains with the conundrum, How can the
Popuists in the North Carolina Legs
lature who are pledged to silver as ono
of the vital doctrines OF the party find
any respectable excuse to vote for a can
didate for Senator who in the recent cam
paign deliberately repudiated that doc
thine and declared he had been fool
when he advocated it.
Now that Judge Golf has been picked
out for Attorney General in the McKin-
ley Cabinet the friends of Col. Jim Boyd
will have to look around for some equal
ly important position for that distin-
guished Tar Heel Republican.
Senator German chews tobacco, but
exercises characteristic care and precis.
avn ~ CApc%toldtiii5'
Most of the Southern members. but
occasionally q Northern brother, will ac-
cept the polite offer of portion of plug.
Passing the plug has taken the place of
the ancient amenities that chung to the
ornate snuff box. Former Representa-
tive Holman never was in prime object
ing humor until he had his quid going.
Iha ctr I'd F.r e
smoking on the floor of the House has
greatly increased the indulgence in the
chewing habit among members.
Senator Morgan, OF Alabama, is
tobacco chewer of the inveterate order.
Justice Harlan, Of the Supreme Court,
is another insistent chewer of the weed.
He and Senator Morgan chewed off the
same plug while they were serving TO-
gether in Paris on the Boring Sea Arbi-
tration Commission. Both were partial
to the same brand. They exhausted their
respective supplies long before the Com
mission had finished its iabors, and look
ed in vain about Paris for what they
wanted Finally Senator Morgan sent an
order home fog three pounds Of the partic-
ular brand desired. It arrived in due
time, but was somewhat delayed in de-
livery, owing to peculiar regulations of
the French customs service. 1t was
probably the dearest chewing tobacco
consumed since the war when union sol
diers used to swap dollars worth of cof-
fee to the Confederates for what would
now be a dimes worth of Chewing.
BY the time the Senator's three pounds !
were released and ready for partition the |
cost had mounted to about $50. Every |
chew was worth r fine Havana, and !
every expectoration was equal to q
''stoger" any time. The French know lit /
lie or nothing about the chewing Of to-
bacco, and the Partisan reporters for the |
newspapers publishing the proceedings
of the Commission made cOpi0us notes 9f
the spectacle Of the two American repre-
sentatiYes who constantly chewed and
spat red But large number Of cuspi-
dores were provided, and indeed extra
ordinary pains taken to provide for the
comfortable Indulgence OF tile tobacco
chewing habit by the two Americans.
Senator Bate Of Tennessee, cbews to
bacco, but it is not chewing tobacco IN
fact that he is+fllges in. He chews
q cigar which he never lights lit is said
that this has been a habit Of the Senator
since the war, when he was an habtual
smoker. At the battle Of Shiloh, in which
he was also seriously wounded, a brother
was shot and killed as his side just os he
was about to light cigar. Since that
hour, although he las never consumed u
cigar, nobody has ever seen the Senator
light or smoke one
Senator Chandler neither chews,
smokes nor dips snuff, but he rides a hi.
cycle with all the style and spirit Of
scorcher. / saw him mount his wheel the
other morning. 1t was interesting to see
him steal from under the dome conduct
ing his silent eteed from the basement
to the outside, There the ex-Secretary
Of the Navy and Senator from New
Hampshire vaulted lightly into the saddle
and sped away How carefully he tack
led the stiff wind that swept the icy pave
ment east Of the Capitol How pictur-
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