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NEWTON, N. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900.
NO. 8.
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Newton, - N. C.
O Jers Lis professional services to tha
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rcuaty.
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Office at residence.
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NEWTON, - N.C.
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TO YOU
JOSEPH GEMAYEL.
FRIENDS AND FOES.
Those Who Favor and Those Who 0p
, pose the Amendment.
THESE PEOPLE 'ARE CONTRASTED.
It is Found That All tft Best Citizens
Favor the Measure, While Dema
gogues Oppose,
There is no eloquence like the elo
quence of truth; there is no logic like
the logic of facts. That saying should
be remembered in times of fierce ei
citement when the political sky lg rent
with a tumult of confused voices, the
thunder of the captains and the shout
ing. The people of North Carolina
stand face to face with the gravest
problem which this federation ha3
beei called upon to settle. The fusion
proposition is that the negro shall
share with tho white man th rivl-
lege of suffrage and become a Joint
partner in ruling this State.
TbQ Democratic party announces as
a cardinal principle of Its platform that
the white race must forever govern
and control the great commonwealth
which was founded by their Wisdom,
their courage and the sheading of their
blood. Can any white man doubt
where he ought to stand? Among the
white misses, irrespective of party
lines and regardless of station In life,
exists a profound and abiding convic
tion that political equality between
the two races is a curse 10 both. But
the fusion leaders, beneficiaries of
the negro rote, resist the passage of
the amendment because it will take
away their profit and consign them to
richly deserved political extinction. It
is a foregone conclusion, that they will
attempt to delude their followers by
eery aruuee wmcn meir ingenuity
can devise, in order to prevent them ! position claims brings the so-called
from understanding the merits of the j "Grandfather Clause" Into collision
case. The disfranchisement of thbiwith t.ti, j v
... .
uegiu win m some measure rearess
the flagrant wrong committed by the
Republican Reconstructionists when
they placed the ballot in his Incom
petent hands and will prove an un
mixed blessing to the State. Since
anti-amendment politicians often
quote unctuously the utterances of
those Republicans who inaugurated
war upon the South, I will give them
an authority from their own camp ,
nu ics a personage tnan ADra -
uiuohii, wiiu iur an mat no uu-
icieu wuu us, was a Biaiesman ui
broad views and tender sympathies.
"with malice toward none. With chari
ty for all." Mr. Lincoln pronounced
himself unalterably opposed to negro
suffrage. (See Tarbell's life of Lin
coln.) Indeed he was rapidly drifting
away from the radical element of his
party when Booth's bullet struck him
down. The ultra Republicans recog
nized that by his death the greatest
obstacle in the way of their plans for
reconstructing the South had been re
moved. This sentiment found voice
when one of the leaders of that wing
began his eulogy upon Lincoln in the
Senate with the words: "There areno
accidents in the Providence of God.
Thom will the white Republicans of
liorth Carolina follow? Will they ac -
cepc tne teaenmg 01 Lincoln upon tne!standing and theIr descendants, have
question of negro suffrage, or willth faniHtv for IntellieenHv exercU-
they be disciples of the men whoing the privilege t0 v0te. Their fitnass
thought that Rooert E. Lee ought to
De nangeu on ine ganows a a
irauor: ine amenumeui is uuereu
to the people of North Carolina as a
remedy for the evils of negro suffrage.
Will it accomplish the purpose for
which it was designed? Will it take
away the
NEGRO'S POLITICAL POWER?
Its opponents themselves admit that
it will disfranchise seventy thousand
negroes by the operation of the edn
cational section alone, leaving fifty
thousand who, if they pay poll tax
and comply witn the other require
ments of the act, can vote. Others
place the number which will be de
barred at eighty thousand. I might
very well concede the point as I did
in a former article and their own
statement shows that the negro'b
power will be hopelessly broken and
shattered. Those fifty thousand negro
voters would be scattered far and
wide over the State, without ability
anywhere to obtain recognition for
their race, constituting an insignifi
cant minority. The white vote would
exceed the negro vote by a hundred
and seventy thousand. In reairty the
-anti-amendment writers and speakers
put their figures too high. Every day
experience and a measurably accurate
knowledge of the condition of the ne
gro race in this State will show that
cot five out of every twelve negro
voters can read and write. An esti
mate of one out of four would be
nearer the mark. Proceeding upon
that basis it appears that the amend
ment will disfranchise ninety thousand
negro electors, while the remaining
thirty thousand must take their
chances -with the pell tax and resi
dence clauses. A careful investigation
lead3 to the conclusion that the
amendment is not a
TEMPORARY EXPEDIENT,
as might at first seem the fact, but a
permanant cure for the mischief which
it was Intended to remedy. Its pas
sage will be a public notification to
the negro that he must go out of poli
tics. It will place him at a disadvant
age from which he can never recover.
The negro's power lies in numbers and
the fact that the negro vote 13 cast
solidly upon race lines. No political
party will affiliate with him when til?
strength which his vote carries is
more than over-balanced by the loss
of white support. He can no more
hold office and harry the white people
by his insolence and corruption.
The negro, whether educated or un
educated, will find himself a man
.without a party. Learning that he has
lothing to gain by voting, he will
stay away from the polls and cease to
interfere in politics. Those who are
ambitious will emigrate to other
States. If the Republicans, after the
adoption of the amendment, persist in
their present insane policy of negro
suffrage and negro rule, they will bb
wiped off the political map and what-
Under date of March 12 the M. C.
Wetmore Tobacco Company sends out
Circular No. 1 addressed to dealers in
tobacco, announcing that it is ready
for business, and statling that "it is or
ganized under the laws of the State of
Missouri, writh a paid up capital of
$1,230,000, M. C. Wetmore owning a ma
jority of the stock. The company
will be conducted on absolutely inde
pendent lines, with fair and impartial
treatment to all that favor it with
their patronage." Samples of Wet
more's Best and Old C.- Plug tobac
co are being mailed. .
ever elements antagonize Democratic
principles will organize themselves
into & white party f the opposition.
The doctrine t&at the white race must
reign supreme In N"rth Carolina, Till
bis enforced by public aestiuieht which
no party cat, doty, and live. The op
ponents 6f the amendment publish
under glaring head-lines bi-terlSal
articles purporting give a true pic
ture of the fu'l state of affairs In
LeUic'ana where the amendment is
already in force, and warn North
Carolina to shun the fearful fate bf
her sister commonwealth, ta th6 lat
ter State they complain that the negro
vote his .'teSeii annihilated. They also
contfehd that under the operation of
the amendment there will be no dif
ference in the political cofidilion of
the two State. Yet in the next breath
they argue that the same law which
destroyed the negro vote in Louisi
ana, will not accomplish the same re
sult in North' Carolina, t ,rlHy be
pardoned for inquiring how these
thing can -be. I am unable to see
hoiAr any proposition can he both true
and at the same time not true.
Leaving thpm to reconcile their
mass of contradictions and absurdities,
proceed to consider whether the
amend
iment will disfranchise
ILLITERATE WHITES,
Let the measure answer for" itself.
The fifth section explicitly provides
that every male person in the State
who had, in 1867, or at any time prior
thereto, the right to vote, and every
lineal descendant of such person, shall
be a voter, notwithstanding hb in
ability to read and Write. That sec
tion Undoubtedly confers suffrage
upon the ignorant white man unless,
as Its Enemies contend, it is contrary
to the fifteenth amendment of the
constitution of the United States.
What says the fifteenth amendment?
"The right of citizens of the United
States t9 rdte shall not be denied or
abridged on account of race, color 01
previous condition of servitude." Ot
course the bulk of the negroes had
never been enfranchised in 1867 and
1 so are excluded from the benefits of
the fmh rlaiio Th.u fB.
I LUC ULICCULU UlUL'UUUiCUl. iULU
mg they argue, "can be done in
directly, which cannot be done direct
ly" a premise which rests upon a
foundation about as stable as quick
sand. The answer is that nothing
done by the authority of the constitu
tion is contrary to j.he constitution.
And if a law is itself constitutional
, the effect of the law u on indlvIduals
cannot make it unconstitutional. The
negroes of Mississippi could not be
jaistrani as fiegroe3 They were
disfranchised by the results of a con
stitutional law, within the limitations
set by the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments the power to
REGULATE SUFFRAGE
resides exclusively with the States. It
was one of their original powers from
which they have never parted. (U. S.
Constitution, Art. 10). The power of
a State to confer and regulate suffrage
has been repeatedly recognized by the
courts. Notably in the case of U. S.
vs. Cruikshank. So if a State, acting
within the sphere of its jurisdiction
should choose to prescribe foolish or
even wicked qualifications for f?uf-
frage, there is no authority in the
fpr1 '1 .nvlrnmn, tn inrfpr The
flftn clause of the amendment is based
.upon the reaSonable presumption that
TOters of thirtv-three or more years'
j consists ln their experience and train-
. ing 5n public affairs .when the people
vrth riarnlina arlnnt th amnrt-
ment, no successful appeal lies from
their decision, if the act can be con
strued in harmony with the fifteenth
amendment, wherein doe3 the fifth
section discriminate against the ne
gro, in violation of the
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT?
on account of his color? No: for the,
free negroes and their descendants, of
whom there is a small number ia
North Carolina, can register and vote
under that section. Does it abridge cr
itake away the negroes right to vote.
on account of previous condition of
servitude? Not so. but because he
was not a voter ln 1867 or at any time
prior thereto and is not a descendant
of such voter. However it is urged
that he could not vote at the date
mentioned because he had been a
slave and that argument is advanced
to prove that the fifth section denies
him the right of suffrage on account of
previous condition of servitude.
Here the opponents of the amend
ment lay the greatest stress. One fatal
fact they fail to note. Slavery i3 one
thing; suffrage another, and an en
tirely different thing. They may
exist together or they may exist sep
arately. Disfranchising a man be
cause he was not at any fixed time a
voter is not disfranchising him be
cause he was a slave. Nobody can
say with any degree of certainty that
the negroes would have been voters,
if their race had been free, from the
beginning all the way. Who can tell
where or what they would have been
if they had been other than what they
were? Admitting, however, that slav
ery was the true and only reason why
the negroes were unable to vote in
1867, is the case against the amend
ment strengthened tho tithe of a hair?
The fifteenth amendment never pro
hibited the States ifrom disfranchis
ing anybody on account ci
A CONDITION
which may have grown out of slavery
as one of its natural or necessary re
sults. We speak of a condition of
servitude; and we know whet that
means. We speak of a condition of
disfranchisement; and we know also
what that means. Are they the same?
Why, even an anti-amendment poli
tician can see the difference. Let
them get out of it if they can. Pro
ceeding further, we see the pollacy of
their argument fully exposed. In the
oft-quoted case of Williams vs. Mis
sissippi, the supreme court of the
United States declared valid a law re
quiring every voter to read and in
terpret a clause of the constitution.
Coming from the supreme court of the
United States, this decision is certain
ly entitled to some consideration. But
when we remember that its validity is
admitted by such eminent authorities
on jurisprudence 23 the anti-amendment
noliticians. all doubt is removed
The old-fashioned mother sometimes
hears her daughter chatter to youny
men of subjects which even now bring
a hot blush to her withered cheeks.
But she doss not reprove her. Susy
has gone through college. She talks
as flippantly of Huxley and Renan as
if ithey had played with her in her cra
dle. She lhas spent a year without a
chaperon in Dresden studying music.
What is there that she does not know?
How should this poor lady advise or
correct her daughter as mothers used
to do when they stood upon a higher
plane than their children--iMarch La
dies' Home Journal. . .
and we know it Is good iaw. They
unhesitatingly decide off-hand, the
most intricate questions of constrtu.
tional interpretation with the un
searchable wisdom of an oracle and
all the positiveness of Tagura, And
they have graciously issued a decree
allewin an educational qualification
for suffrage to be constitutional. Then
the negroes were disfranchised in Mis
sissippi because they could not read
and interpret the constitution. They
failed to meet the requirements of the
law because they had been slave?.
Ignorance was one of the conditions
which grew out of slavery. Now let
us take the argument that the fifth sec
tion of the amendment denies suffrage
to the negroes on account of previous
condition of servitude and turn on it
the light of the Mississippi decision.
Why was the negro disfranchised in
Mississippi? Because he was Ignorant.
Why was lie ignorant? Because he
had been a slave. Let the supreme
court declared the Mississippi consti
tution valid. Why cannot the negro
vote under the fifth section of the
amendment? Because he was not a
voter in 1867. Why was he not a vote
at that time? Because be had been
a slave,
What will the supreme court say
when they pass upon the North Caro
lina amendment?
Furthermore there is in the act
NO UNCERTAINTY.
Its meaning is perfectly clear; There
cannot be the slightest misunderstand
ing as to what are the prescribed
qualifications for voters. A school bo
can understand it. Then how can the,
supreme court know that the negroes
will be disfranchised by. the amend
ment? How can they tell that there
is a single negro Voter in North Caro
lina? In Passing upon the constitu
tionality of the measure, they are con
fined to what appears in the law itself.
They cannot go behind the record.
"Where a law is plain and unambig
uous, there is no room left for con
struction and a resort to extrinsic
facts will not be permitted to ascer
tain Its meaning."
(E?.r?ett vs. Morris a ar. 266).' The
same point was decided in YvLilliams's
case, as was shown by Senator Morgan i
in his recent great argument in the i
Senate. Therefore unless the supreme j
court vitiates a principle which has !
been law for centuries and reverses !
its own decision the fifth section is !
constitutional. We have heard same- j
thin? ahmif h.rW!Harv Rnffre-A h-n '
ja "monstrous absurdity.' Viewed fromjTh(7 would find insurmountable ob
Ithe stand-point ot its results, what ' jections. t0 an-v klIld of. measure that
idoe3 hereditary suffrage do in thenoum mi one me aisirancnitemtui
'present case? Confer on white menof the negro. If the Democrats had
land the sons of white men the right to left the constitution as they found it,
vote. Is there anything absurd or
monstrous about that?
But if the court should
hold the
fif
fth section void, what consequences
n follow? WmiiJ th fmirtii bpo.
would
tion which prescribes the ed caticnal
qualifieaYcn stand? Or would the
whole amendment fall to the ground.
Unquestionably the latter; for the su
preme court cannot
ENACT LAWS.
If the fifth clause should be stric!en
out the amendment is a lly dlf-j
terent measure from
passed by the Iegislatur
by tbe people. And th
oi ,- 5 ,
upon North Carolina a constitution for ; Promises to secure by peaceful me.h
vrhM nor n Bnria hn,i ri th? supremacy of the white man.
i voted. This would be nothing less
1 than legislation by the supreme court.
I They cannot usurp the functions of
'the State and themselves reeulate auf-
1 frage.
Or all tho questions connected with
the discussion of the amendment, that
is the simplest and the easiest
answered. At most the supreme court
could only pronounce the act uncon- j
; stitutional a3 a whole. At this late
day, the fusionists are showing a very
SUSPICIOUS INTEREST
in the ignorant
would have insp:
mere confidence in
had been manifested earlier. One anti
amendment organ goes far enough to
say that tho Democratic party ha3 al
ways been the enemy of the illiterate
whites. Perhaps I should have de
scribed the journal in question a3 a dif
ferent kind of musical Instrument It
is not an organ but a lyre. The pre
! tense of the Republican leaders that
I they oppose the amendment tor the
good of poor and illiterate whites ap
' pear3 sufficiently ridiculous when we
; recall that the ignorant negro vote is !
solidly Republican, while the ignorant
white vote is largely Democratic. Ac
cording to their statements they want
to defeat the measure because it wiil
J disfranchise too many Democrats and
inot enough Republicans a proposi
tion which might well make the au
thor of the Book cf Lamentations roar
with laughter and wring a derisive
shout from the lips of the Egyptian
sphynx. They claim to bs actuated by
principle, but there is good reason to
believe that they are really actuated
by interest. By professing to protect
the ignorant white man while they
are secretly scheming and contriving
to gratify their own base eelfishness
at the expense of the State, they furn
ish a striking example of the most
abominable hypocrisy. In this in
stance certainly they
"Stole the robe of heaven,
To serve the devil in."
If the leaders cf the Republican
party held the ignorant white man so
dear, why did they squander the pub
lic school funds after the war and
thus prevent him from getting an edu
cation? Why did they not show thorn
selves friendly from 1895 to 1899,
when they were in supreme power
and fusion flourishe'd like a green
upas tree? Their policy of putting ne
groes into office tended directly to
humiliate and oppress the ignorant
white man in Eastern North Carolina.
The negroes were continually trying
to ride over him rough-shod and boast
ed that they would soon be "as good
as ignorant white folks." They should
have protected the illiterate white
man while negro policemen bullied
him in their official capacity and ne
gro constables dragged him, bound
with ropes, before negro magistrates
who gloated over his humiliation and
gloried in exerciing authority over
the terrible white race which they
had hitherto held in mortal dread. Let
it never be forgotten that it was
against the poor and ignorant white
man's wife and daughter that Maul"'0
There never was a time, in fact, in
the ihistory of American social econo
my when the old domestic-service
problem was so close to its natural so
lution, and when the whole w'ase-earn-ing
question of women was so near its
own logical adjustment as at the pres
ent. The twentieth century will in no
other aspect be so marked as in the
naural and divine division of the
world's labor which America is des
tined to present to the world: men for
business and women for the home,
with an equal standard in each case
for both employer and employee. Ed
w'ard Bok, in the March Ladies' Home
Journal- ' " '
white man, vhlch " u"' w v " ZZ
unspeakably foul editorial was Al
rected. .Now in their extremity these
politicians who carried on A partner
ship in government with the negro,
turn, with ashen face, shuddering in
terror, to he ignorant white voter and
dispairiagly shreek:
"Save me, Cassiua, or I sink!"
OTHER REASONS,
forceful and unanswerable are al
vanced against the adoption of the
amendment. For Instance, we are told
that VanCe opposed Simmons's- Con
firmation as collector of internal reve
nue. Presumably the conclusion 13
that the amendment must therefore be
unconstitutional. No doubt that logi
cal and convincing fusion argument
will Teeeive the attention which it de
serves. Nobody will be deceived by
the mouthing of rampant demagog
uery, pouring forth belated eulogies
upon North Carolina's mighty Senator
and war governor. Men who in his
life time hated and reviled him, be
littled his greatness and strove to un
dermine his influence, now come for
ward and to aid a cause which he ab
horred, lay the rank and poisonous
weed." of detestable flattery upon hia
grave. When ho passed away from
the tumult and the toiling and the
striving of this mortal life and lay
down in his last profound slumber
among hi3 own native mountains, he
had already written his name in let
ters cf love upon the hearts of his
people. It will remain there unfading,
forevermore. Hi3 memory is safe. Not
even the praise of the political asso
ciates of Jim Young and Abe Middle
ten can tarnish his fame. It ha3 also
been suggested that Mr. Simmons
manages a machine, which of course,
proves that the amendment violates
the constitution of the United States.
Upon reflection we have a vague im
pression that Mr. Simmons was in
charge of a machine in the year A. D.
1S98 a threshing machine. Incident
ally it may be remarked that he
thrashed cut the fusionists to the
queen's taste. Hence these tears. He
is still in the business . and harvest
time will arrive in August. In spite
of their quibbling over technicalities
and attempts to befog the issue and
darken counsel with words the fusion
the fuslon leaders have signally failed
to conceal the presence of a
NEGRO IN THE W OOD-PILE.
Without the negro vite they wou.d
Eever nare seen one day of vover in
th Carolina. "The ox knoweth his
stall and the ass his master's crib."
1 1 j 1 i; 1.
xae lusiomsts wouia nave earn mat
the Democratic party had an oppor
tunity to settle the negro question and
j not do because they intended
keep on squalling nigger. T
to
ne
'egisuuure passea an
i hich will d'.siranchise the
amendment
negro. But
the fusionists rent their garments and
ieclaTed it was not at all the kind of
our amendment they vranted; that
they wanted an amendment which
would prohibit the negro from hold
ing office and allow him to vote. If
denounce the only measure
which
! and lffer no substitute for it? If
! anything except their gred for power
couia nave maae. tuein. uzsiie inf..
alliance with the negro, they wouid
have teen converted already. As a
direct result of their teachings and
practices, a large portion cf the State
was brought to the brink of civil war.
The scenes and incidents o two years
- " - "( -
f . xt . . v -: . . . A
i vividness uyja lue juj..i; iniiiu.
ing in fear of the regro'3 daily threats
cloistered retirement and cried aloud
that conditions had become unbear
able. Eastern North Carolina wa a
vast powder magazine, waiting but ths
touch of a match to burst into an
earth-rousing explosion. The two
races, infuriated, desperate, madden
ed, glared fiercely at each other, ready
to close in a grapple cf death. The
seeds of evil planted in the negro's
perveted mind sprang up and ripened
into a gory harvest. The fusion l:ai
ers saw it all, and mocke-d and jeered:
"Nigger! Nigger! Nigger."
In heaven's name, who expects them
to do anything but oppose tha amend
ment? And who believes them when
they eay they fight the amendment be
cause it will disfranchise white man?
If they did not profit by the awful ex
periences cf the past, they would not
hear though one rose from the dead.
The Democratic party invites the help
of every man, f every political faith,
who believes that the government of
North Carolina ought to be not half
white and half black, but white alto
gether. They are not afraid of bain?,
"run out of the State." They have
hoisted the flag of white supremacy
and sounded the watch-word: "Let us
go up and possess the land for we ar&
fully able to overcome it."
American Restlessness. " t
The restless energy of the American
people is amusingly illustrated by "Iaa
Maciaren." A thin, alert man had Im
mediately followed his card Into Doc
tor Watson's study, and forestallinj
Its reading, exclaimed: "My name is
Elijah K. Higglns, and I am a bu3jr
man. You are also busy and have no
time to fool away. Four days is all
I can give to the United Kingdom, and
I wished to shake hand3 with yc5.
3ood-by, I am off to Drumtochty."
Germany has recently celebrated tha
hundred and fiftieth anniversary ot
the birth of her greatest writer,
Goethe, whose most famous dictum de
serves a fuller appreciation in the Unit
ed States. "Ohne Hast ohne Rast," haa
been heeded but in part. 'Without
hasta" takes precedence over "without
rest-
About 400 sets of Christmas cirds
that is to say, over a thousand new de
signsare placed upon the market every
year by one firm.
Amipfale.
"So," paid the young girl's father
raspingly; ''he has such a lovely dis
position, has he?"'
"Yes," she answered. "He said that
If I will marry him, lie won't object to
living in the same house with you,
even if you are real cross."
The Charlcti'e News nc:?s t'ha't MUs
Helen Gould ser.t a check fee $250 to
tha fcjx'ily cif the late Prof. M-ilmvry,
of Charlotte, who was a r:hC3l mate
of Jar Gcui-i. Prcf. -McLacay had
J 'been a wiin?is for Gourd iu: a black
i mail sniv- " "" -"
that which was i "-":v "c "K.r I . - .
4 Vi a.. n--i-h m-ir-y r-- A Vi n c. nrr t fl rt t T T
e and adoptea onice wa nia W1 ful U!m ia ouice
e supreme court, 1 11 uie are uyp jieu uj iwhumi cyuan-
their sincerity if it t u?a'. "vmg: remote irom xne ciaa
. Ui pUilLlCal Ll C-Aii-t: iUilU iiiill tucil
ARE ALL AT SEA.
Republicans Are Not Anxious to Run
For Office This Year.
THEY HAVE NO HOPES OF ELECTION.
Pearsctl Can Get the Nomination for
Governor, But 'Tls Said He Doesn't
Want It.
Special Raleigh Correspondence.
A Republican of prominence from
the Eastern part of the State says that
he violently opposed his party's having
any organization In the State for the
August election, and assigned as a rea
son thai to organize would only make
the whites more determined to carry
the election. This was a delieate way
he took of expressing his belief that
the Democrats would certainly win.
The fact is that the Republican so
far have no plans and no candidates.
It is always their custom to select their
men beforehand, make up a slate in
fact, but this year they are at sea and
offices appear to be begging. They
know that Democratic nominations
are equivalent to election. Not a Re
publican can be found who has any
idea who will be the party's nominee
for governor. Out of dozens asked not
one has answered -With any degree of
poskivene.s3. Some say in' a vague
way, Richmond Pearson, while others
say he doesn't want the nomination,
but does want to go to Congress from
the Ninth district.
Complete as was Republican Chair
man Holton'8 downfall and collapse
two years ago, Republicans are saying
he will be re-elected chairman.
Speakings are in progress in many
countiea and widely scattered. Th
amendment is the sole topic. The plan
to make all else subordinate to it ;s
being well carried Out by the Deao-
crats. The Republicans are putting
some speakers in the field, but they do
most cf their work by bushwhacking.
taking single voters, or very small
groups. It will be a costly campaign
for them, but of course their national
committee will help them as it did in
1896, when it gave $60,000 for North
Carolina. In a few cases Populists are
speaking,- but in very few. Senator
Builer is practically the only Populisz
to make any fight, barring the nine
members of the State committee who
met in January and declared against
the amendment.
A ropuiist who in 18S5 was of State
prominence says Senator Butler is
dealing with the Republicans as if hr
could command or commanded 60,000
Populists, whereas he dees not control
10,000, and that the Populists who will
vote against the amendment would dc
so anyway, Butler cr no Butler.
Some of the Populists who, in 1S9C
and 1S9S were prominent in politic
will this year retire. State auditor
Aj"T, ex-chairman, is one. The Popu
lisms who are trying to turn their peo
ple against the amendment have dis
covered that they can not carry ouf
their plan. Enough hints have beer,
dropped to show them what the con
vention will do that is, lea.e the
amendment to the individual view Ol
the Pcpulists.
If one asks people from the country
in Cemral or Eastern North Carolina
the question. "What do you hear the
white Republicans saying on the ques
tion of "the amendment?" the reply is
"They are divided, some for and some
against i:. A politician would declare
they were all against it.
The attitude of the negro in this
election is interesting. It is passive.
He sees what is sure to happen. Jim
Young says the 1 e gross care nothing
about registering or voting, feel little
or no interest in the election and want
the white people to settle the franchise
matter, the negroes merely wishing to
be let alone. The white Republicans
want the negroes to keep out of the
conventions, keep in the background
in fact, but to register. Young, speak
ing for the negroes, says there will be
few if any in the convention. The
question is, whether this is of their
own motion or whether it is not a fol
lowing of the wishes of the white Re
publicans. Dockery's Star Witness Caught Rob
bing a Drunken Man.
In its new-born zeal in a bad cause
the Abbeville Gazette publishes the
affidavit of one M. F. Dowling, re
cently filed in the contest cf Col. O. H
Dcckery sginst Hon. John D. Bel
lamy. The (Jazetle introduces the
aff licit thus lugubriously:
"To those who are not familiar with
the campaign metliods cf 18S8 in some
of ithe eastern counties of this State
the (foists est forth ia the affidavit of
M. F. Dowling, which appears in an
otter eoIiim.11 o' to-day's Gazente, wi'.l
fca a shocking surprise."
Now will the esteemed Gazette add
that within a week after filing his in
famous slander and falsdhc-od z
ahove, iamd appearing before the com
mittee in the interest of Colonel Dcck
ery. that he was caught by the police
Jn Washington City, with a pal, in tne
act c-f picking the pocket of an ttnfcr-
tunaite creature whom he nad first
filled with whiskey, then Tcbbing him
o all his money and a diamond ring?
It is upon the testimony cf this sort ci
a e?oundTel that the Gazette Indulges
in k-3 :-cn-dn;i2ticn cf the efforts o:
iihe tet people ci all par-ties to re
move (that wOiicfh. is an Intolerable op
pression. If the Gazette really be
lieves that the several hundred negro
voters cf A&heriile are the equals of
a like -nounber of white cieizers o? that
town fn any of the essentials which go
to make a reliable cr a proper govern
ing class, it will never succeed in con-rincir-'g
the white Republicans of that
mccntein se'etion cf such, much, less
whr.ie Democrats. The Gazette is en
gaged an a business It will yet be
Ii'hame-i of, and will have failure -fcr
its efforts. But Dowling is a sweet
scented witness for sisch enterprise as
our zncEU'tain contemporary has chos
en to enter upon. Raleigh Post.
More Kentucky Ruffianism.
The Yadkin county correspondent cf
the Statesville Landmark gives an In
dies! wftieh shows that the Ken
tucky Republican spirit of ruffianism
is being cul'iivated in North Carolina.
We quote:
"Yadkin Democrats held a convex
ticn Monday, Masreh 5th, and elected
dclesrates to tha State, senatorial and
coE2TSsi:-al CKrrftrtiens. Tho con- j
vettion itktrjctsd fcr Ay cork for Gov- j
e; nor, of course. I heard an rx-Re-pub- ;
iican &tata Senator say a fe?.- days ago j
that if Ajicosk wmes to Yadkin thf3
ftiriwl roaSfe'uclf a "speech as he!
did two years agy iSxzt they (tae he
pufoliaans) wiil take him out and hang
him to a limb. So I guess Mr. Aycoek
had better steer sCiy of Yadkin, or not
let th?e fighting (?) Republicans who
male suck excellent "bush whackers"
during the civil war know of the time
of Ms coming." -
This is id keeping with Butler's
"whip them out ci the State" advice,
Blackburn's "North Carolina Demo
crats may take warning from the fate
cf William Gotfcel;" and the harangues
of Ldnney, White and negro rule or
gans. It bears out the statement re
cently made by a prcminert conserva
tive citizen of Piedmcnt North Caro
lina, who wrote to Chairman Sim
mons: ""I have reasons in addition to those
given Ty you to believe that your con
clusion is correct and that there is a
deep laid scheme cn the part ot our
opponents, through their revenue offi
cers and cthcs, to cause trouble and
violence, and in some sections, they
will attempt to bulldoze. I venture
the assertion 4hat there will nvt be a
public speaking cf any importance in
the West in which armed revenue offi- '
eers are r ot conspicuously present and
making themselves generally obnox
ious to the Democrats."
This statement, together with the
threat of the Davie county State Sena
tor, Bmtler, Bla-ckhurn and others
&ow3 Chat ajxng office-holding mem
bers cf the Bloek-and-Tan party there
is a spirit that would introduce into
North Carolina iShe assassin's dagger
and the murderer's Reign of Tscror
which Republican tsadsrs introduce!
in Kentucky. We do net believe that
this spirit of lawlessness zzui &z3si
natica caJi be fs-und in the creau: ci.
tibe rank and file cf the men who vote
the Fusion ticket, but we worn these
men who t iik so glibly of hanging and
asassiration that they are sowir tha
wCnd, and that there is danger thai
they will reap tha whirlwind, ltd
bulk of the Fusian fcrcas is ccmipcesd
of ignorant negroes. Left to ihem
selvcs, they will not aStsaipt 2SDOsi
naticn or murder. If the office-holders
in public speeches aclvorate "whip
ping out of the State," hanging and
assoEsination of the leaders of White
Supremacy, will they not be the mur
ierers if their ignorant followers, in
3uencei by prejudice or mezsa liquor,
imitate their party associates in Ken
tucky? There is no reason fcr talk- of barg
ing, "assassination" and "whipping"
in North Carolina. The pecple of the
State are going to vote in August on
Jie simple question: Shall we eliminate
he mass cf ignorant vciers who were
nfraEt-hid when the best men of the
sEace were barred from suffrage? Men
Dug'ht to vote on that question without
cluster and threat. The revenue dood
les ana rTlsion jiice-in.-uti3 mij
.hat. whatever its effect upon poIi!;i:al
parties, the adoption of the amend
ment eliminates thorn from ths pie
:-ounter along wiii the incccnpeitct
negro fromithe ballet box. It is this
knowledge that has driven them ta
.his frenzy cf desperaticin. Ne-as and
Observer.
3UNC0MBE COUNTY RtSOLUTIGNS.
Denounce the Attempt of theRerub'.i- i
cans to Disfranchise tn Demo- j
crats of the Distr.ct. j
The following are the resolutions .
adopted at the Democratic cosia:y con- j
r&n:ion rwentiy hell in AshevJie: j
"Whereas, in the congressional con
test now ponding between i.ca W. T.
Crawford and Richmond Pearson, bs- j
-ore the House cf Represenzatives ci
.he United Slates, the said Ptai son. haa j
succttded in securing a favorefcle re. j
rxrt, r&22nmerjdir.'5 chat he &3 seated, j
nd that our gillant Crawfcrd be de- j
iranced and robbed of the po&itka to
.vhica a majority of the rotes cf the ;
Ninth Congressional district elec-toJ j
him, which said rerxsrt will probacy re
a3opted; and 1
"Whereas, This report recommends j
that 19,600 voters be disfranchised be- j
cause a negro rapist was lynched by j
:oth Pvepublicans and De-niocrats it 1
ilacon county on the night berore eiec.
ticn. the said negro having brutally as
saulted the wife cf a Republican di'
ihe wife of a minister cf iSie g9a it
che absence of their hnyoocads; aad
"Whereas, This wholesale dirfran-
lisemsoat of the wi
ite vctars of thu
district, ana especially cf the rctcrs o:
Aiiheville township, Ean-coarce county
is att-nrpted tecau.e a negro thief esi
perjurer on 3 James W. Harrison-
who is tervirg a se-nitence fcr lar
ceny in the chain gang of Buncombt
COTEty, was properly arrested for fcav
Irrg falsely and maliciously sworn thoj
a bribe had been offered him by two a
the most honorable citizens cf Bunt
eomfoa comity ; and
"Whtetreas, The said Pearson tid hH
Hpublican supporters hove by thi !
coit teit 'and these pariScuxir acta ion .5
and squarely placed themselves in sup
port and approval of wilful and ma
Helens atoocks asd assaults itpcn tt
persons and characters of the goo
white people of the Oid North State;
"Whexeas, This sarnie Pearson has
infamously slandered and caused to hi
slandered our honored fellow citizen,
J. Harry -Martin, a man of unblem
ished character;
"Therefore, Be it resolved, by th
DEQicerats cf Buaeomoe county in con:
rettion s&seniblcd:
"1. ir-- - -we denounce, condemn ani
despise this effort to oveKJarow th
wSll of a majority of the voters of thij
district, and we denounce and con
d-cmn the false, fraudulent and mali
dons sia-nders made by said Pearsci
against the people cf the Ninth Con
gresciorial district in his notice of con
test and ibrief, and we declare tho;
Richniord Pearson and his syrapa
.ohizers, by having made thems'elve
the ch.ampic'rs cf a negro rapitt and
negro thief and perjurer, should t
despised and scorned by every respect;
able citizen of this district.
"2. That we especially condemn an
danourJce the effort to afctash poUiisaj
significance to the lynshing cf th ne
gro Motley for having maie the mere
brutal assault upca two respect-afU
ladies who were assaulted in their ows
homes, ln the absence cf their hus
bands, when it has teen clearly showi
jhat there were Republicans, Poptilisti
and Democrats in the lynching party.
"3. That we convey to Hon. W. T.
Crawford our expressions of esteenj
and regard and assure him ohst thi
effort to cheat and defraud him cnl?
makes his friends snd followers mon
resolute nd determined to reseat thi3
act cf injustice and mete out to his
traduoers that which they so richly de
serve'
A remembrance of our own youthful
mistakes and follies will lead us to
judge those cf others with sympathy
and indulgence, and the recognition
that we have reached the time of life
when gentle dignity and cheerful ser
enity are more becoming than spark
ling vivacity or any affectations will
save us from being ridiculous. March
Jao'eV Home Jcu7al. ' ' '
O crop can
grow with
out Potash.
Every blade of
Grass, every grain
of Corn, all Fruits
and Vegetables
must have it. If
enough is supplied
you can count on a full crop
if too little, the growth will be
" scrubby.'1
Send far oar boob teUing aS about com position of
fertiEzen best adapted far all crops. Tbey cost yon
nothing.
GERMAN KALI -WORKS.03 If assan St .New Tort
Frills of Fashion.
I'alt shades of gray and bilge eolm
ire the tints in dress siloves and art
juite as much worn as white.
Itussiau in heavy quality, and lin
Venetian laces are very much employ
rd for trimming handsome thitl
jowns in the pastel ivlors.
Imitation diamond buckles are 1
rery conspicuous feature of dresi
trimmings, and other pretty buckles
ar of enameled flower
SPAIN'S GREATEST NEDD.
Mt. R. P. Cllvia, c! Barcelona, Spain,
epentis his winters at Aiken, S. C.
Weak nerves fcai caused severe pains
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Eloci and Nerve Remedy, all pain soon
left him. He says this grand medi
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vou need i- Eery bottle guaranteed,
enly 50 cents. Soli -by T. R. Aber
nsthy, Druggist-
Prof. Koher Koch, the et-lelvat4
bacteriologist in the Deutsche iled
ieinitfche Vochenolirift, reporting
tipon the results of the Java malaria
expedition, says that these fully cor
roborate his theory, already illustrated
vn the German ast African coast.
It is that where there are mosquitoes
there is always malaria, and that
where there are no mosqnitos them
! no malaria.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
"Awful anxiety was felt for the
widow of the brave General Buinhaai
of Macihias, Me., when the doctors said
she could not live till morning" writes
Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, who attended her
thai fearful night. "All thought the
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In Philadels h:a the other day,
man fell down a flight cf stps ami
iractnred Lis sknll from tripping on a
Wangling shoe-string. Never wa
there a more striking illnsfration cf
the necessity of doing small thing?
- Twice Pr ven.
From The Vindicator, Huthzrfordiott,
N. C.
The editor of the V-indieator has had"
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