The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-25

| that the Fusion party was at the bot
| tom OF the sea unless they retraced their
steps. During the time that Mai Guth-
RE was urging his views with strenuous
effort, if Pritchard had a word to say
! against the disgraceful actions of his
| party, nobody heard of it, The Senator
! from Mitchell, his disciple, was a
| leader in opposition to the appropriation
| for the monument, and his vote on that
question was in keeping with Pritch-
ards vote in 1885 against the principle
of pensioning ex-Confederates A word
from him would have passed the bill
when it was defeated by % to 8, but he
did not give that word, ana his organ
! then in Raleigh Numbered against it.
Maj. Guthrie soon got some Fusionists
| in line and on the 2Sth of February.
Grant, of Wayne, introduced new bill
appropriating $4,000 for the monument.
| and made big speech in favor of it. He
and others, FOR POLITICAL EFFECT
ALONE, changed front and supported a
bill carrying the same appropriation, they
had defeated. But for the voiced indig-
nation AGAINST the Fred Douglass adj
| iournment, the insult to the memory of
Lee, and indignation caused by
the defeat of the monument APP
preparation, the Legislature of 1895
WOULD NOT have appropriated dollar
to the monument. They did it under
duress and coercion of an outraged pub
lie sentiment. They were scourged and
driven to do it. 1t is a piece of cheek
and presumption therefore for Prtchard
to claim any credit for his party for the
last $4,000 appropriation. His claim
that his party appropriated $4,000 is
shown not to be true.
But, let us see, even after Maj. Guth-
RE convinced some of the gang of the
political necessity of passing the bill how
unwillingly the Fusionists voted for it.
On the third reading it passed the Senate
by the vote of 81 to 20, and WOULD
HAVE FAILED EXCEPT FOR THE
| VOTES OF DEMOCRATS. In view of
these facts how can Pritchard claim any
credit?
When the bill was on its passage one
Fusion Senator, Lindsey, of Rockingham,
is thus reported by the papers as letting
the cat out of the bag:
Senator Lindsey, tPop). of Rocking
ham, said the Senate had voted down
similar BILL but since that the House of
Representatives had adjourned in honor
of Fred Douglass. That was a mistake,
/ he said. and THERE WAS SOME SIG
! NIFTCANCE IN THE FAVOR WHICH
THIS BILL NOW MET. To build
monument to the Confederate dead could
not rectify the mistake OF that adjourn
| ment."
When the bill came up in the House
thirty eight Fusionists voted against it
and twenty seven Fusionists voted in
favor of it, 1t would also have failed
in the House, but fer the solid Demo.
cratic vote Bryan, of Chatham, opposed
! it, saying he would not be controlled by
attacks by the News and Observer.
| Turner, of Mitchell, (there Pritchard 5
word is law was wrought up to a high
pitch and spoke earnestly against the APP
preparation. Henderson, of Wilkes,
against the appropriation Hunter, rep
resentative from Pritchard's own coun-
ty, who put Pritchard in nomination for
the Senate fought the appropriation and
declared: II will cheerfully vote against
this bill" There is not baby in Madi-
son county who does not know that a
word from Pritchard would have caused
Hunter to vote for the appropriations
Instead of saying that word, the indica-
tions all point to the probability that
| Hunter was voting as Pritchard wanted
him to vote. He was voting exactly as
| Pritchard had himself voted in 1850.
Campbell. of Cherokee, another Pritch-
appropriation, that the dead should take
care of themselves" Gentry, another
Pritchardite, said he thought "thc men,
cries of the war should be buried out of
sight he was in favor of digging hole
and burying all monuments Sutton, who
introduced Pritchard at Fayetteville
| Yesterday, was excused from voting, but
said 1.-The people have had enough of
this war cry
The spirit of the Rc-pop-li-can Legis-
lature of 1895, about which Pritchard g.
Co, are now Dragging as it relates to
Confederate soldiers and the real South.
ern sentiment, can be easily gathered
from the actions of that body. lnasmuch
! as that Legislature was composed OF men
who did the bidding of Pritchard and
Butler in everything, the best way to
learn the policy advocated by Pritchard
and Butler is to read the proceedings Of