The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-12
LOCE REPUD|ATfS
THE STATE TICKET
Col. Harris Declares He Will
Not Vote 1t.
SAYS IT WILL BE BEATEN
Thinks the Governors Friends Will
Not Support 1t.
SAYS IT WILL BE BEATEN
AN UNSPOKEN SPEECH WORTH READING
Mr. Harris Predicts For His Party Repetition
of the Forty Thousand Majority Disaster
Of 1892. There WILL He Says,
L. - Io.c1 Hopu,cc
be no Joint Canvass.


The fight in the Republican party of
this State has not yet ended. On the
emphatic other hand it seems to be just
now getting we'll under way
The last contribution to the fervid
literature on the subject comes from Col.
J. c. l.. Harris, the Governors close
friend and adviser.
Mr. Harris talked freely yesterday to
a News and Observer man ABOUT the
failure of the convention to endorse Gov.
Russell and its effect upon the Republi-
can party in North Carolina.
WILL NOT SUPPORT THE TICKET.
He acknowledged that the Governor s
attack on Pearson was mainly due to
Pearsons opposition to "a generous en-
dorsement Of Governor Russell's admins
tration--such endorsement as the facts
OF the last two years plainly warranted
and demanded" And Mr.. Harris added:
This action of the convention absolves
every friend of Governor Russell from Cd
legation to support the Republican State
ticket if they see fit to take this course
viii any of them take that course
he was asked.
Il have no doubt they will he re-
Piled 1T is difficult to see how any
friend of the Governor can support that
ticket without endorsing the action Of the
convention toward the Governor. Any of
his friends who do this will thereby stul-
tify themselves.
"Will you support the Republican State
tclzet?"
mo I'm not going to vote for it."
But you did not so warn the cOnven-
ton"
THAT UNSPOKEN SPEECH.
mo was not given an opportunity. Had
I been able to have obtained the floor
/ should have told them that SO far as
l could see the whole policy of the North
Carolina convention had been mapped out
in Washington with a view TO the control
of the negro votes in New York, Ohio. In
diana and other Northern States for Nc
Kinley Otherwise the convention would
have been willing TO have taken the same
action that.the Populists did in regard to
the Amendment. That is. they would have
left every voter to exercise his own
choice as to how he would vote on it.,
without making his action thereon a test
because they feared that it would be
charged this fall in the Northern
States above named that the party had
deserted the negro of the South.
4 should have told them further that
the refusal Of an endorsement of the Gov
ernor (since he was justly entitled TO it
and wise leadership would have forced
it into the PLATFORM would not carry
oh, oirl,t will Hpoin n
sisted of 240 delegates. of which number
200 were Federal office holders.
MEANS CERTAIN DEFEAT
''As to Mr.. Pearson ! should have called
attention TO the fact that the endorse
ment of Governor Russell in the platform
two years ago was wrung from Pear
sen by the threat to carry the war into
his district and defeat him for reelection
to Congress that year
Further. and one CT the main things
should have told them was that l stood
up alone in the Republican State conven-
tion On September eth. 1882 and opposed
the nomination of q Republican State
ticket prophesying its defeat by 10000
majority. When the votes were counted
it was defeated by AZ 600. I should have
insisted that the political conditions eX
listing in the Republican party now are the
same as those existing in 1892: that the
party is no stronger now than it was
tion that the nomination of a State tick