The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-11
AS PUBLISHED NOVEMBER %. 1896
IN THE MESSENGER.

4N 4IlC ESSENGER
What do you think will be the out
come of the senatorial contest?
Il hope Pritchard will be elected"
What will be the chances for Guth-
RE and Dockery?
Neither of them will have anv
showing because neither of them can
ever get anything but democratic
votes. The democratic members might
swallow Dockery, but he would be an
awful dose even for them"
But Dockery say he was conscien-
tlously for silver and would have re-
fused the republican nomination after
the st. Louis convention declared
against silver.
Yes. And he was fool enough to
think that somebody would believe
him.. Before the republican convention
ne was pretending to be for Allison. an
antl-free silver man., for president. But
aIter the republican convention turned
him down, then he was so strong for
silver that he could not uppor Nc
hlnley. Nobody ever heard of his
being for silver till Butler picked him
up and him at the republi-
can party. Butler thought that was
great politics. By it he was going TO
d~lslntegrate the republican party. give
russell a shaking ague' and 'skeer'
him so bad that he would come down
NHO populISl CdI1ulQdJe Tor
governor. So out went old Dockery "a
snortin' through the woods, dishing
out exploded unveracities about Rus
SellS buying the republican conyen-
ton and about his knitting the repub-
Ilcan ticket in 1883, and appealing to
repuDllcans to vote for Bryan and
Guthrie and free silver. I hear thar
ne voted for Watson, and l believe it,
Every time Dockery opened his head
ne rallied the republicans to Russell
he was about the sheapest help any,
Oody ever had. He could not have done
better for me if 1 had had him on a
salary and he had honestly tried To
earn 1t. Buffers smart anagement
resulted in forcing Upon his party a
worthless hulk that they were and are
ashamed of and in solidifying the ra-
pubiicans so that in all the state there
was scarcely one vote, not even his
own, which left us to follow Dockerv
Butler thought he was loaded, And he
hred. He busted his gun, but didn't
even skeer the game. However. But
lers case is not hopeless. HI is young
yet. Besides, his follies have not
sprung from treachery, but from a
purpose to advance his own
party. L believe that those republicans
are IN error who think that Butler is
d general who wants to betray his
army by leading them back to the en-
enlles camp for capture, condemna-
tlon n execution. 1 believe that he
IS sincere in saying, as he does saw
mat North Carolina must not be turn
GU W TO be run over by the
democratic machine"
why was it that you did not replv
10 Dockerys attacks on you during the
campaign?
have l not already told you that 7
wanted to keep him going? Besides.
IL consumed too much time in a speech
20 lax up in detail his stupid false
noods. For example, he said that nv
brother, Thos. B.. Russell, went to his
mouse In 1883 to get him to support me
Tor governor. In this there was not
word of truth. 1t was well known
that L would not accep the
Tor governor or anything else in 1883
because l wanted to head off the dem.
ocrats by refusing to run a state ticta+
IN that year. The result showed that 7
was right He said that 1 bottled the
tlcket and caused his defeat for gov
ernor The truth is tina 1 supported
MIN n the whole ticket. I quit nv
private business and lost several weeks
IN tnat campaign, paying my own ex-
penses as I always have. Time was
worth something to me. My personal
earnings have not been confined to
beating confiding friends by borrow
ing their money n paying them I'm
bankrupt notices or desperate COM
promises. / have not followed the pro-
fession of office seeking for a Iivine
indeed, L have never held an office
that did not involve a pccuniary loss
Yes, In 1883 l bowed to the decision OF
the party because of my devotion "a
its principles"