North Carolina Newspapers

i ii a - - - ...... r ,. r n r JS 1 . j.wd Negroes in Office Now. Loa orators make themselves ridi- ... ji.rine in their public rU.3 tv,t thP Democratic party Is a J0 -Tr, who make such absurd 6' onnnt Yn-t lntI. ..ments as - " havi much respect for (ront P'i"c fvthin? they may say. ui course . i rot a white man or common err - nse. negro, in an me otate, does not know that the Republican irty is, and has always .been in North r.rolina, the puny i vtc G,.d bv that party in 1896, 110,009 or rSriUi"i,Se wat do White Mean by Fusionists Clamor more TVfmln ru i . . . I f 7 a c T wwniTe supremacy. , f r:,,. ,!,rc The white? nta ! North Carolina are' making a strung effort to keep tne white mn too In North Carolina. Why are they doing that now? Well. was not a single negro in office except in some few eoun 3tat AsJitor Ayw. whose salary, if we ceuat it in cotten, weuld he a third cf a bale of cotton a day, thinks that the preeent salaries are toe lew ana la an interview. last year said that the Ftate pureued a niggardly policy in the payment of its officials. He declared who does coun- Ttre,Uid be mlii.te and elecW. vr . "". mat is made to hem, by their whit m.a V"3' Ypled wlth th assurance that; f the FusionistS carrv tlu n.rt t 1 ature they will fill the departments of .y are they do,nS tate, and the other appoinUve posi- fur years so tfcere w.vud, ui ie gut or tne nartv. with ' " 1U vu, c.ceyi u 5ucb. inere are in Ave counties 141 xasi, wnere me rtepuoncans negro magistrates. Altogether In the fuI1 control, and where their par- State there are nearly 300 negro maeis V'-Was almost exclusively composed of trates. And taking the State at lareV nwgroes and excePt l such cases wnere there are nearly 1.000 negroes holding'. officer hd to deal exclusively with office todav. rvorv nn. c 11 other negroes, as for example in reeard either elected or aDnointed hv n!t , to nesro school, fee, and where some that the salaries were not high enough lican-Fusion votes or officials Nnw Mfarkey had been appointed to office by ' The Governor is this the record. of Fusion. Nearlvr Sldent Harrison. v ,d 6. uoiuing oince at one time. To meet and offset this fearful record of negroism in the East, the Fusionins say the Democrats twenty-three years me legislature or 1S76- 77, ap pointed a few negro magistrates. There is tWs much truth in that story, and no more: The Republican minority in that Legislature appealed to the Demo crats to let them name a few of the magistrates in their counties. In a spirit of magnanimity, this request was granted, and every negro appointed bv this legislature was recommended bv a Republican. When the fact became known that some of the magistrates recommended by the Republicans, were negroes, there was a great outcry throughout th Stt. t., ,..v. i iuw.iaia uenouncea it, said it should teday holding officle in Narth Carolina unt by appointment er election of the of ; ReDUblican-Populist Fusionists. In the ber iM9 were cast by negroes; wh r:t.uv that, in at least thirty I1!- ia the East, the negroes absolute jminate all county and district con- tions; who does net" know that lany f tiie conventions in these eoun J he an overwhelming majority f .pgro delesates; wha ooes not Know, hen you even add the Fusion Populist V. fa the white Republican vote, still le"negro element constitutes at least "bree.fourths of the fusion vote of the Cttf. 1 Kaff let us see iiuw mctuj- ucgiuco ic wlui cisctiii. ana irom that fi-jv iwi nine me Democrats went out power in 1893. the Rennhlinn rv.- . ... -. . . . Republican -x -uyunsi. uoiumoio. j.h mc o ji. . x-rtrg laiature were never emul District they have a negro Con- again allowed to name anv nart of th rresaman, recently re-nominated by the magistrates, and no negro magistiate nsero has Deen nominatea Dy mt i.e- wmiic xegisiature. puJDiica.us iui ouiiiuui. in asii-. . .iui, .vj mcci ims( overwneiming re- cultural Department several negroes are c-uru i a tnousana negro office holders holding important positions, until re- appointed Dy them in two years, they r,tiv. one was chief fertilizer inspec- have scoured the State. enttPn ' nn a tor with white men holding subordin- few affidavits, showing that during the ite positions unaer mm. in wumingiun iwvxitjr-niree years or uemvratif rule, tbere is a negro Collector, of Customs, a '2ozen or fifteen negroes were appoint wlth a salary of $3,001. In the Second ed to various subordinate positions. It nistrh t there are about 25 negro has been found, upon investigation, in poptm-r-ters. In the Revenue Depart- nearly every single instance, that these merit in the Fourth District, one of the lew negroes were appointed in counties best pofc-itiens under tne Collector that unaer Kepuonean control, or by Repub- f stneral store-keeper and guager is nean clerks or office holders. But even hel-i by ' - negro. In Edgecombe, in taking their contention, that they were Halifax, in Vance, m Granville, in Pas- appointed Dy Democrats, the record uii!.iTjk, and a number of other East- would then stand: 1.000 negro office ern counties, negroes have been nom- holders, appointed by fusionists in two in.itpd for the Legislature. In all the 'years, and 12 or 15 negro officers aD- Eastern counties where there is a negro pointed by Democrats in twenrv-t bre majority, a large number or negroes have been nominated for county offi cers. In Craven county there are seven negroes on the county ticket. You find everywhere in the Hast negre consta negro policemen, negro Hiagis- naia ant IS iBI a TTe1fncrnJThe0Dfusion legislature " of ' r" railroad corn- 1895 and the Fusion legislature of 189T rany pays its State couasal J,00t a ana tne Russell administration and year." He continued: now mere are aoout one tnousand negro, office holders in North Carolina. The' white people see this change 'and are not content. They know this thin must be stopped. They know it must be stopped one way er another. I uney know It is better that it be ears. 1 he dozen, all minor. Inslenlfl -.:i ju.-n-es, wniie me tnousana are ' 'on.frressmen, Solicitors, Collectors r customs. Senators, Members of the Legislature, Vlagistrates, Consta blcs, Register of Deeds, Coroners, etc. Ik mm "1 w isigfe i i wfflr-.- A , VN- lk!L-Av"-tv il mm "Why cannot and why da aot they (the people) have the courage and eense to make aueh resrulations as will enable the State to offer and pay' as much for intellect and braia in the service of the State and peo ple as corporations pay for intellect and brain ia their service." And he was one of the men demand !ng a reduction of salaries of public of ficials to keep them ia thorough touch and fvrnpathy with the oppressed masses!" lNCKRAFINa TAX ON FARMERS Not only did the State Auditor clamor stopped by the ballot, peaceably put in tne Dauot Dox by an indignant peo-! pie. They therefore are rallying almost as one man to the flag of the White Man s Party, and white mea all over the State are standing side by side in tnis important and trying hour. It is indeed a trying hour. White men. be brave, be courageous, be true, be active and full of zeal! 1 , 'J-.... it . . . . r i . r i i nUW Uitjy manUiaClUre raKBS for a higher salary, thus proving the A r ! I. n ; insincerity of all his professions for re- M OdIIIUIc 1 i ILK, DUl" trenchment, but he was the leader of - l ,. j the movement that increased the as- ICI a I UUIMI, ses?ment on every horse, mule, cow When Senator Butler spoke at Dana an ether property belonging - to the in Harnett county a few dayB ago, he iarmers or the tate. After there had descended probably to a lower plane hern ?.n increnre In the taxation of rail than any United States Senator ever roada, some of the railroads complained oeiore occupied. i trat it- was excessive. Did the State He wished to show that the Demo-' Auditor eornhnt the nronnsition nrt crats of Harnett county had' appointed prove th.-.t it was o just increase? No a negro overseer of the road over white he sought to reconcile the railroads bv men. During his speech. he showing thn i the Board of Equalization maae tne cnarge an,a tnen cauea out nad discrnr.inated in their favor. Hear is fetoKes Mcrseal present? A strange him? negro man arose ana said, "Yes." unen -'People have been calMnsr the Ponu- Butler said "Stokes, were you ever ap- lists anarchists, and saying that all we poiniea roau overseer dv tne uemo- are after is the fellow with monev cratic magistrates of Neal's Creek Now that's not true, and the result of cownsnip.' ine man answerea, -Yes. the work of the State Equalization men xunci baiu. it mere any wmie Hoard here this week is a proof of it man present who ever worked the road V7ee been after the one-gallus fellow a steer or a few acre? of land, for more tax. and we've got It. We got between one and two mil lion dollars. And to do it we in eomt- raues raisea tne vamation or nis pmn erty 500, or even 1.000. per cent., while colored, and they learned that he was " "" W,B . "w -w,in. V v, w: n j stocks and bonds and railroads had his kin a white Populist, arose and gaid that he had. ! All appeared to work well, and the meeting dispersed. As soon as the peo ple of Neill's Creek township heard of this, they went to see Stokes McNeill Fnsion Lies Revamped ewa and Observer. After spending twm months In de nouncing cartoons that fairly illustrate the present disgraceful administration In North Carolina, the Fusion le,irir have issued a big "suDDlement" full of cartoons to be seat out by the organs of Negro Supremacy. This eifiht page paper is but re-hash of the lies contained in the so-called 'Hand-Book of Facts." Its first and ro vote, and the Fusion party would never have the (host of a oaaace of winning. But It Is useless to follow nn the false siuiemenla which the fusloa poli ticians In their desperation scatter over the State. They bear falsity oa their face and refute thcmselvea. The negro part is the narty that qntalns an overwhelming majority of eg rues, makes them Congressmen, so IcHors. colonels, legislators. m.hool ex miners, directors of white Institutions. and obeys the dictation of the negro. chief feature is the slander upon the,That 18 what the Fuslo D"7 Democratic members of the Legislature of 1878 that was put ia circulation by Dr. Cyrus Thompson in, his harangue which he called his "great speech." In wayne county, Thompson apologized for saying that Mr. I. F. Dortch and Mr. F. M. Aycock had voted for nesrro magistrates, and Mr. M. S. Robins and j others have shown that the statement j is false. And yet it has the first place in this campaign supplement. Next follows a repetition of the charges which have been exposed as false alleging that Democrats put many negroes in office, accompanied by lying affidavits. The editor of this sheet has the effrontery to repeat the charges that Sheriff Tage had a negro deputy, when the Populists of Wake county themselves know that the charge is without foundation, and when It is well known that most of them will support him in 1891 as many of them did in mi. The FuEionists, in thus keeping the negro question to the front as the para mount State issue, are doing exactly what the Democrats want done. It has been easy to refute their trumped up allegations., and in every county this has been fully and promptly done. As the people read these canards they will ask themselves some questions that and no amount of iterated and roller- ted lying changes the facta. The Fusionists recognize that they cannot defend negro government and are driven to the position of trying to show that the Repuican party Is not the negro party. Upon that question issue is Joined. Their position amounts to an sd mis sion that the .white people ought not to vote fdr the negro party. If the peo ple find upon the evldenco that the Democratic party is tho negro party, white men ought not to vote to put it In power. If they ind that the Re publican party, with its allies la tho negro partr, white voters ought not Jury: Take the case aad render your verdict ia accordance with tho vl-deace. will show them that the Democratic , peoI)!e alone. R believes that It w party is the only white man's party in be Dest for the negro that the affat heme or tcese question win not at the speaking at all, and that some negro personated him. Stokes aiso aid he never had been appointed over- raised more than 10 per cent. This doesn't look like we are anarchists. 'NOT ONE TWENTIETH OF THE eer of the road in his life, but that to doea it?" accommodate the people, one part of rhe road was given to the negroes to Ortf-Twn-rIfft Tnlrl work, and the other part to the whites, , 11 W L I VVenX16Xn I Old. as they lived at the opposite end of thei roads. He said no wnite: man ever worked with the negroes. Stokes further said that John W. Pipkin never worked HORRORS OF NEGRO DOMINATION under him in his life, and that lie never knew Pipkin to work the road. HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN THE That he always had been excused, and PAPERS," SAID REV. O. L. STRINO chat it was a common remark that Jchn Pipkin always shirked every pos- FIELD, AT THE KING'S MOUNTAIN 4iH? CUtMcNeill, a white man of the'BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. "IT IS IM nighest character, asserts that he was POSSIBLE TO PRINT THE PICTURE i supervisor of that township at the .irae spoken of by Stokes and that his AS BLACK AS IT REALLY IS." the State ne: 1. If the Democratic party puts the negro in office, as alleged, why do the negroes vote soldily against It? 3. How many negroes held office In NTorth Carolina when the Democrats went out of power on the first of Jan uary. 1895?' The answer is. Not one in any county controlled by Democrats. 4. How many negroes hold office In North Carolina now? The. answer is over 900, every one of whom was elected or appointed by Fusionists. The answer to these questions, even without the positive proof of the fal sity of the statements made by Fusion ists, puts an end to all the bluster ibout the Democrats putting negroes In office. There isn't a five year old boy in North Carolina who does not know that f the Democrats put negroes In office, negroes would not be solidly - arrayed igainst it. And there Is not a boy who loes not know that every Fusion can lidate in the State Is down on his knees, praying in a bondsman's key. to the negro to keep him in office. More than that; there isn't a voter, white or black, who does not know that of the 170.000 Fusion votes in North Carolina, more than 120.000 of the votes were east by negroes, and that in fifty counties In the State the negroes compose a major ity of the Republican conventions and dictate all Fusion nominations. Even in Buncombe county, take out the ne- White Supremacy Means Justice tbthe Negra. The Democratic party demands that the white people shall control this State, and that white men shall make its laws and everywhere In the State administer them. It believes that good government can come from the white IU Irs of State be administered by the whiles. At the same time the pemoeratle party recognizes the fact that it own certain duties to the nesro. It feels eharged with the obligation to see that the ne gro is protected in all of his; rights that his life, liberty and property shall be sacrely guarded. It feels la duty bound to aid the negro In every effort he shall make to advance his moral, intellectual and material wslfare. It recognizes Its duty to Aid him in secur ing educational advantages, and it will give him good schools. It will give him the benefits of Industrial education. It. will restore to him the control of hla schools. It will improve his schools as fast as possible. It will build ap the public Institutions for him and enlarea them when neoessary. It will give him control of the school a for his race, and it will give his race all the protection, aid and friendly enconragensoat pos sible. The Democratic party has a genuine and disinterested desire to nee the negro prosper, and to se aim Im prove nis material ana moral condi tion. But the Democrats nay that he Is aot fitted to administer tht affairs of this State, and that the white pp1e must control. This U what White .Supremacy means. CHALLENGH. The right to challenge in Inrnrporated towns exi?t until the books are closed for registration.! f G mm OF :THt u ilrfinbt BOAR WHI statement ia true, and that no white nan ever worked under Stokes unless ;e was a vomnieer, anti ne ieeis sure j? ji j that jonn fipKin never, am any voiun- , eer work in his life. ; Pipkin had deliberately put up a Job. j ,ome one got a strange negro te pcr j donate . Stokes McNeill and answer to j lis name and' palm off a lie. They; bought this was safe because Nears j . Jreek township lies across Cape Fear j River from Dunn, and at a considera- j A negro dressed in a little brief au- le distance. : thority thinks that he Is master of all Those who know John W. Pipkin were . . . aot surprised that he would do any- e surveys. That iu one reason why :hing mean. In fact if John were to negroes are not fit for official position. io a decent act when a mean oae was They Btrut so highi aH(i mile disdain- Henderson, a member. Is a negro. These .nnnlVvlA Uia -k sti n-V Kytrc wmi iH mo rVAl aft uiiC. u .w.. fuy at any brrierg to the xerciso He broueht 'a suit against the estate of power. A recent example of this GIF Will TE SCHOOL CGMMITTMEII agent, hut the ooannany discharged him. He, however, stands in with the Board of Education, of which B. M. Holden is the chairman, and W. M. of the late J. A. Cameron, of Har- comes to as from Henderson. NEW SLAVERY T!;e t v T a W ay m iiiey. Kaise More; Toe Constitution says that all prop erty shall be taxed according to its value, and the laws heretofore have Co i of the lleneral Assem blies Compared. The Democratic Legislature of -1S91 cost 63,915.01 The Democratic Legislature, of IS cost .1... 65,976.78 riett county. The case was tned at Lillington last December before Judge Robinson and a jury on which there were seven republicans and Populists. Tudge Robinson instructed the Jury, that "If you believe the evidence of John W. Pipkin, who is the only wit less on either side, you will find a verdict for the plaintiff." The defendant had no evidence and the case was argued solely on the ques tion whether John Pipkin could be be ieved, even when ho one denied what 'ie said. His attorneys argued stren uously that he should be believed, that no one had contradicted him and that he could tell the truth. The jury took the case and promptly returned a ver dict against John's estimony, for the defendant. Judge Robinson refused to set aside the verdfet saying, "The jury knows Pinkin better than I do. And they say they don't believe him, .and shall let tere verdict stand." Pip kin appealed end the Supreme court last ipring decided against him. "See PUkin vs. McArton and others, in the .r.iiina- volume of N. C. reports. Pip kin is a leading fusionist and has been their candidate for an important coun ty office he has under his control. After the school committee It is one lecte(j if his Burroughs, Matics or the His that afflict the country as a result of the infamous school law which the Fusion Legislature put upon us, and the direct reaait of the changes which the Legislature made in county management. The cotton factory in the suburbs of Henderson built a nice school house, which it turned over to the county for a public school. The -cnool committee Bee what the Board of Education, doml- had took his daughter there and tried to put her in charge of the school. The school committee objected to that proceeding. The school was a white school, attend ed chiefly by the children of the fac tory operatives. The school committee had on it!R. J. Marston, white man, and A. W. Chand ler, another white man. Now-, let us provided that the citizens in the differ ent communities should fix the value under oath. This is all changed now. Without raising the rate of tax ation, which might cause unfavorable comment, the Fusionists have collected more taxe? by raising the value of the property. This was done by means of a new-fangled affair called the Board of Equalization. Three men in their offices at Raleigh, without having any parti cular Information, and with no personal knowledge, in August, 1S57, ordered that the assessed valuation of all the horses. mules, cattle, sheep and hogs in many of the counties in orth Carolina be raised from ten to sixty per cent, vn i some counties the raise was greater than in others, and in some couivties the raise was confined to horses and mules, and in others to mules ancat tle. It would fee of interest to theread er of this to ask his Register of Deeds what the raise ordered for his fcdunty by this new and remarkable J3oard amounted to. The aggregate f for tne whole State was $1,C,'9.777.40. I 1 There can be but one purposf tnlB matter, and that is to get morf .oney for hungry pie-hunter? withov Uppar ently increasing the rate of tf -110,11- It will be hut a step furthfA to P'f all the valuation of the pror'rty , tax-payers of the state in tAnands r an irresponsible board, a--1 to taKe from the tax -lister all voic iB tne valu" Utitin 4f Vitc nrnrvartv .If ..Couple this with the act that ll?e Legislature of 1S97 mafljf the failure to pay your taxe? an idictf hie offense ana you win see where tlM fiave dan0er These were the last two Demo cratic Legislatures and they cost ........ K $128,994.79 The Fusion Ref orni Legisla ture of 1S95 cost 72,266.74 The Fusion Reform Legisla ture of lS97.eost - 70,76.75 The two l?usion Reform Legis- tures oost $143,027.49 So the two Fusion Reform Legisla tures, Pledged to reduce expenses, cost the ttfx-payers 114,032.70 more than the two preceding Democratic Legislatures These expenditures cover a period of sirst'y days tor each session. So the estra cost of the Fusion Reform Legis- Vature was more tnan a huuuktu L , ttti ,-o nalulated in cot- a a aay. w c . . ton at 4 cents, me usm - tGThe"pay of the members of the Gen eral ISembly is fixed by law. The pay of most of the clerks and doorkeepers and some other officials is also fixed by law These extra expenditures repre sent the- amount paid out to extra offl ffals. It ie the "pie" item in the legis lative bill of fare. TIME to; ACT. Election time is almost here. The white people are thoroughly alive to the sue. The Issue is the most -important . n.4 f-y monv vears. we nave nm i" What ore you doing to help the cause along? ITtSls supreme hour the white people PXtfrCt every man to do his duty, l-et eX.? I- yHMr himself, see all his neighbors and get them all m line for "White Supremacy and the White Metal." LET EVERY ?EJQCRAT SEE THAT HIS NAMH IS ON THE of Henderson, on which were R. J. Marston, a Democrat, and A. W. Chand ler, a white Republican, 'elected Mi?s Burroughs, a very competent white lady, to teach this school. But that did not suit one A. M. Riatics, tne super visor of Public Schools nated by Willis Henderson, the negro. did about that white school and in re- j gard to the white school committeemen ; for that white school! The Fusionists' say that tne negroes ao not mieriere with the white schools. But here is proof to the contrary. Troll, we would like to antav wbat the negro oti the Board of Bdnoatlon had to do with the selection mt a wklie teacher for a white school? But that letter brought result. So on the next day B. H. Held, the chairman of the Board of Education, notified Mr. Chandler that "Miss Matics shall teach" that school and that "the Henderso commit too shall recognize her as the teacher of that school." That was pretty oosttrvo on the part of the negroes la tho way of interfering with a white school for tho white factory children. But even that does aot soom to have had the desired effect, and Mr. Chand ler stood firm as a rock. And so on October 11th. B. M. Holden and Willis Henderson, the neyro, noti fied Mr. Chandler that they had re moved him from the white school com- jid-hls who himself din;?, and that they had elected successor. See the letter helow: And still the Fusionists say that their lovely office-holders of the color?! persuasion do not interfere with the First, on October 10th. the negro had a daughter. Now this man Matics Willis .Henderson, writes toMr. Maiston is a disreputable character, and in fact to tiie effect that the negro Board of en licronntihla tV.nf Hlfhii-ish rnnnine Vrlnnatinn mt tnrt:iv nnrl nmfirmed cFuiuU,H ""r o - - - i-uutui.ui. ...... , ... ef-.Hr.ra for County Clerk on the Republican the election of Miss Matics; and that tcket, the better class of negroes are; it seems clear that you or the public' There is but one way out of the not giving him their support, and he school committee mean to utterly con- woods: it is to undo all the work of the has the favor of only the lower class of temn the decision of the Board of Fusion Legislature, by elating white pegroes. He was a sewing machine Education." j men to office this year. - ' V t A-tPTJ t&sKdfJL i REGISTRATION W r lies. i :