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I $hc Weekly tar. I, I A M H , h ? K S Editor and Proprietor WILMINGTON, N. C. FRIDAY October 7, 18&8. CY. THOMPSON AND SUFFRAGE. Cy. Thompson is one of the howl- " 1 .i c a r-t A Ann rf f lin crowd wS profei to b. afraid that if the Democrats, carry the State at the next election they will change the election laws so as to deprive the .negroes and "poor white" folks? of the right to elect their county officers, magistrates, &c. To hear these fellows rant one would think they were natural-born free suffrag ists and that "a free ballot and a fair count" was one of the principles 1 they imbibed with their, infantile ,7milk- I.n his speech at Asheboro Cy. waked up Hon. Marmaduke Bobbins by charging that the Demo- cratic Legislature of 1877 was re sponsible for negro magistrates. In Sunday's issue we published part of the answer of Mr. - Robbins, and herewith give some extracts from a second communication, published in the Aaheboro Courier, giving Cy?s record, as a member of the Legisla ture, on the popular suffrage ques tion. It reads thus: "He and I were both members of the House of Representatives in 183. We were both professing to be Demo crats, and I so sincerely so that no pie counter seeking or other incident has changed my views yet. His declara- tions and actions, must answer for him. During that session House Bdl 369, to increase the justices ju each township by two, came up, and Mr. iPage, from Jones county, moved to amend by providing that said magis trates be elected by the people of their townships. The present fusion pill peddling Dr. said no. See Journal, pages 337 and 338. He then wanted no elec tion of justices in his. Ed Powers, of Cumberland, moved to amend by pro yiding that in the appointment of the . additional justices, one should be ap- j pointed from each political party. On that amendment the present political pill peddler Cy voted nO. He then voted for the passage of the bill. So he then wanted them appointed by the General Assembly and not elected by .' the people; and further wanted no f mixture of Republicans, fusion or co operation in his. See Journal pages 338, 339 and 340." Again when the Code came up on - , its third reading, Mr. Hayes, of Rob eson, moved to strike out of the bill section 1091, which provided for the election of county commissioners by the justices of the peace Dr. Cy, the present fusion pill peddler voted no. See Journal, pages 700 and 704. -This section1091 in the bill is the same as section 716 in the Code as ultimately printed, the number of the sections being finally changed by reason of di viding the Code into two vols, instead of being all in one as was the original bill. Upon the question of the final adoption of the Code with election law and the system of the county government as;they substantially in in their main features remained till the fusion Legislature of 1895, Dr. Cy voted aye. "Again Dr. Wilcox, of Ashe, had introduced a bill to repeal the system of county government established in 1876-7, and provided for the election in each county by the qualified voters, i a treasurer, register of deeds, sur veyor, five county commissioners; and in each township its justices of the peace, and in each school district its school committee. This bill of Dr. ! Wilcox came upon its second reading pn the ight o February 21st 1883, when it had as spokesmen on the floor of the House three advocates, viz: Ed. Powers, a liberal from Cumberland, Jim Davis, a negro frorii Wake, and J. W. Poe, a negro from Caswefr; and the House was entertained 1 . - With a regular round of school boy eloquence. What a chance for Dr. Cy to have joined in with his later negro comrades and added to their wails of woe, of having been theretofore all the time from after reconstruction down to 1876 de prived of the right td vote for county officers, and the right to place Eastern Carolina whites under negro govern ment. But no ! Dr. Cv. was silent. and when the vote was taken he voted against this bill .of Wilcox's and it failed to pass its second reading, in part by the vote of Dr. Thompson, see Journal page 563. I have now before me both the Journal showing the po litical pill peddler's vote, as I have stated, and a copy of Wilcox's bill as printed then by order of the Legist lature, andfny of Dr. Uy's bench men deny what I have said of them they can see where and what the truth i is by calling on me and inspecting them." 8 - With such a record as this Hon. Cy.JThompson ought to sing very, low on the suffrage question anci have little to say about depriving the people of the right to eiecttirfur .own magistrates, commissioner, etc In 1883 he saw the necessity of pro tecting the East from negro rule, and hence he stood with his party then thej Democratic party in protecting the East, his own section, fl - a . -" m 1 1 i . ". . "m a ' ana opposea every movement to so opSn the suffrage as to make it pos Bible for the negroes to get control of Eastern counties. He was think ing of his own people then and had not got along so far in political evor lution as to go into copartnership with the negroes . to secure their sup puri, lor omce, ana to Darter away protection to the white people for negro votes. I ll that protection was right and necessary in 1883 hm't it as right and as necessaiy now? t3Is there a single reason that Cyrus Thompson then gave for the position too which lsjaot as good and as applicable now as it was then? Are the negroeB as a race any bet ter, more intelligent or more com petent to rule now than they were tnenr Are the white people any less so? ue stood like a Btone wall then against any movement to take the right of appointing magistrates from the Legislature, and against every proposition to in any way modify the then existing suffrage system, opposed every movement to let down the bars that the negro might get over; but now he is not onlj willing to see counties in his sec- tion of the State overrun by them, but helps in the work of making the way easy for them, seemB to be glad of the opportunity, and rails at the Democratic party for rais ing its voice in protest against making the white men of the East subordinate to the negro. And this, too, when the negroes have become so assertive and so ag gressive that they are claiming the earth, and boldlv making the race issue in their own party where they ' ' are a material iactor in party. When Cy Thompson stood by the white people of the East and de manded protection for them, as he did in 1883, there was no such ag gressiveness in the negroes as there is now, they were not demanding from their white-skinned associates their proportionate quota of the offices (which in some counties would be about all), were not "in viting the race issue" as they are now, "and were not one half as brazenly offensive as they are now. They have advanced amazingly within the past few years, encour aged as they have been by Cy Thomp- son ana the mercenary crowa oi office-hunters that he is training with, ahd he knows it, but persists in encouraging them,; and in burn ing deeper into his own forehead the brand of demagogue and de serter of his principles as professed in 1883 and of record as shown by his colleague, Mr. Robbins. : How long would it take a man ho so basely deserted the principles he then contended for, and formed a political copartnership with the negroes, from whom he then in sisted that his own people must be protected, to flop and join some other party, if he thought ho could profit by it? But there are no new parties for him to flop to. He flopped out of the Democratic party because it didn't value him at his own estimate, and took the Popu list route to the Republican camp, where he is sopping out of the same dish with the Republican bosses, white and black. A DAISY C0FVENTIQH. The Republican Congressional Convention which met at Fayette ville last Thursday was, according to reports of creditable witnesses, one of the most disgraceful conven tions ever held in this State. Buy ing and selling are not rare in Re publican coventions, but there it was the rule, and so boldly done that it became a matter of street talk before the convention got through its work ' The "delegates" were divided as to whether they would make a nomi nation, or endorse the nomination of Fowler, Popnlisti A majority of them were at first for a nomination, but the bosses at Raleigh were in favor of endorsing Fowler, and that settled it. They knew how to carry their point, and they carried it. The purchasing of delegates was done by both sides, but the machine got the most of themand before the time for voting come had bought enough to secure the defeat of those who favored a straight nomination and to endorse the Pop. The defeated, were bo mad that they denounced the wholesale bribery and one of them, Sion Buchanan, ia reported by the Observer to have publicly tackled colored delegate McCain, a preacher too, and made him disgorge ten dollars that he had paid him to vote for a nomination, and for himself. Mc Cain voted the other way because,as rucnanan alleged, he got more money from the other side. The anti-nomination business was engineered by one Hancock, (white) and Abe Middleton. the sable die- j a m TV - taior irom uupiin. Hancock ran the finances. How he and Abe nut up the job is thus told by the Fay- - - M, etteville Observer: as soon as tne convention was or a . ll ! ganized Hancock read a telegram from tne state uentral Uommittee. savin? that the committee had decided to fuse onTrowier ana it would be no use for the convention to nominate a candi date, as he would not be recognized He then introduced a resolution that no nomination be made. This caused a storm of indignation, and when Oscar Spears -got up to denounce the resolu tion and speak for a nomination-he was greeted with tremendous applause. At this time there were onlv three or four delegates against a nomination, mclud- ing ADe anaaieton ana Hancock. Buchanan was given an ovation when he stated that Fowler had lied to him and betrayed him, and called upon Hancock himself to deny that tnis was so, ana when Hancock said that it was so, a might Shout went up, lujugieu wiuu uenunciaiions oi r owier But this was all to chance shortlv While the sneaking to the resolutions was in progress, which Abe Middldton uiunturou to nroionc. Hancock was singling out the loudest denunciators (all colored) of fusion, and taking them one by one into the judge's room. By six o'clock a noticeable 'chance had taken place and several of the an- ti-tusion shouters became as quiet as lambs. At 8 o'clock Hancock was read v and he called for the question, and lo and behold, thirteen out of the twenty two votes were for no nomination and fusion. ine Duying was so bold and aDDar ent that it disgusted even some of the negro spectators. Of course these fellews are for "honest elections," "a free ballot and a fair count" and all that sort of tning, as beautiiuiiy illustrated in this daisy convention. THAT JOYFUL FEELING With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal clean liness, which follows the use Of Syrup oi rigs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old- ume medicines and tne cneap sudsu- wim sumeumes ouerea mil never ac cepted by the well-informed. Buy the genuine. Manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. . t TOO MUCH NEGRO. Senator ButWr made a long speech at Monroe? last- Saturday which was devoted mainly to national issues referring only incidentally to State issues, and that was to declare that there was "too much negro" in this ... . "n I campaign; too mucn in tne iemu cratic hand book, and too much in the Populist hand book. The Re publicans have no hand book, as the opulisfc hand book fills the bill for for them quite as well as .any they could get up. He took occasion to remark, how- . ... d ever that tms is --a wmw man o country," and that he is opposed to negro dominion, but from the fact that he objects to negro domination figuring so much as an issue he doesn't seenu to think that the Democratic party ought to say any thing about it, but simply to go on as he is doing, discussing national issues and letting the Republican and Populist fusion ists carry ''out the work of put ting more counties under negro rule and more negroes over white people. Mr. Butler is opposed to 1 I .1 " A. 1 negro domination out wnen n oe- comes an issue and d;he white men of his State are taking sides with their race, and thousands of Pqpu- ists who had been acting with Marion Butler are falling in under the white man's standard, he simply declares that he is opposed to negro ' domination, makes no move nor opens his mouth to prevent it, but contents himself with the farce of discussing national issues, which there is ample time todiscuss after we have settled this transcendent iy vital question as to whether North Carolina is to be ruled by the white or by the black man. This is the issue in North Caro- ina now, and if Marion Butler was honest in declaring- that he is op posed to negro domination' he wouldn't be riding the fence arid be contenting himself with this kind of unmeaning chin work. , WHAT PRITCHARD SATS. Senator Pritchard, Chairman Hol- ton and the defeated candidate for Congress, Settle, were in Washing ton last week. Pritchard and Hol ton are said to have gone thereto pull the money dispensers for some cash to put "where it will do the most good." Settle8 "talked to a re porter of the Post and said that the political condition in the State was so chaotic that it was impossible to forecast the outcome. When a Re publican politician admits that much it is practically a confession that there isn't much show for his side. But Senator Pritchard talked dif ferently and told an interviewer that the Republicans would make a gain of two congressmen. He was doubt- referring to Caldwell and Jenkins, Populists, who were nominated through hi instrumentality, and whom he will count as Republicans in the event of election. We judge from his putting the gain at two that" he is not very sanguine of the election of Harry. Skinner, who is another Pritchard Populist. As he was there for funds, of course he had to make a plausible showing, for the purse holders up there don't put money in a campaign unless there is a show for its panning put all right. HOW THEY REFORMED. The Radical-Populist combine made a great howl in the last and preceding campaign abont Demo cratic extravagance. They pro' fessed much sympathy for the bur dened tax-payers, especially for the farmers who received such poor re- compense for their labor. They talked about high salaries and tow priced farm products and contended that salaries, public expenses, rail road charges, Ac, should be ar ranged on the basis of the prices of farm products. Some people were discerning enough to see through this as all campaign stuff that would never be heard of after the election, but there were some credu lous enough to be imposed upon by this clap-trap, and these with the negroes,, whom the Republican machine managers controlled, cast votes enough to elect the "re formers" to office and give them the control of the State, that is assui mg that they were honestly elected, although there are very few intelligent people whl) believe that. When we remember their railing at Democratic extravagance and their promises of reform, and behold the record of their performances as shown by the figures what trans parent frauds they are. The fol lowing figures comparing the ex penses under Democratic administra tion for the last three years of Dem ocratic rule, with the past three years of fusion rule, we clip from tne xtaieign rosi ana tney tell a story of incompetency and extrava gance if not of corruption that all the doctored stuff in Hal Ayer's hand book, and all the red posters they Bend out can't get away with. They are figures which speak for themselves, and tell the story thus -Under Democratic manage ment of the Penitentiary for 1897. the warns and sal aries amounted to $48,904.53 Mileaee and ner diem, direc tors 2,435,69 Total, under Supt. Leazar... $51,140.27 under Fusion management for 1898. w aires and sal aries .....$67,619.95 Mileaee and per diem, direc tors 3,165,00 Total, under Sunt. John R. Smith $60,784.95 Or a difference in favor of Demo cratic rule of $9,644.79, or 482 bales of cotton at present McKinley-Russell prices. , According to tne state Auditor au, Ayers' report, the expenses of the State government, under Democratic rule wore : 1892 .$1,057,933.60 4893 t 1,819,648.10 1894 1 1,195.620.26 Total, three years, Dem ocratic rule. $3,673,210.95 Under Russell - Fusion rule: 1895 .$1,340,035.65 1896 1 1,246,566.27 1897 1,364,068.29 Total, three years, Fu sion rule : $3,959,960.21 Or a difference in favor of Demo cratic rule, for the three years, of $386,749.26, or for one year of $128,- 916.42. Allowine- 240 per month for a bcuuiioxr, tills ii-sJ. iw. ww, uiin wuvu ists wasted, would employ 3,222 teach X 1 V,;1oe ata Fin -orViis.il liSminn. ers for our poor children one montn, or 805 teachers for four months. But take off the cost of the .Legisla ture of 1897, $70,760.75 still leaves Fusion expenses $316,000 ahead of Democratic, or $105,000 each year enough to employ 2,625 first-class teachers one montn. n tnis tne .re form and economy honest Populists voted for? Under Democratic rule the Legisla tures cost; 1891 1893 .$ 63,081.01 , 65,976.78 Total Democratic cost . $129,057.79 . .$ 72,266,74 .. 70,760.75 Under Fusion : 1895 1897 Total .$143,027.49 Or a difference in favor of Demo cratic rule of $13,969.70, or the amount of 698 bales of cotton at McKinley Russell prices. , We would not accuse the "re formers" of stealing the excess, and presume they can account for it in tneir own way, dus iney own way, out tney aia ine 1.1 IV T 1 11 . next thing to Stealing a geod deal of it when fhey created offices to reward political henchmen and em ployed more people in the respec tive departments than- were neces sary, or than had been previously employed to do the work of those departments. A good deal of money was spent on the public printing that might have! been saved; a good deal has been unnecessarily, and it might be said corruptly, spent on the department of agriculture in the employment of unnecessary help; a good deal was unnecessarily spCnt by employing a larger corps than required of clerks and other attaches of the Legislature, some of whom did little or nothing but draw their pay. Governor Russell spent a good deal in paying lawyers to fight his bungled case against the North Carolina railroad lease, and then inconsistently suspended pro ceedings, withdrew his case, and tried to lease the Atlantic & North Carolina road to the' same company which he had denounced as a vil lainous, swindling corporation. These various leaks will account for the disappearance of some of this money, but it will not account for the much larger sum which dis appeaied in some other way. j But without charging them with dishonesty, what must be said of the competency of the administration which in three years, while claiming to be rcformersj spent nearly $400, 000 more than the "extravagant" Democrats did in the preceding three years ? With the pledges of economy and reform fresh on their lips the presumption is that a party just gone into pewer would try to redeem some of its pledges to make some reputation and at least keep within the limit of expenditures of the party whose extravagance they denounced, but instead of keeping within this limit these fusion re trenchers and reformers have exceeded their predecessors by more than $135,000 a year, and have nothing to show for it and no decent excuse ' to offer. They have not even made an effort at reform, have not reduced the salaries or the fees of a single officer, and instead of reducing the nu mber of salary drawers have increased it, even adding sinecures that did not previously exist. With such a showing for three years when the party was on triaL-j and on its good behavior, so tospeak," what might not be lookedrlbr when it grows older andjtsextravagance and failure tcKredeem its pledges have received: popular endorsement at the polls and its lease of power Eended? If the people who pay the taxes do npt ; by their votes on the 8th day of next November re buke this breacli'of faith and con demn these excessive and unneces sary expenditures of their money they will simply be encouraging the squanderers, may look for more squandering and they will deserve it. They will have no right to com plain, howeve heavy the burden may be, if they do not protect them selves when they can and in the only way they can, that is by turn ing the squanderers out. After being thoroughly adver tised, Rocky Mount Butler spoke at Dunn, Harnett county, yesterday, to two hundred Populists and ne groes and two hundred Democrats. Two years ago, he w6uld have had eight hundred to a thousand Popu lists to hear him. How the miehtv are fallen. Butler is now recog nized as one of the leaders of the negro party, and his former friends have abandoned him. Backlen'. Arnica Salve. lhe Rest Sat.vtt. t.Vm uuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt , " w tww aw ttneum, D ever, Sores, Tetter, Chapp Hands. Chilblains nntms onH oil flV Eruptions, and positively cures Piles pr no pay required. It is guaranteed wl give perieci sausiaction or money uuueu. jrnce no cents per dox. r or uy a. a. BELLAMY. HKPAID THE PENALTY. The Concord Standard publishes the following from Mr. J. S. Hart sell, of Cabarrus county, whose daughter was fiendishly : outraged and savagely murdered life her home by two negroes, one Sunday while the rest of the family were at church: Concord, N. C, Oct. 1, 1898. j Mr. A. Bv Young, Chairman County ; Democratic Executive Committee, ; Concord, N. U. : Dear Sir: My daughter. Emmie. was outraged and murdered at our home near Concord on Sunday after noon. May 26th.s-189, by two nesrroes while I and others of my family were at church worshiping God. The two nesrroes. Joe Kizer and Tom Johnson, who did these crimes, were quickly hung to death that Sunday night by white men of Cabarrus, as they ought to have been. For several years I have voted the Populist and fusion tickets, because 1 thought I was doing in this way the best I could for our State. Nobody can know as I now know how wrong I was in voting these tickets and how I have suffered for it I am sure that such votes tend to make the negro do such deeds; because when white men vote and electioneer with the negro he feels that the officers thus elected and the political parties winning elections with him and, by his, votes will pro tect him in anything he does. And I now appeal to the white-men of North Carolina to vote for the protection of our mothers, wives, sisters and daugh ters. Use this letter as you please. Truly yours, Samuel J. Hartsell. The standing and respectability of Mr. Hartsell are. vouched for by the editor of the Standard and a number of other well known citizens of Cabarrus. Aside from the touching, heart torn pleading of this stricken father, who views himself as indirectly responsible for his daughter's awful and tragic death, in as much as he feels that by his votes he had given encouragement to the brutes that incline to the perpetration of these crimes, that view of it is not a mere delusion of a stricken soul. There is foundation for it. Every one who reads the State papers knows that within the past few years this species of crime has been fear fully frequent and horridly increased in our State, and every one knows, too, that the bad element among the negroes have become notoriously offensive, aggressive and lawless. They have been prac tically taught to be so by the frater nizing of white men, who in some instances have stood up as the vir tual apologists if not the defenders of the perpetrators of these crimes. It doesn't take much to encourage such brutes, and when they feel that there is little danger of-punishment unless quickly caught and dealt with without the formalities of courts, and that their crime is looked upon as more respectable than se duction, they simply watch their opportunity, perpetrate the crime arid get away as fast as possible. There is more in this poor, heart sore father's letter than might ap pear at first sight. It is a cry of distress, with a tinge of remorse, a touching narrative with a fearful warning and an impressive moral. CONVINCING OBJECT LESSONS. We published yesterday a letter from Mr. P. G. Sellers, of Bruns wick county, announcing that he is no longer a Populist. He hadn't felt satisfied for some time with his political affiliations, but was unde cided as to what to do until he visited Wilmington and had an pc cular demonstration of negro swag ger, arrogance and insolence, and that settled the matter. That ob ject lesson brought him back to the white man's party to-day. Mr. J. D. Allred, of Randolph county, a Republican, had doubts about the representations made as to negro office-holding in Wake and other counties, so he concluded that he would go to Raleigh, visit the public institutions and see for him self. The object lesson that pre sented itself there concerted him, and he went back home to take his place in the ranks of the white man's party. A short while ago we published a letter from Mr. A. Robertson, of this city, formerly of Randolph county, ami a Republican, to a friend at his old home, givingapeu-picture of the situation as he sees it constantly before his eyes here. This ever present object lesson made a Demo crat of him, at least in State politics. We have also published extracts from letters and interviews- with Northern settlers who were formerly Republicans, who, after studying the political situation and seeing the effects of negro rule in Eastern counties, have repudiated Republi canism as they find it in this State and united themselves with the white man's party. There is nothing like object lessons to convince the doubtful, and the seeker for information as to the effects of negro rule can find plenty of them in this section. Our neighbor-in-law G. Z. is the French gentleman who does the reso luting business for Gov. Russell's "savages" when they meet in conven tions, tcl For over Fifty Tear. Mrs. Winslow' Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil Eons of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle TtA aniw anil act- 4m "'fcr, Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take ' Tin ntliM , NON-PARTISANSHIP ILLUSTRATED. The Radical-Pop combine which put up the present registration and election laws,. professed to be anx ious to give us as far as possible an absolutely fair and honest system of registration and of voting. They have shown their sincerity by so constructing the registration law that any negro who is willing to swear that he is entitled to register can do so, and having registered there is no way to prevent him from voting for they have token away the right to challenge on election day. To prevent prosecutions or perjury or for illegal voting they have thrown the burden of proof on the complainant and made him respon sible for the costs of the prosecu tion. But there is another feature of the registration lajv which practically gives the party which framed and passed this law control of a majority of the regis trars. This is the provision that vests a judge with the power to fill vacancies in case of removal of reg istrars by order of court. The ob ection in this case does not rest only upon the possibility that the judge may be a partisan judge. He may or may not be, but the time in terveniug between the appointment of registrars and the time when the registration books are opened is so short that the judge even if he were well acquainted in the counties where the vacancies are to be filled would find it difficult to name qualified persons, and therefore relies upon the assistance of parti sans interested partisans to do this work. That was the case with Judge Furches in the Mecklenburg con tested cases, and with Judge Robin son in the contested cases in this county. They both made the ap pointments suggested by the fusion county committees, who had their men picked out, and were interested in having them appointed. Judge Furches had decided in the Meek lenburg cases that the committees had no right to select the registrars to be appointed, but he took the list as presented by these com mittees and filled the vacancies from from that, his reason for so doing being that the shortness of time and his lack of acquaintance with the people made this necessary. We do not charge either of these Judges with being influenced in their action by partisan considera tions, but this law as it stands can be easily turned to partisan uses if the J udge be either a pliant or par tisan Judge, and unfortunately it does not always follow that when a man goes upon the bench he divests himself of his partisanship. - ' NEGROIZED LENOIR COUNTY. Marion Butler, who is playing the role of snake in the grass, and giv ing the mongrel party all the aid he can, while pretending to be opposed to negro rule, says he has no fears of negro domination. It is not to be supposed that Marion is afraid of the thing he helped to put upon the State, and which he is now help ing to fasten upon her, while hypo critically professing to be opposed to it When Marion Butler makes light of negro domination it suits his convenience to overlook the counties inNorth Carolina where negro domination is practically an accomplished fact. The following, which we clip , from ( the Kinston Free Press, briefly tells the story for Lenoir county: "We have now in Lenoir county four negro magistrates, who have jur isdiction throughout the county, and a number of negro school committee men, who have a voice in selecting white teachers and the rieht to insnect white schools, which right has been exercised m at least one instance in thif county in a school taught by a white lad. "We have a jury box that seems to be crowded with negroes, though in pursuance of their new policy the commissioners seems to hare avoided putting on the-usual number for next court. ! "We have the humiliating spectacle of negroes sitting around the court room to be called into the box as talis men and of seeing, their expectations gratihed. "An examination of the insolvent list for last court shows that Charles F. Dunn drew as half fees twice the amount of any other magistrate in Lenoir county and that indicates that he is binding over twice as many persons to court as any other justice oi ne peace ana putting twice as many m jail. "This, same Charles' F. Dunn, has since he has been a magistrate, issued a civil warrant at the instance Of a negro, one rettitord, aaramst as re- pectable a white lady as there is in Lenoir county and tried the case. "Another instance of the exercise of his jurisdiction: One Faulkner was selling potatoes from his cart on the streets m Kinston, when some negro walked around and asked if his measure had been stamped by 'the standard keep er, which had not been done. Ignorant of the fact that the law had been changed making this failure a misde meanor, this same Charles F. Dunn had Mr. Faulkner to appear before him and answer the charge of not having his measure examined and stamped. "We have recently given an account of his issuing warrants against five white boys from the country at the in stance of Levy Morgan, the negro constable. "These are samples of what we have. Let us see what we have barely missed : (1) A negro postmaster for Kinston. It is well known that for a long time it was in doubt as to whether the; ne gro would be appointed or the present incumbent retained. (2) Kinston, like many other Eastern towns, was re districted and so arranged that we might have had four negro commis sioners and one Democrat In fact the purpose was to control the town government. By some means the Democrats have managed to defeat the plan. Last year two negroes were elected from one of the wards, but the Democrats managed to succeed, in' the other two. If this plan had -succeeded Kinston would likely have had a ne gro policeman. It is useless to say this would not have occurred for there are people living in Kinston to day who have seen two negro policemen in the town and seen them arrest white men. One of them, Sylvester Lawhorn, termi nated his term by shooting on the streets white man, Herman xsryan, wen known to our older citizens. This is not alL but enough for the present, and enough to put our white people to thinking. Lenoir is one of the counties which considers herself lucky and congratulates herself on not being as badly negroized as some of her sister counties.. NEGRO RULE IN WARREN COUNTY. Warren county is one of the coun ties which by the grace of the fusion Legislature enjoys the luxury of ne gro magistrates, constables, &c.,who do business in their own peculiar way, as shown by the following, whieh we find in the Raleigh News and Observer: On or about the 21st of September, 1898, Joe B. Somerville, a negro mag istrate in Warren county, issued a war rant for the arrest of Feter Walker and Henry Jenkins for an assault upon one Bottoms. The warrant was placed by the negro magistrate in the hands of George Plummer.a negro constable, who deputized another negro, Matt Somerville, to assist in the arrest. They then , in company with the negro magis trate (Joe Somerville) who issued the warrant, went in search of Walker and Jenkins. They ran up bn Walker and another man named Joe King (not Jenkins) and arrested them. They had no warrant for King, but they arrested him all the same and brought him and Walker to town. They tied , Walker's hands behind him, although he had offered no re sistance whatever to the arrest. When they got Walker and King to town they let King go, when they found out they had no right to arrest him." There are white magistrates m Warren county, but the job of deal ing with the two accused white men was put in the hands of a negro magistrate, who selected a negro constable to make the arrest, and that negro delegated another negro to help him and between them they arrested one man that was wanted and another man that wasn't want ed. Then they tied that white man's hands behind his back, al though he offered no resistance, and drove him in before the negro magistrate. That was rongh on the man charged with the offence for which he was arrested, but here the outrage was intensified by the arrest and humiliation of an innocent white man whose only redress for the outrage was to be turned loose when the negro magistrate found he was the wrong man. That's a sample of negro administration of justice, and not a lone sample either, for we haTve frequent illustrations of it, and will have them multiplied if the mongrel party wins at the next elec tion. i ' i FOXY BUTLER. Marion Butler is now putting in his spare time travelling over the State and giving all the aid and comfort he can to the Holton Thompson combine. He abuses the Democrats, but hasn't a word to say in condemnation of their oppo nents. If he refers to them at all it is to practically apologize for their misdoings and to charge, as he did in his speech at Dunn, Tuesday, the Democratic minority in the Legis lature with responsibility for the worst legislation enacted. That's the way he is trying to help the crowd he is working for, by throw ing dirt at the Democratic party, and doing his best on the sly to de ceive the people. t Generally speaking IT, S. Sena tors do not participate in State campaigns unless they are asked to do so by some one. Who has asked him? There are only two parties in the field, the Democratic and the mongrel party. He hasn't been invited by the Democrats, and if he hasn't been by the mongrels then he must be running a free lance, and taking this opportunity to stab the Demo cratic party while running his free lance. But it may be that he is thus trying to stop the rush to the Democratic party of disgusted Pop ulists who are repudiating his trick ery and treachery and the trickery and treachery of other Populist leaders who have been trying to lead them into the Republican camp. The people see through it now, understand Marion and his accom plices better than they did, and he and they are discovering that fact and are .becoming alarmed at the prospect of losing their grip. Marion is a fraud. ' Bellamy at Cerro Gordo. John D. Bellamy Democratic candi date for Congress, who advocates the overthrow of negro rule, and protec tion to the white women of North Carolina, will address the people of Columbus county, at Cerro Gordo, r J rf-V A Ml -AW. A . - saturaay, uctooer tn. let every white man in that section attend and bring his family with him. Edge worth Boar dins and. Day School For Girls. Re-opens Bent. 28. 1896. 38th Mrs. H. P. LEF FEBVRE. PrlnRlna.1 year. Hiss E. D. HUNTLEY, Associate Principal. 122 and 194 W. Franklin street, Baltimore, Md JTm we sa Progress "How. are you get ting along in your siege of Miss Scadd's heart?" said Ho jack to Tomdik. "I4 understand that she has a great many suitors." "She has," replied Tomdik, "but I am making fair progress." am glad to hear that What sort, of i progress have you made?" "She got into water oeyona ner aepth and I rescued her. In recognition of my heroism she has advanced me six numbers." HargrfiJBazar; The Campaign Buttons of the White Government Union may be had m large or small quantities, of O. W. Yates & Co.. Wilmington, N. C. f POINTS POLITICAL. REPUBLICANS COMIXfi We feel proud of so i; many Of itftl. true Republicans of this Wat rtriT4-Tr 4-lnrnr: -r, rr rff 4-i aiiga nhfl.olrlAR and' doplori-nrr tl . irty will support the Democratic ticket fall. Boone Democrat. this : IP NQT, WHY NOT ? If the Pop party isj&t the Xi.,. party why is it that Hal Ayer h ls sent one of his hand books to every X Roads negro politician in the State? Hal Ayer isn't as ?ood a3 Jim Young. -Windsor Orient. THE PROSPECT GROWS BRIGHTER The prospect for the redmnnhv.. of Richmond grows brighter every , " v. ao ouiu u i victory as one can belof any future happen, ing, except death, and we are hard ly willing to except this. Rmkiuq. ham Rocket. V BOTH DECEIVED. Mark the prediction: There will be as many negroes vote for the Democratic ticket in Pender county tnero will be returned roi)ulit Both have been deceived by their leaders long enough and they see it now. Pender News. L NO STOCK IX DOCKEllY. f At the last election there tfnrn 27 Populist voters in Burgaw Town ship, but only 5 Populists, all told came to hear Uihce Hunter Doekcry sneak. The neonle seem tirpl such old political demagogues and place-hunters. fender Netox. A LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN (i.MKS. Geo. W. Mullins, living near Monroe, a life-long Republican, but who has acted with the Populists, after hearing Butler's speech, drew up a card for publication, stating, that he intended to act with" the Democrats. Charlotte Observer. NASH COUNTY SOLli). Aprominent farmer of Aveiita ville, Xash county, said yesterday that Nash would go Democratic by. over 500 majority; that white men had united and the best of feeling prevailed everywhere throughout the county's borders. Rocky Mount Motor. HOME AGAIN. Mr. L.; A. Loyd, of Nash ''county, a former resident of our county, aiid at one time a representative Of Nash county in the stite legislature as Populist, has renounced the Popu list party and "comes back ?home to the party of the white man, the Democratic party. Shelby Avrora. MUST SUPPORT NEGROjKS. Every candidate on the fusion ticket in Bertie county has got to pledge himself to vote for every ne- -gro on the ticket in order to secure the -negroes' votes. This is nothing but fair. But the Populist say they will vote for no man who votes for negroes. Windsor Orient. J "'DISGRUNTLED NEGKOES. . A convention composed of 75 or 100 negroes of Rutherford county met in convention Saturday ami nominated Martin- V. Miller, col ored, for register of deeds and Wil liam Logan, colored, for county com missioner. The Rutherford negroes are very much disgruntled and are fighting their white allies. 'Sinks ville Landmark. '.'. A DISGUSTED PROFESSOR. They are coming every day. Tne weekly papersof this" week are full of reports of Populists returning tq the Democratic party ;and their names are given, too. JQijfe, of them is Prof. J. E. Brinson, prjncipSKqJ the Morehead City sb5e5 who authorizes the editor of The1 More head Pilot to say thatjn 'the coming election he will vote lor the ; nomi nees of the Democratic party. Charlotte Observer. ' A CROOKED DEAL. This is to let my friends in Union and surrounding counties know that I have severed my political affiliations with the Populist Republican Eusion Party. In 1892 I left the Democratic party because I honestly believed it had become corrupt and rotten as a party. But I now see that the or ganization of the Populist party was an underhanded cut by the Republi can party at the Democratic party. I believe in a white man's party and m white supremacy, and to maintain good government and white suprem acy in -North Carolina, I feel it my duty to vote the Democratic ticket, Stewart Spittle, of Union Counh, in Monroe Journal. DISGUSTED NEGROETS. The white Rads were very humble and polite to the negroes until they arranged to fuse with the Populists, aye, even implored 'them to allow them equal representation in thciy' county convention; but when fusion was" agreed upon, they ruthlessly kicked the negro aside and said, at least by their action, of course we want your votes, but we are white and will have all the offices and the poor creatures wilted". But there is a howl in the negro camp. There is much dissatisfac tion among the colored people, and if they don't put out a separate ticket many of them will not vote at all. Rockingham docket. PLAYED OUT. The Democrats had a grand rally at Johnson's MiUs, in Pitt county, Thursday. The crowd was esti mated at 2,500 to 3,000 people. Fine speeches wre made by Jno H. Small, ThosJ W. Mason and Thos. J. Jarvis. John Dail, a prom inent Populist, ahd A. A. Forbes, a Populist, who was elected to the State Senate four years ago from "this county, made shert, enthusi astic speeches, announcing the fact, that they have come back to the Democratic fold and pledging their allegiance to the white man's party and told of their intention to worji, s for white supremacy. Johnsons Mills is in Swjft Creek township, which township has heretofore been considered the hottest bed of Popu lism in Pitt county. The writer so considered it, but many talk now as though the Populist party has about played .put in. that township Anyway many of them who were heretofore workers for the fusion gang are now enthusiastic sup porters of the white man's ticket. Correspondence Charlotte Observer. CASTOR I A Pot Infants and Children. The Kind Yon Have Always Bears the Signature of i 1mm
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