Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-20
BEFORE TIE CHICKS ARE
MATCHED.


Senator 'Pritchard, of North Caro-
lima, says that State will give its cleo
toral vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
In view of the recent Democratic ma
Jority of $4,000 this may appear
strange, even ridiculous to many. Mr..
Pritchard gives as reason for the
confidence that he alleges is IN him
that IAN amazing revolution is going
on among the business men of North
Carolina He declares that ION every
question now before the American peo-
pie they are Republicans; both their
sympathies and their interests lie with
the Republican party" He had in his
pocket letters from hundred or
more prominent Democratic business
men all over the State asking for u
conference as to the best means of
getting out full vote for Mckinney"
The Senator, of course, concludes with
the proviso that the Republicans will
carry the State il the Democrats don't
steal it; no speech, interview letter or
other utterance OF II Southern Republic
can would be complete or Ineligible
without that peroration.
Senator Pritchard may be right, and
we would not be understood as CUES
tioning his statement that letters from
hundred prominent Democrats, who
are for Mckinley, weight his inside
pocket, though ii is worth while to OBJ
serve that prominence is Il relative
term, ana that politics and fishing so
By contraries-thc biggest fish always
get away, but the biggest men arc
those we safely land. However. Our
! confidence in this amazing rcvolu-
ton" that Senator Prtichard has de-
tected in the act of fermentation would
be much stronger had he not be,zl act
ing rs the advance agent of similar
| revolutions ever since lie has been an
inmate of the Senate. Revolutions
have way of being terribly dlsap-
pointed There is more fizz and less
substance in the average prediction
political revolution than in anything
that has thus far been invented. And
we are decidedly OF the opinion that
Senator Pritchard's latest rcvolution
is below rather than above the aver
age.
Some Republican sentiment there
undoubtedly is among Democrats, not
only in North Carolina but in every
Southern State where cotton factories
have sprung up. In 1896 many bank
ers and merchants, who were not of
protectionst proclivities. either left the
Democratic party or were cooled in
their allegiance by the issue of that
year: but everything goes to show that
the movement toward the Republican
party reached its high-water mark four
years ago, and that the tendency is
now back to the Democratic party.
The South is for trade expansion; it
is not for Imperialism. The Democratic
party is FOR trade expansion: it is not
for Imperialism. The South has had Il
taste of Imperialism, and the dose was
no where more bitter than in the ola
North State. The people of that com
monwealth have not forgotten its
meaning. nor are they likely to forget
or forgive the fact that every spell
binder of the Republican party, includ-
ing it's candidate for the Vice presi-
dency. is presently engaged in point
ing political morals wherein the PEG
pie of North Carolina figure as mon
stcrs of fraud and oppression.
The Republicans carry North Caro-
lima? Not much; the carpet-bag pro-
paganda will not appeal to the people
of that ancient commonwealth any
more than to Virginians. Senate,
Pritchard should let his political ncu-
a4a-sin4aaer -,rAl4a-lonsei- before
counting his chicks.