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THE SLANDERS CONTINUE.
Rev J. HV. Page Receives an
Anonymous Letter From a Ne
gro Preacher.
Charlotte Observer.
It will be recalled that some weeks
ago a private letter by Rev. Jesse H. Page,
of the North Carolina tJonference, ad
dressed to a friend and former parisMon -er
in Catawba county, was published iu
The Observer. The gentleman had
written Mr. Page to know if political con
ditions ia the eastern part of the State
are really as they have been represented,
and this gentleman furnished the reply to
this paper and it was printed. Upon the
strength of this Mr. Page has received an
anonymous letter of which the follow
ing is a true copy:
Charlotte, N. C, Sept. 11th, 189S.
Rev. Jesse Page, Rockingham, N. C.
Dear Sir: I have just read your com
munication on negro rule in the Eastern
part of the State, as you are pleased to
call it. I am a negro myself and have
become disgusted over the malicious
falsehoods and baseless rot that is being
published by you and the corrupt patty
to which you belong. . I am a Minister of
the Gospel myself and find that you claim
to be; but I do not think that the Lord
esus Christ had much to do with send
ing you out; for when he commissioned
his Disciples to "Go into all the world and
preach the Gospel to every creature,"
ect., they were to preach against every
wrong and try if possible to establish
peace among all men. In fact the golden
rule was to be engraven in our, heart
mind and life. I hope you will remem
ber this. Again I learn you are an old
man that will not stay here as long as you
have stayed, and after all, as long as you
have been pretending to preach the Gos
pel, if you don't mind hell will be you
portion.- By these lying statements that
you and your Democratic allies are. pub
lishing, will serve tosolidfy the Populists
and Republicansnd especially the negro
against you as neyer before. We, the
colored peopl e of this city expect to start
a daily paper here and denounce you and
your party as a set of lying hypocrits. If
this iathe way you expect to get the State
back to the Democratic party, we shall
see to it that you "will never accomplish
that end.
I talked with a well respected white
man from the East the other day who was
a Prohibitionist, he said to me that all of
this stuff which is being published by the
Democrats an i their lying newspapers
were all lies and the white people of
Eastern North Carolina are disgusted
with it. I would advise you to get out
of the pulpit, for the Lord Jesus has not
had one thing to do with you. When
you get true religion you will find that
you will be a uew man altogether.
If you want to answer me write to the
Charlotte Citizen. There has never been
a peroid in the annals of history in which
an attempt at nullification has ever sue
ceeded. God will see to it that you and
your poor rotten party will never suc
ceed. Old man yoa had better get right
for you are as good an agent for the de
yil as he wants. - :
Signed.
411 South-Mint Street,
Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. D. C. Covington, colored pastor
of Clinton chapel, A. M. E. Zion Church,
lives at 4ti South Main street He has
been, for two or more yeais, conducting
a column in the Sunday Observer a col
umn set apart for the colored people; a
column set apart for their religious, moral,-
educational and industrial elevation.
The original copy of the foregoing letter
to Mr. Page has been exhibited at The
Observer office, and the hadwriting is
identified as that of Rev. D. C. , Coving
ton by the two members of the staff of
the paper who handle his correspond
ence. '.
We wish to make the point that Mr.
Page has furnished nothing to the press of
a political character his letter was fur
nished by his correspondent. But wheth
er it came as it did or was given out tor
publication by him directly, it is outra
geous that for his simple recital of plain
and well known facts that he should be
thus coarsely and brutally assailed by f jn
anonymous writer .white or black. As to
who Mr. Page is.very few of the intelligent
people of North Carolina need be told
He is one of the very ablest ministers of
the Methodist church in this State, a man
of lovely Christian character, an univer
sal favorite wherever known. The better
class of the colored people of this city
aud State will not endorse this un warant
ed assault upon such a man, but all intel
ligent people will see the spirit under ly
ing it. , .v
THE NEGRO PARTY.
SCHOOL
TEE5IAN.
COMH IT-
Ncarly 1,000 Negroes EleeteU to
Office in Two Tears by the
Fnslonists.
Raleigh News-Observer. "1
Now, let us see how many negroes
are holding office in North Carolina,
under fusion goverment today. In
the Second district they havjg a ne
gro Congressman, recently renomi
nated by the Republicans. In that
district a negro has been nominated
for solicitor. In the Agricultural
Department, several negroes hold
important positions. Until recent
ly one was chief fertilizer inspector,
with -white men holding subordinate
positions, under him. In the reve
nue department, in this district, one
of the best positions, that of gener
al store-keeper and ganger, is held
by a negro. In a number of coun
ties in the East, negroes have been
nominated by the Republicans for
the Legislature. A great many have
been nominated for the county offi
ces, and a greater number still would
have been nominated but for the
appeal that has been made to them
to wait awhile and the assurance
given them that while it would be
dangerous to put them on the ticket,
if they carry the next Legislature
they will fill the departments, aud j
the other appointive positions, with J
the people of their race. .There are
in five counties, one hundred and
forty-three migistrates. Altogether
in the State there are nearly 300 ne
gro magistrates, and . taking the
State at large there are nearly one
thousand negroes holding office to
day, every one of whom were elected 1
or appointed by Republican or fusion
votes or officials.
Now this is the record of fnsiou,
nearly one thousand negroes holding
office at one time. To answer this
charge of negroism, fusion spell
binders say that a few negro magis
trates were appointed by the Legis
lature of 1876, twenty-three years
ago. They attempt to make much of
out of this, notwithstanding the fact
that for twenty-three years after this
time not a negro magistrate was ap
pointed by a Democratic-Legislature;
and notwithstanding the fact that
they know, as every "well-informed
person in the State knows, that the
few magistrates appointed by the
Legislature in 1876, were recom
mended by the few Republican mem
bers in that body, having appealed
to the Democrats jo give them some
recognition in the selection of mag
istrates, and the Democrats being
generous permitted them to name a
small proportion, and they, taking
advantage of this generosity of the
Democrats, named a number of ne
groes. As soon as the Democrats or
the State learned how the Republi
can members had taken advantage
of and abused the generosity of the
Democrats in that Legislature, they
unanimously declared against the
policy of allowing the minority to
name a part of the magistrates to be
appointed by the Legislature, and no
more negro magistrates were, during
the next twenty-three years of Dem
ocratic rule, appointed. In addition
to this, in their harrangues the fu
sion 6bouters claim that the Demo
crats appointed, in certain localities
in the State, about a dozen negroes
to small, subordinate positions
Some of the appointees that they re
fer to were made as far back as 1873;
some were made eight or ten years
ago. So that in twenty-three years
of Democratic rule, according to
their own snowing, only about a
dozen negroes were appointed to any
positions whatever. 15ut notwith
standing the fact, according to their
own contention, the Democrats
appointed only about a dozen
negroes to positions, and all of
them trifling positions, in the period
of twenty three years, while their
crowd have appointed or elected
about one thousand negroes in two
years, these populist orators have the
assurance and audacity to seriously
argue to intelligent people that the
Democratic party is a negro party.
It is such recklesness as this that
is bringing the champions and apolo
gists of negro'rule in North Carolina
into contempt.
The Illinois Tragedy. I A NEGRO
Atlanta Constitution.
The terrible tragedy reported from
Illinois, in Wliicn it IS saia mat one ne visits a White School In Ala.
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nunarea men Dave uceu mucu, i . orwhi.h m. Vn White
Suggestive Of thought. L.dr lV the. Teacher.
TkTi. 1 t-inl .
jxocomy are we tuiiuaucu
such an exhibition of lawlessness ai"BUCC U1?auer
should ' be possible anywhere, but You have heard the Democrats charge
that even in those states which have that there are negro school comnuttee-
hitherto claimed the monopoly of men right here iu Alamance, ana you
law-abidinff virtue, that men should I have heard Republicans say in answer to
be so easilv moved to crimes 01 Oiooa cnarge. m&i inese negroes oniy nu
anrl mnTvW Whpn it is rficollected I charge of the negro schools. Keaa this
that the victims of this outbreak andsee what you think of it:
weie almost wholly negroes who I, Miss Alma L. McCulloch, of Nor-
were seeking employment in the I ton township, Alamance county, North
. . .. i f n .
Lincoln to the union, the subject wimeroi loaz-isaa, commencing m uc
becomes invested with even greater tober, 1837 and ending in Debruary,
interest. I 1898, 1 taught the public school for school
In Years past when an occasional district No., in Pleasant Grove town
life was forfeited to the indignation J ship, Alamance county; that one of the
of the people throughout the south (school committse who had supervision
for the commission of a crime which of this school was a negro named Solo-
stirs thi, blood as no Other crime mon Martin; that while I was teaching
can, we have sometimes been taunt- the school this negro committeeman, the
ed bv the newspaper press of the said Solomon Martin, came to the school
north with a want of civilization, on two separate occasions. His first
These journals have been loud and visit was during school hours and while
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persistent IU their lecture3 to the was mere in cnarge. ne saiu ne came
southern people, advising them to to see if the desks had come. His other
stud v that refined civilization of the visit was before school had opened in the
north which grew angry at no of- morning ond before I had come to the
ense. and where personal rights scnooihouse ana was reported to me mat
were so fully understood that they Martin said that the white school, which
were never Questioned. The Door 1 was teaching, would be discontinued
eero, while at a distance, was a sub- the next day, tnougn as a matter ot laci
ect of the greatest 3olicitude and it was not scheduled to stop the next day
claimed the tearful sympathy - of and in truth did not stop for many days
. after this.
"Alma D. McCcixoch
'Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this, the 11th day of October, 1898.
. "E. S. Parker, Jr.,
(Seal) "No-ary Public."
White men, what do you think of this!
; Miss McCulloch is known to many of
you. She is the equal of any-lady in
this or any other county, and yet, under
the editors who protested so vig
orously against what they denomi
nated "southern barbarity.
Now from the state which Chica
go is the metropolis cornea the news
of this wholesale-slaughter of ne-
roes who had oeen induced to - go
there under the promise of employ
ment As quoted in the telegram,
Governor Tanner, instead of flying
to the protection of these special this infamous school law, passed by a
wards of the late Abraham Lincoln fusion Legislature, she is forced to receive
declared his purpose "not to allow visits from a negro school committeeman
imported labor to be unloaded at that while she is in discharge of her duties as
nlane " Thus the freedom of the oer- teacher of a white school right here in
sonis interfered with, the protect- Alamance county. Democrats are pledg
Mrs. Samuel P. Swartwood, of "Moun
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is the champion mother of America. She
is 40 years old, was married when she
was 14 and in the 26 years haB had 27
children 12, boys and 15 girls, twins
twice. Nineteen of the children are alive
and well and four are married. Mrs.
Swaitwood and her huband are proud
of their family. She i3 in robust health
and has much contempt for women who
object to having children.
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Tha only PUis t toka witU Boodl SarMpariUa,
upon tne nrst publication, by a paper
of another State, of the statement that
South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia
negroes are preparing to colonize in
North Carolina, on account of their great
er privileges and the better chance for
them to get .offices here, The Observer
paid silght attention to it and did not
copy it; but events are going to show that
it was not a baseless allegation and the
conviction that it is true grows upon us.
Upon reflection one.can see reason for it.
There are at this time nearly one thou
sand negroes holding office in this State
and they absolutely dominate some ot
our cities, towns and counties. In no
other Southern State do any of them hold
office, except possibly over people of
their own color, and nowhere else are
they a ruling power. There is reason, as
we have said, why North Carolina should
be an inviting field for the negroes of
neighboring States Charlotte Observer.
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KCUBO DAY IX WILJIISGTOS.
WESTERN XEUROES' HOPES.
Jury Composed of One White
and Eleven Negroes In the
Criminal Co art.
Wilmington Star ,14th.
vesterday was negro day in the Crim
inal Court. There were negroes on the
sidewalks, negroes in the halls and on the
stairways, negroes in the court room, ne
groes everywhere. But the climax was
reached when the jury in the case of the
State vs. Joe Hooper and William Mur
phy (both negroes) charged with larceny,
was empanelled. It was a3 dark as the
cloud of negro domination that now
threatens North Carolina, having but one
white spot to relieve its inky blackness.
That jury was composed of one white man
and eleven negroes.
Some of the white men who came on
the excursion yesterday from Randolph
and other counties witnessed this posi
tive evidence of the result of fusion rule
in Eastern North Carolina.
One white man and eleven negroes on
a jury in the largest city "in the State.
How long would the white men of the
West stand this
But they'll have to stand it if Dan Rus
sell, Marion Butlr, negro Jim Young and
negro "Abe" Middleton carry the Legis
lature ,in November. Then you'll see
negro juries, negro policemen, negro
magistrates, negro deputy sheriffs and ne
gro constables in Charlotte, in Greeos
boro, Asheville, Statesville and other
town3 and cities of the West. Dan Rus
sell will be no respecter of persons or
towns if the next Legislature is a negro
one.
ion of the law is refused to kfaose in
danger, and the - newcomers are
given to understand, mat u iney
wonld not meet the fate of their
dead comrades they had better re
tire from the scene.
All of this brings up a lesson
which should have at all times been
perfectly known. throughout the un
ion. - It shows that humanity is
pretty much the same wherever
found, and that human indignation
aroused in Illinois or in Massachu
setts is much the same with the
same indignation stirred up in Geor-
gia or in Mississippi, ihc tact is
that the comparison is to the ad
vantage of the south. While in this
section crimes against woman are
aid under such a ban that no man
dare commit them, and social recog
nition is declined toward the colored
people because of the irresistible
barrier of nature, yet in the personal
treatment of the colored people and
in the recognition of their human
rights to live and to have employ
ment in order to live, the south has
ever been on the human side. It
has never been considered a crime in
the south to give employment to a
colored man, and yet, what do we
find when we go up to the state of
Abraham Lincoln, where the colored
man would be justified in expecting
the greatest degree of consideration
Jie is met by bands of armed men,
who shoot him down on sight, and
the only comfort he gets from the
republican governor who sits in the
chair of Eichard J. Oglesby, is that
he had better get back home as soon
as possible.
ed to change this school law and if you
are a white man you want it changed.
We have "mixed school committees now
and it ia but one more step to "mixed
schools." Are you in fayor of that step
and having "mixed school?" If so, vote
the Republican ticket. If you are in fa
vor jf white committees having charge
of white schools and against "mixed
schools," then be a white man and
vote the Democratic ticket.
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weak nerves. I did not care to live in
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H'lll Yon Vote for Negro Kale?
Oharlotte News.
Mr. Charles Eudie, a white Republican
of this city, believed that the publica
tions of the Democratic newspapers re
garding negro office-holders and negro
rule in Eastern North Carolina were
"Democratic lies." He went to Wilming
ton and saw the situation for himself and
this is his summing up of it:
"I found conditions there much worse
than I had ever expected to find.1
'I am so disgusted with the condi
tion of affairs down there that my mind
is fully made up. I do not think that
there is a white Republican or Populist
in Mecklenburg county who, if he went
to Wilmington and saw the condition of
affairs there as I saw them who could
vote the ticket this year, and thus help to
perpetuate negro rule in Eastern North
Carolina.
'Though I am a Republicad in princi
ple and have heretotore always voted
the Republican ticket, at this election I
shall cast my vote for the Democratic
state and county ticket. I believe that
it is the duty of every white man in this
cdunty to vote, that ticket this year. A
vote for the fusion legislative ticket in
Mecklenburg county, is a vote to perpet
uate such conditions in Eastern North
Carolina." . - .
His experience is that of every other
sincere white man who goes into that
section and impartially investigates mat
ters for himself. Mr. .udie says even
the Republican and Populist officers ac
knowledged the state of affairs.
The fusion legislature fastened upon
Eastern North Carolina this horror of
African-domination. The legislature
alone can undo it. A vote to elect
fusion member of the legislature from
Mecklenburg is a vote to endorse negro
rule and retain our white brothers of the
East iu thralldom. Is there a white man
in Mecklenburg county today who will
cast his vote for a Republican candidate
for the legislature or for a Populist caa
din ate, for the Populists are in this cam
paign the allies of the negro party?
Some Interesting Statistics In
Regrad to Confederate And
Federal Pensions.
New Orleans Tnnes-Democrat.
Th money needed for Confederate pen
sions has to be voted directly from the
State treasury, from the ordinary taxes
and revenue A the State, and it is no
easy matter to get enough in this way to
care for all the soldiers in gray who
need aid and assistance in their old
age.
Thers are 36,000 Confedeiate veterans
or the widows and orphans of veterans
receiving pensions irom tne several
Southern States, the amount thus dis
bursed being $i,5oo,ooo a year in mark
ed contrast with the millions voted to
the Union veterans. There are over i,-
000.000 of these latter pensioners, or
thirty times as many as the Confederate
cause has placed under our care. There
is one pensioner on the Federal rolls for
every two soldiers who fough in the civil
war. as against one pensioner for every
twenty Confederate soldiers. The United
States is thus apparently ten times as
liberal in the matter as we can afford to
be: as a matter of fact, it is even more
liberal, for it gives roo for every $1
paid by us to the men who wore the gray.
The trouble about Confederate pensions
in the South is that there is no unity of
action, or similar policy among the sev
eral States.
The plan adopted in Louisiana of in
vestigating the applications carefully so
as to free the list from all except those
who really need the assistance will cor
rect to a considerable extent this weak
ness of the Southern pension system and
will probably be adopted iu time by the
other Southern States.
It will also call further attention to the
rottenness of the Federal pension sys
tem by showing that not more than one
veteran in twenty or thircy actually needs
assistance, whereas the United btates is
paying pensions to eyery other old Union
soldier.
Coaple of Incidents from Un
ion Which Should Caaae White
Men to Think.
Monroe Journal.
The Editor ot the Journal: 1 will drop
you a lew lines, to inform your readers 01
the stale ot affairs here, as the negroes have
about taken this place since the Republi
cans have been in power, and it is not a
rare thing to hear of negroes insulting
decent while people.
Seeing a crowd of negroes gathered at
country store the other day, I drew
near enough to hear what they were talk
ing about. They were talking on politi
cal matters in North Carolina. They said
that the Republicans were working for
them, and the Topnlists too, and they
were their only friends, and they had fused
together in order to get into office, and u
tbey were elected "we will soon take
things and run the white people but of
the State." Tbey then; went on to say
that the South Carolina darkies were go
ing to join them. lu two years, they said,
tney would bve every thing in their
bands.
The other day a negro man went to a re
spectable farmer's house while the man
was away from home and- there was no
one present but ins uaugniers. lie was
drunk, and taking his seat in the house,
ordered them to briii him cider, and
threatened to cut their throats if they did
not do so. Tbey had to bear it because
they could not help themselves. Kepub-
icans aud their co-aJjutors seem to en
joy it. l'lease puDUsu this so mai people
may see what is going on here, as well as
n eastera North Caroliua, and let every
while man see that we are in need of good
white man's government. We can secure
it only through the Democratic party.
Tours for good government.
It. S. JlILt-KU.
Adlai, Union county. N. C.
A Very Tense Situation.
Wilmington Messenger.
It came to our ears weeks ago that one
house in W llmmgton was selling cart
ridges largely to tne negroes. It now
turns out that Sambo is seeking to furn
ish an armory here with sixteen repeat
ing rifles to kill whites and promote
race war of extermination. Other ru
mors' are afloat that should be promptly
looked into. Last week, in this county
negroes summoned to work the public
road, told the white roadmaster that they
hoped the time was not far off when they
could nse their axes and hoes to kill
white people- Those are bloody-mineded
devils incarnate and should be looked
after speedily. -
mind and nerves, and the
glycerine soothes and
heals the irritation. Can
you think of any combi
nation so effective as this?
Sa thstths
Of
More thaa twenty million free samples
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ilistrihntrl hv thft manufacturers. What
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art a a trmic to the I merits do you want? It cures Piles, burns
scaius, sores, iu iuc uuiut rjjawc
time. J. A. Hardison.
. Old fashions in dress may be revived
but no old fashioned medicine can replace
Chamberlain's folic, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy. For sale by Jas. A. Har
dison. : '
Be sure yoa get SCOTT'S Emulsion.
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50c. and $1.00, all druggists.
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Our little boy was afflicted with rheu
matism in his knee; and at times unable
to put his foot to the floor. We tried in
vain, everything we cor-ld hear of that
we thought would help him. We almost
gave up in despair, when some one ad
vised us to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm
We did so, and the nrst bottle gave so
much relief that we got a second one
and, to our surprise, it cured him sound
and well. J. T. Bays, Pastor Christian
Church, Neodesha, Kan. For sale by
as. A. Hardison
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North Carolina in the Civil War.
Nashville Christian Advocate.
One cannot be in North Carolina long
without discovering that the memory of
the late Senator Vance is held in extrav
agant veneration by the people of that
State. Their admiration for him includes
element of warm affection. More
than any other man of the recent era he
reDresented everything that was best
and strongest in the life 01" h!s Common
wealth. Not narrow nor provincial, he
was still an intense North Carolinian,
and never missed an opportunity o show
lL Soeakin? in Baltimore before the
Association of the Maryland line, Febru
ary 25, 1835, he made the fallowing state
ments, which we have neyer seen called
in question: "In relation t? the number
of troops furnished to the Confederate
Government, I have more than once
made the boast that North Carolina fur
nished, not relatively but absolutely,
more than any other State. This asser
tion has not yet been denied, to my
knowledge. The official records of the
Adjutant General's office show that
North Carolina furnished 124,000 men,
organized into 71 regimeuta, 20 bat
talions, and 24 unattached companies
ah inese were raisea our. 01 a wnue p--
ulation in 18G0 of 629,942, or one soldier
to every six souls. At Appomatox and
Greensboro, North Carolina (Surrendered
t.vice as many muskets as any other
State, aud in more than one of Lee's
great battles they exceeded the dead
from all the other States put together.
This record constitutes a proof of a very
proud distinction, but it is due to North
Carolina as sure as truth is truth. In
mv opinion, she was less exhausted
when the end came than any other State.
and she had the mearis and vitality and
the spirit to have continued the struggle
two years longer. The last to begin the
fieht. she was the last to leave it. Let
not these things be forgotten."
They Are Quirk to Nee the Point
Charlotte Observer. '
It is stated that in 1S96 Irwin county,
Ga., gave the Democratic ticket a major
ity of 654 and last week a . majority of
2,560. Commenting upon which fact
The Columbia Register says: "This is
the county in which the colony city of
Fitzgerald is situated. The colonists came
from the Northwest and the North. Hew
they voted before they came South does
not make any difference; the returns show
how they are voting now. The
South wants more colonists ju3t like
thtm; thousands of them." It is gener
ally thus. Good citizens coming from
other sections to the South soon learn to "
become Democrats in State and local
matters, no matter what politics they
carried where they came from or what
national politics they have or keep upon
coming here. Iu the Southern States
the Democratic party alone has either
the ability cr the willingness to give de
cent government, and it does not take
long for intelligent settlers or even visi
tors from other sections to find this out.
This being ture a3 it undoubtedly is
what a shame it is that respectable na
tive white men, calling themselves good
citizens, should unite with a party of ig
norance and vice to overthrow Democ
racy in the South and install in its stead
such a condition of affain as now exists
in North Carolina, for instance? Nor
thern people coming here are willing to
change their politics in order to get in
to the Democratic party, seeing that
through it alone can public safety and an
able, just and economical administration
of public affairs be had; while natives
change their politics to get out of it for
what reason? We cannot imagine what,
except in the cases of those who aie
moved by a desire for the loaves and
fishes.
He "If I stole fifty kisses from you,
what kind of larcency would it be?"
She T should call it grand." Tankers
Statesman.
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Dr. Xornient Did he Get the
Six Hundred Dollars?
Lumberton Robesonian.
At Alfordsville and at Maxton G. B.
Patterson stated that he had been in
formed that as soon as Dr. R. M. Nor
ment was paid $600 in cash he was, . by
the terms of the agreement, to take from'
the columns of the Charlotte Observer
his card announcing himself an indepen
dent Republican candidate for Congress
Mr. Patterson gave as his informant R
B. Russell, colored, editor of the Maxton
Blade and chairman of the Regublican
Congressional executive committee of
this district. At Maxton both Dr. Nor-
ment and Russell were present when the
charge was made and neither opened bis
mouth. Dr. Normentdid not deny hav
ing agreed to come down from the Con
gressional race when paid fGOO, nor Rus-
aell deny haying told Mr. Patterson that
such was the agreement. Dr. Norment,
we understand, ha3 not yet staled on the
stump for what office he was lunning.
He was asked at Alfordsville the only
time we have heard him speak to de
clare himself but faded to do so. He
says, however, that whoever says he is
bought is an infamous liar. As stated by
Mr. Patterson, the "people have the facts
and can form their own conclusions."
A Nother'sLovr.
Headlight.
Sons know but little of the anx
iety, the nights of sleepless and pain
ful Bolicitude which their mothers
have spent over their thoughtless
waywardness. Those loving hearts
Co down to their craves with those
hours of secret aconv mi told. A3
the mother watches by night, or
prays in the privacy of her closet,
she weighs well the words she will
address her sou in order to lead him
to a manhood of honor and useful
ness. She will not tell him all the
griefs and deadly fuar3 which beset
her soul. She warns him with
trembling lest he say overmuch. She
tries to charm hiru with cheery
love while his heart is bleeding.
Xo worthy and successful man
ever yet kuew the breadth aud depth
of obligation which he is under to
his mother who guided his feet at
the time when his character for vir
tue and purity was so narrowly bal-
auceu against a course 01 vice ana
ignominy. Let the dutiful son do
his utmost to smoothe his mother s
pathway, let him omit nothing that
will contribute to her peace and hap
piness, and yet he will part from
her at the tomb with the debt to her
not half dischaged.
We find the following in a Populist
newspaper:
"It is a well known fact that during all
of the Cleveland Democratic adminis
tration there wa3 a negro postmaster at
Fayetteville, one of the most important
offices in the State. But this was dur
ing a Democratic administration and
the railroad organs won't mention it. '
This is only one of many examples
where a half truth is perverted into false
hood for campaign purposes. The Pop
ulist paper intends f r Its readers to be-
lieye that a neg o was appointed post
master at Fayetteville by the Democra's.
As a matter of fact he was appointed by
Harrison, Republican, and allowed to
serve out his four years part c-f this
term of service extending into a Demo- -
cratic administration. When nis tour
years expired a white man and a Dem
ocrat was appointedjhis successor. States-
vine Landmark.
!
To See the Heroes Oft White
Mau Chained to a Negro.
Newbern Journal, 13th.
Not less than 500 negroes were at the
depot yestei day morning to bid farewell
to the prisoners being taken to the peni
tentiary. The crowd was waiting when
Joe Hahn and his two negro deputies ar
rived with six prisoners. There was a
rush to see them, and the car was invad
ed in short order.
There was one white man among the
prisoners. Tom Rollins,, who was sent
up for larceny, for six months. He was
chained to a nero. Sheriff Hahn an
nounced several days ago that on his
next trip to the penitentiary, he would
chain a white man and anegro together.
He kept his word.
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