The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-31
PR|TCHARD THE MAN
WHO HAS BLUNDERED
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Loge Harris Says the Senator
Caused Defeat.
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THF DEMOCRATS viii WIN
THE DEMOCRATS WILL WIN
A Fight Will be Made Against the
Revenue Ring.
APPEAL MADE TO MCKINLEY AND HANNA
Mr.. Harris Declares That the Juggling With
State Tickets Was Fraud Perpetrated
Against Both Popusts and
Republicans.

There is open and pronounced re-
volt in the Republican party to the
Rule of the Revenue Ring.
Even in the State campaign, just
closing, there has been much NUT
tering, and the management of the
party affairs by Federal office holders
has been an element of weakness to
the Fusionists.
With the opening of the National
campaign this factional war will
break out in earnest, and the anti
revenue crowd, headed by Russell and
his friends, will make trouble for the
present management of the party to
the extent that Mckinley and Hanna
will be called on to say who's who in
North Carolina.
At least that is their program.
Discussing it yesterday Mr.. j. c. T..
Harris, one of the best known Repub-
licans in the State, and Gov. Russell's
close friend, had this to say:
Governor Russell and his friends
intend to invoke the cooperation and
assistance of the conservative men of
the State who are Democrats in the
State election but who are National
Republicans on the Presidential ques-
ton, in the work of reorganizing the
Republican party in North Carolina
Immediately after this election, and if
Mr.. Pritchard and his revenue ma
chine will not surrender the manage
1nent of Mr.. McKinley's canvass in
this State to these and other McKin-
ley Republicans, determined war
fare will be made upon them to the
extent of appealing the matter to the
President and Mr.. Hanna; and if still
they are permitted to conduct Mr.. Nc
Kinley's campaign in this State and
disaster follows their leadership, as it
certainly will follow, they must bear
the responsibility for it.
IF by the first or middle of October
next, the National campaign develops
as | am sure it will, that Mr.. McKin-
ley is to be elected, hands down, there
will be an even chance to carry this
State for him, provided the leadership
is in other hands than that of Mr..
Pritchard and his revenue machine. =
Speaking further of the present
campaign, Mr.. Harris said it had been
q series of plumbers from beginning
to end, and added:
''The Republican party in this State
has degenerated into a ring of Federal
office-holders, and the best thing that
could happen to it under its present
leadership is for it to be crushed to
pieces. The campaign as managed
by Mr.. Pritchard and Mr.. Holton has
been one series of blunders from it's
conception to it's end.
THE Democratic majority in Wake
county this year, for instance, will
not be less than 1000, and will pro-
badly reach 2,000-the largest ever
known in its history. Mr.. Pritchard
can see in this result the effect Of his
treatment of Maj. j. b. Hill and other
Wake county Republican leaders. So
far as lam concerned, | should pro-
badly have remained entirely inactive
after my announcement that l would
not support his revenue State ticket
had not Mr.. Pritchard chosen to make
the Sippehaw postoffice in this coun-
ty an issue with me. i think he will
find that this little postoffice matter
has affected all the counties of this
Congressional district, and perhaps
my old county of Rutherford, where
i was born"
Are you going to vote the Fusion
ticket?" / asked.
81 am not" was the emphatic an
yswer. II shall not support that ticket
for the reason that the convention
that named it refused to endorse Gov.
Russell, thereby absolving every
friend he has from any obligation
to support them or their action"
''Will you support the Democratic
State ticket?"
II shall certainly vote for the
amendment and for Chas. b. Aycock.
] have made no secret of my inten-
ton to do this Mr.. Aycock will give
us an administration that will be
clean, honest and progressive in all
departments. With him in the Gov
errors chair there will be no retro
grade in the affairs of State.
II have no doubt in the world that
the majority, both for Aycock and
the amendment will be 10000. The
fatal blunder was made when Pritch-
ard, Holton g. Co. accepted the
amendment as the issue in this cam
paign. 1T gave the Democrats the OPP
portunity to draw the color line and
make the race issue. There never has
been campaign fought on the race
III tI15 botdlC VI CtiiSi
that it wasn't fatal to the party that
accepted the negro's cause as an is-
sue.
IF Mr.. Pritchard had not forced his
election in 1897 by disrupting the Pop
uIist party the disaster of 1895 would
not have followed, and he more than
any other man will be responsible for
the disaster ON Thursday next. lie
put his personal ambition in the scale
against tho control Of the State by
the PopnlistS aud Republicans and
by 80 doing brought ruin and disas-
ter to these parties, for which the
people will hold him responsible.
Something Of his methods may be
seen in the manner and process by
which the Fusion State ticket
was "a week or more ago fixed up here
by Butler and Holton The
manner in which IL was done was an
attempt " perpetratc q fraud Oh botls