The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-05
REPUBLICANS CONTROL SENATORIAL
NOMINATIONS.

The Republicans are determined to
capture the State Senate We have al
ready pointed out that under the fusion
arrangement in Wake and Chatham the
Republicans were given the Senator
in the deal this year while the Popullsts
had both in 1897. What does this mean!
In 1897 Senator Awater, of Chatham
and Senator Utley, of Wake, voted
against negroizing the Eastern towns,
and voted against he Grant election bill,
which gave the Republicans complete
control of the election machinery in ey-
cry county in the State. The Republi-
cans still have their eyes on that infer
nal election law, and that is the reason
they are robbing the Populists of repre-
sentaion in the Senate wherever they
can. In the next State Senate, if the
fusion between the S. Ohio Wilson fac
ton of the Populist party and the ne
groes in Wake county succeeds, Senator
Utley will be replaced by j. T. III.
Adams, gold-bug Republican, who as
Il member of the House of 1897 voted
to negroize Eastern towns. A Repub-
lican lawyer is the nominee of the ne
groes and Jenkins populsts in Chatham,
and il elected, like Adams, of Wake,
he will vote to negreize the East, ana
will vote for the Internal election law
the Republicans promise to incorporate
into the Constitution Not only so, but
whereas Atwater and Utley voted
against corporation domination, Giles
and Adams would obey Pritchard's or
tIers and he always does the bidding of
political corporations. Is il to get such
Senators that Populists are laboring?
But it is not only in districts where
the Republicans have required the Popu-
list machine to surrender the Senator
ship to the Republicans outright, that
the machine has swindled the Populists
In some districts where the Populists
nominally retain the Senator, the Re
publicans have required the nomination
of a so-called Populist who is nothing
but Republican. Here are few in
stances:
In the observation-disclosures
Caswell district the Populist convention,
attended by only handful of delegates
from two Of the four counties nomi-
mated as the Populist Senator Deve-
reaux Turner, who voted for Mckinley
in 1896. Isn't he pretty man to rep
resent a party that was organized as a
protest against the policies for which
Mckinley stands? In the Wayne-Du-
plin-Pender district DIR. Fox Person, a
Republican-Populist, who made vicious
and violent fight in the last Legislature
to negroize Eastern towns, is the nomi-
nee. He r. Russell's right hand man
Il running the A. and n. G. II. r., and
il known to be as much of a Republican
Is the Wayne county Republicans want
and that is to swallow the whole
thing. negro. hoof, horns and AL. In
.he second Senatorial district, Edgar
Hodges is the nominee of the so-called
popuIist convention. His record in the
asst Legislature was 50 black that the
Caucasian denounced him as the agent Of
he corporations. as traitor to principle,
md proved it. The Caucasian showed
hat Hodges in the Legislature, though
,lected as a Populist, not only bolted
he caucus and voted for Pritchard, but
5oted against reducing and regulating
abroad rates, against a bill to elect rail
Dad commissioners by the people,
against bill 10 prohibit free passes,
lodged on the lease matter, and was
generally known To vote against every
hing his party advocated. And yct,> IN
small gathering of office-holders and
republican Popnlists this man was
FAMED as the Populiet nominee foe the
State Senate. If elected. he will vote
ust like ]. 7. H. Adams, of Wake, Lee
Person, of Halifax, and Person, Of
Wayne and put the negro yoke on the
state more permanently.
Is 1t surprising, in view of such nomi-
ations for fhe Senate that honest Popu-
lists are repudiating the open and fla
rant control of their conventions by
HcKinley's office-hOlders?