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Th, '- . t i. i. i a M 3 . B S B H P P , , Bdltor and Pro one tor. WILMINGTON, N. C. Friday, - - September 30, 189a INCREASE IN THE BORDER COUNTIES. The Radical-Pop. jj combine are laying their plan for padding the registration lists m the border coun ties withUmported negroes,, as they did in the election two years ago. They are showing their hand in Mecklenburg county, and if they succeed there they will, if the regis trars do not 8Ut them, probably play ine same game m uhioj uv ties vbieh they propose to colbnize with imported negroes. It seems that some of the Republican regis trars appointed for Mecklenburg dad not suit Holten, -Thompson & Co., who are running the Rep. -Pop. fusion machine, and therefore they have instituted proceedings to have these registrars set aside and creatures ' 'of their own put in their places. The,case is thus stated by the Char lotte, Qbserver: , "The properly constituted authori ties of Mecklenburg county proceeded on the day set apart by law to appoint rejristrars of election. The law re quires that a representative of the po litical parties in present conditions -Democratic, Republican and Popu list shall be appointed. "The selection of these men de vol es entirely upon the clerk of the court, register of deeds and sheriff of , the county. The only restriction on ,i these officers is that they shall select ' representatives of each political or ganization, fulfilling the other re quirements as to intellectual qualifica tion. f It seems that Mecklenburg possesses Republicans, who, through Repub lican in principle believing in and sus taining the principles of the party, are not in sympathy with negroizing the State. They do not find in their party platforms, or declaration of principles anything requiring them to turn their State, their property and their liberties over to the vicious elements of socie ty, that element which destroys or scandalizes all it touches such as the Hoi ton-Thompson combination isftry ing to fasten eternally on the State. Some of these Republicans, admit ted to be honorable as well as intelli gent gentlemen, have been chosen to represent their party as registrars. Therefore, and altogether because they are honorable and intelligent, Chairman Hoi ton and Thompson, the "Heavenly Twins" in the present ' political iniquities of the State, have instituted proceedings before Judge- lurches of the supreme court to nave these men set aside, and such crea tures as they, Hoi ton and Thompson, or their henchmen in Mecklenburg, select, appointed. The inference from this action of . the Holton-Thompson combine is that it is for them to decide who is or is not a Republican or a Populist, that they are the judges who are to pass upon a man's political ortho doxy, and that the man must square upto their measurement if he ex pects to pass muster. There are about 20,000 white Republicans and about 30,000 Populists in the State and it is for A. S. Holton and Cy Thompson to pass upon and say Who of them are Republicans and who Populists. How is that for a two-man power They have made a new test of party fealty. It will not do that a Repub lican or a Populist stands on the platform of his party, fights for its principles and votes for its national and State tickets he must, like that hungry officer seeker in Union county, "swallow fusion, nigger and all," swallow anything and every thing that this dual despotism or ders him to swallow. There doesn't seem to be any kick in this case against the Populistsappointed, as they may be all right, but what they are after is to get control of the reg istration boards by getting in, hench men of their own upon whom they can count to do their bidding, and their infernal work, as they hacf it done before the last election, boards upon which they will have the ma- jonty ana wnicn win enroll every darkey brought within the borders from the adjoining counties, or other counties where they can be picked up. : 1 "I 1 -a ' . - ii tney succeeu, as we nave re marked, thej will no doubt try the same game in every county in this district, if the men appointed are the kind they want. If thev have the right kind of tools on the registration boards, there is noth ing to prevent them from enrolling every negro they may import, for under the villainous election laws we have now if the negro who of fers to register is wiling to swear that he is ejntitled ta register his name cannot be kept off the lists, although he may not have been in the State ten days, and if his name goes on the list he cannot be pre vented from voting, for the right to challenge a vote on election day is denied under this fraud-breeding system. It is true there there is an absurd clause, the trickery of which is transparent, providing for the prosecution and punishment, on conviction, of the voter who illegal ly registers or votes, Din tnat IS a farce for the State does not prose cute on information, but the com plaining citizen must and he must bear the expense of the prosecution himself, which very few would un dertake to do, especially when there is nothing to be' accomplished by it save the possible conviction of the accused. And then how many of there imported voters would stay around long enough after the elec tion to be arrested and tried? The last one of them, if they heard any talk of prosecuting them, would skip the -day after the election and get back' to their old' baunU where they would be beyoSid the reach of Kerth, n-wunft law or North Carolma-.offi-;i -- - - .i cfers. . A i Thn fnaion managers boast o y .. - a the great gains they made in the counties bordering "on South Car- olinasS in the last election, and they i t expect to de tho same againand in the same way, that-is by importing l negroes from acroM the border. It is a very easy thing tfc do, and doesn't cost nincbmoney for the class of negroes they import are cheap, and are not fond enough of work to value their time. This col izing is a sort of picnic with them. They easily find lodging and grub with the other negroes nien-of -all-work for the bassesr-and have a goocf time lounging around,, until their servtceaare needed on election day, when they are marched, up Jo the polls after having been previous ly registeredand voted, and then when Ithey get the pay agreed upon thev can migrate to the section J whence they came, if they don't feel entirely comfortable on -this side of the line. Under all the legal safeguards that we have eyer had there never has been an election in this State in which a great .many illegal negro votes were not cast, in some many thousands, with all the precautions taken against it. It is much easier on account of their wandering habits to run in illegal negro votes than it is white votes. White meu are better known, more stationary, and- more easily identified, while there is something about the negro which makes it difficult to identify himandick out the newcomers un less they are spotted and followed up. As the saying goes, "all Coons look alike to me, "and there is a good deal of truth in it. There is a racial similarity and the color helps to dis guise identities; in addition to which they are sometimes known by different names, and many register at one precinct under one name and at another under another name This has been and still is a very common thing. We can't prevent the importation of these negroes, and there will doubtless be much illegal register ing and voting. We can't prevent it all, but by systematic work and close watching of the strange ne groes wno appear in communities we may prevent some of it. Demo crats near the border line ought to keep a sharp look out on the in comers and spot where they locate, if they can, and having spotted them keep a close eye upon them, prevent their registering, if possi ble, and if they swear in their votes institute proceedings, then and there, against them for perjury. If a few arrests were made it might have a salutary effect. ' 'Eternal vigilance," we are told, "is the price of liberty," and so eternal vigilance should guard and protect the sacredness of the ballot box. THEY COULDN'T STAND THIS. We have heretofore referred to the change of sentiment among the Pop ulists of Nash county, so many of whom have left the Populist party and gone back to the Democratic party. But the recent" action of their leaders in fusing with the Re publicans and thus forcing their fol lowing either to vote for negroes or get out of the party proved the turning point with many who were up to that time undecided as to what they would do. The folio wing dispatch from Rocky Mount to the Raleigh News and Observer shows how self respecting white Populists are re volting against this degradation: There is a ground swell going on among the voters of Nash county. Since Harris, a negro mail carrier, has been nominated for County Commis sioner on the Fusion ticket, with the Krospect of six negro tax collectors eing added, the Populist leaders have apparently lost all control of their followers in the county. . Reports re ceived here indicate that townships -1 a.m.- m . neretorore overwneimingly ropuiist, have come over in almost one body to the Democratic party. There is an ancient saying that "whom the Gods would destroy they first made mad" and they cer tainly made these Populist machine managers mad when tkey undertook to barter the votes of "their people for negro candidates, to get negro votes in return for the offices which they were hungry for. And this, too, was after that ne gro speaker had get' up in the Republican county convention at Nashville and endorsed everything that the vile slanderer in the negro organ of this city had said about the white 'women of North Carolina. We published that a few days ago, and yet after that instead of turning away from that crowd in righteous indignation, these callous-souled, degraded and self-abased office- hunters joined hands with them and struck the bargain by which they proposed to barter the Populist vote of that county for the negro candi dates who were nominated by that convention. No wpnder the Popu lists who have any respect for them selves, and any love for their wives and daughters, and any respect for the race to which they belong are. repudiating and turning away from such disreputable and degraded leadership. THE LAMBS. The pleasant effect and safety with which ladies may use Syrup of Figs, under ail conditions, nuikes it their favorite remedy. To get the true and genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the bottom of the package. For sale by all responsible druggists, t PULLED UTTO If. w. So' t nriblish atenthpart of vULj .w; in ar State -r.rr- r napeW from Populists, or rainer men . i. from G. G. Ward, of .Pitt . county, which we find in the Greenville B , Hector, is so brief, but contains so uoin turn imjj o much, that we publish it. He says: , ' r . .-.! -- I ' "I have been in the Pppulwt party , ever- since its orgamzauuu. x na into it by tne j)nneAiii-j ance. I jwas to d by m ' W j ir.f rlitir.5s T have roiiowea inc . tv and obeyed the orders of the ML rirlVand the Republican party negro rule and disgrace. I shall vote the Democratic ticket at the next election in Novfem w T innml to all Erood citizens of the county, who love their wlres and uaugnters, quiei nomes auu gywu guv- erpment, to rally to Mie polls ontne day of next election ana cast meir vote for the Democratic party, the only salvation of thia country." . Mr. Ward was "pulled into it," to usa bis own words, just as thou sands of other honest, well-meaning men were, but it was some time before they -discovered . what the were "pulled in" for and they didn't exactly, seethe way out until iheir pullers,,put on the last feather of weight of shame they could ber, aria it was either get out or get down with their faces in the dirt and let their betrayera tad the prostitu tors of the Alliance walk over them, and use them as mud-sills to step into office. They have betrayed their people, have destroyed the Al liance, which was organized for a good purpose and was doing much good -until these shameless, mercen ary office hunters diverted it from its mission, converted it into a poli tical machine and used it in carry ing out their own selfish and base schemes. Honest Populists See through all this now and hence the loathing with which . so many of them, -dike Mr. Ward, are turning their backs on their betrayers DISUSTED EVEN THE NEGROES- The Dockery family seem to be natural born office hunters. The old stager 0. H., (commonly known as Office Hunter) has been An chase of something ever since he has been old enough to grab at any thing, ana tne younger snoots are running with their noses pointed in the same course. O. H., Sr., is trying to crawl into Congress from this district, Oliver Jr., threw up some office he had in Raleigh and is running for solicitor in the Fourth district, and Claude is chairman of the board of Peni tentiary Directors. 0. H., Sr., and Oliver Jr., are both on the stump ana both are playing to tne negro, upon whom they depend for nearly all the votes they will get, without which they would not make a track on the sand. The former contents himself with trying to fool the negroes and make them believe that if the Democrats carry the State, or if he is beaten for Congress, the negroes will be disfranchised, but the latter, who is younger and can caper more ridicu ously, out-darkeys the darkeys when talking to darkeys, and does it so shamefully that he disgusts even the darkeys themselves. He followed the negro Congress man White at a meeting at Golds boro Friday night, where they spoke to a "small crowd of negroes and to a few white candidates." The Argus refers to White's speech as moder ate, "respectable and decent in tone," but characterizes young Oliver's performance as "filthy, vile, outrageously and unmention ably vulgar," so much so that "there was not a decent negro present who did not repudiate his filthy lan guage." He Bimply made the mis take of underestimating the self respect of the negroes, and in getting into the wallow took on so much filth that he disgusted them. He is running for Solicitor, a respect able and an important office, and in playing to the rabble disgraces him self and makes the decent negro ashamed of his candidate. THE SACS PROBLEM. Wherever two separate races are thrown together there will be the race problem more or less. It is more prominent in the United States than in any other country in the world because the United States are a Republic and the races are thrown into direct contact at the ballot box and the ballot box rules the country. It is more prominent in the South ern section of the United States than in other section because the races are more evenly divided in numbers than in other sections and when they come into contact at the ballot box it is to contend for su premacy. That is the contention in "North Carolina to-day. If the negroes were as numerous in Massa chusetts in proportion to population as they are in North Carolina or in any other Southern State the race line would be as sharply drawn as it is in North Carolina or any other Southern State. As far as the negro is concerned the question with him is not how to solve the race problem for he can't do that and never will while his akin is black and his hair curls. He might as well try to check the ocean's tide with a pitchfork. It is not for him to attempt the impos- sible, to rase the line that divides his race from the Caucasian, but it is his to study how to adapt himself to the conditions that surround him, to take advantage of the civil ization in which he lives, to make the ihost of it ad his opportunities to pr&fcpte his own progress, better his own condition d fit himself tot take a bitter part that ciydiza tion. do this hiTrausgcf;WJ$fc3 help touua up uiewmie man ana m"""" best od quickest w,y to build him- ...... , , , , ., i -Thftrir arc comnarAtivelV f6w ie . & zv m .jnd tne race- problem as it aflts the negro. Booker TWash- meiou, oi me ouiurtju xuuuoumi Sohool at Tnskegee,' Ala., is one of hthose few. A. far as our knowledge he is the only one who fnlly "under stands it. He discusses it with much intelligence, and whan he does always says something to put those of. his race who have thinking capacity to thinking. In talking op, this Question recently he said. It is not so much what the; white man will do with theegrb as what the-negro will do with the white mans civilization." Or, in other words what the negro will do with him self, for the negro is now the arehi tect of his own fortune. He will never be able to fiy, and he might as well try to fly as to blot out the ine that divides his race from the white race, so his future does not lie in a political direction. He may be a voter but with six" white Votes to one black he can never become a mler, althongh he may aspire (verf fool ishly) to be in some sections where his race predominates in numbers. But even if his ambition were realized in that be would be begin ning at the wrong end and would find himself worse in the end than in tire Jbeginning, for his vanity would be inflated ' without anything for it to Test upon permanently. This Alabama teacher, has tried to impress upon his race the impor tance of building a foundation capa ble pf holding them if they expect to figure upon it. They must creep before they can walk and walk be .. ' fore they can run and, ne miguii add, do a great deal of patient creep ing and walking before they under take to run for office. As a race they are crawling yet, and' very few of them walking while many of them aspire to fly. They have an office-holding mania on them in North Carolina, not so much on account, perhaps,' of the emoluments of office, for most of these are small, as on account of the distinction, which pleases their vanity. They think it a great thing to hold office like the white man, and thereby show that they are mere imitators. While they do not thus benefit themselves materially they very materially injure their race, by forcing the race issue into prominence and making the chasm wider between them and the white man with whom they are by fate associated, although in a subordi nate relation. This but retards the progress of the negro and makes his advancement the more difficult, for he ean make but little progress while disposed to antagonize and to pull against instead of with the white man. If he took a reasonable, sensible view of his own condition and had any conception of his own possi bilities he would realize that his in terests and the white man's inter ests are woven together, and the more he bettered his condition the more, identified those interests would become. The sooner the negro becomes a property owner and. a tax payer the sooner and the more interested he will become in good, honest, clean government and the less he will care who ad ministers . the government, and levies, collects and spends the taxes, and he will not be howling for some negro to do it merely be cause he is black, regardless of qual ifications. There is no part of the civilized world in which negroes have had the same opportunities for their ewn ad vancement, as they have had and still have in the Southern States, in which they were once slaves. Nine out of ten of them up to the time of their emancipation spent their lives on farms, as many of them do now, but they now have a weakness for town life, for congregating in the towns and scuffling for a living there, when they could, if they were rea sonably industrious and thrifty, live much better with less labor in the country. But few of them, com pared with the millions in the South, have become property owners, whereas many of them might have become owners of property. Land is cheap in the South and there is no negro who works and does not waste his earnings who might not easily be come the purchaser and owner of a small farm to which he could add as his circumstances im proved. But the one with an am Jbition to own a home is the except tion. The bulk of them prefer to live up to or beyond their earnings, if they can, to squander their time in following unsafe leaders black and white and to discuss politics in which they have really but little interest. This h not the way for them to rise nor to Bolve the race problem even from a material standpoint, and that is .s far as they will ever get- I with it. But they will not get that far while they permit self-seeking negroes and self-seeking white men, who xalsely profess an interest in them, to throw dust in their eyes and lead them by the nose as they have been and are now doing. THE DISFRANCHISING FAKE. Office Hantef DjackAry aad other Jpublica,n iind Popfliist. (jepubli- cjfttf in ?op!Ulist disguise) mumpers resurrecting that playM out old fake about disfranchising negroes, if the Democrats get into jewer, hut they go further now and say that not only the negroes, but poorly, White men- win oe uisirancmsea. We noticedihis some. timo ago and j r. i .. , , . to snow- uqw -uiuiouis, n not aoso- i .: . hitely jmpdssible, it would be todo I. this, -even if any Democrat desfred to do ijt. We also published yesterday an interview with Chairman Simmons, of the Democratic State Committee, in which he exposes the old fake and shows its absurdity. Hal Ayer, the Fusion State Audi tor, and reputed apthor of the Pop nlist Hand Book, in discussing the suffrage question hits it plump be tween the eyes in the following, referring to the i position pf the Democratic party on that subject, clipped from page four of that book. "During a period of tvoenty years in which that -party swayed over whelming power tri North Carolina, it never passed a taw nor made an ef fort to disfranchise or iakefrom the negro the power of the ballot." Referring to the fact that while some other Southern States have v passed laws restricting suffrage this Populist, hand book, writer adds: 'The same power that disfranchised the negro in these Southern States has betn wielded by the Democratic party ir North Carolina for, twenty years. and yet no advantage whatever has been taken of that power." This refers to the election laws passed in some, but not all, of the Southern States, prescribing certain qualifications as a requisite to suf l-frage, as they have in several xf the .Northern states, where there are few negroes; but, according' to Mr Ayer, who speaks truly, "there never was in all those twenty, orf' rather twenty-four years (for the Demo crats held the Legislature that longl. a sinede move even to restrict - L M . much less abolish the right of suf frage of any one entitled to it. Before they started this trans parent, absurd fake they should have had an understanding with Hal Ayer and had these sock dolagers kept out of his hand-book. A FEW OF HIS REASONS. Mr. W. H. Long ,is one of the Populists of Union county who has become disgusted with the treachery of the Populist leaders and. re pud i ated their leadership, in doing so he publishes . the following in the Monroe Jo nrnal giving some of his reasons: " . "I am no longer a Populist, and here are a few of my reasons for with drawing from the party : In the first place the leaders have failed to redeem their pledges, and this truth all may see who do not bandage their eyes. In the second place by fusing with the Republican party the leaders nave dug a grave so deep for Populism that a grave robber would not waste time in hunting for it. Such a move was suicidal, and politicians and party leaders will be taught that they cannot thus trifle with the people who love principle, that home inter ests and moral principles are dearer to honest men than party fealty or party success. The Populist rank and file have become the victims of political conspiracies and combinations. The Republicans have captured the Popu list leaders, but the same principles we heve been advocating, and wish to see nrmly established, can be found m the citadel of Democracy, and levers of home, country and civilization, can unite with it and fight for good and honest government. 1 There is not a single statement in the above that is not literally true There never was a political party the masses of which were as basely betrayed and as contemptuously trifled with as the masses of the Populist party hae "been by their mercenary leaders who have, re gardless of all principle and of all decency, been trading them like chattels for negro votes to elect themselves to office. Now they ex pect these white Populists, whom they have been so brazenly barter ing, to submissively go to the polls and cast their votes for Republicans who are opposed to every principle that the Populist party advocates, and for negroes to rule over .them and their children. , Is it strange that such baseness has been resetted, such vile leader ship repudiated and a revolution provoked that will end in the total overthrow" of these recreant leaders, and in the destruction of this per verted party? THE BOSSES SCARED. The white bosses in the Repub lican party are getting scared and are tiering to hold the negro down in thosco unties where they ean do it. They are very anxious, of course, to have the negroes vote for the tickets they nominate, "but the as sertiveness of the colored aspirants has been so much resented even by white Republicans that 1 they are now doing their level best to choke the celored brother off. They had a convention in Wake county last Saturday. Some of the colored del egates wanted to nominate one Capeheart, a negro, forthe Legis lature, "but when h was called up on he got up and said, j Tve been over the county and I find the Republican voter of Wake county desirous of having a colored man on the ticket. But sixty days ago a deal was made, whereby the negro is to be kept off the ticket, and to day an attempt is being made to de liver the goods. Money has been offered to buy my manhood, and what little political influence I have. "Thffdeal I refer to is that if the ne groes will igive up the place that be longs to them oh the legislative ticket, they will be given two $900 jobs i the Agricultural Department, and a place in the colored school for the deaf, bumb and blind. "I'm willing to serve you iv any honorable way pobl but I'i not for sale nor am I here to be madhash of. I have hash for breakfast at home, and I don't propoSje -to J$B er my$f as hash for the pie-eaters: , itneretore ret use to allow tne use of my name before this opnveton." Kemp W. Merritt, an.otberlnegro, a withdrew his name. That's the way the nfn iti r ivr rw If Im fU aArt cr nnrrrA oounties, where the n6ffpes are vfc the majority, they are letting theia , , . ., , , the maioritv. thp.v arr have v3 swing, butln the eoujftiss where taey are, net so nnmerons, but where tne result depends on the white vote they are: -poshing; the negroes to the rear although they expect to vote them soHd on election day. And they .think they are playingitnne on tne whte,man as well as on the negro, hut they are not fooling anybody with this; trick. A VOICE OJT WAxtHiniT' I We have received tile following I letter irom -Mr. B. W .- sstewart, a Justice of the Peace ' in Sandy Ridge township. Union county He is but one ofthe teany Fobu lists of that cowity wht whither his party is drifting, and I declines to go with it, but takes his 1 manly standTwith the Democratic party for honeat government and white supremacy:? Mr. Wm. If. Bernard, Wilmington, M C. Dear 8iB ; When the Populist par ty arose in 1882 I was of the opinion that through it alone we could ever get good government, and for six long years I fought with all my ability for the upbuilding Of .Populism. .But alas, to mv great sorrow and regret, I find my labors have all been in vain, for the Republicans by fusion "have swallowed the Populist party, princt- pies anu an. auq i nrmiy oeneve u the Republican party gets in full con trol jof our State government that it will bring crime, bloodshed and ruin to our once peaceful and happy homes: and 1 believe that it is the patriotic duty of every honest white Populist to re turn to the great Democratic party and there battle for the rights of free shall no longer be traded and bartered I to the Republican party as if I was an. ox or a sheen sim an. ox or a sheep simply to give unprincipled leaders of the Populist party a seat at the pie counter. Kespectfully, S. W. Stewart. "Wolfsville, N. CL, Union coUnty, Sandy Ridge township, Sept. 20, 1898. STRUCK THE WRONG MAN. W. S. Hurly lives in Aberdeen, Moore c6unty He is a Democrat, but by mistake was appointed one of the Republioanregistrars for his township. Taking it for granted that he was a Republican Chairman Holton sent him one of the secret circulars which he is send ing to all Republican and Populist registrars, which reads as follows: "Headquarters Republican State Executive Committee, Raueigh, N.tl, Sept. 20, 1898. DBAS Sir i our attention is es peciall v called to the great importance to the' registration of all voters, who oppose the Democratic bosses and ring rule. It will not do to neglect the op portunity to register, nor to have your neighbor, who thinks politically as you do, to neglect to register. The victory in 189b may induce our voters to tnins: tnat no special ex ...... . . , ertion is necessary in this election, and our negligence may result in our de feat. Let me urge you to interest yourself and your friends in the result of the next election ; let me entreat and advise you to assist in the formation of campaign clubs in your township and county, and also to attend the meet ings that the Populists and Republi cans will hold in your neighborhood "I hope it will be your pleasure to assist in every way that you can to make success a certainty. "Upon this action this year may de pend your right to vote for years to come, for it is a foregone conclusion that if the Democrats control the next Legislature they will pass such laws as will render it impossible for the will of the people to be expressed at the ballot 1 -r , 1 A dox.,. l snail ne giaa to near irom you occasionally with respect "to the pro gress of politics in your preeinct. This document shows several things, one ,of which is that the Republican machine managers are alarmed and see the necessity of getting every Republican they can to register and vote to save them from defeat. Another is that they regard the Populist party under fusion as prac tically the same as the Republican party, and hence urges the regis trars to get as many people as pos sible to attend the Republican, or Populist meetings, it doesn't matter which. Another is that Republican and Populist registrars, are expected to "assist in every way they can to make success a certainty," which is virtually instructing them to get all the Republican names they possibly can oil the lista, whether they have a right to be there or not. He concludes with that old ex ploded fake about disfranchisement thus making the official represen tative of the Republican party re sponsible for it, oblivious of the fact that Hal .Ayer, who is in ca hoots with him, and assisting him in as far as he can to run the ma Chine and humbug, the people, flatly gave the lie to that fake in his hand book when he said that in the twenty years in which the Dem ocratic party had control of the Legislature it never attempted to deprive any negro or any one else of the right to vote. Chairman Holton is evidently scared, but he happened to strike the wrong, man when he sent his circular to Mr. Hurly. Public Speakingb. Mr. Iredell Meares speaks at Jack- I sonyille, Onslow county, on Monday, i October 3rd. j Hon. F. A. Woodward speaks at Whiteville, Columbus county, October I 3rd. Hon. R. A. Dough ton and Rodolph Duffy, will speak at Wilmington, Thursday night, October 20tb. FTVE-CEHT COTTON. In the political campaign two years ago the Popust stumpers and organs of the Soptto were arraigning the Democratic plasty, as resppnsiore fnr t.hp low nrice of cotton, and the Republican stumpers ani organs of the North were denouncing it as re sponsible for the tow jmr WTpKi, and other f ar m-pfodupj. C otton is now five cents a . poena n.a wnea about sixty cent a bushel, but we do not hear any howlhig retailing bv either PonuBst - or Republican campaigners TWH-nnblican nartv fsin Power at Washhartonhich will afceonnst i t i for the silence of the Republican campaigners and organs, but it should not account for the -danse V silence of the Populist campaigners and organs. . W hy, ttten, are tney so silent? Is it because thejr. dare not attack the Republi- can administration wnue mas- ing common cause, with . it against the"I)em6cratic party? Have. the North Carolina Populist fusion leaders lost their interest in the people whom they profess to repre sent and 'to plead for since they have entered Into copartnership with the supporters and defenders of the national Republican gold standard I and high tariff administration? , When they entered into that co partnership they thereby agreed to. padlock their months as to the He- publican party, and hence while they are full of misrepresentation and abuse ofJhe 1emocratic party, which is not in power, no one has ever beard them open their mouths in criticism of the Republican party, wnicn is in power. Are they sim pletons enough to suppose that the people, the farmers, in whom they hypocritically profess so much in terest, can't see through this, and understand why they are so deathly silent on 5-cent cotton? The people are not such gudgeons as they take them to be. NEGRO KICKERS IN THE WEST We have heretofore referred to the disposition shown by the negroes to assert themselves not only in Eastern counties where they are numerous enough to dictate to con ventions but in the Central and Westejn counties where) they are a potent factor in the Republican party; In Wake, Montgomery, Stanly and other central counties the white bosses are having trouble with the colored contingent and are plan ning and plotting to keep him down and out of sight, but there is kick ing, as might be expected,, in con sequence, and the kicking is being done even in some of the Western counties where heretofore the ne groes have been very submissive and quietly followed in the leading strings and did the bidding of the white bossesr The following we clip from the Rutherford correspondence of the Charlotte Observer, under date of 24th inst: "The negro voters of Rutherford county met here to-day in convention to take action with regard to nominat ing a ticket of their own for the com ing election. The attendance was large. between 75 and 100 negroes from every section ot the county attending. Very few precincts in the county were un represented. Martin V. Miller was nominated for register of deeds and Wm. Logan for county commissioner The meeting was very nearly equally divided as to the advisabilitv of nomi nating a full county ticket, and after quite a long debate it was finally de ciaea noi w nations." make any further nomi- And there is trouble in Polk county, too: "The negroes in Polk county are in the same condition as those of Kuth erford county and last Saturday they met in county convention and put out a ticket which they say they will vote. It is said that a prominent white .Republican of .Folk attended the negro convention in that county and made a speech in ah effort to stop action, but he was unsuccessful and met with a very cold reception. In neither Polk nor Rutherford coantiei can the Republicans win without the negro vote solid for their ticket, and from present indications both of those counties can be safely relied upon to give large and substantial majorities for the Democratic nominees Our Western brethren may not have any fear of negro domination, because they do not see so much of the negro nor come in such frequent contact with him, but he is assert ing himself, is moving Westward, and he will soon get to be as saucy out there as he is now in the East un less the Western men realize the situation and check the movement in time, while they .can. COMING HOME. We have received the following letter from Mr. S. W. Thompson, an other of the Columbus county Popu lists, who has discovered how he and his party have been betrayed, and manfully repudiates and spurns the rotten leadership: Editor Morning Star: Believing that the Democratic party under the leadership of Cleveland was drifting from its true principles, I joined the People's party, thinking that it was what it claimed to be. for free silver, a low tariff and an econ omical administration of the gov ernment. But I now And the leaders of the party who want office putting the party on the block to be bid off by the highest bidder of any party that will give these leaders the most offices. We see them joining the Republican party, whose every principle is opposed to the Populist platform, for they are fer the gold standard, a high tariff and an expen sive administration. They are putting the negro over the white man and the white woman in the South, while they dare not attempt it in the North. For these reasons I have determined 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 sincerely hope that all those who withdrew from that party for the same reasons that I did will also see their error and return to it to fight under its flag for honest, decent government and white rule. I am no longer a Populist. Respectfully, S. W. Thompson. iron Hill. Columbus Co.. N. C. THAT OLD FAKE. Silly Attempt to Fool the People. Chairman Simmons Talks. Exnno .l tie Fraud, and Shows its Absurdity. Being asked if he knew tKn the Republican and Populist sneatoi were asserting that if the r,V !!. ers 'carried the State thev wonl.i ,u.fJ u chise the negroesand poor white n, , Chairman Bimmons said : ' "Yes-f have heard the Republican, were again circulating this thread"-l! '11- ;,ng that "-"f-" 'uc issues whil. Utey nave raisea dv necminn ; .v ' j i i t fiast. and by their corrupt and incom pevcut gvywuuiBut oi me last two years,, they have become desperate "Ifis just like the Republican party to try to run from the issues tlieir W deeds have raised, and it is n,,.i they should attempt to divert atten tion from their rascalities bv luilleNn 'thief !' at theJionest men. Rnf i. astonishing that even in their despera-" tion and panic, Republican leaH.J shouldhave no better sense tlkn tn suppose they can frighten, the White menoi Worth Uarolina with an Old bugaboo that has long since ceased tn scare even the ignorant and credulous negro. . , ' For the past twenty years or nnra S"; before every election, the Uepuh' n speakers, at their midnight meet lugs, nave neen m the Habit of telling the negroes if the Democrats came into power their right to vote wQyQd be taken away from them. After the Democrats came into power' hi iiik State, they always had some reason to give these credulous beirtgs why the Democrats had not disfranchised them as they had before predictedf First they told them if the Demo crats got the State government, they would disfranchise them. The Demo crats eot the State government and did not disfranchise them. Thin they told them if the Democrats elected a President, they would disfraneltise them. The Democrats elected a Pre,&. ident and did not disfranchise them. They then told them if the Denvri-;7ts got control of Congress, they w ould J. 1 ii mi t aisirancnise . mem. ne uemocrad got control of Congress" and: did not disfranchise ; them. All alonsr Uie honest white men of the State laugh ed at these lies, and marveled that the negro did not have sense enough to ' see that he was being duped. F , "Finally the negro himself began to see through the: trick. , He had seen the Democrats in full power in the State for twenty-odd years, and had learned through experience that , that party did not propose Jp disfranchise him, and he, too, began to laugh at these liars, and finally refused to be frightened by their rot any longer. So theeld Republican scare crow had to be pulled down and put away. "Now these same old demagogues, aided by srfew pie eating and pie'ljunt ing Populists who used to laugh at their frauds upon the netrro,! have again brought out the old Republican scarecrow of disfranchisement; but. strange to say, they are now usijig it in an attempt to try and frighten, not the ignorant negro, but the poor and uneducated white men of the State. But these wily schemers will be disap pointed. They will find that theuu- A,lnn,t,l nrtitl. vii aii ,if fl,, 0.,tn CUULAKU WUllO 111 LI W 1 tUlO . '1,11' ' are not so easily fooled. They will find that while they may not have any book learning, they have the quick intelligence and hard sense iff tne white race, and they will find that they are not to be tooled, as the negro was so long fooIHd, by a bugaboo. There is not a white man in North Carolina Who will be frightened by this old Republican negro , bugaboo, and they will by their votes teach these fellows who are presuming upoi their ignorance that their intelligence, is not to be thus trifled with and in sulted with impunity. They know the Democratic party was the party that removed the property and educational disqualification' to suf frage in North Carolina. They know that the Democratic party has always stood for manhood suffrage, and they know the Democratic party will never under any circumstances under the sun. consent to the'Passaee of any law which will take from them, however poor and ignorant the may be, the right to vote, ot which will in any way diminish or lessen that great priviP ege. They know that the Democratic party is composed largely of poor and iinAitniatoit man in that it lnnks to UUWUUIHU Mil" v this honorable cjass of Jur citizenship for its support, and that it will pro tect them in all their rights of citizen ship, and guard them, their wives and children in their homes, their reputa-, tion and their virtue." "It must be remembered it is the Republicans who are circulating this silly story about the Democrats. Even the Populist wing of that party de nounced the story as absurd. As bar ren of truth about most things as is the HandTBook recently issued by Dr. Thompson and Hal Ayer, it is frank enough to admit that there is no truth in the Republican clamor, about the Democrat disfranchising the negro, much lss any white man, and that the hisgory of the past twenty odd years of. Democratic rule in North Carolina.proves the utter falsity and absurdity of the Republican rant on this subject. Nor do responsible Republi cans openly and publicly make this charge. As reckless as they are, they have tod much res ect for and fear of decent public opinion to visit upon themselves the scorn and con tempt which an open avowal of such an absurd and ridiculous charge would invite. But while these publican leaders are silent themselves upen this subject, they eeiid out secret Circulars, and put out sneak speakers and bush-whackers to try to frighten and j deceive the people by clandes tinely circulating this falsehood con cerning the purpose of the Democrat ic party. , "These leaders and their ciackers know, as every intelligent man in the State knows, that the Democratic plan to protect the white men of the -Last from, the horrible negro rule under which that fair section of the State how suffers and languishes is to tak? ad vantage of the recent decision of tno Supreme Court to the effect that one section of the country may have one system of county government and an other section or county may have an entirely different system of county government, and while according w the white counties the right to elect, all their local officers, to restore tnp old Democratic system of county gov ernment in the county having negru majorities, thus lifting the ruthless heel of the negro from off the neek ov ii u:4 l in the netrr" ridden counties of the bast. A Heal Catarrh cure. The 10 cent trial size of Ely s Cream Balm which can be had of the drugs is sufficient to demonstrate its grew merit. Send ten cents; we wjffcniau Full size 50c. ELY BROS... 56 Warren St. N. . Pf' Catarrh caused difficulty in speajjjjjf and to a great extent loss ofheaxuig. By the use of Ely's Cream Balm drop ping of mucus has ceased, v,Vw hearing have greatly improved. Davidson, Attorney at Lap, -mouth, 111, :' 1 v' V-S o Bears the Signature Tag Kind mmmi"
The Weekly Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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Sept. 30, 1898, edition 1
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