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Which the Negro Party?
Question. What party nominated tfae negro White for
Congress?
Answer. The Republican.
Ques. What Party nominated the negro Williamson
for Solicitor of the Second Judicial District?
Ans. The Republican.
Ques. What party "nomipated three negroes for the
Legislature in Edgecombe, two in Halifax, one in Vance,
. one in Granville, one in Craven, one in Pasquotank, one in
Warren and various other Counties? .
Ans. -The Republican party. That party has nomina
ted negroes in all certain Republican Counties in the East.
Ques. Do the ! Republicans nominate negroes for
County offices as well as for Congress, Judicial and Legis
lative offices? . , (. . F ;i: ; ;
Ans. Yes. They have named them for County offices
also in all those Counties, and also in other Counties. They
have named negroes for Registers of Deeds, Treasurers,
Coroners, County Commissioners in many Counties of the
East. In fact in all Counties where they are certain to
elect their tickets.
Ques. Why do the negroes claim the office of Register
of Deeds in all fusion arrangements where possible?
Ans. Because that office pays well the duties are easy
f aiid pleasant, and because no white couple can get
married without getting the consent and license of the
nc,ro.
Ques. What parties this year are appealing to the ne
gro vote?
Ans. -The Fusionist and Republican.
Ques. Is there a party in North Carolina which does
not rely on the negro votes?
Ans. Yes, the Democratic party relies entirely on the
votes of white men.
Ques. Is there a party in this State which has not
nominated a single negro?
Ans. Yes. The Democratic party has not nominated
a ungle negro for office in this State.
Ques. Is there any other party which has put no negro
On its ticket?
Ans. No. The Fusionists have negroes on their tick
ets in many Counties. In Halifax the Populist Clerk is on
a ticket with many negroes. In Edgecombe the negroes
have the entire Legislative ticket and give the Populists
seme County officers. In various other Counties.it is the
same. In Wake County they kept the negro off "by prom
ising to give them two places in the Agricultural Depart
ment at $900.00 each a year. And the Fusionists nomi
nated Dan. Young for Clerk and Ham Jones for Sheriff
and each of them has a negro deputy.
Ques.-Who controls Republican Conventions in most
of the Counties of the East?
Ans. The negroes.
Ques. Name some Counties in which the negroes had
a majority of delegates in County Convention?
Ans. There were out of 120 delegates to the recent
Wake County Republican Convention, 85 negro delegates.
Nearly all the delegates to the Convention in Craven,
Edgecombe, Halifax, New Hanover, Posquotank, War
ren, Vance, Northampton, Duplin, Richmond, Robeson,
Columbus, Greene, Pitt, Bertie, Lenoir and many other
Eastern Counties, were negroes.
Ques. What candidate for Judge was nominated by a.
Convention composed entirely of negroes not a white
man in it?
Ans. Chas. A. Cook, Republican nominee for Judge in
the Second District was nominated by a Convention in
which there was not a single white man.
Ques. How many negro voters are there in North
Carolina.
Ans. 1 10,000 legal voters and 10,000 fraudulent voters.
Ques. What party do they vote for?
Ans. Solidly for the Republican party.
Ques. What party does the negro regard as the negro
Party?
Ans. The negro knows the Republican party is the ne
gro party, and he votes that ticket.
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Ans.- Not one in the State.
Ques. How many neerroes now hold office
Srare?
Ans. Nearly a thousand ; and the negro Congressman
White says they have just begun; and that negroes are
being made every day who will hold office in North Caro
Hr.a. Ques. Are there any negro store-keepers and
gnagers in this State? - "
Ans: A negro, Jas. E. Shepherd, of Durham, is a gen
eral store-keeper and guager, and has charge of about one
thiid of the suspended distilleries in the - Fourth District. '
And the negro John T. Howe, Republican member of the
last Legislature ' from New Hanover, and travelling agent
of the negro paper, "The Daily Record," that slandered
the white women, is a store-keeper and guager.
Ques. Who appointed these negroes over white dis
tillers? ,
Ans. Republican Collector Duncan. He tried to put
the negro Howe in charge of Mr. Bradshaw's distillery,
near Wilmington, but Mr. Bradshaw said he was a white
man and would not work under a negro. Lt
Ques. Are there any negro Collectors, of Customs in
Korth Carolina? V
Ans. Yes; the negro John C. Dancy is Collector of
Customs at Wilmington, the largest city in the State, witk
a salary of over $3,000 a year, and has several negro de
puties and clerks in his office.
Ques. Who is John C. -Dancy?
Ans. The negro Collector of Customs at Wilmington,
N. C, who was a delegate from this State to the negro
convention recently held in Rochester, N. Y., which de-
voted much of its time discussing plans to bring about the
repeal of the laws against mixed marriages. Dancy is
now canvassing the State under the auspices of the Re
publican State Committee. The Republican Committee
advertises him as follows: " 1
THE HON. JOHN C. DANCY
will addess the citizens of Raleigh, N. C, at the Court
Hjuse on Friday night, October ith, 1898.
W. S. HYAMS, A. E. HOLTON,
Secretary. Ch'm. Rep. State Committee.
Ques. Are there any negro postmasters in the State;
and if so, how many?
Ans Yes: ther are between twenty and twenty -five
negro postmasters in North Carolina now.
Ques. Who appointed them?
Ans. McKinley, at the request of Senator Pritchard
and negro Congressman White.
Ques. What big towns in the State have negro post
masters? Ans. Wilson, population 6,000; Rocky Mount, popu
lation 4,000; Weldon, Windsor, etc.
Ques. Were there any negroe postmasters appointed
by the Democratic administration? :
Ans. No, not a single one appointed by the Demo
crats. There were one or two hold-overs from Harrison's
last administration.
. Ques. Who chained a white convict and a negro con
vict together last week?
Ans. -Joe Hahn, Radical Sheriff of Craven county
chained two convicts together one a white man and one
a negro and bragged about it, saying that the white man
was the only Democratic inclined Populist in Craven
county.
Ques. Do negro Constables arrest white people?
Ans. Yes; a negro Constable, not less than a month
ago, rode into Warrenton with a white man tied with a
rope. In Wake county Ham Jones has a negro Deputy,
vvho recently served a sub poena on the Mayor of the city.
Ques. Do negro Magistrates try white people? ,
Ans. Yes, frequently; both white men and white ladies..
Recently in Newbern a negro Magistrate arrested,
through a negro constable, vtwo highly respected white
ladies cu groundless charges, and tried them.
Ques. Have the Republicans filled the jury box with
negroes? ,
Ans. Yes; in New Hanover county, at the last court, a
jury was empanneled with eleven negroes and one white
man on it. Often the juries are more than half negroes
in the negro ridden counties of the East, and all juries
there have more or less negroes on them.
Ques. How many members are . there in the State
Senate?
'Ans. Fifty.
Ques. How many men did the fifty members of the
Senate in the Legislature of '97 employ to help and wait
on them?
Ans. One hundred and twenty-three.
Ques. What did A. L. Swinson, .Enrolling Clerk of the
last Legislature, say about the extravagance in that offce?
Ans. He said that he had been forced by the Legisla
ture to employ men at a cost of $1,500 to do work that
THREE MEN could have done in THREE DAYS.
Ques. Have the Fusionists decreased the expenses of
the. State Government?
Ans. No. The expenses of the State Government
during the last three years under the Fusionists exceed
those of the State Government during the last three years
under the Democrats, $299,633.93 about $160,006 a
year.
Ques. What party levied a special tax on beds, garden
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seeds and medicines?
Ans. The Fusionists have the honor of levying special
taxes on these articles.
Ques. How did the Fusionists treat the widows amd
orphans?
Ans. They levied a special inheritance tax upon the
pittance which was left them by their husbands and fathers,
and this special tax in addition to the regular ad valorem
tax. In short, they have doubled taxed the widows and
orphans.
Ques: Who ordained that the bodies of poor people.
without the consent of relatives, might be turned over to $
medical students to be dissected and cut to pieces?
Ans. This horrible law is the work of the Fusionists.
Verily they spare not even the dead.
Ques. What party lowered the tax on billiard tables
and raised the taxes on horses; cattle, hogs and farm im
plements? Ans. The Fusionists.
Ques. What party decided that the farmers falsely
valued their hogs, cattle, horses, etc., for taxes, and gave
the Railroad Commission power to increase the value be
yond what their owner had sworn their true value to be?
Ans. The Fusionists.
Ques. -Did the Fusionists empower the Railroad Com
mission to increase the value of bank stock, solvent credits,
bonds, jewelry, etc?
Ans. No. They only empowered the Commission to
raise the valuation on the property of the farmers.
Ques. What did the Republicans promise about the
price of cotton?
Ans. When McKinley was elected President, the peo
ple were to get 8 cents at least for cotton.
Ques. What are the people getting for their cotton?
Ans. The first year of McKinley prosperity enabled
them to get 6 cents and the second they got 4 1-2 and
4 7-8 cents. What they will get in the next two years no
one can tell.
Ques. What do Republicans say they have put up in
price?
Ans. Bull yearlings. The great demand for beef for our
soldiers has run up the price of beef cattle and the Republi
cans claim credit for that, and when charged with. their
mideeds, cry out that bull yearlings are higher than ever.
They hope to get to the Legislature riding on bull yearlings.
Lesson No. 4.
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Negro Rule,
Question. Are there any ttcgro Jc3ke of the Peace
in this State? , '
Answer. Yes. ' .
Ques. How many?
Ans. About 300.
Ques. When were they appointed or elected?
Ans. All were appointed or elected since the Fusionists
ranie into power in 1895.
Ques. Before 1895, and until the Democrats lost the
State, were there any negro Justices of the Peace?
Ans. None, except a few who were appointed by Re
publican Clerks of the Court to fill vacancies caused by
death or resignation. .
Ques. Are there any negro policemen in the State?
Ans. Yes; in Wilmington there are ten, and in New
bern and Greenville there are others.
Qns. Who appointed them?
Ans The Republican Boards of Aldermen of those
cities.
Ones. When the Democrats were in power, were there
ara negroe policemen? ' ' ' '
Broken Promises.
Question. What party controlled the Legislature of
1897?
Answer. Republican and minority Populists.
Ques. 'What party promised to abolish useless offices,
reduce expenses and cut down salaries to the basis of the
price of farm products?
Ans. The Populist party.
Ques. How many offices have the Fusionists abol
ished? '
Ans.- None, but they have created many new ones.
Ques. What salaries have the Fusionists reduced to
a parity with gold standard prices?
Ans. None. '
Ques. Have the Fusionists reduced expenses?
Ans. rNo. But they have increased the expenses of the
State Government about 100,000 dollars a year, v
Ques. Have the Fusionists reduced any salaries at all?
Ans. Not one. Salaries, wages and mileage of the Pen
itentiary employees and officers alone cost $9,644.68 more
under Jno. R. Smith in 1897 than under A. Leazar in 1896.
Ques. How much more did the last two Fusion Legis
latures cost than the two preceding Democratic Legisla
tures? Ans. $14,032.70.
False Pretenses.
Ques.- What party at the beginning of this campaign
declared that the Democratic party had no purpose to dis
franchise the negro?
Ans.-f The Populist party issued a Hand-Book,edited by
Thompson and Ayer, in which it was stated that the Dem
ocrats had had absolute control of the, State for twenty
three years and had not disfranchised the negro or at
tempted to do so and that it has no purpose to disfranchise
him.
Ques. Who is now charging that the Democrats will
dii franchise the negro? ji
Ans. The Fusion Populists, notably Thompson and
Ayer, are now making this charge, thereby flatly contra
dicting thir own statements made only a few weeks ago.
Ques. What party is denouncing the Australian ballot?
Ans. The Fusion Populists.
Ques. What party put it its platform fci 1894 a plK
lavonng ine vusiranan uuiuit
Ans. The IJbpulist party.
Ques. Who said in the beginning of this campaign that
he would not be drawn into a discusssion of the negro ques
tion.? Ans. Senator Marion Butler.
Ques. What speaker is now devoting most of his time
in discussing and apologizing for negro rule in Uorth
Carolina?
Ans. Senator Marion Butler. No Radical orator in
the State has ever so delighted and tickled the negro as
Senator Butler's speeches are now delighting and tickling
them.
Ques. Which is the only party that ever issued a cam
paign book and omitted to discusss in it any of the princi
ples which that party professed to advocate?
Ans. The Fusion Populists, represented by office-holders
Thompson and Ayer. The Populist Hand-Bopk, is
sued by them this year, neither discusses silver, trust r
monopolies, nor contains the Populist platform, State r
National. ,