The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-13
THE ROUGH RIDERS
TEETH CLEAN ON
PR|ICHARD.
Whose Activity in ExpeIIing
Negroes Stirs Teddy's
Bile.
THE AXE is AGAIN RISING
And the Heads Of Lily Whites are Webbing
10 Their FalI---Repub'ican Leaders in
Tie State Moving TO Dethrone
pritnbard
Pri,chard.
Especial to the News and observer.)

Especial to the News and Observer
Washington, d. c., Nov. 11.-There is
a break between the President and SEN
ator Pritchard. The Senator arrived here
early on Monday last and did not see he
President that day, although he came
here for that purpose and knew the
President was going away last night.
The cause of the estrangement is the
expulsion of the negroes from the coun-
Z ellis of the Republican party in North
Carolina and Alabama.
Pritchard went from lister Bay,
where he saw the President, TO the Re-
publican convention at Greensboro, n.
c., on the 2Sth of August last and had
the negroes shut out of that political
meeting and went from there to Alabama
where he was the star actor in the Re-
publican State convention of that State
which took similar action to that of the
North Carolina Republicans
Senator Pritchard said in his speeches
that the action of the North Carolina
and Alabama Republicans was taken be-
cause the situation had been laid before
and the President approved this policy
as the only means by which the Republic
can party could be increased so as to
become the majority party in several
of the Southern States Under these cir
cumstances the Senator was we'll nigh
dumbfounded when he learned of the
appointment of a negro as the collector
of the port of Charleston, S. c., and of
the removal from office Of Mr.. Bing-
ham, of Alabama.
Reliable authority says the President
is really incensed at Senator Pritchard.
Southern Republicans who are here
saw that General J. S. Clarkson is re-
sponsible for the action of the Presi-
dent, and that it is based on the fact that
the Southern States are Democratic and
will be so at the election of 1904, ano
that Clarkson and the President are
bidding for the negro votes in the North
ern States. The Southern Republicans
also say that the action Of the Presi-
dent will cause the establishment of two
Republican parties in each Southern
State. One will be known as the white
Republican party and the other will be
known as the negro Republican party;
that the negro Republican party Will
spring up Immediately and will appeal to
the President for the Federal patronage,
and will send contesting delegations to
the national convention from each South
ern State and Congressional district.
Already it is known that such North
Carolina Republican leaders as ex-Gov.
d. L. Russell, Judge c. A. Cook, of the
Supreme Court: eX-United States Mar
shall J. B. HILL District Attorney \. r..
Holton, ex-District Attorney c. M.
Bernard, ex-Collector j. }. Mott. eX-
Postmaster II. T. Grant, and number of
others of like character, are preparing 10
issue a call early in the new year for
State convention to reorganize me Re
publican party of North Carolina
in opposition to Senator Pritcbard
and for the express purpose of dethron-
ing that gentleman from the further
leadership OF the Republican party of
the State of North Carolina and for the
further purpose of having every promi-
nent Federal officer in North Carolina,
removed before the first of next March.
Pritchard says he intends to maintain
his position. and that Clarkson and
Booker Washington are responsible for
the Presidents back down. which will
keep the Republican party in minority
in the Southern States for the next fifty
wears.