The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-28

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grooves, arraying the manufacturers
| against the farmers as Butler tried to
array the famers against the people who
| live in towns. Butler succeeded, by COM
bining with Pritchard and his 100000
negro voters. because the farmers con-
stitute 50 per cent. of the population of
the State, and he needed to work up the
prejudice of only a small portion to give
him enough votes to elect himself and
Pritchard. Smith and Hiss are trying
Buffers tactics, but with less wisdom.
If they could induce all the manufac-
| turcrs, mechanics and mill people and
all the other town people to vote on
class and residence prejudice, they would
only have Is per cent. of the voters. Most
of the negroes have been disfranchised
OVER PRITCHARD & CO.'S EARNEST
PROTEST. The appeal of Smith and
Hiss, is. therefore, seen to be not only
unpatriotic and dangerous to continued
good feeling between the people living in
towns and country, for their interests
are in the main common. but it is as silly
and as foolish as it is wicked and I'M
worthy.
There is one other appeal in the Smith
circular. We quote it in full:
Another matter of grave and great
Importance, is the election of q Legisla-
ture in North Carolina, this year. We
want-we need-a Legislature free from
that spirit that creates offices for the
special benefit of it's members, and wan
tonly attacks the judiciary for purely
partisan purposes. Again, it is impOr
tant, because it will choose a United
States Senator to succeed the Hon. Jeter
G. Pritchard. Shall we have that
patriot succeed himself or shall we al
low his great office to be prostituted and
the people of the State msrepresented
by man of the calibre of Locke Craig:
These are questions that must be an
swered positively by the patriotic yeo
many Of this great State"
Did you ever read anything more surely
showing that it was penned by a dema-
gogue? In 1895 and 1897 there were
Legislatures controlled by Pritchard
the patriot" Everybody who wants a
repetition of those disgraceful bodies
should vote against the Democratic
ticket, for a return of a Republican
Legislature would be followed by the
same sort of legislation, lobbying and
revolutionary proceedings. 1t is readily
admitted that Pritchard is the best
leader in his party. That is more of a
censure of all the other than praise of
Pritchard. But why vote for Pritchard?
1t was Pritchard who out Butlered But
Ter in advocacy of free silver in 1894.
1t was Pritchard who Whited George
White in putting negroes in office in
1858 It was Pritchard who on the
floor of the United States Senate SANDER
ed the white people of North Carolina
who rescued Eastern North Carolina
from the negro domination he and his
agents bad put upon the people. What
has he ever done, except these things
and voting against Confederate pensions,
and voting for pensions for deserters'
pensions, to entitle him to the vote of the
industrial interests? Has he built any
cotton mill? BY the Smith test set up in
advocacy of Hiss his election would be
a calamity industrially."
AS to the successor of Prtchard this
PAPER has no candidate. Either of the
six able gentlemen named would repre-
sent the State in the Senate with ability.
The slur at Mr.. Craig is born of igno-
rance and malevolence. Without under
estimating the ability of Mr. Craig. it is
not too much to say that as a lawyer,
statesman, orator and legislator he is the
superior of Mr.. Pritchard, and that the
poltcies for which he and the Demo-
scratic party stand mean an hundredfod
more for the continued progress and
prosperity of the State Enthusiastically
than the policies for which Mr.. Pritchard
and Hiss stand. Not only so, but the
position of the Democratic party in North
Carolina does not put dollars above prin-
ciples, does not seek to bring every senti-
ment and conviction down to the level
of How much did it COST" or what
dividend will it pay?" 1t gives every
protection to business, to manufacturing,
to capital, but it gives no special privi-
lege to any and does not elevate the
dollar above the man as does the policy
of Pritchard Hiss and all other Republi-
cans.