Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-02-11
P~RITCHARD'S CLOSE CALL.
HE HAD HEART TROUBLE.

HE HAD HEART TROUBLE.
Mr. Bill Day Gives His Views on
the North Carolina Situation
Thinks the Dissolution of
the Populist Party is Certain
Butler Goes to the Bottom
The South and the Cab
met.
Washington, Feb. 6.-Mr.
Mckinley is likely to take care of
his friends. His appointments of
Gage for the Treasury, and Dawes
for Comptroller of the Currency,
are proof positive of this, Their
services at the ST. Louis conven-
ticn and previously have not been
forgotten. The same applies to
North Carolina, and it is said that
none but original Mckinley men
need apply.
BILL DAYS IDEA.
Capt. Bill Day thus nit off the
North Carolina situation, talking
to a Post reporter :
ssThe bitter Senatorial fight in
our State will doubtless have far
reaching results, One effect is
the dissolution of the Populist
party. Political bargains and
deals have been the direct cause of
its destruction. 1t has been traded
to death.
Very likely the Skinner wing
of the Populists will hereafter
go with the Republicans. and the
Marion Butler faction will find
their way back into the Demo
cratic camp. There are about
10, 900 good and patriotic men
who became Populists from prin>
ciple that may not ally them~
selves with either of the two old
parties This contingent, is, how
ever sick of the incompetent,
not to say corrupt leadership
that wrecked the organization.
Another sure thing is the ex-
tinction of Marion Butler as a
political factor. He is like a boy
who, ignorant of the ar Of
swimming, goes out into the deep
water, trusting to a pair of
gourds to keep him from sinking.
He loses his life preservers and
goes to the bottom.
Il think Butler has lost his
gourds and the water is beyond
his depth. It was a very shabby
bargain that he assenJed to-.
which gave the Republicans one
Senator and the Populists one,
butsmen will generally believe it
was shabbier not to stand by the
contract.
1.-The best feature to>day in
North Carolina politics is the
suspicious start of our new Cow
ernor, Hon. D. L. Russell. He is
the best executive the State has
had since the days of Zeb Vance.
In Russell the people have a man
who cannot be bribed or bullied
into ally line of policy, which his
judgment or conscience pronoun-
ces wrong. I have always differed
from him politically until last
year, but have known and es.
teemed him since we we're bare-
footed boys at school,"
THEIR FEARS NEEDLESS.
Half a dozen or more United
States Senators called on Sena~
tor Pritchard the day after his
reply to Buffers attack was made
public in the Washington news
papers, and we're anxious lest
the Senator and Senator Butler
might have a personal clash
Senator Pritchard appreciated
their sympathy but laughed at
their fears.
PRlTCHARD'S CLOSE CALL. g
Mr.. Pritchard had really an
unusually severe attack of heart
trouble the other night. He is of
a nervous temperament, In the
Senate chamber he does not like
10 sit still, and is often seen
striding rapidly along the circu.
lar aisle between the Senator'S
desks and the lounges where the
Senator's rest and relax. He
cbafes urder restraint, and
hence. after being cooped up
with grip for a week after his
return to Washington, he disre>
garded the advice of his friends
and his physicians in his desire
TO get back into the Senate
chamber. On Wednesdays
sunny day-a sort of bright par
enthesis in Washington's re-
cent disagreeable weather-he
went up to the chamber,
received congratulations of SEN
ators, and attended to some bust
ness. The excitement was toe
great for a weak and nervous
man. That night, or rather
Thursday morning at 5 o'clock,
in his room at the Ebbitt, he
walked suddenly to find himself
very cold. He arose, lit the gas,
and found that he Vas as white
as a sheet, and that his pulse
and heart we're hardly beating
perceptibly. Ringing for a ser
want, he sent for a physician,
and IN the meantime, seated by
tho boutor bo tried tn force III &