The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-12-25
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the 21st instant, l notice the following
pa-agraph: Former Senator Butler ves
to-day gave .Postsnrster General Pavne
number OF papers relative to the Wick
Csc. Among the letters filed was one
Written by DR.. II. F. Freeman, Populist
Jof some prominence, who made state
ments tending to confirm Senator Pritch-
ards allegation concerning Vick's alleged
to the Republican party
/ presume the Butler referred to in
this paragraph, is the same Butler who
recently misrepresented this State in the
Senate of the United States. The same
Butler whose name in this tate is synony
nous with scoundrelsm, treacherv
and knavery The same scurvy and I'M
grateful wretch who in 1895 was elected
to a seat in the United States Senate by
members of a General Assembly who rem
resented 100000 negro voters, and but for
whose votes. there would not have been
baksSS 3lozen of Republican represen-
tatvf that body.
Tt ame Butler whose seat was scarce
ly xsrn in that body, before he was
sc' ming and plotting to defeat his col
lie De o. Pritchard, to whose re- cleo
ii n be was hound by every tie of honor
q. n good faith. The same Butler who
I'D nj escorted to the most treacherous,
al M dcsrlcable methods to defeat Pritch-
a 4 and would most certainly have ac-
CO nplished his purpose, but for the fact
THAI minority of his followers rebelled
against his notorious and infamous
couIse The same Butler whose treach-
eroVs conduct in that matter so incensed
the recent people of the State, that in
tbe campaign following he did not dare
To make speeches in certin sections of
Ihe State, lest he should be covered with
i coat of tar and feathers.
II seems Incredible that this viper is
low @ting as the mouthpiece of Senator
kit<6ara y = a Republican administra
!, shington.~, know little qfsesfe
- of The Wick controversy
Is generally conceded that Wick is
Lsrro of mSEt excellent character fine
sjness capacity, and has made most
4 rteous and fSliee offfcfalr
ri oykin, who is recommended for the
os1 ition, vice Wick. is a PopuliscSa clerk
, 81 a establishment phere spirituous
c uors are openly sold, and is said to be
rnan of small calibre. / am sure he is
i ON his political proclivities.
LAS every Republican postmaster in the
state, without exception. has been
recommssoned, l am at a loss to see why
j competent and courteous official
should be compelled to give way to an
insignificant Populist, simply because OF
the color of his skin.
1t is now said that Wick has not been
faithful to his party. That l do not be-
lieve, and Buffers assertion to the con-
trary only makes the charge more doubt
full Doubtless he voted against the
mongrel combination submitted to the
Republican voters of the State by what
is facetiously known in this State as
Mr. Pritchard's convention" In view
of the fact that negro delegates of the
character and standing of Cheatham, who
for three terms represented his district
in Congress, were summarily kicked out
CT the convention solely and entirely on
account of the color of their skins, 1t is
scarcely to be wondered at. that self
respecting negroes would endorse the act
by voting for the nominees of that con-
ventiOr
The controlling idea of the manlpula-
tors of that distinguished body seems TO
have been to utterly ignore the blacK
allies who had made them what they
were and by so doing to hoodWlnk the
so-called Independent Democratic voters
into supporting the mongrel ticket nomi-
mated. But the result was roaring
farce.
Never in the political history of the
State was a more singing repuke ADMIN
istered to a so-called poiucal party imam
was given to the mongrel ticket nomi-
mated at Greensboro.
An ANALYSIS of the recent vote in the
State shows that in the nlnety-seVen
counties of the State the Repuphcans
elected only five members OF the Senate
and fifteen in the House. and many OF
these by a very small margin, Inc
counties of Bladen, Beaufort. BERTHE,
brunswick. Currituck, Camden, Carteret,
Cacwau Cbowan. Columbus, Craven,
Dare Dublin. Edgecombe, Gates, Gran
willie Greene. Halifax, Harnett, Hert-
ford HYDE Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Mont
somerv Nash. New Hanover, Northamp-
ton. OnsIow. Pamlico, PasquotanK,
Fender. Perouimans, Person, Pitt, Rlch-
mond Robeson, Sampson, Scotianu' Iyr-
rell Vance Wake, Warren, washington
Waync and Wilson. forty-slX counties IN
all gave Mckinley in 1896. 5000 votes.
In tho recent farce the same counties
pave Ionp the head Of the Republican
ticket only 14,429. net loss Oh 5000
votes. :, Doc
In the county of Edgecombe in 1896,
Mckinley received S,SSS votes.
In 1902 though Senator Pritchard made
two campaign speeches in that county
one at Rocky Mount and one at Tarooro,
only two votes were cast in the . entire
count ~" TO- the Republican State ticket.
The ros,it was equally farcial in the
county Of halifax, and other eastern
counties sts q and yet this section was as. sup
,,oa. az the stronghold of the So
AS Congressman blackburn taseti0 ,nt
expressed it, lit was H'