The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-01-30
THE PEOPLE ASK FOR BREAD AND ARE
OFFERED STONE.


Congressional campaign committee. His
Mace will probably be allied by Congress,
man Pearson. AIR. l'ratehard Is quoted
as saying:
..'rh. camnaixa in North Carolina
this fall will Sommaud my closest at
tcnti0n. We have an entire l4eglS-
laturq to elett. and il the Democrats
Shonld carry the State they will at
once undo all that has been done in
the way Of just election laws, We
cannot afford TO let them get GOA
troll. but the fight will he vigorous
one. The populS,S will doubtless
cooperate with us. Us they will see
the necessity at keeping the lseStSla-
tuFe ont Of the BANDS ot the Demo
Gratis"
Senator Pntchard is the only man ever
elected to the United States Senate
from North Carolina by corrupt meth
DDS. and he rs the last man in the State
10 pose as the champion of just election
laws" Ii is had enough 10 import IL
egal negro voters into tire State. as
Senator Pritchard'S friends did in AShe-
vile and elsewhere to gain the election
in 1896. but it is infinitely wone to oo-
tain an election to the Senate through
the bribery aud corruption which secured
Senator Pritcharl's election in 1897.
1t was a scandal uDn the fair name
IF the State that has caused the hlush
If shame to come into the face OF every
lonest man in North Carolina. Not
even during Reconstruction, were such
scenes Of corruption witnessed as cub
minated in the election of Pritchard
In the face of this corruption of the
ballot and of the peoples representa-
tives. obtained by Pritchards close poll
fical friends, he has the indecency 10
SANDER the good men of North Carolina
by proclaiming through the columns of
the Washington Post that the only hope
of 'iust election laws lies in the sue
cess Of the gang of ignoramuses and cor
rupt men who put him in the Senate.
There is not an honest man in the
State who does not know that Republi-
can FUIS III ANoEth NdIuilii means Soi-
rupt rule. 1t is almost always corrup-
ton from top to bottom. When it is not
corrupt, it is Incompetent.
We have no means of knowing what
course the Populists will pursue. We
have no doubt that Senator Pritchard
will buy as many of them with
promises of office as were bought for
him in the last Legislature, and as many
more as are ready to/sell out their prin-
ciples. His conception of a Populist is
that he will do anything for an office.
There are many evidences that there are
many among them. however. who are
tired OF voting to disgrace the State, and
who are getting ready 10 clean the State
from fhe pollution of Radicalism from
Pritchard and Russell down to the no.
gro school committeeman who are in
control of the white schools in many
parts of North Carolina.
For years, before he was a Senator
Pritchard's stock in trade was to de-
nouncc men as honest as himself
Tor alleged frauds upon the ballot. That
was bad enough FIVE years ago. Hola-
ing seat to which he was not fairly
elected. he presents a fine spectacle for
gods and men to prate about Just cleo
ton laws
The attempt 10 cover up the stencil of
Republican rule in State and Federal
governments by talk of election laws.
will not succeed this year. The people.
are tired of FIVE cent cotton and depres-
sion when they were promised high
prices and prosperity. They will not
be led away from the broken promises
made by Pritchard and his party by the
false pretense of just election laws. The
domination of affairs by trusts and the
scandals incident to Republican rule
cannot be hushed by raising false IS
sue. The people are tired of higher
taxes. and reduction of the money in
circulation, of corrupt government, and
wickedness in high PLACES. Senator
P1ftchard cannot drown the demands for
more money, lower taxes, the destruc-
ton of trusts and clean government by
raising the cry of ''just election laws"
They are asking for bread and when
offered a stone they will resent it.
The issue Of 1898 in North Carolina
is 1.-THE White Man and the White Met
all and Senator Pritchard's adherence
TO the gold standard administration will
be denounced from every stump by every
honest silver man of all parties. He
has betrayed all his pledges by consort-
ing with Mckinley and wiring his con-
gratulations to Hanna when he bought
seat in the Senate.
Private John Allen made the House
4 Il.