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FOB CONGRESS.
Sixth Pistrict--John D. Bellamy, of
New Hanover.
FOR SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. 1
First DiSf-ict Hon. George H. Brown,
of Beaufort.
Second District Hon. Henry R Bry
an, of Craven. ,
Fifth District Hon. Thomas J. Shaw.T
of Guilford.
Sixth District Hon. Oliver H. Allen,
of Lenoir.
Seventh District Hon. Thomas A.
"McNeill, of Robeson.
Eleventh District Hon. W. Alexan
der Hoke, of Lincoln.
FOR SOLICITOR.
Sixth District Rodolph Duffy, of
Onalow.
Forjudge of Eastern Criminal Circuit ;
Posse v Battle, of Edgecombe.
Now Hanover Count v. ' ,,.
FOB STATE SENATOR.
Tenth District W. J. Davis, of Bruns
wick. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Jos. T. Kerr and Geo. L. Peschau.
Sheriff Walter G. MacRae.
Treasurer H. McL. Green,
ierk Superior Court Jno. D. Taylor.
Register of Deeds W. H. Biddle.
Coroner Dr. W. W. Harriss.
Surveyor Jos. H. McRee.
Commissioners Roger Moore John
Barry, W. F. Alexander.
Constable ( Wilmington Township)
Wm. Sheehan. Sr.
PLATING THE SAME OLD FAKE.
The Republican and, Populist
campaign speakers always assume
that the people whom they address
arfe ignorant, and easily imposed
upon $ad therefore they try to im
pose upon them. The once famous
Republican machine manager, Col.
Ike Young, of Raleigh, had an
axiom, -'lie like h 11 and stick to
it," which he commended to the
Republican speakers of his day, and
they are Tollowing it up yet.
Some of them are now telling the
people to whom they talk that if
the Democratic party gets back into
power it will disfranchise the Re
publicans aiJd Populists. The Char
lotte Observer quotes Hon, Office
Hunter Dockery as saying in his
speech at Huhtersville, in Mecklen
burg county, that if the Democratic
party get back into power it
will disfranchise "poor men." For
several years Succeeding the war
the white Republican bosses"
heldnheir grip on jthe colored
contingent by making them believe
that if the Democrats got into power
they would disfranchise the negroes,
and went even so far as to declare
that it would reduce them to slavery
again. But after the Democratic
party got into power and continued
in power and the negroes saw that
they were neither re-enslaved nor dis
franchised the Republican bosses
had to drop that fake.. But now
they are beginning to play the dis
franchising rot on the white men,
and the pegrOes alike, and Mr.
itcclwvy becomes brazen enough to
assert that- poor men will become
the victims of this proscription-;
But how" will these mendacious
deceivers explain how the Democrats
I could if they would disfranchise
Republican and i Populists without
disfranchising others? and how
will Hon. Office Hunter Dockery
explain how they could disfranchise
poor men? and why they should
want to disfranchise the bulk of their
n party, which is composed largely
wpoOT men?
And then after they have balked
and given up trying to explain any
oi these things how will they ex
plain, how the Democratic party, if
would, can disfranchise anybody?
There isn't one of them who does
j not knpw better, and there isn't
one of them who makes any of
these assertions that does not make
them knowing they are false and
With the deliberate numosfi to de
ceive the people before whom they
arernade.
mi -
A ue Democratic party cannot
control the question, of suffrage.
iiiat is fixed by the constitution of
e btate 48 amended by th'e consti
tutional convention oi 1875. This
f!ftnot;..i:
-..vumto a8 lt stands now is a
Democratic document, with the in
dorsement of a Democratic
yention.
con-
oection lof article 6, prescribes
j-ao.ine voters shall be thus:
UniTli S male person born in the
X!t J1 states and every male person
m!L rafJbeen naturalized, twenty-one
f,S?.i14or upward, who shall have
nTrt mJthe 8tate twelve months
d!" Pretceding the election and ninety
tow ?.e county in which he offers
- anan oe deemed an elector."
fVOL. XXIX.
The only exceptions are persons
adjudged guilty of felony or other
crimes infamous by the laws of the
-Statue, after the adoption of the con-
srautiti, unless restored to citizen
ship in the manner prescribed by
law. V
This prescribes who is a citizen
or may become a citizen -and who
may not exercise the rights of citi
zenship, axvd gives the reason why.
It is pretty broad and includes
every male person, native or natura
lized, over twenty-one years of age,
(not demented) .yho has not been
adjudged guilty of Certain crimes.
Now tow woiildthe Democrats
go about disfranchising any of them?
There are only two ways, and both
exceedingly difficult ones, if not
absolutely impossible. Either by a
constitutional convention or by leg
islative enactment, in both of
which the people to bo disfranchised
would have a voice. The constitu
tion prescribes how a convention
may be called, thus:
Sec 1 Article 13. "No Convention
of the people of this State shall ever
be called by the General Assembly
unless by the concurrence of two
thirds of all the members of each
House of the General Assembly, and
except the proposition Convention or
no Convention be first submitted to
the qualified voters of the whole State,
at the next general election, in a
manner to be prescribed by law. And
should a majority of the votes cast be
in favor of said Convention, it shall
assemble on such day as may be pre
scribed by the General Assembly. "-
"We see here that no convention
can be called for any purpose "with
out a vote of two-thirds of both
Houses of the General Assembly
(not a vote of- two-thirds present,
but a vote of two-thirds of the actual
members) and then not unless the
people endorse that two-thirds vote
at the pOlls. That's a pretty good
safeguard as far as calling a conven
tion is concerned, so that before the
Democrats could (if they desired)
call a convention and change the suf
frage laws they would have to con
trol two-thirds of each House of the
General Assembly, and then get a
majority of the votes when the ques
tion was submitted to the people,
and then have a majority in the con
vention when it met.
The. other way is by amendment
by the General Assembly, the
method bf which is thus prescribed
in. -
"Section 2. Article 13 No Dart of
the Constitution of this State shall be
altered, unless a bill to alter the same
shall have" been agreed to by three
fifths of each House of the General
Assembly. And the amendment or
amendments so agreed to shall be
submitted at the next general elec
tion to the qualified voters of the
whole State in such manner as may
be prescribed by law. And in the
event of their adoption by, a major
ity of the votes cast, such an amend
ment Or amendments shall become a
part of the Constitution of this State."
With this section inview, is it an
easy matter to alter the constitution
by an act of the Assembly? If the
Democrats desired' to alter the suf
frage or any other provision in it,
they must first be able to control
three-fifths of the votes in each
House of the General Assembly,
cj t
and then the bill passed by this
three-fifth vote would have to be
ratified by a majority 'of the elec
tors of the whole State. After this
the man who would tell the people
that there is danger of anybody be
ing disfranchised if the Democrats
get control of the Legislature is a
pitiable imbecile or an unscrupulous
liar. The thing is just simply im
possible, that's all.
ASTUTE MB. SIMS.
Mr. John A. Sims is a Populist.
He is also chief clerk in the State
Auditor's office at Raleigh. Mr.
Sims had the sagacity to see the
white supremacy question looming
up, and he had the astuteness to ad
vise his nartv to catch on in time
A I
and declare for white supremacy.
He also had the sagacity to foresee
what the result of the failure to
eatch oh would be, and was prophet
flnonch-to nredict some of the re-
a
suits. .
Be is a member of the Populist
St.at.fi Committee, and at one of its
meetings some time ago introduced
a resolution declaring that the
Pnnnlist tartv was a white man s
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porty, and should declare lor wmte
nrmvfimacv in North Carolina and
make its fight in 1898 on that issue.
This, of course, meant a dissolution
of partisanship with the Republicans
and would put an estoppel on fusion
in the future. The committee sat
dnwn on that resolution and it died
in T.nfi nrame. mi . onus roa
togethertisfied at the fate of his
Tosn nf nn nri therefore he wrote a
letter to the chairman of the com
mittee giving some of the reasons
why the party should divorce itself
from the colored contingent ana
proclaim itself white, from which we
auote the following :
"Let them (the negroes) have charge
institutions of learning
here, by placing pnly those of their
people who are thoroughly competent
over the same. There can be no ob
jection to this, although the white
man mav nn v a nart. and it may be a
greater part of the tax which supports
u; :.tfdim hut. Iaavb the leerisla-
tion and the general management of
U11V . --
Via q ft a i r or nonn uaroima w
' ' txtVi-w ffom a nolitical standpoint,
do I say i t is to the advantage of the
to lAave the affairs of North
The
Carolina to the whites? Because as
soon as it becomes a fact which will
be known and read to all men, .that
the negro is in authoritv in North
Carolina, then the white men who
have come out "of the Democratic
ranks1 who now constitute the Pop
ulist party, will flee, every mother's
son of them, back to the Democratic
camp.
"The main issue before us now in
North . Carolina, and not as yet fully
agreed upon, is, who shall manage the
mi airs or our own beloved (Jommon
wealth.
'Just here allow me to savtfeat I
give all the honor to that noble band
of forty odd Populists, who stood
solidly as a stone wall in the last Gen
eral .."Assembly of North Carolina,
against some of the vicious legislation
that was attempted to be thurst upon
th cities of Eastern Carolina (as well
as some of the western"), but for these
the management of the cities referred
to would nave been turned over to
those wholly incompetent to say the
least," "
"1. for one. am onoosed to further
misleading the negroes of North Caro
lina. "Now. Mr. Chairman, ifvou could
only see some of the many letters
now in my possession from parties
throughout North Carolina, who en
dorse the course that I took before the
recent meeting of the State executive
committee, you would see that, as a
party, we cannot afford longer to fail
to give expression on the question of
white supremacy, if from .no higher
motive, we are compelled to do it
in soli-defense. And pray, tell me.
why not? The Populist party is
a wmte man s party, while the great
est issue involved affects all classes,
conditions and colors of men and it
should be a party composed of all, and
more especially of all laboring men,
yet tne fact remains that the negro is
a Republican and ever will be. (I
know of but one townsttp in North
Carolina where the negroes are stick
ing to the Populist party.)"
This in the main is good, hard
sense, toovhich most of the white
men of North Carolina will sub
scribe, and it speaks well for the
political sagacity of the writer, but
it didn't have much effect on the
machine manager to whom it was
addressed for he was one of the main
movers in the recent fusion deal
with Republican machine managers
who represent a party composed of
three-fourths negroes and one-fourth
whites, and Mr Sims forgot it him
self for he was one of the committee
that fixed tipiihe fusion deal. He
and the chairman will now get
into harness and pull, alongside the
negro just as if they were born that
way- - ;
But for all that he grasped the
situation from the standpoint of
politics, and also from the stand
point of patriotism, if it may be as
sumed that he was honest and sin
cere in what he wrote; As ia politic
cian he foresaw and predicted that
if his party didn't secure a divorce
from the negro "party and declare
for white supremacy, when that is
sue came up (as it would) the white
men in his p"arty who had been
Democrats would desert it and "flee
back to the Democratic party" just
as they are doing, and just as some
Republicans who have never voted
the Democratic ticket are doing.
It does him credit (or rather it
would do him cTedit if he had con
sistently refused to return to the
fusion wallow) that he was opposed
to turning over Eastern cities and
counties to negro rule, and it does
his candor credit to virtually admit
that they had been "misleading the
negroes," when he declares that he
is opposed to "further misleading"
them.
If he thought it was time to quit
misleading the negroes, the negroes
have come to the conclusion that it
was time lor them to cease rjeing
led by the white men who have been
leading them for the sake of offices
the leading brought, and are pro
claiming a leadership of their own
and putting in a claim to the offices,
or at least what they consider their
share of them.
Mr. Sims may be tired of the as
sociation, he may deprecate the rule
of the "incompetent, to say the
least," and he may possibly sympa
thize with those communities where
the negro has been put on top, but
he will go right along helping to
keep him on top by continuing to
"breathe life into the dead bulk of
the Republican party," as Populist
Senator Atwater, of Chatham coun
ty, said the Populist party had done.
But Mr. Sims in his letter wrote a
erood deal of sense, even if he were
o -
simply talking from a political stand
point and were inspired by no higher
or more commendable motive.
A DISPENSER OF JUSTICE,
The presumption is that a magis
trate who is empowered to i sit ii
judgment on the people brought be
fore him, and decide cases pertain
ing to person or property, should be
at least an ordinarily intelligent per
son, capable of writing what
is
necessary for him in his official ca
pacity, to write, and to understand
the law as applying to the eases that
come before him. That was the
kind of men who served as magis
trates under Democratic rule, but
that is not always the kind of men
who serve under Bepublican-Popu-list
f usion rule. V
Steven Bryant is a negro magis
trate in Wayne county, elected by
the fusion Legislature of 1895 for
six years, ' A case came before him
in which a laborer sought to levy
on a crop for labor done, whereupon
the sable justice issued the follow
ing unique document, which we clip
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WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 16,
from the Raieigh Post, in which
levy is made on the whole township
and county. '
"North Carolina, Way en county.
"Goldsboro township befor S.- L.
Bryant, J. P.
"Elexander T. Hook claimant
$3.50.
"The said Abe Whitly hereby files
his lien against the said township and
county said lien is for work and labor
done on crops of said Abe Whitley for
bill of particulars here with filed the
said crops being upon the land of said
Abe Whitley situat in said county and
township and adjoining the Land of
Benet andl. B. Fonsill and upon said
Elexander t Hook His Ben Elexander
t Hook claims, Sept. 18, 1895, this day
befor me S. L. Bryant J. P."
"On the corner of the document is
this figuring: 65x60x $3.50, is $4.75."
It may be observed that the sable
dispenser of justice -didn't forget
his costs. There are do-nbtlesi more
of the same kind. And these are
the kind of law dispensers the
usionists would give North Carolina,
because the negro must be recog
nized to keep the white bosses in
office.
ONE OF MANY.
There are thousands of Populists
in JNorth Carolina who withdrew
from the Democratic party, but,
disgusted with the faithlessness and
mercenary bartering of the so-called
cadcrs of the Populist party, are re
turning: to the Democratic fold.
Many of them give the reasons why
they do so, and good reasons, too.
Wc hase published letters from a
number of them, found in our State
exchanges, and herewith present an
other which we find in the Lumber-
ton Robesonian: A
Editor Robesonian: Fearine that
the Democratic party, under the lead
ership of Cleveland, was drifting from
its true principles, 1 joined the feople s
party, believing that it was what it
contended to be, for free silver, a low
tariff and an economical administra
tion of the government. But I find
now that the leaders of the party
-those who want office have
placed the party on the block to
be oil on by the highest bidder
by that party which will give the
leaders the most offices. We see them
joining the Republican party whose
every principle is opposed to their
platform, for they are for gold, a high
tariff and an expensive administra
tion. They are placing the black man
over the white man and the white
woman in the South, while they dare
not do it in the North.
For these reasons I have deter
mined to return to the Democratic
party ; the white man's party ; the
party which has always defended the
middle classes and fought the trusts :
the party of my fathers. And I sin
cerely hope that all those who with
drew from the party fpr the same rea
sons that 1 did will also see their error
and return again to its flag and table.
Our chairs have never been occupied
and are now waiting for us.
K U. i'AUL.
Lumberton. Sept. 5. 1898. 'J
This man has the courage to-act
on his- convictions. He had the
courage to go out of the Demo
cratic party when he believed it was
under wrong leadership, and he has
the courage to go out of the Popu
list party when he discovers that the
leaders of that party are false to it,
deserters of their professed prin
ciples, and in the lust for spoils
consort with men who are opposed
to everything that the Populist
party in former days contended for.
Honest people, in the possession of
their senses, with eyes and ears,
can't be fooled all the time. The
Populist office traders have carried
the fooling too far.
"CONTEMHBLE PIE HUNTERS."
This Is What Butler Called Those Who
Favored Co-Operation in 1897.
Here is what Marion Butler said
in his paper, the Caucasian, in Feb
ruary, 1897:
"The co-operation of the
Populists and Republicans in
this State has been a dismai
and disastrous failure. Only
the contemptible pie-hunters
see any good in it."
If you do not believe Marion But
ler's paper said this, ask him whether
it did or not. He dare not deny it.
If "co-operation" had no "good
in it" in 1897, is there "any good in
it" in 1898, when Negro Dopiination
is staring us in the face?
What Marion Butler said in the
Caucasian in 1897, is exactly what
every decent white man in North
Carolina believes now.
Four preachers are disputing over
which converted Capt. Philip, of the
Texas. That doesn't seem to have
been a yery difficult job, but if they
want to have something that will
justify a lively wrangle let them try
their powers on Hon. John Sher
man. Col. Roosevelt on parting With
his "rough riders" gave them some
good advice, and among other
things told them not to "pose."
Men who pose very often expose
their weokness.
Emile Zola is coming to this coun
try to lecture. He is going to talk
abxnit himself and Dreyfus, This
country has to stand a good deal of
lecturing for the misfortunes of
other people.
That Cincinnati Populist conven
tion seems to have entirely lost sight
of Tom Watson of Georgia, who is,
or was, also a middle-of-the-rpadist
kly
NOT ENOUGH.
One of the leading Croatans in
j Robeson county writing to the
Lumberton Robesonian says it is not
j enough to elect John D. Bellamy to
. Congress, Democratic Judges and
the Democratic county ticket, but
a Legislature must be -elected in
I whose hands the Croatans, as well
1 as other citizens will be safe, and
therefore, they must work to elect
the right kind of men to the Leg
islature from that county. He was
speaking as a Croatan for Croatans
but when he emphasized the impor
tance of electing members to the
Legislature who would see that his
people Were not unf airily dealt with
he showed that he" appreciated the
necessity of looking to the Legisla
ture. 1
If the -Croatans are interested in
seeing the right kind of men
sent to the Legislature, so is every
man who desires the welfare and
happinsss of North Carolina. It is
not enough that we elect Demo
cratic Congressmen, Democratic
Judges-and Democratic county offi
cers, for important as all these are
and they are of vast importance
they are of less importance than the
right kind of a Legislature. ,
There is no person in North Car
olina however humble, whether he
pay much or little toward the sup
port of the State government, who
is not interested in the election of
the right kind of men to make our
laws or to unmake the laws which
unscrupulous or stupid men made.
There is no section of the State
f North Carolina which is not in
terested in this, for all sections must
profit from good laws and suffer
from bad laws. Certain, laws may
apparently operate more against one
section than against another. The
West, for instance, does not as
keenly feel the effects of the laws
which in the Fast are giving the
negroes such conspicuous position
in the government of cities and
counties. The East suffers more at
first because it is the first struck,
but how long will it be before the
blight will be felt in the West,
which has heretofore rested in fan
cied security? t
The Legislature makes laws for
the whole State, and the character of
those laws will be shaped by the
character of the men who make
them. The Republican party is
three-fourths black. The black
three-fourths are becoming very
assertive and very aggressive, and
are beginning to declare their inde
pence of if not their contempt for
the white fourth, With the color
line drawn by" the negroes them
selves and welcomed by some of the
boldest of them; with conventions
demanding the fuller, recognition of
the negroes and asserting their
claims to their full portion of the
offices, how long will it be before
they will be electing themselves to
the Legislature, and how long will
it be before they become a danger
ous if not a dominating force in
that body? Then they can dictate
the legislation not only for the
East, as they have been doing in the
last two Legislatures, but for
the whole State, and thus the West
and the Centre would'f eel the effects
of negro domination without having
negro commissioners sitting in their
court houses, negro magistrates, dis
pensing justice, negro school com
mitteemen directing their schools,
negro aldermen making ordinances
for their towns or negro policemen
patrolling their streets. There might
not be much or any of this,,but they
would feel the blight of negro rule
all the same.
The laws that regulate traffic and
prescribe the duties and the privi
leges of common carrires, such as the
jailroads, in as. far as they do not
conflict with interstate traffic, are
passedvby the Legislature. This be
ing so, how long would it be until
the; railroads of the State would be
jnade the special objects of legisla
tion by the colored solons: who.
would insist that companies have no
rjght to adopt rules and regulations
that would exclude a negro from
riding anywhere on a train that he
saw fit, regardless of his personality
or hisoffensiveness? There is a good
deal of that now, but there would
be more of it -when emboldened by
such encouragement.
How long would it be before they
would be regulating the hotels,
boarding houses, places of public
amusement, etc., and legislating to
throw their doors open without dis
crimination of race, or previous or
present condition of servitude?
This would, of course, lead to a
great deal of conflict and un
pleasantness from which the West
or the 'Centre could not escape any
more than the East, for their peo
ple must travel on railroads, and
they have their hotels boarding
houses and places of public amuse
ment. The. State -Government ib sup
ported by taxation on real estate
and personal property. The lands
and personal property are assessed
as to value, and on this valua
tion the tax is figured. ' If
the East should pay one-third of
Star
1898.
the gross amonnt required for State
purposes, and her lands and other
property depreciated in value uritil
she paid less than one-third other
sections would have to pay piopor
tionateiy more to meet the State ex
penses, . or the treasury would be
come bankrupt. Therefore it is to
the interest of each section to see
that no legislation be enacted that
wffl depreciate the property of other
sections, and render them less able
to bear their full proportion in con
tributing to the support of the State
Government. For this reason the
Centre and the West have a pecuni
ary interest, if they have no other, in
desiring good government in the
East, government that will have a
tendency to develop, make strong
and build up, rather than cripple and
destroy.
It does hot take a moment's re
flection to show that immigration
will not flow in, nor capital flow to
a section where the status is uncer
tain and no one knows what to look
for, where the vicious rule and the
better class are ignored. More than
this, for this better class, wearying
of the struggle, will eventually
leave the viciouslt ruled section and
find homes in more congenial quar
ters, which would be the inevitable
result of continued negro rule.
The right -kind of a Legislature
can save North Carolina from these
perils, save the East from becoming
a wreck, and this is why the right
kind of a Legislature, a white Leg
islature, white not only in color
but in feeling, is an imperative
necessity.
OLIVER HOT HONEST.
When 0ffice Hunter Dockery
spoke at Huntersville, Mecklenburg
county, he devoted most of his
speech to an appeal to the Populists,
and to an effort to deceive them into
the belief that he would not betray
them if elected to Congress. He
told that touching story (although
somewhat belated) of how he had
promised his dying father never to
"go back on silver, the poor man's
money." He showed how filially he
kept this pledge by acting with the
Republican party, and endorsing its
declarations for gold up to the time
when D. L. Russell knocked him out
of the nomination for Governor, and
he was tempted to subscribe to free
silver by- the offer of the Populist
nomination for Lieutenant Governor.
Up to the time that he was laid
out in the Republican State conven
tion one of the strong points he
made against his competitor, -Russell,
was that he was not sound on
gold and was too much tinctured
with silver, and then seduced by the
prospect of a Lieutenant Governor
ship, with a nimbleness that a circus
tumbler couldn't hold a candle to, he
tumbled right over to the silver
side. He realizes the position in
which he now stands and tries to
wriggle out of his change 'Of base
thus, as we find him quoted in the
Populist organ, Home Rule, pub
lished at Raleigh.
"I am asked how I can run. as a
protectionist and a free silver man,?
How I could be a Populist two yean
ago and now a Republican? I was not
a Populist two years ago, though I
did affiliate with that party and help
to carry tbe State for Bryan. This co
operation movement is not fusion.
After the victory is won, each party
will march back to its own with its
organization intact." -
This is neither honest, nor a
clever attempt at deception. Hg is
not asked "how he can run as a
protectionist and a free silver man."
He is not running as a protectionist
and a free silver man, but as a pro
tectionist and a gold standard man,
for he stands squarely on the gold
platform adopted by the Republican
convention which nominated him,
and he tries to dodge when he lugs
in protection and leaves out gold. ,
He says he was not a Populist
two years ago, but neither was he a
Republican. He seems to be nndor
the i impression that the people
have forgotten that open let
ter which he published denouncing
the Republican party as the tool of
the money power, as the betrayer of
the people, declaring .that it was
an unfit party for any honest man to
affiliate with, and therefore he with
drew from it. He was talking for
himself when he severed his allegi
ance to the Republican party. The!
Republican party has not changed,
has not come to him. It is as
strong or stronger for gold now than
it was when he denounced 4t, but
he has recanted, subscribed to its
gold declarations, and is, to use the
anguage of the sponsor who did the
recanting for him, as good a Repub
lican as ever. ;
There is no honesty in this kind
of cavorting, and Dockery must
either be playing foul with the Re
publicans who nominated him, or
with the Populists for whose votes
he is pleading. ' -'
When General Miles landed he
also landed a pretty heavy docu
ment on the War Department, and
contrary to Secretary Alger's ex
pectation he didn't take back any
-those utterances attributed to
rhim. Alger has a clear case now if
he wishes to discipline Miles.
NO. 48
. FUSION REFORM.
Uatil the F usionists -got into
power they were loud for retrench
ment, reform, economy, and all that
sort of thing, but their retrenchment
has cost the people about $400,000
more than the Democratic "extrava
gance" which they denounced cost
in the same period of time.
Instead of reducing taxes they
have increased them, and have re
sorted to a system of deception to
prevent the people from discovering
that their taxes have been increased.
This was by increasing, through
boards of equalization, the valuation
of property, thus making the tax
greater while the tax rates romained
as they were. .
Their professed zeal for economy
did not extend to reducing the num
ber of offices, which, on the con
trary, waS increased, nor to reducing
the salaries of their officers, which
remained as they were, if they were
not increased. . !
Places were especially created to
fill with dependents of the bosses,
or with: partisan tools who were
thfis rewarded for services ren
dered. In some of the Departments
this has been done so scandalously
that the chiefs of those Depart
ments have refused to publish the
list of their employes, with the
date of appointment and duties per
formed, because they were afraid to
let the people see how these Depart
ments were being utilized to give
jobs to favorites and to party tools.
They propose to run the business
in the same way if they be ,con
tinued in power. Now that they
are in they are illustrating What
they meant by the howl for "reform"
when they were trying to get in.
WATCH THE BORDERS.
The Fusion machine managers in
this State are totally unscrupulous
as to the methods they employ -to
Win the Offices they are striving for,
The last election was carried by
fraud so palpable that no reasonable
man could for a moment doubt it,
and no one does doubt it. There
was more money spent than was
ever spent in any preceding election
for it was necessery to carry the Leg
islature toelect a Republican Senator
and a "Republican Senate with the
Senate as evenly divided as it was , was
necessary to the Republican party.
They got a Republican Governor,
a mongrel Legislature, and a Repub
lican Senator, who was elected with
the aidf of Populist votes. ThejT
got about all , they expected, but it
cost them hard work and much
cash. .
Colonizing negroes has been a
pretty common thing with the Re
publican machine managers, but
their colonizing never before reached
the proportions that it did in the
last election, because it is a very
easy matter under the present elec
tion and registry laws to utilize the
colonized voter. Under the former
registration and election laws there
was some chance to prevent fraud
ulent registration, and fraudulent
voting if the fraud did register, but
now there is not. AH he has to do
is to swear thathe is entitled to
registration, a very easy thing for
most of the imported to do. and
then his vote cannot be kept out of
the ballot box although it may be
known to many that he has no right
to vote. He registers and votes, it
is true, subject to penalty for fraud
ulently registering and for fraud
ulently voting, but in the meantime
before action can be taken to punish
him he can pull up stakes, go to his
old beat in another State and be
bevond the reach of prosecution or
punishment.
They are posted on all that before
they attempt to register and that
makes them bold. They know there
will be no prosecution, and the men
who import them know it, because
the prosecution must be at the ex
pense of the prosecutor, and it is
rarely the case after an election that
the frauds are prosecuted because
the victorious party does not think
it flWorth while and the defeated
party would see little to gain by it,
outside of establishing the fact that
frauds had been committed, and
they would gain very little by that,
save perhaps in the case of a closely f
contestectelection. But the fraudu-1
lent vote, the vote of the imported
voter is counted. He accomplishes
what he was imported for and the
importers reap the benefit.
Colonization is a very easy matter
in this State. With Virginia on the
the North and South Carolina on
the South, there is a large colored
contingent to draw from, who can
bW verywell spared from those
States, and tare within convenient
distance, where long and costly
transportation is not necessary.
Alongthe border counties of Vir
ginia and South Carolina, reaching
nearly the full lengh of the State on
either side, with, as we have said, a
large number of negroes to draw
from, it would be a very easy matter
to plant ten thousand of them in
North Carolina, and so scatter them
as to attract very little attention;
and a very easy matter to register
and vote them, because, under the
resent electiom laws, registering
and voting are made easy.
, The imported come in, of course,
under the guidance of fellows who
are selected for that business and
know where to locate these recruits
where they will attract the least at
tention, and can be best held on
hand to be utilized on election day.
They find work for them where
they can if they keep them on .the
ground, get them registered and
then turn them loose with the un
derstanding that they will come to
time on election day and earn their
money. Of course they will be dis
tributed according to the require
ments for votes. In close districts
a few votes in each township would
give aggregate votes enough to car
ry a close county, and these, carry
ing out the plan for a close district,
would give votes enough to carry
the district.
These managers are, generally
speaking, sufficieatly familiar with
.the political status to know about
how the respective parties normally
compare, how many homo votes they
can reasonably depend upon, about
the number of votes that can be cast
against them, and they can there
fore calculate pretty closely on the
number that it will be necessary to
import and they make their arrange
ments and import accordingly.
It isp-'t easy to keep up with the
colored contingent for they, especially
the young men, are disposed to be
nomadic in their habits and do much
Of Iheir perambulating between Sup
per and breakfast, very frequently
taking supper in one county and
breakfast in another. Moving around
as they do, it isn't easy to identify
themor be positive that they are
new importations, although eight
white men out of ften who are pres
ent when they come to register feel
morally certain than they are new
comers. But by organization and a
close watch a good deal of this im
portation and registration may be
prevented, although all cannot be.
Democrats in the .border counties, at
east, should put their pickets out
and be on their guard so that they
may follow up these importations
and keep track of them.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE.
We have asserted in these columns
that there have been more bur
glaries by negroes, and more out
rages and attempted outrages on
white women since the present
mongrel rule began than there were
in all the years of Democratic rule.
It is an exceptional week .when
some of our stat e exchanges do not
record either burglaries or outrages,
and sometimes both. The Snow
Hill Standard bf last week tells of a
double crime of burglary and at
tempted outrage thus:. .
' 'Last Tuesday night about 12 o'clock
John Best, a negro who lives on the
place of Mr. J. R. Ham, about seven
miles from. Snow Hill, entered the
house of Mr. Jesse Ham and attempted
that awful crime which he will pay
for with his life.j Mrs. Ham was the
victim. She was aroused by this devil
in human form before he accom
plished his purpose and screamed for
her husband, who was in an adjoining
room. The negro then attempted to
escape, but was recognized, a warrant
issued and he is. now in the county
jail. We have heard some indignant
threats, and the hellish nend may
meet speedy justice at the hands of an )
outraged people."
With a satanic impudence and
levity the editor of the negro organ
in-this city, in that brutal slander
on the white women of this State,
reminded fathers and mothers that if
they "left their : goods out of doors
over night" they had no right to com
plain if they, "were taken away," an
apology for rap as trifling as it was
brazen. In this case "the goods
were not left out of doors," but the
black fiend boldjy entered the sanc
tuary of the home under the cover.
of darkness to do his hellish work,
in which he was happily foiled by
the timely appearance of the hus
band of the assaulted woman.
We will nOt charge the" white nen
who lead this mongrel party with
direct responsibility for these fre
quent outrages, but there is no
denying the fact that under their
regime the negroes have become
bolder and more lawless, ' until it is
not safe for ai unprotected white
woman or girl to venture from home,
and every house, must have its watch-,
dog and shot-gijin. How long is this
thing going to last, white men - of
North Carolina ?
DIDN'T FOOL ANYBODY.
When decoy duck Norment pulled
out of the mock race for Congress in"
this district in favor of Office Hun
ter Dockery, he didn't fool anybody.
He certainly didn't fool the Stab,
which remarked shortly after he
bobbed up that he would soon bob
down.
Of course there is a consideration,
quid pro quOf to come in. He will
hardlv be satisfied with a nom
ination for the Legislature for there
is not substance enough in that for
patriots of the Doctor's build. He
probably has his eye on something
better, which will come on certain
conditions, one of these conditions
being that Office Hunter Dockery
can fool men enough in this district
to vote for hikn and elect "him to
Congress. In that event the Dr.
may get something to his liking.
A Northern contemporary re
marks that for an old man who had
to leave the Cabinet because of the
befogging effects of age, Mr. Sher
man talks with' surprising 'spirit.
He spent part of the Summer in
haling the invigorating air of
Alaska.