Evening star., 1898-09-14
NORTH CAROLlNAFUSlONlSTS
They Look for Majority of Forty Thou
sand
Senator Butler Will Take an Active
Part in the CampnIgn-In Con-
gressiOnai Districts.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondents Of The Evening Star.
RALEIGH. n. C, September II. 1895.
There is considerable talk about the new
election law, and the allegation has been
made that it requires the officials OF a
county to appoint as election registrars
the persons nominated by the chairmen of
the three political parties, each naming
men of his particular party. This is inac-
| curate. as the law does not require any pO-
| litical party to make recommendations or
nominations for registrars Two years ago
there was such a requirement.
The republicans are widely circulating "A
statement that there is a democratic plan
| to have the legislature enact an election
| law which will disfranchise the negro.
| Never was there greater error. The con-
| s1tution gives the legislature no power TO
| infringe in any way upon the rights OF
| suffrage The legislature cannot disfran-
| chise. The people by vote alone
| change the constitution.
Senator Buffers Attitude.
Senator Butler will this week be largely
| in the public eye again. He will be here
! al d the question is what will be his atti-
| tude on the question of fusion? He has
| declared with great vehemence that he
| was unalterdbly opposed 10 anything but
| a middle-of-the-road policy. Now the
other popClist leaders in this state have
| decided on fusion. Popuists who claim to
know the senator thoroughly stated tcree
| weeks ago that he would kick little and
| then fall in line 1t appears that they are
correct and that he will take an active
part in the canvass, even going so far
| to notify the populist state chairman. Cy-
rus Thompson, to arranging some ap-
| pofntments. There are some populists and
| many republicans who wish the senator
would not speak at ALL as they fear some
| awkward complications The fight the SEN
I ator has made this year for straight
ticket has aroused bitter enemies All the
populist element which is in control hates
! him, and actually speaks of him as dead"
| 1t remains to be seen whether he will not
quickly adapt himself TO the eXigencies Of
| the situation ard again assume the control
| of the populist party in North Carolina
which was until last year absolute and
complete. His fight against Senator Iritch-
ard was the cause of the cabal against
| him and also Of his downfall.
Fusion Majority Expected.
Republican State Chairman Hatton says
| his calculation is that the fusion majority
| in November will be 10000. He is travel
| ing almost constantly, trying to arrange
| fusion in the various counties where there
are bitches in the arrangements. He Is
| also devoting himself to the task of har-
monizing the discordant republican ele-
ments in the eighth congressional district,
| so as to have everything solid for n. z.
I.inney there. The death OF J. o. wilcox,
the nominee of the bolting republicans, has
perhaps cleared the situation somewhat for
Linney. Chairman Hatton hopes to pre-
! vent the boilers from making another
nomination and to quiet the feeling against
Linney.
In the fifth congressional district there
is no doubt that Spencer B. Adams, the
republican nominee, will get the populist
Endorsement, which was promised weeks
ago. There is also no doubt that the pop
ulists in effect dictated Adams nomna-
ton by the republicans. In fact, the lat
ter say as much. They also say with equal
| frankness that they dictated the populisr
nomination Of ]. j. Jenkins for Congress in
this 0he fourth) district. The republican
district chairman says the nomination Of
Jenkins is entirely satisfactory to the
publicans, who had sworn they would not
support Congressman Strowd for re-elec-
ton and who took strong measures to pre-
vent his denomination. The republican
convention meets here next week to indorse
Jenkins. 1t Will be a mere matter of form.
Strowd is very sorrowful at his defeat. He
begged the delegation from his own county
to stand by him, but his plea fell on many
deaf ears.
There is considerable curiosity as TO who
will be the democratic nominee for Con-
gress in the fourth district. So far Ed.
Chambers Smith is the only man mentioned
He desires the nomination. He was for
two years democratic state chairman and
a few years ago was very prominent I'm the
free silver movement, of which, by the
way, not one word is heard In the cam
paign in North Carolina this year.
The democratic campaign is conducted
mainly along the color line, and not in
twenty years has there been so vigorous a
fight. Day by day 1t gets hotter and in
scores of ways, by speeches and newspa-
per articles and posters and pictorially IL
is put before the public
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