The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-10
FORCE BILL RECORD.
Said to be the Secret of Re.
port Against Ewart..
A Republican Thinks Ewart's Denunciation Of
Force Bill in Interview Will Cost
Him the Judgeshp.
Especial to News and Observer

Washington, d. c., March O.
The impression grows that Judge Ewart
will not be confirmed, and Senator But
Ter is quoted as saying that either Sen
ator Pritchard or Assistant Attorney Gen
eral James e. Boyd will be nominated,
and if so the nominee confirmed without
objection. 1t is believed by some North
Carolinians here that Senator Butler
would never have waged a relentless fight
on Judge Ewart if Ewart had not fought
Butler for Senator in the Legislature Of
1895 However that may be, few months
ago. there was little doubt that Ewart
would be confirmed. What has produced
the change?
| was talking yesterday with a Repub
lican who is high up" and he said that
Ewart owed his defeat to his opposition
to the Force Bill when he was in the
House in 1890. He said that both Hoar
and Spooner were for Ewart and regarded
Buffers charges against Ewart as finn
sy and slanderous until Butler sprung on
them Ewart's interview, published in the
Asheville Citizen in 1892 Ewart gave
out the interview in reference to dis
trict convention which had been held at
Asheville in which he had been turned
down rs elector on account of his Force
bill record. l did not recall the interview,
and asked my Republican friend if he had
a copy of the interview. He gave it to
me. 1t is from the Asheville Citizen of
1892 Il forget the date) and is in these
words:
.'The use of my name as a candidate for cleo
tor before the convention yesterday was unau-
thOrZed The delegation from my county did
not present my name because l had repeatedly
stated that l would not be a candidate for any
position Had | been candidate however, l
have doubt that ] would have been antagon-
lied by the force bill enthusiasts who appear
to have controlled the convention. These fell
lows still blindly ignorant of the fact that
burn, Wolcott and hundreds of other prominent
Republican leaders, are bitterly opposed to this
measure. They forget that it was killed in
Republican Senate, and denounced by a lead
ing Republican, Senator Teller, as a most
damnable and iniquitous measure framed by a
clique of selfish politicians to stir up race trou-
BILE and sectional feelings. Any man who cham
pions bill that places negro deputy marshaIs
and supervisors of elections around the polls
in the black belt of the South as the Lodge
bill undoubtedly did, is enemy to the black
man, migrate to his and deserves
ignominiouS defeat.
The Republican above alluded to said
that Butler had held this interview back
as his trump card, and had used it to
prejudice Hoar and Spooner against
Ewart 1t is well known that these two
Senators, who control the Judiciary COM
mittee, were warm supporters of the
Force bill and that their partisan feeling
for controlling Southern elections is very
strong. Whether consciously or not.
Ewarts revolt against the party on that
account served to give the Republicans a
prejudice against him, and this particu-
lar Republican, already quoted, believes
that but for Ewarts denunciation of the
Force bill and Force bill advocates, he
would have been confirmed.
Miss Mary Troy Kluttz, who was criti-
cally i'll after an operation for appen-
dicitis, is improving and will get well.
Among the North Carolina visitors to
the city are r. W. Moore, of Charlotte /;
A. f. Posey, of Hendersonville.
Hon. r. d. Gilmer, of Waynesville,
who has been here on business, has re-
turned home He was addressed while
here by his friends as "Mr. Attorney
General
Lydia A. Evans has been appointed
postmaster at Sonoma.
Senator Pritchard and Representative
Linney will speak at Boston before the
Republican club on the 18th instant.
Representative Kluttz has an appoint
ment for a cadet at Annapolis and West
Point. The places will be filled by COM
petitive examination.