The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-04
THE POLITICAL SIAMESE TWINS
JIM AND JETER.


ard objected strenuously because Mr..
Craig linked his name with that of Jim
Young in describing the evils and bosses
of Fusion rule.
1t was not Mr.. Craig who forever
Linked" together the names of these two
eminent Republicans in the political his
tory of North Carolina.
Pritchard never objected to the 'link-
ing in 1894 when he and Jim Young con-
spired together to put negro rule upon
the people of North Carolina.
Pritchard did not object to the ''link-
ing in 1895 when Jim Young was well
come visitor to his rooms in the Park
Hotel, his trusted friend and boon politi-
will in the Legislature and helped elect
him to the Senate.
Pritchard did not object to the link
ing in 1896 when Jim Young was on the
Republican State Executive Committee and
was cheek by jowl with him in the nefa-
rious councils that perpetuated vicious
and disfraceful rule in North Carolina
Pritchard did not object to the link
ing" in the Legislature of 1897 when.
through his agents in the Legislature,
he helped Jih Young to steal the seat in
the Legislature to which Needham B.
ID
Pritchard had no criticism of the "link-
ing when Jim Young, acting with his
other agents, stole the vote of Wake
county and afterwards by fraud helped to
nominate Russell for Governor of North
Carolina But for Pritchard's advocacy
of Russell in 1896 Dockery would have
been nominated. Everybody knows that
Russell was nominated by the most in
famous frauds ever committed in party
conventions.
Pritchard evidently had no repugnance
to having his name linked with that of
Jim Young when PRITCHARD WROTE
A LETTER TO JIM YOUNG PROMISING
TO MAKE JIM YOUNG POSTMASTER
OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH.
Pritchard was never heard to dissent to
the linking" when. for fear it would
hurt the party, he persuaded Jim Young
not to foreclose his mortgage on the Raj
eigh postoffce and accept a position in
the Internal Revenue office in the city Of
Raleigh.
Pritchard continues the linking by
keeping Jim Young in the position in the
Internal Revenue office at Raleigh. Other
negro ce-holders, appointed by Pritch-
ard, having lost the power to help him
have been kicked out by Pritchard, but
Jim Young is safe in his job. At Smith
field Pr:tchard said he would turn out
all the negroes whose appointment he
had secured. Since then, two days after
ex-senator Buffers public card favoring
Pritchard for Senator is published
Pritchard gives Buffers brother a place
in the Revenue Department heretofore
filled by the negro Shepherd. But jim
Young stays. He stays because Pritch-
ard keeps him. He thereby keeps his
name linked with that of Jim Young
Noedoubt, now when Jim Young's negro
associates whom he bossed. have lost
their vote, Pritchard objects to having hi:
name "1inked" IN PUBLIC SPEECH OF
PRESS with Jim Young, but he keeps il
'linked" there by keeping Jim Young IL
office He will not remove Jim Young
They are inseparably linked together
Jim is not what some scientists would
refer to as S"the missing link" He is
more like the Siamese twin link" IL
politics When Pritchard wants Dave
Lane (colored) to go to Danville, Va, Sc
as not to be in the Radical State Con
vention, Jim is his go-between, th'
link When Pritchard wants no negro
in the Fourth District Congressional Con
vention, Jim Young and Ed. Johnston, thu
two negro ofice-holders who have beer
elected delegates conveniently absen
themselves When Pritchard wishes t
: play to the galleries and claim to be
lily white, he sends for Jim Young-hi
"link"-and Jim gives the wink to tn
negroes to get "a little further from thu
road" and to growl enough to make tn
Democrats think the negro is mad at
Pritchard & Co.
The Democrats could cut the name Z
jim Young off the cornerstone of thu
white deaf and dumb institution, pu
there by the grace of Prtchard and Rus
sell. but not even the Democrats ca
erase the record of the Fusion govern
ment which forever links together tn
name of Jeter c. Pritchard and Jir
Young as political twins in the disgrace
full government of North Carolina tina
begun with the election of Jim Young t
the Legislature and Jeter Pritchard t
the United States Senate.
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