The Atlanta constitution., 1898-10-10
HANNA UnFORhS
DISTRESS FLAGS
The Big Sponsor of President Nc
Kinley Puts Up a Cry for Help
to Save the Party.
SAYS THE CHANCES ARE SLIM
They Make Desperate Appeals for
Money To Save Them-Meaning
of Visits To Washington.
BY Jos: Ohl.

Washington, october 6.-The republicans
of North Carolina are on the run. That
they are badly demoralized has been dem
onstratel in Washington during the past
few days, when leaders of the party have
been here crying out loudly for aid.
Senator Pritchard Chairman llolton and
Former Congressman Tom Settle have all
been engaged in an effort to make the ma
tional administration through the national
the congressional committee, produce
funds with which to carry that state. IN
the newspapers these republican leaders
have been putting up the usual blum OF pc
ing certain to carry the state and even to
make gains in the congressional delegation;
but in the secrecy of the party counc!lS
the picture they paint of republican pros
poets in North Carolina shows nothing but
black clouds.
These leaders happened in Washington
just at the time when they knew Mark
Hanna was to be here In Mark they rec
ogniZe the empress dowager OF the admin
istration and they knew that If they want
ed to get results the thing to do was to
get 20 Hanna This they have done, but
with what success cannot be said Pre-
sumably they have had their troubles. One
member of the party has made no secret
Of his disgust al the fact that the north
crn republicans have no sympathy with
their struggling brethren in the south and
acknowledge that the committee had not
given the financial al that Prtchard and
Holton and Settle thought ought to be
given.
Gearchers Badly Disappointed.
In their disappointment they have carried
the matter to the president, hoping to en-
list him in their behalf Several visits
have been made to the white house. To
the guileless reporters who have inquired
the purpose of these visits Senator Pritch-
ard has talked about seeking to have troops
stationed in North Carolina and has made
other suggestions equally far from the true
track. But ! know that the real reason Of
the visit was a search for campaign funds,
and | know also that the search has not
been as successful as the searchers had
hoped.
\ northern congressman who IS in close
touch with the congressional committee
told me this evening that the North caro-
lima crowd has something very much like
the blind StagGcrS ana that the Appeals
they Fave been making are almost piufuL
"Thoy see they are beaten said he, "un-
loss they are able to get hold of a lot of
money. They confess that if they are beat
en- this time there is no chance Of getting
control Of the state again, and that would
mean not only the defeat Of the candidates
for congress in the different districts, but
would retire Pritchard at the end Of his
term. viii they get II? Why nothing Ike
what they are asking. They have he'h
plainly told that the chances are too strong
Iy against them to warrant the expenditure
Of anything like the amount they ask, es-
pec.ally as every dollar the committee has
been able to raise is needed much worse
in other parts of the country.
"Thesc southern republicans" he added
"are always putting up a poor mouth and