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DEtlOCKATIC TICKHT.
FOR CONGRESS.
Six tli District John D. Bellamy, of
iNew Hanover. ,
FOR SUPERIOR OOTJRT JUDGES.
First District Hon. George H. Brown,
of Beaufort.
I Second District4-Hon. Henry R. Bry
an, of Craven.
Fifth District Hon. Thomas J. Shaw.
of Guilford.
Sixth District Hon. Oliver H. Allen,
of Lenoir.
ISi-rentli .Distract Hon., Thomas A.
McNeill, of Robeson. , I
lEleycuth District Hon. W. Alexan
der Hoke, of Lincoln., -
KOR SOLICITOR. ."
ISixth IDistrict Rodolph Duffy, of
unsiow.
FORTY NEGRO MAGISTRATES.
Republican papers and speakers
l are trying to create
the impression
Itliiit there are so few negroes hold
ing office A even in Eastern North
Carolina, that the question is not
a&tfli considering Well, let us see
Ihowrit is, and we will begin with
New Ilanover county, which, in-
enwes ?n ummgton, me largest city
in the State. -- !
l' 1 T.TT'1 "V. J V i li J. '
The county of New.Hanover has
Forty Xcgro Magistrates, all duly
commissioned and having jurisdic
tion ami authority over whites and
blacks alike. : . '
The county of New Hanover has
six school committees, and on these
.committees, -there are six negroes
whose duties arc not confined to the
negro schools, but extend to white
seliools also. '
The county of New Hanover has
four or five Negro Deputy Sheriffs,
whose duties bring them constantly
in contact with the Whites. The
only constable for the city of Wil
niington is also a negro.
The city of Wilmington has Four
teen Negro Policemen, including
threersubstitutes.
The county of New Hanover has
a Negro Member of the Legislature
and a Negro Register of Deeds; and
the next Republican nominee for
County Treasurer, it is generally
conceded, will be a negro.
The CLtjj.of Wilmington has three
Kegro Aldermen, and all the Health
I- Officers, (four) ate negroes.
The Collector of Customs of the
port of .Wilmington is a negro, and
in the several departments of the
federal government here there are
-. f - ... t
at least twelve negroes holding
'position's. '
rortv Negro Magistrates in one
comity! Think of that, white men
of North Carolina! And think how
many more there will be unless the
Democrats control the next Legis
lature It is New Hanover
that stands at the head of
the list, in the number of Negro
Magistrates now. But if the negro
votes elect a majority of tbe mem
hers of the next Legislature other
counties will be humiliated too
Mecklenburg and Union, Anson and
Richmond, Robeson and Columbus,
Brunswick and Pender will all drink
of the bitter cup. The negroes cast
120,000 votes for the Republican
ticket in this State. They know
their potter and they will assert it
We ask every Populist in North
Carolina if he ever dreamed that in
voting to elect a Fusion Legislature
he was voting to make Forty Negro
Magistrates lor the county of
New Hanover.: No, there is not an
honest Populist in the State
who believed that his vote was
contributing to the degradation of
the white race, and now that they
have been convinced of their mis
take these Populists will ioin with
the Democrats in electing a Legisla
ture that will undo the great wrong
that has been committed.
The time has come when every
decent white man in North Carolina
should show tne stuff of which he is
made. He must decide now whether
- he prefers white rule or negro rule.
The Democratic party is the white
man's party because it is composed
of white men. The Republican
party is the negro party because it
is composed mainly of negroes.
Forty Negro Magistrates in New
Ilanover county 1 Let every wEite
man in North Carolina know this.
The grabbing European power
are talking about "spheres of influ
ence" in China. But old China
doesn't seem to have a bit of influ
ence in those spheres.
VOL. XXIX.
" atMaTaTSllSnSam .. . f
REPUBLICAN INSURGENTS
The conditions, politically,
are
somewhat peculiar in
Una this year, with
North Caro-
the vantage
ground decidedly with the Demo
crats. Two years ago we were di
vided on the silver question, while
the Republicans were united, and
the Populists stood with the Repub
licans in the State campaign. Now
the Democrats are as solid as a stone
wall, while the Republican party and
the Populist party are both divided
into factions and factions that war
with each other.
In the centre- and the West the
uprising against the bosses in the
Republic an camp has attained such
proportions that they are called in
surgents, and the insurrection is
giving the bosses a world of trouble.
The insurgents refuse to be argued
off or bought off . If they refuse to
be bought off they must be desper
ately in earnest, for there! must be
something very serious in the
way when a Republican kicker
refuses to be bought off. In
the Eighth and Ninth districts the
insurrection is alleged to be against
ring rule," against Republican con
ventions being controlled by Federal
office-holders in the interest of the
men to whom they are indebted for
the offices they holdS
This may be the true reason, but
when was the time in North.Caro-5
lina when Republican conventions
were not controlled by Federal
office-holders? We have seen a
good many of them in our day,
but we have never seen one in
which the Federal office-holder was
not very much in evidence. In
fact, manipulating conventions is
part . of the business of Federal
office-holders, and a very consider
able part. Offensive partisanship
never figured in their vocabulary,
and, none of them have ever been
known to have been reproved for too
much zeal.
They have generally succeeded in
keeping in the background the col
ored brothers who happened to get
into their conventions, but in the
last.:one which met in Raleigh they
were not so fortunate, for Congress
man White (black), , of the Second
district, broke through the barbed-
wire fence and got way up at the
front, and while at the front lec
tured some of the white contingent
for their cowardice in trying to dodge
the race issue and keep the negro
behind the woodpile. He then and
there defiantly told them that the
race issue was here to stay, that
there Were not near as many negroes
in office as there should be and will
be, that more of them were coming
and that he cowardly white Repub
licans who did not like it could get
out of the party, which would be the
better off for their getting out of it.
Western Republicans have not been
in the habit of being talked to that
way by a negro, but in that section
they have managed them pretty
well and have succeeded in
making them do the 1 voting,
while the white bosses held the
offices, and perhaps this colored
assertiveness may not have been
without its influence in starting this
insurrection against' "ring rule."
With such a spirit shown and such
utterances by a bumptious negro,
whose self-conceit has been immeas
urably increased by the fact that he
is the only negro in the Congress of
the United States, these Western
Republicans can see that it is only
a question of time when they will
be called upon to vote for negro
State officers, negro judges, &c
and for the negroizing of the State,
as Wilmington, Greenville and other
cities have been negroized by the
last Legislature.
While they are perfectly willing
to use the negro and get the benefit
of his vqte, this is a little further
than a good many of them care to
go or will go, even at the dictation
of the bosses. Ordinarily they
might stand the political associa-
tion as they" have stood it in the
past, but when it comes to an issue
square out between white and black
then they may conclude that "blood
is thicker than water."
f And then, too, they have seen the
trickery that has been going on for
several years between the Republi
can machine managers and Populist
managers, for spoils and spoils only,
neither caring a copper for princi
ple, but both perfectly willing to let
their "principles lie in, abeyance" as
statesman Pritchard' said he was
in the State convention when the
question of fusion with the Populists
Was first broached. They have seen
this fusion game played, and now
now again proposed, while the only
beneficiaries were the men who were
elected to office' by it. . They have
failed to discover where they or tb
State have been benefitted by
and perhaps they have shared so
what in the disgust that is so general
among honest Populists.
They have seen Governor Russell
and Sena'tor Butler planning and
plotting to form out of the Republi
can and Populist parties a Russell
Butler rltorty with a war-on-the-rail-
roads platf oc m and they have be
come somewhat disgusted with that.
But they have had a good deal" to
disgust them, and a good deal to
provoke an insurrection outside of
the objection they mav have to
ring rule" or the arrogant bossing
of Federal officials.
How the bosses will deal with the
insurrection or how they will go
about suppressing it remains, to be
seen. In the meantime they are
yery much alarmed, for they have
to face the race issue which is being
forced upon them by the more ag
gressive negroes in their own party
and by the Democrats, who welcome
They will either have to take
sides with the negro or against him.
There will be no dodging. They will
not be permitted to dodge, so that
as the situation presents itself now
the Democratic party was never in
a better shape to enter a contest
hopeful of success, nor the Repub-
ican party in a worse shape. What
there is left of the Populist party.
which does not go in with the Dem
ocratic party for white supremacy
will be a yery small factor in the
contest.
AN OBJECT LESSON.
The mob of negroes which gatbp
ered in ttie lower part of Princess
street Wednesday evening, as told
in the Stab yesterday, and for hours
menacingly paraded the street and
streets-adjacent presented an object
esson which every white man and
every well-meaning colored man in
the State should study.
The cause assigned for this gath-
ing ol tne mob was the alleged re
ceipt by the author of that infa
mous assault on the white women
of the State, of an anonymous letter
ordering him to leave the city.
Such a letter may have been re
ceived or it may not, but the fact
that it was an anonymous letter
neutralizes its importance to say
nothing less of it. It was certainly
not written by anyone authorized to
speak for the Democrats or for
the law abiding people of this
community. If there were any
disposition to resent that as
sault by doing violence to the
author, the white people would not
have waited a week to show their
resentment and then contented
themselves with sending an anony
mous tatter. :
Suppose the white people had
shown the same spirit these street
parading negroes did, and had con
gregated on the streets as they did,
how easy it would have been to pre
cipitate a riot that might -have cost
many 'lives? That this was not the
result is due more than anything
else to the self-restraint, patience
and forbearance of the white people
of the community; who On this oc
casion showed such splendid self
control. With such a city government as
we have now mobs are simply en
couraged, and the lawless made bold
by its exhibitions of inefficiency and
lack of nerve to assert the sov-:
ereignty of the law when the mob
is brewing and shows its teeth.
THIS DODGE WILL NOT DO.
The white Republican, Populist
and ' negro leaders, Who have sense
enough to comprehend the enormity
and effect of that infamous attack
on the white women of the State,
which recently appeared in the
negro organ of this city, are resort
ing to various dodges to shift the
responsibility, and break the force
of that unparalleled production, the
most outrageous that ever appeared
in the columns of any .newspaper
published in this State. Some of
the Republicans try to shift th
responsibility by repudiating the
article and the author and the paper
as a Republican organ, although it
was recognized as a Republican organ
up to the time this editorial assault
attracted public attention.
Some of the Populists are resort
ing to a different method to break
its force, by misrepresenting it as a
Democratic trick. Mr. Hill E.
King is chief . clerk of the Agri
cultural Department at Raleigh.
He has struck on this dodge. After
discoursing pretty freely 6n this
monstrous utterance he wound up
as follows:
"I believe the Democrats either dic
tated or wrote the editorial in Manly 's
paper, the Record. It looks to me like
a Democratic tncK ior campaign pur-
This is in line with Rocky Mount
Butler's assertion that white Dem
ocrats connived at the rapes that
were committed in this State, and is
as infamous a reflection on Dem
ocrats as Butler's Rocky Mount
speech was. Hill didn't believe any
such thing; there isn't a man, white
or black, in this community who be
lieves it, and certainly the Republi
can executive committee of the
county, nearly all of whom are col
ored men, didn't believe it when
they met and repudiated the writing,
the editor, and the paper. HiU's
dodge will not work, but i does
show the ineffable meanness of the
dodger. -
The report that Russia and Eng
land had compromised on their
game in China, puts them both in a
compromising position.
Weekly
WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, '1898.
USING THEM AS TOOLS.
Ex-Senator Green, one of the
leading Populists of Wake county,
who is opposed to the late fusion
deal with the Republicans made by
the S. Otho Wilson faction of Pog-
ulists, is quoted as saying:
"I do not think the fusion ticket
will get a Populist vote in my town
ship, unless, perhaps, Mr. Knight
votes it. We are going to clean up
the fusion in Wake this year. I have
never voted for a Republican, and
never will vote for one. The Repub
licans are using us as tools. The only
hope for the continued existence of
our party is to avoid fusion with the
Republicans."
This is another Populist who has
had his eyes opened, and discovered
that "the Republicans are using us
as tools." The surprising thing
about this is that sensible Popu
lists who were persuaded to sup
port these fusion schemes didn't see.
this long ago, and didn't catch on
to how they were being used to
.strengthen fche Republican party in
tms Jstate, and to destroy their own
party.
It shouldn't have taken three
grains of every day sense to see that
hunger for office was at the bottom
of these fusion -schemes, when men
who had no principles in common
got together and' agreed' to act to
gether for a satisfactory division of
the spoils, and then have the monu
mental cheek to ask honest men of
either party to ratify these bargains
and endorse them at the polls. Now
some of them are beginning to dis
cover that they have been "used as
tools," as ex-Senator Green .says,
and that they have been used to
"put life into the dead hulk of the
Republican party," as ex-Senator
Atwater, of Chatham county, says.
That is precisely what the Populists
who have supported fusion have
bean doing, if it did take them some
time to disdover it.
Readers of the Star will remem
ber that we warned'honest Populists
against this when the fusion
schemes were first proposed and the
Republican machine managers and
Populist machine managers fell upon
and embraced each other, and when
they won divjded he booty and
chuckled over how nicely they did it
and fooled the honest men who fol
lowed them.
THAT PENITENTIARY REPORT.
After eight months and much
public clamor, supplemented by a
blunt demand from Governor Rus
sell, who got tired of being held
as a party to ex-Superintendent
Smith's dodging, that long-delayed,
loudly called-for report has made its
appearance, or rather two reports
one being in the shape of a letter
to the Governor by Chairman
Dockery, explaining and apologiz
ing for the delay, and eulogizing
the ex-Superintendent; the other
an alleged report by the ex-Superintendent,
eulogizing himself and
his management.
The surprising thing about these
reports is that the former should
have been deemed necessary when
the ex-Superintendent could talk
for himself, and that the report
should have heen withheld so long
and require so much drumming to
bring it to light when it showed
such splendid management by the
man whom Governor Russell so un
ceremoniously bounced. But Gov
ernor Russell was evidently quite
unaware of the valuable services
this distinguished ex-Superintendent
was rendering the State until
he learned it from the eight, months
incubated report of the gentleman
himself. ; ,
Both the Hon. Claudius Dockery,
chairman of the Board of Agricul
ture, and ex-Superintendent Smith
take swipes at Hon. A. Leazer, the
former Superintendent, who pre
ceded Smith and turned over the
Penitentiary and State farms to him
Some of these swipes were such gross
misrepresentations that Mr. Leazer
felt called upon to expose them,
which he does in a letter under date
of the 24th instant, addressed to the
Raleigh Post. Speaking of Dock-
ery's apology for the delay in prepar
ing the report, he says:
"Mr. Dockery says: 'Theoretically,
the law requires the report of the
superintendent of the btate s prison
shall be made on the hrst day. of J anu
ary.' I affirm that it can be done, and
practically always nas been done nere
tofore. And if a few days' delay were
necessary, how does he account for
delay of eight months, and then re
spond only uoon the demand of the
Chief Executive forced by the public
clamor ? - ,
"Both of these officials affirm in this
so-called report that Superintendent
Smith took charge of the penitentiary
April 1, 1897. Tne records show that
he qualified on the 5th of March
1897. and he notified me the same day,
whereupon I at once turned oyer the
whole business, and after that never
contracted for a cent, never collected
a cent, never paid out a cent. The
statement, therefore, that I was re
sponsible for any business of the peni
tentiary, outgoing or incoming, after
the 5th of March, is without founda
tion. '
"It is stated in Mr. Dockery's letter
(or report) that 'Mr. Smith found all
the farms in a very backward state of
preparation: and indeed upon some of
them very little at all had been done
toward mnVing the new crop.' Mr.
Dockery does not seem to recollect
that in the first month of the Fusion
administration, between-the 20th and
27th of March, a committee of his
board, Messrs. Clark, Peririns and .Cot
ton, together with the superintendent,
visited all the penitentiary farms, for
the purpose of inspecting and receiving
the property. I heard -all the members
of the committee, especially Mr. Clark,
as also the superintendent, express as
tonishment and delight at the ad
vanced and careful preparation of the
lands, Mr. Clark asserting that he be
lieved there was no farm in the State
in such good condition as that before
him. This misstatement is so palpa
ble that it vitiates all other statements
made. The truth is, there were not
less than 7,000 acres of these lands
beautifully and thoroughly prepared
by the 20th of March. If nothing had
been done, which I say again is ab
solutely false, why did the incoming
administration employ my supervisors
to remain and make the crop? And
if nothing had been done till tne 1st of
April, how was such a large crop
made that year?
"As to supplies on hand, thefusion
ists seem to have expected that the
Democrats shonld have provided at
least a year's rations of flour, meat,
etc., for their benefit. We usually
bought such things of this kind as
they were needed every month, and
we expected them to do likewise or as
they deemed best It is admitted that
there was no corn to reach corn again,
because every one knows- the July
flood of 1896 destroyed the whole corn
crop except about 20,000 bushels.
"Much ado is made bv these officials
because they found amongst nearly
400 mules and horses a very few sick,
disabled or worn out animals. We
found it necessary every year to dis
pose of inefficient stock, and to place
them with others fit for the service.
We found the penitentiary in 1893 with
210 mules and horses. We added just
about that number of young and vig-
ous animals during our term, and
the average of the whole was very
high to any one capable of judging and
who is not determined to misrepresent.
If JVLr. (Smith sold odl bales of cot
ton for $20,061.72, as he reports, then
he received only about 5 cents per
pound for it. Hundreds of bales were
sold in February at an average of 6
cents in Norfolk, equivalent to 6 at
home markets, and the price was J to i
cent higher in April than in February.
It is not to be forgotten by these
guardians of the State's interests, that
a large part of the fertilizers, several
hundred tons, were brought from jar
ties who bought much of the cotton ;
and for these, several dollars more
per ton were paid than the stuff was
offered at by other responsible par
ties. Certainly this could not prove
ess than the baldest incompetency.
According to the code of ethics of the
late Ben Butler, a man might prefer
to be called a knave than a fool.
"The officials find much fault with
the Democratic administration be
cause their superintendent, they
allege, exerted great influence to pre
vent an appropriation by the last
General Assembly for the penitentiary
for the years 1897 and 1898. The
superintendent differed with Gover
nor Carr as to the necessity for an ap
propriation, and declined to recom
mend it, though the governor did.
When asked by the superintendent-to-be
and by the Legislative committee
on penal institutions to recommend an
appropriation, he declined to do so,
saying that it should not be necessary
and that the penitentiary could be
sustained in the future as it had been
in
1896 without the people's taxes.
Some other persons, very few, may
have asked my opinion about an ap
propriation; and if -so, I made the
same answer, it is strangely para
doxical to charge that I had any in
fluence at all with that mob called the
General Assembly of 1897. I had no
influence at all with them, and de
sired none." .
Both of these documents, Dock
ery's letter and Smith's so-called re
port, prove too much, for they show
evident collusion between Dockery
and Smith to saddle blame . on ex
Superintendent Leazer, concerning
whom they had not said a word until
they were forced to speak through
these documents. There was no oc
casion for Dockery to say nything
more than to inform the Governor
of the transmission of the report and
give, if he saw fit, the reasons why
it took so 'long to produce it. He
simply, in the effort to render his
party service, sent in this misrepre
senting apology as a supplement to
Mewborne's offensive answer to Mr.
Simmons, but the public understand
that quite as well as they do Mew
borne's letter and understand the
motive that inspired it.
The ex-Superintendent's report,
so-called) proves too much, for
while He had the reputation of being
incompetent if not corrupt, it
shows that he was doing splendidly
(for he says so himself,) thereby es
tablishing either the prejudice or
the blindness of the Governor, who
turned him down as grossly incompe
tent if not corrupt, when he was
showing such remarkable ability,
zeal and fidelity as set forth in that
eight months collaborated report.
How it could be possible that such a
splendid , manager ot convicts,
horses, mules and land should have
achieved the reputation of an in
competent is one of the latter day
puzzles which is quite as mystifying
as how it is that a free silver Pop
who professes to believe in "prin
ciple" can fuse with and support a
gold standard Republican, as some
some of them are now doing.
There are a good many thin things
in this report that these gentlemen
will be called upon to rise and ex
plain before they get through.
JUMPING-JACK BUTLER.
A week or so ago Senator Butler
made a speech at Houston, Texas,
in which he, as reported by wire,
surrendered to the Middle-of-the-road
faction, and declared that he
would call the Populist national
convention at least a month in ad
vance of the meeting of other con
ventions so as to forestall any move
ment for fusion.
Now he is orating in Colorado,
where he seems to have found a
fusion sentiment, and is quoted as
urging in a speech delivered at Den
ver, "co-operation between bis par
ty and all other friends of free
silver."
Star
& !
In Texas he is an anti-co-opera-tionist,
m Colorado for co-operation.
At theiext place, he will be for
co-operation or against it, as the
sentiment happens to be in that do
mam. sutler always Keeps a
couple strings bitched to his
views, and is ready to pull
either string as it may suit for
the time being or the sentiments of
fVirvark n A A ti r o n -v A A a Ion Act i-AlAiAf I
or fixed principles are concerned
a A
ne nasn t any, but is hsh, nesh, or
fowl as circumstances may suggest.
regular jumping-jacic who per
forms his little part and fancies he
is leading while he is only cavorting
He talks about "his party." but he
hasn't any party; what there is left
of it is split up into factions, and
he doesn't amount to much in
either faction.
FOR WHITE SUPREMACY.
Republish in this issue of the
Star the constitution of the White
Government Union, and the plan of
organization. This is an organiza-
ion which has been Called forth by
the peculiar and threatening ; condi
tion of affairs in our State. There
"T- t. j
is nothing secret about it, nothing
in it that any patriotic, law-abiding
white man cannot subscribe to.- It
openly proclaims its purpose, which
is to rescue North Carolina from the
domination of the mongrel power
which has brought disgrace upon
her, and restore the white supre
macy which was dethroned when
his jnongrel power got possession of
the State.
Every white man in the State old
enough to vote, who believes that
white rule is better than mongrel
ule, or negro rule, who believes that
he white people who bear, the bur
den of taxation to pay the expenses
of government should have a voice
in the government, should be
come a member of this organization
and work for better, more honest
and more economical management of
our public affairs.
Every white man, whether he pay
much taxes or little, or no taxes at
all, who believes in the sanctity of
the home, in giving protection to
wives and daughters from insult land
assault by brutal negroes should
join, this organization and work for
the protection of the loved ones at
home.
This is what this organization is
for, to bring State-loving, family -
loving, self-respecting white men to
gether to make a united effort for
North Carolina's redemption from
the mongrels, and for the restoraj
tion and perpetuation of white su
premacy. . . '
. ,
CAN'T DO BOTH.
The man who edits,the Reformer,
the Populist paper published at
King's Mountain, seems to have
some views' Of his own, some re-'
8pect for the principles he professes
and for consistency. In discussing
a fusion deal in Cleveland county
he remarks as follows:
"Last election we slid out of the
Republican end of the county ticket
auietlybut this year we will be more
frank and renudiate the deal onenlv.
We cannot endorse the Kepublican
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and Populist platforms at the same
time. We cannot knowingly stand
with one foot on one and the other
on the other of such ultra platforms.
This is honest talk from a man
who evidently does not believe that
dickering for office is the prime ob
ject of party organization. But
that is the inspiration of the Popu
list leaders who favor fusion with
the Republicans, and urge the
masses- of their party to ignore
their principles and vote for candi
dates whose principles, as far as
they are known to have any, are
diametrically the opposite of theirs.
and who stand on platforms
wliich oppose the cardinal prin
ciples that the Populist party ad
vocates. In the deals thus far made
principle has been entirely ignored,
the dealers having their gaze fixed
on the -offices they are struggling
for and nothing else.
In tms district don't we find
them supporting Office Hunter-Dock
ery for Congress, when he stands on
a straight out gold standard platform
and is running as the regular nomi
nee of the Republican convention?
If he has been making any secret
promises to the Populists; in pursu
ance of which that so-called Popu
list convention at Wadesboro nomi
nated him,, then he is as treacherous
to the Republican party, whose
nominee he is, as he was to the
Populists when he basely deserted
them, repudiated the platform on
which he ran two years ago, and re
turned to the Republican party to
get a nomination for Congress.
No honest Populist can vote for
such" a candidate, for no honest
Ponulist can be a gold standard
man and a free silver man at the
same time.
That Negro Editorial.
The following is from a letter re
ceived by the Stab from one of the
prominent and reliable citizens of
Duplin county: "In Goldsboro, on
Wednesday, the 24th inst., I over
heard a negro politician say to other
negroes that the editorial in the Daily
Record of the 18th would cost the f u
sionists 25,000 to 30,000 votes in the
coming election."
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46
OFFICES AS MERCHANDISE.
It . having been intimated that
Maj. Wm. A. Guthrie, Populist, of
Durham, might be offered the fu
sion nomination for Judge in that
district in the event that Judge
Adams, Republican, be nominated
for Congress, the Major rises to put
his veto on that, which he proceeds
todo as follows
"I want it distinctly understood that
while I feel, as every citizen ought, a
lively interest in political affairs, noth
ing could tempt me at the present time
to become a candidate before the peo
ple for any political office. I am not
a political trader and until the time
shall come, if ever, in North Carolina,
that political honors shall be based up
on political principles, I shall be con
tent to remain simply a private citi
zen, and vote as 1 see nt with the best
lights I can get as to what is best un
der the circumstances to promote good
government I am heartily sick and
disgusted at seeing our public offices
made a matter of merchandise to be
hawked around by political traders for
pure personal gain. Uur theory or
government is that the public offices
are the agencies of government, and
those who hold them are servants ol
the people, but most of the office-holders
and office seekers of the present
day in North Carolina, in practice
have reversed this theory (which is
the true theory) of government.
"Tne traders now have their day,
but it requires no prophet to foresee
that a day is coming, and I hope it is
near at hand, when the traders will
be forced to go out of business and
giye the people a chance to administer
our own State government upon cor
rect principles."
It is quite apparent from this
that the Major has not been a listless
observer of Current events in the
political arena within the past few
years, but it is somewhat to his
credit that he has become disgusted
with the traders who "hawk offices
as merchandise." With the Popu
list and Republican traders 'who
have beejn running the party
machines the theory that "public
offices are public trusts" never did
amount to much, their theory, and
practice being that public offices are
public snaps, and that party organ
izations are Only agencies for secur
ing these snaps. '
With the hypocrisy of the devil
and the effrontery of the totally de
praved they prate of principle and
reform, when they have no more
principle than a dive-keeper and no
more conscience than an egg-sucK-
ing dog. Even the plain people who
haven't been as close to them or had
as good opportunities to observe
their methods or study them, are
beginning to see through and under
stand the mountebanks who have
been trading on their votes. The
evidence of this is accumulating
every day. But the day is coming,
as the Major remarks, when the office-traders
will have to shut up shop
and earn their living in some other
way.
BECOMING ASHAMED OF IT.
Having negroes for school com
mitteemen and for other offices
doesn't take well with the Populist
machine managers in some of the
counties above us. The Populist
committee of Chatham county
seems to be on the lagged edge,
judging from the following which
we find in the Pittsboro Record:
"We are pleased to note that the
Populist executive committee of this
county seems to be ashamed of having
negro school committeemen in charge
pf schools for white children. In the
proposition made last week by this
committee to the Republican county
executive committee for fusion, was a
declaration that they "favor separate
school committees for the white and
the colored races."
The Record very pertinently com
ments on this and shows that the
Populist party managers who fused
with the Republicans and supported
Republican candidates for office are
quite as much responsible for these
negro school committeemen as the
Republicans are. But it isn't so
much shame that is influencing their
action, as stated in the above para
graph, as the Jear of the conse
quences resulting from this putting
negroes over white schools There
was no intimation of disapproval
from these machine managers until
the stentorian protests of the white
people began to ring in their ears,
and until they saw honest, indignant
Porhilists leaving them in disgust
and going to the Democratic party,
which they know will take good care
that negroes will not be put in man
agement of white schools and hence
these managers are taking water and
trying to break off their association
with negroes. They deserve no
credit Whatever for it, for it is not
the respect for their own race, but
prudent fear of outraged public
sentiment that has driven them to
it. It is eosting them votes and
that's what's the matter.
EIGHTH SENATORIAL DISTRICT.
Democratic Convention Nominated Bryan
of Craven and Suns of Lenoir.
Special Star Telegram.
Newbkbn, N. C, August 25.7-The
Eighth Senatorial Democratic conven
tion, held here to-day, nominated
James A. Bryan, of Craven, and Wm.
Suggs, of Lenoir. The nominations
are regarded as strong ones.
There are said to be one hundred
and fifty holidays in Manila, and
the rest of the time the people do a
good deal of loafing.
IN ROBESON
The General Outlook is Full of
Hope for Democratic Suc
cess This Fall.
THE MEITTING AT NEW HOPE.
A Large Number of CrpaUns Present
Speeches by Jno. D. Bellamy, Esq.,
and OthersBellamy Made
Piae Impression.
r Special Star Telegram.
Maxton, N. C, August 26. The
meeting at New Hope to-day was at
tended by more than seven hundred
people, of whom more than three
fourths were fcroatans, the remainder
being white Democrats and Populists.
It was a picturesque picnic with all
the attractions of the peculiar people
whose origin has given rise to so much,
speculation.
The meeting was opened by Rev. J.
A. Blanks, an educated Croatan, who
speaks with remarkable fluency and
vigor. S. A. Edmond, clerk of the
Superior Court of Robeson county,
and bellwether of the Fusion gang,
was the first speaker. His speech was
an appeal to class prejudice and was
full of reckless assertion. He was fol
lowed by Col. N. A. McLean, better
known as "Neil Archie," in an ex
ceedingly strong effort. He paid special
attention to the demagogue Edmond,
and gave him a most merciless exco
riation, which the . audience received
with evident satisfaction. Dr. Nor
ment, the Independent Republican
candidate for Congress, followed in a
speech of an hour. It was straight
Republican stuff, with many loving
references to the negro and numerous
well-timed thrusts at Office Hunter
Dockery, who of course was not pres
ent, although invited. .
Next came Jno. D. Bellamy, Esq.,
.who is already a prime favorite With
the Croatans, and who spoke for an
hour and a' half. He piled argument
upon argument in favor of white rule
in North Carolina. His speech was
strong and compact, and that portion
addressed specially to the Croatans
was persuasive and convincing. He
riddled Office Hunter Dockery with
his rapid-fire guns, quoting his record
on him with telling effect.
George B. McLeod made a short
but very effective speech, Which was
well received. George is a fine cam-
paigner, and will be the next slier ill
of Robeson county
Aaron Locklear, a young Croatan of
good education, made a speech that at
tracted much attention. His appeals
to his people to stand by the Demo
cratic party, which has always stood
by them, were vigorous and striking.
Rev. CaryWilkins, one of the oldest
and most influential of the Croatans,
was speaking when I left about train
time. I have made a very careful and
conservative estimate of the present
political status of the Croatans, based
on diligent inquiry, and conversation
with at least twenty of their leading
men. At a low estimate they poll 600
votes in Robeson county. Of these
not more than fifty have heretofore
been Democratic. If the election were
held to-day I feel assured that 275 to
300 of the Croatans would vote the
whole Democratic ticket. And the
defection from the Republican party
is still going on. Bellamy is very
strong with them and some of them
Call the present movement the "Bel
lamy Risiae." .
The general outlook in Robeson
county is full of hope for Democratic
success. The accessions from the
Populist ranks have not been exag
gerated, and there is no check to the
movement. W. TI. B.
THE COLORED ORGAN.
Roasts Mr. Lockey and tbe Members of
tbe Republican Executive Committee.
Negro Paper in Negro Home.
The Daily Record, the negro organ,
came out from its new quarters, on
Seventh, between Church and Nun
streets, yesterday afternoon. It claims -now
that it is a negro paper, edited in
a building owned by negroes.
Tub only article of interest is one
which takes all the point out of the
resolutions adopted by the Republican
Executive Committee, so far, at least,
as these went to show that the senti
ments of the negro- ditor were not
those of the colored people generally.
The resolutions are printed in full and
there are angry refutations of the
charges made.
The editor inquires, if he was a "mischief-making
simpleton," how was it
that he was sent to Washington with
Lockey not long since on a mission
that was not essentially that of a sim-
leton. He also wants to know where
Lockey got the authority for saying
that the Record would suspend. Then
he says some sharp things about
Lockey's candidacy for judicial"
honors, and says that his course in
assembling the committee and dictat
ing the action to be taken was from
a hankering for Populist votes, upon
which he will depend in his race for
the judgeship.
The whole animus of the article in
fact is directed against the Republican
candidate for J udge. And the impres
sion that the reader gain from it is
that the action of the Republican
Executive Committee is consid
ered by the Record a the bigest
sort of a farce and in no way indi
cation of the feeling of the majority of
the colored voters. Certainly, in view
of this article, in view of the action of
the colored ministers in upholding the
Record, and, in view of the threat
ening demonstration Wednesday
night when it was thought the colored
editor- was in danger, the high sound
ing resolutions of the Republican Exe
cutive Committee shrink into very
faulty insignificance indeed.
There was no excitement about the
Record office last night or yesterday
afternoon. However, it was learned
that there is a liberal supply of fire
arms about the building.
A license was issued yesterday
for the marriage of Albert D. Jones to
Cornelia M. Howe, colored.
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