The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-01
SAYS THAT THE PRITCHARD
POPULISTS NOMINATED o.
II. DOCKERY.
THE CONSPIRACY STILL AT WORK
The Caucasian Warns PopuIisis that Fedora
Office Holders, Like the Dockerys, are
Trying to Control Populist Nom
nations They Succeeded
in the Sixth District.

'Thc pritchard Populsts did it by
the aid Of Republican manipulators,
said Mr.. Il. f. Keith. of Wilmington
referring to the nomination of Colonel
O. II. Dockeryf for Congress in the Sixth
district by the Populist Convention.
Mr. Claudius Dockery manipulated
the Convention. and he does not claim tc
he anything but a gold bug Republican
He has three or four offices, 50 | have
seen il stated"
Mr.. Keith, who has Il nephew sick in
Camp Dan Russell, was here yesterday
to see him, and expressed himself free
ly about the Convention and about the
D0ckeryS, saying that Colonel Dockery
tried to get three nominations in 1896
and finally ran for Lieutenant Governor.
Mr.. Keith came within three votes
at one time of receiving the nomination.
and he or some other silver man would
have been named if the silver men had
been in control of the Convention. As
it, is. the Populists are governed by Re
publicans and Pritchard PopuiSts IA
name for those Republicans who are
masquerading as Populsts) and there
was forced on them candidate
who was vouched for by his brother as
a staunch Republican. who was nOmi-
mated by convention of negroes and
scaawagS, who nj the same time en-
dorsed McKinley's administration. trust
domination. gold standard, bonds, negro
officeholders and all.
THE CONSPIRACY STILL AT
WORK.
This weeks Caucasian. under the
head "Th6 Conspiracy Still at Work, -
foretells the very plans employed to
nominate Dockery in the Sixth district.
Its warning reads like the writer was
on the spot at Wadesboro, and saw the
methods employed to defeat Keith and
Shaw. and put up an old fashioned
Radical, who endorses McIiinley's adj
ministration. it is as follows:
at is reasonably certain that some
corporations and monopoly money was
contributed to try to control the recent
popuist Convention in this State. but
the conspiracy failed. The conspira-
tors, however, are still at work. Cor
poration and monopoly money will be
used to try to capture the Populist con
ventions in every Congressional and Jul
dicial district, as we'll as county and
senatorial conventions which nominate
candidates for the legislature. Federal
patronage is also being distributed
wherever it can be used, and especially
in the First Congressional district t.
control Populst conventions. This is
just the method that has been adopted
by monopoists to corrupt the two old
parties. The same methods. precisely
are being worked to corrupt the PEG
pies Party. Those who b0lted then
party in the last legislature and went
over on the side of the gold standard
and the Southern railroad will be put
forward every time that the monOpolists
can capture a Peoples Party convention
Let every true Populist be on guard"
They evidently were not Ion THEN
guard" in the Sixth district, and the
news chat reaches Raleigh is that til,
better class Of Populists are resolved
not to he into 6. Is. g.. g.. 6. .66. &
not to be led into the support of the
Radical gold bug named for their sup
port.