The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 20, 1896,
IN THE MESSENGER.

IN THE MESSENGER.
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 any
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 says he was conscien-
tiously 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
he was pretending to be for Allison, an
ant1-free silver man, for president. But
after the republican convention turned
him down, then he was so strong for
silver that he could not support Nc
kinley. Nobody ever heard of his
being for silver till Butler picked him
up and chunked him at the epubli
a party. Butler thought that was
great politics. By it he was going to
d~isintegrate the republican party, give
Russell a shaking ague' and 'skeer'
him so bad that he would come down
in favor Of the pOpulist candidate for
governor. So out went old DOckery "a
snortin' through the woods, dishing
out exploded unveracities about Rus
sells buying the republican conven-
ton and about his knitting the repub-
lcan ticket in 1888, and appealing to
republicans to vote for Bryan and
Guthrie and free silver. q hear that
he voted for Watson, n I believe IT'D
Every time Dockery opened his head
! ho liz fhn D-----
He was about the sheapeSt help any
! body 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 it. Buffers smart
resulted in forcing upon his party a
worthless hulk that they were are
ashamed Of n in solidifying the re-
publicans so that in all the state there
was scarcely one vote, not even his
own, which left us to follow Dockery.
Butler thought he was loaded! And he
fired. He busted his gun, but didn't
even 'skeer' the game. However,, But
ler's case is not hopeless. He is young
yet. Besides, his follies have no
sprung from treachery, but from a
I laudable purpose to advance his own
party. I believe that those republicans
are in error who think that Butler is
a general who wants to betray his
army by leading them back to the en-.
emies camp for capture, condemna.
ton and execution. I believe that he
is sincere in saying, as he does say
that North Carolina must not be turn.
ed backwards to be run over by the
democratic machine"
Why was it that you did not reply
to Dockery's attacks on you during thu
campaign?
Have I not already told you that
wanted to keep him going? Besides
1T consumed too much time in a speech
to take up in detail his stupid false
hoods. For example, he said that m.
brother, hos. B.. Russell, went to hi
house in 1888 to get him to support M,
for governor. In this there was no
n word of truth. 1t was we'll knows
that 1 would not accept the nomination
for governor or anything else in 1885
because I wanted to head Off the dem
ocrats by refusing to run a state tickle
IN that year. The result showed that
was right. He said that I bolted tn
ticket n caused his defeat for gov
ernor. The truth is hat I suppOrte
him and the whole ticket. I quit m,
private business n lost several week
in that campaign, paying my own eX
penses as I always have. Time wa
worth something to me. My persons
earnings have not been confined t
beating confiding friends by borrow
ing their money and paying them i
bankrupt notices or desperate com
promises. l have not followed the pro
fession CT office seeking for a living
) Indeed, I have never held an offic
that did not involve a pecuniary los
r Yes, in 1888 I bowed to the decision
the party because of my devotion
its principles"