The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-16
THE DEADLY RECORD
IN BLACK AND WHITE
When and Where Pritchard
Voted Against Pension Bill,

Senator Fritchard wants the support
Of the voters of North Carolina.
Senator Pritchard has a record.
Senator Pritchard voted against the
first bill to pension disabled Confederate
soldiers in the Legislature of 1885.
Senator Pritchard is the author Of the
deserter bill.
Senator Pritcnard says the Democratic
administration has been extravagant
The voters of North Carolina do not
forget They are normal. They have
memories.
The voters of North Carolina hold
very dear those old veterans of 65
The voters of North Carolina have
pensioned them because they revered
Them and at a sacrifice to themselves.
The voters of North Carolina hold very
low in the scale the deserters from the
cause of the Southland.
Yet Senator Pritchard wants and asks
for the support of the voters of North
Carolina!
The cheek of it! Excuse the slang; it
is SO expressive at times). 1t is like
unto that of a brass monkey. What a
gall the man has, What cheerful nerve!
The man who voted against the first
bill to pension disabled Confederate sold
iers actually fathers the bill to pension
deserters. Consistency, where is thy
blush? Comment is unnecessary. 1t would
be a relief to cuss.
The man who wants to spend $140 000,-
600 pcnsioning Union soldiers and desert
ers refused to give one cent to the de-
crepid heroes who struggled through
hunger, cold, want, disease and wounds
cut of pure devotion to cause and coun-
try.
And not only did he not want to give
a helping hand to the old comrades tot
tering to the grave, and not only does he
want to pension deserters, but he turns
around, too, and calls the Democrats ex-
travagant.
That record of Pritchards is no matter
of hearsay. 1t is down in black and
white, and this reporter has seen it and
reproduces it as follows:
The House Journal for the Seventeenth
day of the session of 1885, Friday, jan
uary %, records that upon the question
of the adoption of the amendment of Mr..
Thompson to stand as section Of the
bill, Mr. Busbee demanded the ayes and
noes. In the vote that follows, Mr..
Pritehard's name does not appear The
journal says after the announcement OF
the vote:
MIR Jockey has leave of the House to
explain his vote; he asks to be excused
from voting, and the House refuses to
excuse him. The members of the minor
ity who abstained from voting under the
call for the ayes and noes are required on
a call by the House to vote as they are
called; on motion of Mr.. Glenn, the doors
of the hall are closed by the door-keeper
to prevent Withdrawals from the hall to
avoid the act of voting"
The News and Observer of Saturday,
January 9th, 1885, in its report Of the
House proceedings of the previous day,
says in reference to this vote:
eAt the conclusion of the rOll-call and
before the vote was announced, Mr..
0verman called the attention of the
house to the fact that there seemed to
be some lodging on the part of the Re-
publican members. and they were then
allowed to vote. which they did, many
of them trying their utmost not to vote.
According to the journal the Dill is
taken up again on Friday, January 3oth.
and is passed on its second reading the
vote being S6 to 13. Among the thirteen
noes occurs the name IliCOAla>u'
On Tuesday February Bird, the bill
came IN on its third reading. The ayes
and noes were called by Mr. Henderson,
and the name of Pritchard again appears
in the list of noes. 1t is recorded that
he explained his vote.
Senator Pritchard, with the other Re-
publicans. seems to have tried to dodge
the vote. until he saw ii was no use.
And the door keeper had to be called
upon the close the doors to help the
dodgers from escaping.
How nice it would be for some poll
ticians, if there we're no records but
there they are. There is no escaping
them. They are deadly, some times