The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-02


are excluded from the most profitable
foreign markets and that our surplus
cannot be sold at remrneratve prices.
/ speak this not as politicians, but as
a producer and manufacturer OF export
products. Almost all the accumulations
OF my life are invested in cotton lands
and cotton mills, and my deliberate
judgment is that protection is Hinder
ance and not an aid to prosperity in these
avocations.
Some prosperity has come in that bust
ness, but it has come in spite of and
not because of the tariff. And there is
no menace to their future success
which compares in danger TO that depri-
walton of the foreign market which a
continued high tariff police will inevita-
bly, accomplish.
Senator Pritchard has with exceeding
bad taste and poor judgment made him.
self an Issue in this campaign. He has
asked US to consider him or to take his
measure as statesman and as man.
We have done so. Our judgment is that
as politician and debater he is smart
err than we had thought. But as a
statesman and man he has fallen far short
of our expectations. He has made the
most selfish campaign ever seen. He has
asked his friends and his party to sac
rifice everything to him. He has traded
his marty almost out OF existence ana
made its position absurd and ridiculous
He has conducted his canvass on too low
plane. 1t has been an appeal to the
most selfish motives. He has not made
1,tAo q
which could not be translated into dol
lars and cents. He has not expressed one
lofty idea or one noble sentiment. He
has nowhere appealed TO the best that is
in man, but to his selfishness only. He
has perverted history and misstated
facts. He has used arguments which 8
statesman would despise. He is de-
voted worshipper at the shrine of Mann
mon. He sings songs of praise and burns
incense to the golden calf. He condemns
the amendment for not allowing voters
to election day to pay the poll tax OF
the preceding year. He knows such per-
mission would promote corruption, be-
cause worthless men would require tan-
didates' committees to pay their tax or
lose their votes Instead of eleVating
politics such law would tend to in
crease the corrupt use of money No one
knows better than Senator Pritchard. If
Senator Pritchard had the power to ex-
tend the time for payment of poll tax
until election day, he would not exercise
the power He would see the evil re-
sulting and ne would let the law stand
as it is. Yet to make few votes he is
every day condemning this portion 81
the amendment.
Again. in order that he may gain o
triflng advantage he appeals to race
pre- iudice and condemns Us for giving the
negroes opportunities for learning tn
read and write. While we are
endeavoring to learn what our full
duty toward the negro is, and while we
are seeking strength to perform that
duty grievous and unpleasant as that
duty sometimes is. Senator Pritchard,
the greatest beneficiary of the negro
vote. we have ever had-goes over the
State arousina race prejudice and MAX
ing the problem more difficult. Without
gratitude and regardless of conse-
ouences, he would arouse the slumbering
and / hope, dying flames OF race pre-
iudice in the hope of gaining a pitifully
small advantage in politics.
This is the character of his canvass.
What would the conscientious men OF
the North think if they knew that the
only Republican Senator from a cotton
State was every day condemning the
Democratic party for placing in the
reach of the negro the means of Tearing to
read the Bible? Yet Senator Pritchard
| is doing this every day.
| He talks of white supremacy, when he
| is responsible for mast if not al! of negro
office holding and for the foolish and
dangerous ideas put in negro heads by
seeing their race elevated to office. No
negro could have gotten q presidential
appointment without Senator Pritchard' s
| o. X, and he o. K'ed many a one
| (while they could vote.) He talks as il
he were the especial friend and guardi-
an Of the business people Yet it is a
| fact that he is the man who effected g
combination between the estranged and
deluded Populists and the negroes which
turned over the State TO the Fusionists
Whatever of hostility may exist toward
town people-and toward professional
and business men is the result of the
propaganda of SANDER, Vituperation and
|
| Messrs Pritchard and Butler. For al
these troubles he is more than any other
one man responsible
If asked who caused the turmoil and
| dissentions which we have passed
| through, and who did the most to con-
| tinue them, we would point toward
Senator Pritchard and say with the
prophet Nathan. Thou art the man."
| The canvass is over Senator Pritch-
ard has asked the judgment of the peo-
pie upon his candidacy. Their judgment
will be clear and emphatic. He will re-
/ ceive next Tuesday the severest con-
| domination ever visited on a candidate
since this has been commonwealth. II
| January we will choose his successor
If it be Alexander, Craig, Hoke, Watson
| Carr or Overman. or another, We viii
| have a Senator with high ideals anC
| loftier purposes-a truer, nobler. eX-
ponent of North Carolina character anC
patriotism than Senator Pritchard.
A NEGRO ALDERMAN SHOT.