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For J-uiljre of Eastern Criminal Circuit: Dossey Battle, of Edgecombe. New Hanover County. f FOR STATE SENATOR. Tenth District W. J. Davis, of Bruns wick. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, "j, Jos. T. Kerr and Geo. L. Peschau. Sheriff Walter G. MacRae. Treasurer H. McL. Green, lerk Superior Court J no. D. Taylor. Resisted of Deeds W. H. Biddle. Coroner Dr. W. W. Harriss. Surveyor Jap. EL McRee. Uiuimissiouers rvuger moo re, jonn Barry, W. Fi Alexander. Constable (Wilmington Township) Wm. Sheeban. Sr. - ..; THERE ARE MORE OF THEM. Hon. Curtis H. Brogdettiis one of rt T-i ' .- -r Tl the original panel Republicans of this State, and while in active poli tics one of the leaders of his party, -trustc'il and honored. H was one of the few connected with the State Government during the days of so ealletf reconstruction and Radical ascendency who presented his repu tation untarnished and retired from office without having the,-finger of wn orsttspicion pointed at him. His, politics was wrong, his head erred, but his heart and instincts were right they were white Like the great majority of the white men of North Carolina, he L-tTl .11 J I 1 ! T 111 Beueves mat tins is or snoum De 4 white man8 government, and should be controlled by white men, and he. therefore, like manv others. has .become disgusted With his party ilfl stents the surrender it has made to the negro. . In a letter to the tfoldsboro Argus, under date of the 12th inst., he regrets that the Democrats of the Second District did not make a nomination for Con- ffKUU .,! T k 1 1 anrv-a f V- TTnk - , i i , i 1 1 oboi utiv J - "can candidate, the brazen-jawed negro White: -, i nave understood hr are some Kopuhsts who will not vote for Lloyd, - . U . T 11 . . . . . , tc jropujist nominee; it is saia iney now any respectable white Populist or Democrat can vote for White, withhis weit-Known and abominable record. passeth .all my understanding. J thought that Populists as well as Dem oemts were for white supremacy, for white jule and white metal, and White :.i i . V . - i , j . i "p'"seu 10 oom. J. inouni tpey Wertoppbsed to monopolies, trusts and uumeines. to all unjust and ruinous taxation and to all reckless and profli gate appropriations, and White is in favor of these. When he is in Con Sresa he votes invariably with Dineley and Crosvenor fnr a vprv thintr thev are for 6r against, and he obeys then ""ggesuon as implicitly and promptly as he ever did the order of his master lPn. he was a slave under him White is decidedly the most objection- negro in the State as a politician at his speech in the Republican ge convention at Raleigh, on Jhe r,l u! ouiyiast. wmie denouncing j ' " V. 7tl vjr uo IW xwv. W announce his onnosition to the free comage of silver, spoke of himself and other neKroes.holding office, and said Were are plenty more beintr made to "raerto hold offices. He got down to : '"west plane upon which any g" white or black, ever spoke in a t-jj ouvention. uch renrehp.nqihl rant mnv Hn urgiir-h nr,.n;. . i . l. v unuyin us mai, lo piease hh -snuess and ignorant, but it im parts no useful knowledee or informa io the people. He was so dis-gu-tinsr, ar-oording to the report, that m negro . sajd: was ashamed of not ace' that when fr has a chanpe o ban J?ian JS hi8fi position selects a wan who will make so mean a speech,' " This is Qeorge II, White (black) j f sketched by a once dwtingnished epul,Ucan, and there are more like mm ho have not yet achieved Jjotonety, but are -forging in that directum as the negroes under the lea(l of White are becominir more -SS-CSSIVe. If,, -nnnrorl mnr otoriety, and m0re nopularitv with S m ce by the speech to which , icieii tnan ne everaia f nrocdnn - l -i tii an the years he had lived before, an'l that wa v. ,.. . . t. . uc.u. ue Hnowey nis aPacty for filthy ntteranije' and nrew drum . . , -. me gaunciet oi denance his whifo i. i . ' ,- 9 color li re a n l j jlv , v "Doouiaues wnen ne arew , J UUU UUC O - 'in.:. i.MMi.ii in. ill. nnmA a VOL. XXIX. ueciarea that he wag entitled to more offices and was going to have them. That saucy speech made him solid with the negroes, and, strange to"" say, was applauded by many of the white men who heard it, although there were some who did not approve it for they feared it j woum .nave a Dan effect politically. But as a matter of fact how much better, barring the oolor, is the white man who applauded that speech than the negro who made it? How much better is the white man who votes for the negro who made that speech than the negro who made it? White men sat and approvingly listen to the vain, strutting negro trying to put them on a level with the negro, and defiantly telling them that they must submit to it whether they like it or not, and then they have the baseness to go out and ask white men of their party to support and vote for such a candidate, a caudidate thrust up on them by the negroes of his dis trict. But he is not the only one. Tlere are others coming. "Prof." I. H. Smith, of Craven, for in stance, who is also swelling with an ambition to decorate a chair m Congress. Smith, like White, is of unsavory reputation, but that is all he better. The more unsavory they are the more popular they will be with the element they represent, who judge a man's capacity by the insolence of his speech and the of- fensiveness of his demeanor. How will it be after a while when under the tutelage of leaders like White, who welcomes and forces the race issue, and declares that "negroes are being made to order" to fill offices, and Smith, who con tends that the Republican party is a joint stock company," in which the negroes hold the maioritv of stock, and should therefore control it; how long, we repeat, will it lje when under such leadership they will - nominate negroes in every county where they hold the balance of power, and select them in every county and district where they have the power? How long before they will have negroes enough in the Legislature to hold the balance of power there, negro sheriffs, negro judges, (as they have negro magis trates now), more negroes in the U. S. House of Representatives and a United States Senator? This may seem an improbable con tingency, but it is not at all improb able if the negroes make the same progress in asserting their power in the next few years that they have since the present mongrel party came into power. The way to stop it is to enthrohe white supremacy now before the negroes realize their f nil power and take the Republican party captive. This is the work that white men have to do and every man who is white, white in aspirations and in instinct as well as in color, should do his part of it, that their children mav inherit a white ana not an Africanized or mongrel government. w ' WILL YOU VOTE FOE HIM? Will any man who votes for Office Hunter Dockery for Congress know what political principle he is sup porting? We think not. He ought to know, however, that he is casting his ballot f qr a leader of tfie negro party; for a man who would support the Republican ticket in his own county if every candidate on it were a nerro: for a man who votes for a negro as cheerfully as he would yote for a white Republican. Office Hunter Dockery is a full-fledged Republican. He was nominated by a convention of which the, chairman and the secretary were negroes, Tha,t convention indorsed the Mc Kinley gold-bug administration. Office Hunter Dockery is a Russell Republican. After charging Rus sell with securine his nomination for Governor by fraud and bribery, tye thrown hjs ajrms around tl leadey of tfie negro party and e plaims; 'ViW' Russell's adminis tration is one of the best the State ever had. " ;- " 1 , Some of the European money lonrlors ,.hink that Cuba ought to pay a portion of the Spanish debt, which was contracted before the war for independence. This means that Cuba ought to pay about $406 000.000. But as none of that debt was contracted for the benefit of Cuba, and Cuba didn't derive any benefit from it, Cuba can't see it, She thinks, and rifehtly, too, that she has naid entirely too much for Spain ai.w and rot nothintr but kicks and cuffs for it. The Spaniards encourage their Generals bv mobbing those who are forced to surrender. If Gen. Toral bad rone on fighting and got tys head shot off at Santiago he would v,o-n vnnn mnhhed. as he was 11CVUL UW.V 7 on his return to Spain. A Northern contemporary dis cusses "our duty in the Philip nines." Our duty in the Philip- 1 ' tk leA-w nf nf t.lifi PhiliTrV 11 1 11 i.u .. n . . i . uiaw . U1UVR W "v - 1 HE AND STILL THEY COME. We have published in these col umns a number of letters, found in our State exchanges, from Populists who have renounced the Populist party, and returned to, or joined, the Democratic partv. Everv one 0f them gives the reasons for so do ing, and good ones, too, reasons which show that the writers were not actuated by mere impulse, but moved after due deliberation, and fully realizihg the false position in which they have been placed by these mercenary and treacherous leaders. We have not published all of them, but such only as came from men who are well known and highly esteemed in their respective coun ties. The following we clip from the Lumberton Robesonian of this week:. Editor Robesonian.: Noticing that the Democratic party, under the leadership of Cleveland, was drifting from its true principles, I joined the Populist party, believing it was for free silver and low tariff ; but I find the leaders of the Popuhst party have E laced theparty on the block to be id off by the highest bidder. I see them joining the Republican party, who are for the gold standard, artd high tariff, and "nigger rule." The white people of our county can't stand these things, and the only salvation I see for them is to come through the Democratic party. So my vote, henceforth, will be for white supremacy and Democratic principles. I hope others will see their error and return to the Demo cratic flag as I have done. A. a Tyner. Moss Neck, Sept 10. 1898. In a private letter to the editor of the Robesonian he says: 'I am not the onlv one in mv neigh borhood who has forsaken the rotten Populist party and returned to the Democratic. There are twenty-two of my neighbors who have done the same thing, and I wish the good peo ple of Kobeson county to know it." Mr. Tyner writes like a man, an honest man, a brave man who has the "courage of his convietions, and a patriot who loves his State. It re quires more courage to confess an error than it does to persist in it. There are many who persist in error because they lack the moral courage to confess that they were' wrong. Bnt there are hundreds pf honest, brave men who, like Mr. Tyner, have been Populists, who have, like him, learned how they have been deceived and abused to promote the political fortunes of unprincipled and unscrupulous place hunters, and like him are manfully repudia ting the betrayers and the party which they use as a tool to accom plish their selfish schemes. There are hundreds of such in Kobeson and other counties who have done so already and there will be hun dreds more before the day of elec tion. They are doing it every day, as they realize how they have been trifled with, that the line is drawn and that they must either take their stand with the white man for white supremacy in North Carolina or consent to have their votes bartered to put political schemers and negroes in office. When such is the issue, how can any race-respecting, self-respecting, paffiotic white man hesitate in taking his position and asserting his white manhood? "ACTUAL EQUALITY." The ceremony of- "dedicating a monument to Frederick Douglass, for many years the most distin guished negro in this country, was performed at Rochester, Jet. x., Wednesday. There were a number of speeches made on that occasion, the principal one being by Collector Dancy, of this city, Fred Douglass was a man of more than ordinary ability, and be succeeded not only in achieving distinction, but also in accumulating a handsome estate He was of mixed blood, and while inheriting from his black mother whatever of sympathy or love he may have had for the negro race, he inherited from his white Scotch father a sturdy intellect and als6 no little of his sire's thrift. While talk ing about the wrongs of his enslaved race he took care of himself and accumulated money. But for all that he served his rao, ' helped to create the sentiment that finally set the slaves in the South free, and is, therefore, if freedom be a boon to them, or they think it is, entitled to their remembrance and gratitude, whih thev showed in erecting a monument to his memory. In their gratitude, and perhaps in the pride they took in the man whom they looked upon as tfie in? tellectqal giant of their race, they charitably overlooked the faotthat when he was seeking a .second wife, after the death of the mother of his ...bildren. he went outside of his own race and took to wife a white New England woman, and perhaps by so doing embittered his last days, for his children never took kindly to, or had mucb liking for that white woman, whq, they thought, and perhaps oorrectly, married their father more on ac couttfcttE his money than on account of himself . - The Associated Prass report of the unveiling ceremony Bays tnat several of the speakers expressed the hope that the time would come when there would be "actual Wee WILMINGTON, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, equality" between the races, some thing that the more assertive of the race have been agitating and con tending for ever since emancipa te. What they mean by this is that they hope to see the day when "actual equality" will be recog nized, by the white man and become an accomplished fact, for they con tend that the negro is the "equal" of the white man now and that therefore the equality does exist, although not recognized by the white race. Neither they nor their children nor their children's children will live to see thairday for it is written on the chart of the Great Creator that it shall not be. The race lines were drawn by Him when He made one man white, another red, another yellow and, another black and gave each race its habitat on the earth. This is sometimes called prejudice. Perhaps it is, but it is prejudice in born not only in the white man, but in the red man, the yellow man and the black man. In the four cen turies that the white man has been on this continent the Indian pre serves his identity. In the three hundred years of the mingling of the African and the white races the African preserves his identity. ' -.: After an intercourse of many cen turies between the Caucasian and the Mongolian race, the Mongolian has preserved his identity. "The "prejudices, "or more properly the race instincts, of all are as strong now as they ever were and they are no nearer together as races than they were then. They may trade with each other, work with each other, and mingle in the paths of trade " or industry but they will never forget that they are of different blood and of different race, and when cause arises they will not fail to show it. "Actual equality" between any of the different races is one of the "iridescent dreams" that ex-Senator Ingalls used to talk about, which will never be realized until the human family is re-created and differently constructed. While the dreamers cannot achieve it they may agitate for it and by indiscreet agitation intensify the "prejudice" they complain of and retard the progress of the race they desire to befriend. They have done much of that in this country, especially in the South, where their numbers have made them assertive and aggressive and they are doing it now in North Carolina more than anywhere else in this country. Just now they are contending for political equality only, that is the political equality which is not con fined to the right to cast their bal lots, but embraces the right to the honors and emoluments won by the ballots, which have heretofore been too- much monopolized, aocording to their way of thinking by the white men with whom they have been politically associated in the "joint stock company" that "Prof. Isaac H. Smith, of Newbern, speaks of. If they succeed in asserting and accomplishing the holding of office for which they contend and whip their white associates into recognis ing it as they have been doing since the . present black-and-tan party came into power, how long will they be content with that and refrain from asserting and contend ing for "actual equality,'' social and otherwise? Will the agitator for "actual equality" be oontent to sit in a dif ferent part of a church from that occupied by white worshippers? Will he be content to sit in a different part of a public place of amusement? Will he be content with the ac commodations in a different hotel from that intended for white people, or if admitted there would he ho con tent to sit at a different table from that occupied by white people? Would he be content to have his dead interred in a different cemetery from that set a part for white people? Would he be content to send his children to different schools, public or private, low or high, from those establisbed for white children? Would he, in a word, be content with any distinction between the races? If he would then he would be content with something less than "actual jequality, " for that would not exist and his- agitation Would be a failure. But if he should succeed in ac complishing it even partially who would be the sufferers? The poor whites first, for the rich or well-to- do could send their children out of the State, to be educated or could have them educated at home, while the poor must educate their chil dren in the public schools, which would be controlled by the "actual equality" champions, and therefore the . poor white man is more inter ested than any' other in crushing this "actual equality movement in its incipiency. The negro school committeemen that the mongrel Legislature has kly foist upon us must not be fol lowed by nefcro children sittiner in the same schools with white chil dren, and that is one of the things they are aiming at. We have no apprehension of "act- jial equality," for the white race will rhot fail to assert and take care of itself when it comes to that, but the agitation for political equality in the holding of offices and in the making of laws and administering them that leads up to it will do inestimable iarm to both white and black, and the sooner the white man puts a quietus on that by declaring that rhite supremacy shall prevail the better for both. The races may live together har moniously when the proper relations are maintained, but they would never live together harmoniously under black rule, which would be the ruin of the black man as well as the white. THE BUTTERS BICE FARM. The Raleigh! JW contained a brief article a few djays ago, asking Gover nor Russell td explain some things about the lease of the Butters rice farm, quite which formerly, and until recently, belonged, to him. The Governor explains in about a column, from we published whidTTin as much as the Post's article, we clip the. essential part, which reads thus: "Mr. Butters and myself had several transactions with regard to rice lands on the Cape Fear. In 1895 I agreed to convey to Mr. .butters this tract of land for $1,000. The deed was then written and I think executed. After wards I took ah interest in the crop on this land with! Mr. Butters for the year 1896, and the 'deed, although I think it was deliverbd to him, was not pro- 1 3 Jt JLl JL a 5 a jl tl ' - - tr nateu at mat time. i tue enu 01 iso we severed oup interests, and Mr. But ters cultivated the land on his own account for the year 1897. In it I had no interest whatever. Some time in 1897 the deed was probated, and I sup pose -was registered some time after wards. "Mr. Butters expended on his land nearly four thousand dollars in the way of permanent improvements, so the land cost him about five thousand dollars. At the end of 1897 Mr. But ters offered to lease two tracts of rice land to Mr. Me w borne for $8 50. Mr. Mewborne rented these two tracts and one othar tract from the Navassa Guano Co. It was considered in the transaction between Mr. Mewborne. and Mr. Butters that the tract of land in question was worth $500 and the other tract $350. The tract rented for $500 was in ex cellent condition, and the rent was low, Mr. Mewborne has now on it a a fine crop of rice that is estimated by experienced rice planters as proba bly amounting to five thousand bush els of nee. Ji 4t "So, we have it, that the crop is all made except' the harvesting, and a fair estimate on that has been made and the result is a profit of nearly $2,800 to the State on 100 acres of land. If by low prices or for any other reason this profit should be reduced to one-half it would be great farming, showing a net profit of $14 to the acre. The allegation therefore that Mr. Butters rented to the State for $500 land which cost him only $1,000 is un true. The truth is that it cost him $5,000. The rent-was low. It was a splendid bargain for the State and I am very glad it! was made. Mr. Mew borne can easily find parties who right now would be glad to take the crop oft his hands and pay him every cent he has paid out on it, including the rent, and give him $1, 000 as clear profit Upon this explanation the Post re marks as follows: 'The Governor furnished the Post yesterday a statement of the transac tions connected with the rice farm. "He admits that he owned the land in question Jjsu acres. "That he siold it to Mr. H. U. But ters for $1,000. That he and his superintendent. Mr. Mewborne, leased this place from Mr. Butters for the sum of $500 per annum for three years. lie refers to the transfer of title to the present owner as a matter of in difference as to time. ITow, Governor, don't you think, as a la'tvTcr of some pretentions we will admit of respectable reputation that there wis great carlessness on the part of Mr. Butters, -who also has the reputation, we are told, of beimr a shrewd business man, in keeping that deed from August, 1S5, to Uctober, 1897, before the privy examination was takeh, and then holding it until July 26th, 189$, before haying it, reg istered; And again, Governor, you say Mr. cutters expended about $4.ooo in ditching, diking, etc. This must have bean done not only before you leased it from him, but before he had legal title to the property. Is this not an unusual proceeding for a good lawyer and a gentleman who is said posess yankee; shrewdness, to indulge in. "And Governor, did you not run an unusual risk m permitting your super inteadent to lease the property from Mr. Butters when he had no title to the property? As a matter of law, could not conditions have arisen which could have complicated mat ters? "We do not intend herein to ques tion any person's integrity, but, can didly, Governor, don't you think there was inexcusable carelessness in this transaction, leaving out the very uuesuonaDie propriety oi your con nection with it throughout? Is it not carelessness herein equal to the gross recklessness Which has been displayed by vour administration in other re spects? And again, Governor, we have been informed that Mr. Butters has never, unless very recently, listed this prop erty for taxation. If it was worth the $1,000 he paid for it, and the $4,000 you say he expended on it in prepar ing it for the State, do you not think, as a lawyer and a citizen, that it was worth being listed for taxation by Mr. Butters? Do you really think that at the risk of storms and other destructive agen cies, you were justified in leasing this particular piece of property at a rate per acre four or more times greater than that paid by the State for any other, lands? Could your regard for the interests of your friend upon whom you had unloaded this tract have out weighed the great propriety of avoid ing even the appearance of evil? Star. 1898L SNEAKY MARION. Unheralded sneaky Marion Bat er went to Jacksonville. Unsiow county Thursday, to unload himself of a speech, to about three hundred people, nearly a third of whom were negroes. The substance of his speech is thus reported by wire .to the Raleigh Post: His speech was mainly upon the evils of trust and combines, the ne cessity of the government ownership of the railroads and telegraph. He abused the Democrats: called them liars and hypocrites ; said they were rying to fool the people by the cry of nigger; that there is no such thing in JNorth Carolina as negro domina tion : that there are four white men in the State to one negro, and that the Democrats hired negroes to make them selves offensive, so as to have some thing for campaign purposes. And then, to cap the climax, he said this is a white man s country and the sooner the negro understood it the better. It will be best for them. if. said he, you will elect a Populist legis lature in JNorth uarouna. we will give you a white man's government The sneakiness of this speech is characteristic of Butler, and strik ingly resembles his Rocky Mount speech, which he tried to crawl out of afterwards. He is not afraid of negro domination while we. have; four white men in North Carolina to one negro, but if a majority of the white men in North Carolina were of Marion Butler's build and wero helping the negroes to get on top as he and other Populist leaders have been doing, negro domination in North Carolina would be a ques tion of but little time. He tried fusion with Democrats, and having ailed in that he is- now in favor of usion with Republicans, when he can dictate the terms and turn it to lis own advantage. ' 'Elect a Populist Legislature." What a farce! HoW many straight opulisus have they running for the Legislature? Not enough to brm a corporal's guard if they were all elected. They are fusing with the Republieans wherever they can, and if elected they can only be elected by Republican and negro votes, and is Inybody gullible enough' to believe that such men would give North Carolina "a White man's government?" We had a sample in the last Legis ature of what they would give us, 'or negro rule could never have been thrust upon counties and cities in Eastern North Carolina as it has been without the co-operation of Populists in the Legislature. When he declared that this is a white man's country that was only a part of the sneaking method to fool the white men who were listen ing to him. it is a white man s country, but Butler can't claim any credit for that. Marion is a first- class fraud. CHARACTERISTIC OF OFFICE HUNTER DOCKERY. The Republicans of Anson county and the Populists held their county conventions at Wadesboro last Tues day. The Republicans split on the fusion question, but the Pops nomi nated a fusion ticket. When the racket subsided in the Republican convention Office Hunter Dockery was trotted out to make a speech, the substance of which is thus re ported in the Charlotte Observer: "After the first two scenes of the show were over, the bell was rung and the curtain rose over Office Hun ter Dockery before about fifty hearers 80 per cent black ready to make his plea. I did not hear it, but am told it was very villainous and a regu lar 'nigger' speech, indorsing Russell's LUlil.L 1 1 WH LL ttUU f UUii pjuum administration of the penitentiary af :r : j t T a,ui,i. fair, saving that Smith was one of the best men in the State, and warning the negroes that should the Democrats be elected and have both branches of the Legislature they would duplicate the Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina disfranchisement laws. la short, it was a mean speech from a mean This is characteristic of Office Hunter Dockery. That's the kind of a speech he carries around with him in his grip sack. He is" trying to scare the negroes with that same u -j K,,- tttT,: (for he especially appeals to them in his speeches) into voting the Re publican ticket, and for him, of course, by asserting that if the Democrats carry the State they will so change the election laws as to de prive the negroes and poor white men" of the right to vote. In commenting on this falsehood some time ago we showed how absurd it is, and that it would be utterly im possible to do that even if any Dem ocrat wanted to do it. The suprra- ing thing is that any man pretend ing to . respectability would i indulge in such rot as a plea for his own election. ' Dockery and Marion But- ler ought to be yoked together and exhibited as a pair of freaks. Col. report A. D. Cowles, speaking of the that Gen. Wheeler is a very i m " poor man, says ne has it rrom irienas of the General that he is easily worth $350,000, and gives the further in formation that the General is a hope less dyspeptic, and went into the Cuban waf WW- the hope that a Mause r ball would hit him and cure his dyspepsia. We don't believe it, for no hopeless dyspeptic could shin up a tree with the celerity that Joe Wheeler can. NO. 49 L0UISIANAS DELIVERANCE. Louisiana has one day she cele brates which no other State in the Union has. It is the 14th day of September, her emancipation day, the day that she Was emancipated from mongrel and negro rule and her government went back into the hands of her own people. That was in 1876, after the fearful ordeal of rapine and misrule by unscrupu lous white men, most of them ad venturers from other States, and by negroes who were led by these white men. That ordeal lasted ior ten years; extending from the war through the so-called reconstruc tion period until 1876. They made Louisiana almost a wreck, and left but the land and houses which they could not carry away. Louisi- anians never forget the 14th of Sep tember and they-thank God for that deliverance. There is not a State in the South that did not have an experience somewhat similar to that of Louisi ana, although others may not have been so severely tried. North Caro lina effected her deliverance earlier than Louisiana, and sooner hurled from power the plundering gang who were pursuing the same methods that the Louisiana plunderers were, but met with more successful resist ence because thejy did not have the powerful backing of the black cohorts which the Louisiana plunderers had. But we had experience enough in this State to need' no reminders of the horrid conditions under Radical rule, when adventurers from other States, associated with natives who thought more of office than they did of the State, and negroes (who were led to believe that these adventurers and these office seekers were their friends and only friends) made laws for, ruled and plundered North Caro lina. The true white men of the State- rose up against them, cap tured the Legislature and stopped their devilment and their plunder ing and made the final grand effort in 1876, which finished the work and put the glorious and immortal Zeb Vance in the Governor's chair. From that day until the mongrels wormed themselves North Carolina was into power under Demo- cratic rule, and in all those vears we had peace within our borders, and notwithstanding troublous times in the financial field mades marvellous progress.' Succeeding a period of misrule, of plunder, of turmoil bordering at times upon chaos, the Democrats came into power. i-- They found the state with a bankrupt treasury, with $25,000,- 000 of rapidly created indebtedness, (in addition to the. previous honest debt) from which she never received a dollar of benefit They found many of the counties burdened with debt. They found the public school sys tem destroyed and the school fund stolen. They found the State University closed, with nothing in it bnt a gang of so-called professors drawing pay. They found the railroads m which the State held an in- terest being run by partisan ap- pointees in their own interest and in the interest of the Radical party They found the credit of the State so low that her bonds were not rec ognized on the market. They found enterprise strangled, neither capital nor immigration coming into the State, many of her sons going out to seek homes in other States and many more anx ions to go. The feeling between the races was bad, the incendiary's torch found work at the wicked suggestion of the devlish leaders of the ignorant black men, and what Governor Graham characterized as a "species of wild justice" was invoked to pro tect from the midnight destroyer, and punish the criminal. Under wise, conservative, honest Democratic rule, all. this was changed. The State's oredit was re-estab lished. Confidence in her integrity was restored. The fraudulentjdebt was repudi ated and the honest debt recognized and compromised. The public . schools were opened . i . e - - - - again, and as liberally provided lor as the ability of the State would permit. The State University was cleansed and reopened. The counties were relieved from I their burdens as far as possible and protected from excessive taxation. Thev Judiciary was purified and made respectable. Law and order was thoroughly es tablished. , Good feeling between the races was restored and turbulence ceased. ' The railroads in which the State had an interest were taken from the control of partisans who ran them for their own benefit and the benefit of the party, and put in the hands- of honest, competent men who ran them in a legitimate business way. Capital and-immigration began to emigration soon ceased. Enterprises grew up and' in creased, new railroads were built, our towns and cities grew, until, considering the financial troubles through whichvthe country passed and the scarcity of money in the South, North Carolina reached a degree of progress and prosperity equalled by few of the Southern States and surpassed by none, with the possible exceptions of Alabama and Georgia. And in all that time, with this record of achievement (and only a partial one), no man has risen to . charge' the Democratic administra- J, tion with oppression or with dis honesty, and not one single scandal can be laid at its door. f Compare, or rather contrast, that-' honorable record of twenty years with the disgusting failure and scan dalous exhibition made by the pres ent mongrel party during its brief sway so far, and then ask any hon est, State-respecting man who has any self-respect, which he would choose. With that kind of a man there could be but one answer, and that answer comes with emphasis, and a clarion ring that has never been as clear or sharp since the grand struggle in 1876, which won the vic tory that fully redeemed us then. And we shaH be redeemed from the mongrel party that has abused its trust and the people, for the men who rallied around Vance then, and their sons, have put on their armor, and the word has gone along the lino that North Carolina must be redeemed and white supremacy restored. A DOCKERY ORGAN PLEADS. The Republic is a Republican or gan, publishedat Rockingham, Rich mond county, Hon. Office Hunter Dockery'8 home. It is not only his organ, but the Dockerys hold stock in it, and we think Oy'H. is one ot the directors. It seems that the ne groes up there are becoming saucy and claiming a right to their proportionate representation in the county convention, which has . brought the following pleading ar ticle from the Dockery organ. It reads thus: ' "We do not pretend to offer advice to our political friends, but it occurs to us that under the circumstances . and condition of things generally speaking that the Republican con vention to be held here on the 20th instant should be equally and fairly represented in delegation between the white and colored people. There is no man more willing to give the col ored man the right that is his due than we are, but at the same time' the colored man must not forget that the white man has his conventional rights. What we want to see is a fair white delegation at the convention on the 20th. , 5 "We are the colored man's friend. The Republican party is is friend, as the past thirty-five years have proven, but we are opposed to either white or colored dominating the other. Equal privileges, we say ;hence we say let there be an equal proportion of white dele gates at the convention. This is in the interest of the colored man as well as all concerned." We infer from this that the fcKvrkHiii. - Ti l-il o nlr id rri tti n rt f Ha 11 VUUVl ill M1U1.11 IO glTlUg .1111 brother in white some trouble, and that the brother in white is alarmed lest the brother in black should come too much to the front and not give the brother in white a showing in that convention, and hence the organ mildly suggests to the brother in black that the brother in white has C V i a v tt!t f i --T o 1 Ti rrV fa'' xrVirV U1D VfVXJL T OUV1V11IU X IgUVB WW JU.U shouldmot be ignored. Dockery 's organ is willing to grant them "equal privileges," which logically means that Dockery 's friends are also willing to split the watermelon in half with them, and give them one half the offices, which is what "equal privileges" will be understood to mean by the brother in black. . , We have already found Office Hunter Dockery boot-licking "Dan Russell" whom he had before been denouncing as several kinds of a double d- rascal, and now we find his organ, doubtless inspired by him, pleading.with and ja&gm. to the negro. What next? "CONTEMPTIBLE WE HUNTERS. This Is What Butler Catted Those Who Favored Co-Operation la 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 dismal and disastrous failure. Only the contemptible pie-hunters ace any yuuu in n. 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 Domination is staring us in the face? What Marion Butler said in the Caucasian in 1897, is exactly what every decent white man in JNorth Carolina believes now. General Collins, Of Boston, thus sensibly off era a solution of the Phil ippine problem: "If the Philippines are not capable of self -gov ernpaent. we do not want them; if they are, let them set up for themselves." There-is Anarchy in Europe and and Hannarohy in., this country, both ought to be wiped out. Ensley, Ala., is soon to have s $2,000,000 rod and nail mill. Ala bama iron men ate branching out. " t" nii omce and imnerionsl v nines as much as we can.