The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-23
pRITC HARD PIROUETTEs.

| Ranks of Chucky,'' East Tennessee. has
told The United States Senate, and the
galleries particularly how the white men
of North Carolina have conspired to DIS
| franchise the negroes and most of all
those of his adopted fellow citizens whom
he is pleased to dignity by the respectful
! and happy title of poor and ignorant
whites For weeks a waiting country
has bated its breath that it might lose
no whit of the nice things touching North
| Caro!nians that the gentleman from
| East Tennessee was understood to nave
| slowed away somewhere back of his
| larynX. The country has been AMPLY
| gratified 1t was more rantankerous
| TRADE, more malignant misrepresenta-
ton Of the State of which he is the al
| legged representative, a more unbridled
and partisan harangue than was to
have been expected even from a third
| rate politician spurred to fury by the
| imminent end of his brief elevation to
power. How pleasant the sound Of il
must have been to the revenue doodles
who have been tlocking to Washington
| for three days in anticipation Of the
! event.
| In the breast of the intelligent and
patriotic North Carolinian this speech Of
| Mr. Pritchard's must inspire divers
emotions. 1t was largely a reply to the
| speech Of Senator Morgan on the same
resolution, as heretofore printed. When
| he compares its laundering English. lts
rabid craftsmanship, its traduction Of his
own people. its lame attempts at cone
| stitutional argument, with the calnh
| lucid, dispassionate statement of facts
and of law by the Senator from Ala ba-
ma the feeling of the citizen is one of
| humiliation that North Carolina should
be so represented. When he reflects
| that Mr. Pritchard, for the sake of max
| ing political capital and escaping the
payment of postage, was Wiling III the
nations highest forum to declare that the
| worthicst citizens of the State he repre-
sents. the men who uphold its civ-lliza-
ton. make and enforce it's laws, give
| dignity to its name and stability TO Its
| institutions, when he reflects that Mr..
Pritchard has thus publicly accused these
men of conspiracy to destroy popular
government and individual liberty, OF
rlott!ug to biennially steal elections and
to commit perjury at the polls the eiti-
zen may be pardoned an outhua'st OF
righteous Indignation. This, all the
more. that hundreds of the men SO ac
cuscd gave their best blood freely to
preserve popular government before
pritchard was even a citizen Of the
State.
And what was the occasion Of this
latest and most fragrant insult OF IN
honorable people by representative M
| known alike to public propriety and to
pride in his State and people? THAT Mr..
| Pritchard might ask the Senate of the
| United States TO give vote OF CONT
dence in the heterogeneous agglegat ION
known as the Republican party i'll North
Carolina: that he might air the political
grievances Of diScredited fusioniSin
with the country for an audience; that
the Senate might decide whether it will
stnItify itself by the passage of an I'M
potent resolution and condescend to play
at peanut politics to crafty the spite OF
an individual Senator.
In 1893, when Senator Pritchard saw
that the white men of North Carolina
were bent on repudiating negro rule
and negrophilistic demagOgucs, he
threatened them with Federal bayonets.
In 1900 when the same white men show
that they intend to make the reputation
complete and permanent he conjures up
the scare crow of a Senatorial resolu-
ton The last will be as futile as the
first. His threat of Federal bayoncts
| increased the Democratic majority; the
attemit to have the United States Sen
| ate NEEDLE in affairs that concerns this
| State only will strengthen every worthy
| citizen of it in his determination TO he
Il
| Mr. Pritchard's party.
Ry one class of his constituents Mr..
| Pritchard stands as stoutly as can be
| desired. With regard to the whites.
even of the Republican faith and order,
| he is rather lukewarm. But whom I.
comes TO the negro his panegyric and
| his disregard of facts know no bounds.
He declares with a solemnity BETTING
| the occasion that the negroes have
''never acted Extensively toward the
whites" What have the people Of Viii
nlington. of Newborn, and of the other
towns in the East to reply to that as
scrtion? That Mr.. Pritchard in view Of
facts that are the common knowledge
of every intelligent citizen of the State
should have gone the length of making
such a declaration on the floor OF the
Senate is sufficient commentary on his
entire speech That white women Were
slapped in the face by buck negroes: that