The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-22
THE GOVERNOR
BADLY SCARED
The Coming Legislature is
His Nightmare.
TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS
MANY PROMINENT REPUBLI-
CANS AG'IN' HIM.
WENT TO GREENSBORO WITH DUNCAN
But Hyams Says They Didn't See Pritchard.
His Excelency Hears Bad Reports
from All his Faithful
Messengers.

Governor Russell is the ''sceerdest'
man in the State.
If the Republicans win the State he's
in an awful fix; if the Democrats viii
it he's in an s'awfuler" fix.
Nobody knows this better than Hi:
Excellency, and he's already begun t
trim his sails accordingly.
In the beginning of his administration
he ran things with high hand, caring
not whom he offended. BY this course
he made many bitter enemies in even
his own party.
With these he is now trying to make
friends. Carl Duncan was the first
Radical bird on whose tail he sprinkled
salt Carl was easy game, and once
caught he set himself to helping catch
Others Even Holton, Dockery and
Pritchard have fallen prey to this gay
pair.
That is. Pritchard has kissed and made
up by proxy and was to have done so
in person, but he was unable, on account
of important business" in Washington,
to meet the Governor and his now faith
flu servant Carl, as promised in Green's
boro yesterday.
The Governor and Carl went up, how
ever, on the train Thursday night talk
ed over the situation with Tom Settle
and other local politicians, told them Of
the great things at stake in the present
election and especially impressed upon
them the Importance of holding the
Legislature.
10 all these Pleading lights the Gov
chips. That's the kind of hair-pin the
Governor is when he wants to be, and
this is time when he has to be.
Reports from no section of the State
are satisfactory to the Fusionists. Hol-
ton brings tidings of divisions, chickering's
and fights in his ranks in the Fayette-
vile section. Governor Russell and
Carl Duncan find things in the west no
better than they left them at Whining
ton and Newbern. And Marshal Dock
cry and Claude Bernard find that about
Elizabeth City the Fusionists are dis
organized and discouraged. Whedbee
will hurt Skinner very badly, especially
in Perquimans. and Small's chances OF
winning out will thereby be improved.
the news. The following special is sent
out from Norfolk, Va: "The situation in
North Carolina is serious, and all indica-
tons point to race conflict. For the
past few weeks disquieting reports have
reached this city concerning the proba-
bility of race collision there. Investi-
CATION shows that the fears that have
been entertained are not groundIess. To
night the report reached here that the
whites were arming themselves through
out the Eastern part of the State, and
that the hardware men had agreed among
themselves not to sell arms or ammunition
to the negroes, or in quantity to any
one. This decision means an effort to
preserve the peace. Interviews with
prominent dealers in arms in this city
show that the report has foundation in
fact. From Norfolk, the merchants of
Eastern North Carolina largely obtain
their stocks, and the perceptible increase
of shipments of the class of goods re-
ferred to unquestionably has dire signif-
canoe. A member of a firm of whole
sale hardware dealers states that his
firm has shipped consignments of arms,
mostly revolvers, to Carolina points with
in the past few weeks in larger quantities
than usual. Quantities or ammunition
have been shipped along with the weap-
ons, and the orders are still coming"
A Democrat who has been watching
the campaign closely and making figures
on the Legislature says the White Mans
party is dead certain of the election of
IS members of the House, and Is Sena-
tors, with a fighting chance for half as
many more. This will give a good ma
jority in both houses.
Whom will ye have to rule over you?
The White Man or the Black and Tan
Gang? Just sixteen days from now and
you must choose.
The Republican 'barrer' has been
opened in Raleigh. One or two of the
negroes who were loudest in their fight
against the Fusion tickes are now hunt
ing around for reasons why they ought
to vote for the Kangaroos. Well Raleigh
ought to have some of that $4,000 cam
paign fund.
At the big White Mans rally at Max
ton 200 red shirts paraded.
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