The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-21
He is N0N-C0M INITIAL
ISSUED \ t'kASh 10 HOLTON
AND THOMPSON.
MUST CONE TO Hi or GO TO THE WALL
He Can Mash Them as Flat as a Pancake and
He Now Threatens 10 Do So by Way
of Retaliation for Past
hkais,

Buffers giving EN- trouhle--the flu
sionists. / mean.
But that's the Kind Of hairrm the Sen.
ator is Unless he's the whole circus.
clown and all, he won't play.
He amt hccW plaS5Ng much this cam
paign He has hc>>u showed under too
deep several times ef late. They didn't
think then they Ryv>st~l linn, They find
now they do 80 yAey>r> trying 20 thaw
him out.
They GOT him 10 make enc speeeh-at
Jacksonville last week. His speech
didn't suit. He didn't endorse fusion.
True. he didn't exactly kick over the
traces and denounce il, but his speech
was ii colorless. namby-pamhy sort of
thing guarded and non-committal.
1t was the hristling of the eats back
which calls attention to the sharp claws
that may or may not be unsheathed, ac-
cording as the hair is rubbed the right
or the wrong way. Holton and Thomp-
son have taken the hint. They sent for
1.-THE gentleman from Honeycutts."
Monday, in response to their invitation
he came up from his home in Elliott
City.
lie was received here with open arms.
Holton welcomed him: Thompson sent
his greetings. All the smaller fry bowed
down and exclaimed. Great, great is
the mighty Butler"
The Governor sent his trap and office
bog to the station to convey the Endless
Chain to the Mansion. There he was
entertained in royal state until he went
1orr L Tol..
companied him to the depot, gave him
some parting benedictions and turned
him over to DR.. Thompson, who escort
ed him as far as Goldsboro.
And what happened to the Senator on
his visit here? If | may judge by his
conversation at the depot, as he was
waiting for the train, and the solicitude
of Holton and Thompson, his visit was
not bowling success from their stand
point
On the other hand. if his guarded non
committal words are any index, he is
still open to conviction. But that convic-
ton, / am told, can only come through
compliance with certain conditions which
the Senator. while here, laid down to the
powers of fusion.
You have sought to destroy me and
take away my power from among my
people. Reinstate me in their favor or
I'll crush you. Promise me a reelection
TO the Senate that | may thereby pre-
serve my party's identity and keep alive
its principles. Refuse and III expose
You and your methods, and it will be
such an exposure as will fiatten out you
and your hopes like a pancake"
The Endless Chain from Honeycutts
used not these exact words in the con-
ference night before last but the above
in substance is what he said in diplo-
matte language.
Holton. Thompson and Russell, all
heard it with dismay for they all want
that Senatorship, and they want it bad
They tried to reason with the .Samp-
son Huckleberry" but he intimated
that the time for reason had passed and
the time for action was at hand.
The Governor suggested the posi-
bility of a bluff on the part of so ac
complished politician, but the Senator
scoffed at the idea and gave his word
for it that he meant every word that
he had said, and more. Now Buffers
word politically speaking. has seen its
best days. 1t is rather frayed around
the edges and thread-bare in the middle
and will not pass for much, but | pawn
it for what ii is worth.
When | saw him yesterday morning
H0lton had him backed UP in a corner
portraying the beauties of Fusion and
the delights of negro rule. The Sena-
tor looked rather bored, l thought, for
there was that tired feeling air about
him and far-away look in his eyes.
AS he twirled his mustache and
stroked his carefully-trimmed Van
Dyke, and that perpetual ballet-dancer
smile sat upon his lips, there was a
wonderful resemblance in the face to
that of a fox.
What do you think Of the political
situation, Senator" l asked, when Hol-
ton stopped to get breath.
''Oh. it's all right Don't see how it
could be better"
! For whomT'
Honest men,
'And whom do you call honest men? ?"
Men who practice what they preach.
Men who claim to be for silver, but in
this campaign are saying not word in
its behalf are not honest men,"
"What are they"
''They are hypocrites, and they belong
to the class which the Bible puts lower
even than murderers, robbers and drunk
ards
Are you preaching silver?'
''In season and out of season"
"How then can you stand these gold
bug Republicans. such fellows as by
friend Holton here?"
They are not hypocrites. They have
the courage of their convictions They
are for gold and they say So they don't
pretend to be for silver
How was it, then. that you said
nothing in your Jacksonville speech
about fusion?'
THE day | spoke there the county
convention met and put out a ticket