The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-09
CONVENTION CALLED
The Republican Committee
Name the Day,
IN RALEIGH JULY 10Th
A ROW IMMINENT BETWEEN
RUSSELL AND PRITCHARD
FACTIONS.
NEW COMMITTEEMAN ARE ELECTED
The Committee is Almost Solid for Prtchard
and Against lin Young
the Lonely Exception.
the Lonely Exception.

The Republican State executive com
mittee at its meeting yesterday called Il
State convention to meet in Raleigh
July Goth. 1t elected Rollins, of Bun
combe, and Hanshaw, Of Caldwell, III
place of Robinson and Walton, deceased.
1t took ND the case from Cumberland
county. and discussed the fight there be-
tween the Slocum faction and the SUIT
ton-Waddell faction. but decided not to
reorganiZe either of the county organlza-
tions as against the claims of the other.
Fusion was discussed informally.
Pritchard has the committee in his IN
side pocket. That fact was demonstrated
at the meeting, and with two exceptions
this is the same committee that was APP
pointed by the convention that nominate
ed Russell for Governor, and these two
exceptions are Thomas Rollins, son OF
Postmaster w. w. Rollins, of Ashe-
vile. who was elected yesterday IN the
place Of X. o. Patterson, deceased, ana
NJ. n. Hanshaw. postmaster of LenoIr
who was elected in place of r.. ). Wal
ton, deceased This is net gain of one
for Pritchard. There is hardly any
body who will deny that when this COM
mittee was appointed it was RusScil
committee. but the Pritchard pie was
the biggest. and the slices he has dealt
out fixed the committee for him. To be-
sure. Russell has succeeded in holding
Jim Young. to whom he has distributed
pie, hut Pritchard has about landed all
the others except perhaps Norwood. of
Granville. who is the only man on the
committee who has not been provided for
He perhaps is wondering where he IS
at.
But there is Il warm time a little fur
tier on. and there is going TO be some
political hair-puling before the wrangl2
is over.
Russell and his faction are whetting
their razors. and when the festival is
held on July the Goth, ''there'll be razors
fiyin' in dc air." The committee as stat
cd. called the convention to meet in Raj
eigh on July Goth.
This was very natural thing to do,
hut the date had hardly been fixed be-
fore ]. G.. Logan Harris had appeared
in the committee room and was making
Il vigorous speech against calling a con-
vention at ALL He talked the committee
to standstill. but it had no effect. AMI
neither the convention nor the date were
reconsidered. Loge and Jim Young walk
cd off together and the way they planned
ibI Il DbIlbHIuiittlll VI L IlttudTi : IhIll-
fcations when that convention meets
would he interesting to know.
There are fighters on Russelrs side
ard they declare that the Republican
convention has got to endorse Russelrs
administration, or they have got to come
right up to the scratch and refuse to do
it.
II is said by Pritchard's friends that
the regret of his life is that he ever al
lowed Russell to be nominated for Gov
ernor and it is said by some of RusselPs
friends that the regret of his life is that
he ever allowed Pritchard to be elected
to the United States Senate
Their friends are mainly those whom
they have fed from their respective pie
counters. There are thousands of dis
appointed pie hunters who don't care n
snap for either Of them and who are
awaiting an opportunity to so express
themselves
An old-fashioned Republican melee is
coming on apace.