The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-25
PRITCHARD THEN AND NOW.

FhIICHAhU THEN AMI NUW.
There are some so-called Democrats
in North Carolina who, influenced by
men or papers drawing salaries by
virtue of Pritchard's recommendation
and McKinley's appointment, are en-
gagged in the business of praising
Pritchard. The truth about Pritchard
is that he is a regulation East Ten
nessee Republican-no worse and no
better than the rest of them. He be-
lieves in the Republican party and has
never pretended to be anything else,
but he stands for every policy of
that party and is in North Carolina
as much the enemy of good govern
ment as the other leaders of the par
ty. He and Butler, working together,
foisted negro rule upon the people of
North Carolina and together they
have maligned their State and it's peo-
pie on the floor of the Senate. They
lead the fight against the amend
ment in the recent election.
At present Pritchard is engaged in
making political speeches in the State
which are patterned after the
speeches of Mckinley and Hanna.
They are the same character of
speecIiesslle made in 1896. Tn October
of that year he spoke twice in Char
Iotte and here is what the Observer
said about him then:
Senator Pritchard's speeches here
Yesterday and last night were a dis
appointment to the few Democrats
who heard them in the manifest I'M
candor and in the inaccuracy of state
ment which marked them. Senator
Pritchard is recognized as strong
partisan, but Democrats who do not
know him we'll have conceived that ne
is a fair fighter and that he is carefth
in his statement about matters OF
facts. His two speeches were effective
with the ignorant but intelligent men
were not to- be caught by them.
It is the same way this year. His
speeches are defective with the ignor-
ant but intelligent men were not to
be caught by them They are mark
ed by manifest uncandor" and "inac-
curacy of statement" as they were IN
1896. the only difference being that
they are less accurate and are more
marked by manifest uncandor' Take
the question of the trusts alone. Han
ma saws 'sthere are no trusts, but
Senator Pritchard had the impudence
to say in speech at Concord, that
the Republicans in the last Congress
tried to pass law ''to amend the con-
stitution so as to more fully legislate
against trusts" and he charged that
the Democrats were hypocritical in
their opposition to trusts. The Con-
cord Standard, in answer to the Sena'
tors misleading statements, prints
the speech made by Hon. Theo f.
Kluttz. who shows that, after being
deaf to appeals to put an end to trust
multiplication and robbery during al
the session of Congress, the Republic
cans during the last six days of the
session of Congress, got up an amend
ment to the constitution, wholly inn
practicable, which could not go into
effect until ratified by three-fourths
Of the States. 1t was a blow at the
rights of the State, and was as crude
as il was impracticable, and was OF
fered only, as one Republican put II
TO put the Democrats in a hole IL
show that such was the purpose OF thu
Republicans, we quote the following
from the New York Sun, which i
such thick-and-thin Republican pa
per that all Republicans will accep
it's statement, though it is in the ma
ture of turning States evidence. Thu
Sun says:
1.-The dishonesty of the perform
ances lies in the fact that there wa
no expectation ON the part of the au
thor of this resolution, or of the Re
puBlicans on the Judiciary Commit
tee who favorably reported it, or o
the Republicans in the House wh'
were willing to vote for it, that thu
proposed sixteenth amendment will
ever amount to more than a campaign
trick of the cheapest and unworthies
description"
If Senator Pritchard would rea'
that paragraph, he would give COZ
rect wkatepent of theMP ttse y hi
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