The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-26
The Fusionist Drag-Net is
Three Tickets.
VOTER TAKES HIS CHOICE
But he is Urged to Vote the Butler
Holton Document.
BAILEY SAYS THEY'VE PLENTY DOODLE
A Federal Officer Sent to the Coast Counties to
Rally The Federal Officials There. The
Hon. Stump Ashby Let Loose
on the People.

Hon. Stump Ashby Let Loose
on the People.
positively that the Fusionists have had
printed three separate and distinct tick
cts printed.
One of them-the Fusion ticket headed
by Thompson-is meant to be voted by
all good Populists and Republicans.
The other two-a straight Populist and
a straight Republican ticket-are meant
to use Buffers and Holtons own allitera-
ton, "for fool folks who are against
Fusion"
The Fusion ticket was printed by Barnes
and has already been distributed. The
straight tickets are now being printed
by Uzzell and are not meant to be thor
oughly distributed.
They are just blind, "for fool folks
who are against Fusion"
The plan is to distribute few of the
straight tickets at places where 1t is
known positively that there are Populists
or Republicans who will not vote Flu
sion ticket, and might, unless they can
get straight ticket, support the Demo
cratic nominees.
Such q. ticket, however, will be offered
them by the managers only as last re-
sort, all Republicans and Populists alike
being urged to vote Fusion.
''You can easily see," explained a Re-
publican yesterday, "that we will gain
much by this arrangement. If Populist
votes a straight Populist ticket he votes
ut hal IF
Fusion ticket. If Republican votes a
straight Republican ticket, he likewise
votes half the Fusion ticket. Of course
we'd much rather he'd take the whole pill,
but if he won't-why then We give him
half and anybody in the State but Dem
ocrat can vote one of those three tickets.
See?"
Today is what the Democrats call Clut
Day and there has perhaps never in tie
history of the State been so many big
political meetings held on any one day e.
there will be today.
Nearly every Democratic speaker in
North Carolina has an appointment to-
day to speak at some big rally, AMI many,
thousands will hear the doctrine of White
Supremacy preached.
Aycock speaks at Kenansville.
Ransom speaks at Charlotte.
General Carr and Craig at White Cross
Glenn at Lincolnton.
Osborne at Thomasvile.
Mclean and Pou at Gatesville
Guthrie at Gulf
1t will be great campaign day in North
Carolina.
Yesterday morning Butler bought a
L.
on the train and sent him off to make
some speeches.
Butler accompanied Stump to the train
Texas and with his battered greasy hat
and sad looking long coat he would re-
semble nothing so much as a Mormon ell
der, did not his incarnadined nose and
blushing cheeks betray an intimate &C
quaintance with all forms of branch wa
ter.
Butler accompanied Stump to the train
and saw him safely off, then seemed to
breathe sigh of relief. The Endless
Chain was very minute in his instructions
to this Gamaliel, come all the way from
Texas to teach us. He told him what to
say and what not to say, warning him
of the pitfalls the wicked Democrats will
set for his unwary feet and bidding him
beware always of the festive red shirt.
United States Marshal Henry c. Dock
cry left yesterday for Dare county to
make some speeches in favor of a contin-
uation of negro rule in North Carolina.
st is a small county and long ways
off, Butler explained to him, "but it has
one member of the Legislature and tie
majority by which he is elected is al
ways close. Once that majority was only
one"
Dockery was chosen to canvass the
county because he is Federal Office
holder, there being quite large number
of government employees in the county
life saving station and custom house Off
cials. From Dare he will go to Pamlico
and one or two other close coast coun-
ties.
Among the prominent Fusonists in the
city yesterday was c. G. Bailey, treas
urer of the State Republican committee.
He came down to grease the Endless
Chain from Hunnicutts and says the
, Fusionists have money to burn. He de-
clares that the west is all right for the
Fusionists, but acknowledges that they
are afraid of the result in the east
Inc w lHuoOl IICu6cI Vi tulO WOOh W.
tains the following, which is worth its
ink here:
''Space forbids an extended notice of
the speech of our townsman, Hon, Fran
els ID. Winston, at Ahosky on Monday.
He was in distinguished company and
he bore himself with ability and credit.
His portrayal of the campaign of 1898
was splendid. He likened it to the build
ing of Jerusalem by Nehemiah. He said:
why, exclaimed the prophet of old.
Should not my countenance be sad when
the city, the place of my fathers sepul-
cher, lieth waste and the gates thereof
are consumer And he got permission
of the king to go to the land of Judah and
rebuild the wall. Were all the sons OF
Judah glad to know that the wall was
to be rebuilt and the old land restored
Net at all. There were evil spirits there.