The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-20
THE CoNspIRAroRs IN COUNCIL

and Pritchard in Washington IL was
to fix up a plan to cheat the real
whites out of the Legislature n TO
defeat the amendment. 1t was a meet
ing to arrange for fusion. This was
the announcement in advance. 1t was
said that all of the statehouse offices
would be divided out, and, thep plan ar
ranged TO END that political Pariah,
Butler. back to the senate, and listen,
to elect Jeter Pritchard, and three
years after this. This is a mighty
smart plan il it can be made TO work
But will it? Perhaps $4,000 or 1IO,OO
white men may stand iii the way
'eThe best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft aglee."
The smart leaders it is said, hope to
form a combine that will beat the dem
.ocrats. capture the state and its offices
and put the people once more under
the CALLING yoke of negro oppression
and domination. Mr.. ]. A Hollomon,
from whose letter to the Atlanta Jour-
nal we gather the fOreshadowing OF
mongreI performance on the North
Carolina political spring-boards this
wear, sent his to his paper on the 14th
instant:
Among those in the conference are
Republican State Chairman Holton,
Z. c. Duncan, Cy. Thompson, the pop
ulist state leader, H. G. Dockery, e.
s. Bradshaw, G. NJ. Bernferd, Benja-
min Thorp and NJ. ]. Miliken."
a formidable array of political
tramps and small potatoes" Mr.. Hol-
Ioman gave this:
1.-The two parties nave decided upon
a complete fusion On state house OF
fees and in the Legislative county
tickets. The order of the fusion and
the slate will be arranged this after
noon. the republicans have proposed
to take the governor, lieutenant gov
ernor and to make the present lieuten-
ant governor, Reynolds, a railroad
commissioner, giving the populist the
remainder of the state ticket. This Or
der will probably be adopted.
THE fusion candidates for the leg
islature are to support Butler,
list, for reelection to the United States
senate o n the condition that three
years hence the same plan shall apply
to Senate Pritchard, whose term ex-
pires in 1903. The other matter dis
cussed is a fusion against
the constitutional proposed
by the democrats"
That is a noble body of henchmen
and leaders" to conspire to deceive
the ignorance of state and to rob the
.Anglo-Saxons of their inherited. i'm
mortal, sacred rights, to govern and
to build up and establish. But later
news indicates that the result of this
disgraceful, treacherOus poW-WoWlng
was a failure. There is, says the
Washington Post, to be no fusion. 1t
reports that the b"ushwhackers and
conspirators decided to have two state
tickets instead of one. What does that
mean? 1t is a trick no doubt. Linney
was there also. 1t is stated that the
enemies of the people busted on the
division of spoils. Why fuse if grub
and grab and "fxings'' are not in it?
The Post says:
The populists were unwilling to con-
cede so much to the republicans, and
the attempt at complete fusion was
frustrated.
1T is not certain whether further at
fempts at fusion will be made. Some
of the leaders think that two tickets
will be more formidable to the demo-
Gratis, for the reason that many DEM
ocrats who would not vote a fusion
ticket would vote with the pOpuliStS,
and that a populist ticket receiving
only nominal support from senator
Butler and others high in that party
would in reality be a ource of strength
for the opposition TO the democrats"
We venture. to prophesy that the
~pap-suckers and government trough
treaders will get together, hug, KISS
and make UP, and devise a plan by
which harmony and union may be
a-1 ,,,Jar thu inSnirafinn
of the good things ahead for them if
they can only win, they will combine
against the peace, honor, glory and
prosperity of a great state, and seek
to destroy whatever remains of genu-
inc civilization and honest, good, eco
nomical government. Wherever the
carcass is there the buzzards gather.
That is a rather free rendering of a
Bible statement, but it embodies the
sense. There is nothing in politics
truer thar things ill got had ever bad
success" The wisest of Englishmen
said that. There is another saying of
his: Suspicion always haunts the gull
ty mind" Marion n Jeter and Cy
are having a mighty bad time if that
be true. Their nights are sleepless.
The trouble is that they may disagree
as to the harvest. Each is so hungry
and desperate as to respect all confed-
crates. The same wise man suggests
the trouble:
"Honor travels in a strait SO narrow,
Where one but goes abreast"
Let the curtain drop on that foul
scene in Washington, but the con-
tempt of all honest North Caroiinians
will follow them.