The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-06
SEN. BUTLER'S WATERLOO
THE SENATOR GOES DOWN BY A
MAJORITY OF 16 TO 4.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE
And the Rad-Pop Crowd Claim Big Victory
---AddresSes of Silver Charmen were
Not Endorsed.

tee met in the court house last night
andby vote of sixteen to four called
the Populist State Convention to ASSEM-
bel in Raleigh at ) o'clock u. m, oil
May 18th, 1898.
\ suggestion to endorse the address
of Senator Butler on silver cooperation
was ignored and the Governors sug-
gestion that the committee should con-
slider the case of Railroad Commissioner
Caldwell was also ignored.
The call is to recommend that no NOM
mating conventions be held and no NOM
ations be made in any county or dis
trict until after the State Convention is
held.
If what the anti-Btulerites claim is
true, the Poplist organization in North
Carolina mas broken away from Sena-
tor Marion Butler and under the leader
ship of Ohio Wilson and others given
the erstwihle leader Il very decided
waterloo. The old ratio of 16 to sixteen
for Butler and silver to one against them
-has been changed to sixteen to four
SlNIpSn HSd1uSp IUtlcf anu SILVER
four favoring it.
The Butterflies, however. are whistling
for dear life TO keep theircourage up anG
claim that there has been no real
fight. but merely some differences of
opinion as to the date that the copveh.
ton should met. and that these differ
ences came from sIch questions as the
10Th of May celebration ut Charlotte
"A
fact is fact and blatant arrogant face
that every anti-Butlerite in town ana
all the Republicans are claiming q great
victory and claiming that the action or
the committee is direct slap at anything
like the cooperation of the silver fTecs
as outlined by the three national chair
men, so far as North Carolina is con
cerned.
Ohio Wilson is jubilant. Peace. or
Granville, Garrett, Amis, Cobb, Ham
rick and the fusion pie-eaters are joy
full. III is said that DIR. Thompson and
Hal Aver would have voted with the
Butterflies against the admission OF
proxies and in favor of Buffers date,
May 18th. but they saw that the major
ity of the committee was against them,
SO they fell into l:nc. Fountain. the.
chairman Lloyd, of Edgecombo, Sims,
Of Caharrus, and Sheriff., Of Catawba,
comprised the lonely four that stood
up on the final count. while Peace. of
Granville. Pigford. of Sampson, Otho
Wilson, Hal Aver. Cyrus Thompson, V.
j. Macarthur, Of Clinton. Theo. White,
James Amis. DIR. VIM. Merritt, Il. A.
cobb. Geo. Il. Boggs and A. ID. *.
Wallace broke away and voted for thc
18th.
Senator Butler was not i'll the meeting
when the vote was taken. He had nol
been invited in, rather the date was de-
cided OH. he was admitted and i'm
nnediately gave his reasons III vigorous
language why he favored the 10Th. The
question was re-opened and the Discus
sion as to date was continued for some
time but the other forces did not
waiver, and the matter was dropped
1t is SAID too. that Senator Butler
narrowly escaped n second waterloo in
the shape of the turning down of his
address rs national chairman, calling OH
the silver forces to get together. Mr..
Lloyd mildly suggested an endorsement
Of the address. hut saw III Il moment
that the opposition was going to mus
Ter its forces against an endorsement. so
be quietly let this matter drop, and
there was no second even TO his sllg
;.estiol There were sixteen of the
twenty four members of the committee
present as indicated IN the vote given
above with four members represented by
ltroxic. Besides there We're twenty-five
or fifty of the prominent Populists OF
the State in the city. including Con-
gressmen Stroud Fowler and Sluford,
Moye. of Pitt: Schuken of Columbus;
Atwater. of Chatham: Senator and two
or three other Mitchels, Of Franklin:
Seawell. of Moore and a number of
Others.
1t was claimed by the Butterflies
that these had been invited here to in
tiuence the committee in Senator BuG-
ler'S favor. But they could not do 50.
The clause To be included in Chair
man Fountains call. asking that no
nominating conventions be held and no
nominations made until after the State
convention has assembled is claimed To
he and doubtless is q Butler victory, as
some of the crowd were anxious to pro-
coed at once in the d;fferenet counties
TO arranging fusion with the Republicans
and manning candidates for each ofhce
\ large number of the members OF me
committee and others visited the Cover
nor's office during the afternoon III re-
Spouse to an invitation from him. lie
desired to explain himself on the rail
road rate and other. railroad nEitterse
and wanted. so it is said the Populist
committee 10 suggest to him as to what
action he should take relative to Rail
road Commissioner CaldwelFs resigna
tion. If was the concensus of opinion Of
these Populists however, that they had
mot been consulted about putting Cald-
well in the position and they would
have nothing to with the matter. so the
question was not brought up in the meet
| ing. After six hours Of continuous talk
/ ing and six minutes of actual work the
injecting adjourned ut 30 O'Clock a. M
and the early morning trains took the
three Congressman and Senator Butler
back to ashington and the others to