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' Onward, &.nd lpwvi. vol. y. EDENTON, N. C, THUBDAf , PRIL 6, 1900. iT0. 4i. Si' - .. , 7'Ya.- BUTLERANSWERED. Some Df the Senator's Flimsy Argo, nients Expased. ABOUT TKE POLL TAX BUGABOO, And Other Scarecrows Set up By the Opponents of the Amendment and White Supremacy. (Webster's Weekly.) TJie Caucasian, Senator Marion But ler's pper, says it agrees with the "Weekly; in wanting the neg.-o question settled, but does not believe the amendment proposed Ly the Demo cratic party will removo this disturb Ii.a facer fro to. polities. We will li :e what it says by way ol" comment nr.o:i the W;?ky ; position, in cider That W3 may not be accused by any of our Populist readers of stating its arguments unl.uviy: "Webster'-? Weekly, iik a recent edi torial, said: We fire tired of ihc npt'ro issue: we want k settled upon a per manent basis.' The Caucasian cheer fully and heartily endorses that .senti ment. The opportunity to raise the cry of negro to raise race.' prejudice and call die attmi in of the people from great economic issues, has. been a great stumbling block in the path of the State's progress. It ha3 made it possible for politicians of 'the type- of Mr. Simmons, who are without polit ical convictions, or who, if they have any. are against the interests of the masses, to forge to the front on the cry of the negro. It was politicians of this kind who repudiated the advice of Bryan and Chairman Jones in 1896 to unite the silver forces and make a large white man's majority for silver and monopoly. They knew that if the chance to cry negro was removed and the great economic issues that effect the welfare and prosperity of the peo ple were brought "to the front, that they would be relegated to the rear. The choice with them was between sil ver and negro, and they selected ngro ecause it suited their selfish ends best. "We agree with Webster's .Weekly; we want to see this question settled and permanently settled. If the pro posed amendment would do that wo would support it Will it do it? Look at the Louisiana State campaign which opened two weeks ago, where a simi lar amendment ha3 alerady been adopt ed. What is the only campaign cry taised by the machine Democratic lead ers. It Is Nigger! Nigger! Niggsr! The supporters of 'the amendment in Louis iana promised the people that if They weuld adopt this amendment that they would then step ballot box stuffing and enact an honest election law. Did they do it? No. Their last. Legislature made the Law worse and opened new avenues for stealing. The election law is so outrageous that a combination of Democrats, Populists and Republicans has been formed to try to overthrow the machine and enact an honesi elec- ! rule work in ticu law. All these elements have j have not the least doubt m tne worm joined in nominating for Governor ! about it. Donels-oa- Caffrey, Jr., the son of Sen- j All the talk about the 5th section be ator Carfrey. On the stump, each day. : ing knocked out is pure bluff and will he is (ienouncing the election law and j not be heard of after the August elec- appealing to the people to vote for a Legislature to repeal it. Do the Dem ocratic machine politicians attempt to answer this argument? No. Their on ly answer ii- to cry nigger! nig&er! rig er! " So it appears from the expp ience o Louisiana that even if the present .amendment were constitutional that it ! heavy less in their white strongholds would not remove the cry of negro. But t Wilkes, Mitchell. Madison, and other in spite of the experience of Louisiana j counties, where the schoolmasters have and in spite of the many objectionable j not been numerous. And besides they features in the amendent, if we were would lose several uunarwi ne-giu iu- not fully satisfied that section 5 is not nlv unconstitutional, but that the .niv-. t would knoek it out. leaving the i Self-interst alone will keep them from remainder to stand thus disfranchising i meddling with the amendment after it fifty or sixty thousand white voters of i is adopted. North Carolina, we would be msposeu in strain a ooint and support If the last Legislature had wau'!!.i to effectu ally remove the negroes as a factor in politics fusy would have submitted an amendment to prohibit him from hold ing office, which would have bsencon stitutlonal. This they were urged to do by prominent lawyers in their own party, but they refused. "We are satisfied that it was the pur pose of the machine leaders of 'the last Legislature to draft an amendment which would result in disfranchising these illiterate white voters, and in the next issue of the Caucasian we will give some of the reason that impel us to 'believe this." Our readers have in tihe above the worst that 'Mr. Butler can say aginst the amendment. It will be noticed that he has no word of criticism for the conditions that made it possible fnr ihe last camuaien to be fought up- : eration. There are none who support on the negro question and made it ne- j it more (heartily than those Democrats cessary ior tne ijegisiaLuiu w ouumn this amendment. His complaint is that the Democratic paity uses the negro is uue to keep economic question in the background. He complains of effects and ignores the cause. Who is respon sible for the negro being a disturbing factor in North Carolina politics? Who was it that fused with him and made it possible for him to dominate the east ern counties and towns where be out numbers the whites? The Democratic party did not tell the Fusion ists to elect 40 negro mag istrates in New Hanover county, twen ty-six in 'Craven, and a swarm or ne .. J 4 -1 tftr. I VVnOK counties and towns. It did not tell them to gerrymander Greenville so as to make one negro equal to two white voters. The handful of Democrats in jthe Legislatures of 1895 and 1897 pro tested against the legislation that made (this possible and warned the Fusion lists of the coming storm. If their ad vice and protests had been heeded, a campaign on the color line would not have been possible. Why were these things allowed? Simply because the politicians who owed their election to negro votes could not resist the pres sure. The negroes demand d a part of the spoils aod tihe white leaders had to turn over the eastern counties to them. ilr. Butler eaw the danger in 1895 and tried to put a check upon the ne groes, but his proposed system of cumulative voting, designed to protect white minorities against black majori ties, was rejected. He saw the storm in 1898 and announced that the Leg islature would afford protection to the eastern counties by providing a differ ent system of government for them, but it was too late. Now he ridicules through his paper and on the floor of the Senate the statement that' there was negro domination in the eastern counties. In an open letter to the people in the closing days of the cam paign cf 1898 he said that the Bryan Populist would hold the balance of power in 'the Legislature and announc ed as their policy in this matter: 'I take the liberty of stating at this time and in this manner that these men will offer 'bills in the next General As sembly to provide one system of coun ty government for certain counties and another system of county government in the few eastern counties where such a system may be necessary." Why one system of county govern ment for the east and another for the west, if there was no danger of negro domination? Mr. Butler condemns the Democrat ic party for not offering an amend ment denying the negro the right to hold office. That would be constitu tional, he says. Will he not kindly .explain why the Fusion Legislature which had the necessary two-thirds vote to have submitted this proposi tion to the people, did not even con sider it? Did he suggest it to them? The Democratic party proceeds upon the theory that the greater includes the less and that if it cuts off the ne gro from voting, there is not much danger of ihis getting elected to office. We know nothing about-tne condi tions in Louisiana, but respectfully submit that a fusion of gold Demo crats, Populists and Republicans is a delightful combination. What sort of principle is it that makes a Popu list stay outside the Democratic party because there are a few gold Demo crats in the camp and leads him to join hands with gold bolters and Re publicans for office? But .Mr. Butler admits that the con ditions in Louisiana would not justify him in opposing the amendment. He fears the Supreme Ccur will "knock ouit the 5th section of our amend ment. He does not inform us who will raise the question. Will the Pop ulist party? Will the Republican par ty? If all are agreed that the illiterate white voter must be protected, that is the end of the matter. We call attention to the fact that no one has attacked the Ixuisiana consti tution in the courts. If ,it is in conflict with tne Federal Constitution, why don't the Republicans, Populists and Caffrey Democrats attack it instead of wasting their energies on the elec tion law? Is it because they know it is impregnable cr is it for fear of the people? Mr. Butler is welcome to eith er horn of the dilemma. If the grand father section is constitutional in Lou isiana, it is constitutional in North Carolina, If The opponents of th? Democratic party in Louisiana are re strained from monkeying with the white man's vote by fear of incurring his lasting haterd, will not the same North Carolina? We I tinn This T?f.mihli(fins can not afford to attack the amendment after it is adopted. If it stands, it .pr otects all their illiterate white voters as much as it dees the same class of Democrats ami Populists. If the oth section "is knocked out and the rest stands, what do thev gain? Not a single negro, "but a ters who are lineal descendants of the free negroes who voted prior to 1835 Mr. Butler mav see how the ca'jse or J reform will be advanced by keeping 90, i 000 ignerant negro voters on the .poll j books to kill the votes cf an equal num ber of Populists anu Sliver ueraocrais, but ve can't. We think 'the negro question, so far as politics is concerned, will be settled when the ballot is restricted to those who have intelligence enough to use it, and when all parlies are organized on a white i'uasis and refuse to put negroes in office. Cut off the negro's vote4 and politicians will have no interest in stir ring him up against 'his white neigh bors every two years. ; Mr. Butler is not. fair when he charges that the amendment is the work of those who opposed coopera tion, of the silver forces two years ago. The fact is that the original bill was introduced by Hon. F. D. Winston, who was a zealous advocate of co-op- who worked to bring the silver forces together. The Populist members of the Legislature from Mr. Butler's own county voted for it and it was gener ally understood that they voiced his sentiments at the time. Must Stand or Fall as a Whole. The Progressive Farmer, April 3. A con-spondent asks: "Are you still of iii opinion expressed by you last year that if the courts' should de clare section 5 of the grandfather clause of the proposed constitutional amerfdment unconstitutional that the whole amendment would be unvahdat- gro poiicuiCii, u tJu. " ed in other words, that all the sec- 1 1,0ns stand or fall together? In reply, will say that we still hold that opinion. In fact, we are more firmly convinced of its correctness than at the time our editorial an nouncing this view was -written. As every one 'knows if the grandfather clause of the proposed amendment is unconstitutional, it is so because of conflict with the Fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States. That amendment reads as fol lows: "The rlg'hit of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State, on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude." The important question is, there fore, "Does Section 5 of the amend ment, which contains the grandfiathe: clause, deny or abridge the right o; citizens to vote on account of 'race color, or previous condition of servi tude?' " An examination will show conclusively that it does nothing ol the kind. On the contrary, this section Is for the purpose, nt of denying, bun of granting to a certain class of per sons, the right of suffrage denied them by Section 4 Hence, it does not of it self conflict with the fifteenth amend mend. Nor is Section 4 of itself un constitutional. A moment's thought will convince any right thinking man that it is only by considering the, amendment as a whole tbafit can pos sibly be considered in conflict with the fifteenth amendment to our national constitution. Let us repeat for the 3a ke of emphasis: No on will for a moment attempt to maintain that Sec tion 5 or the grandfather clause of it self "denies or abridges" the right of any citizen to vote on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude, or for any other cause. Therefore it, taken alone, cannot obstruct the opera tion of the fifteenth amendment. This being so, the court in considering the constitutionality of the grandfather clause, must consider it .in its 'relation to Section 4 in connection with that clause; that is, as one link of a chain, which, being broken, all falls. In oth er words, it must consider the amend ment as a whole, and if Section 5 be unconstitutional, declare it, as a whole, unconstitutional and void. "But," asks some one, "have you read the arguments of those who 'hold that the sections would not fall to gether? And haven't Senators Allen, Edmunds and Pettigrew declared that the grand father clause may fall with out invalidating' the other sections? And doesn't the principle laid down by the renowned jurist. Judge" Cooley, in his 'Statutes Unconstttuycnat in part' show that such would be the case?" Yes, we have read the speeches re ferred to and the views of all the Sena tors that have given out opinions re garding the amendment. We have also carefully studied Judge Cooley's views on the subject in hand. Excepting ex amples given to illustrate his points, the principal part -of the opinion of Judge Cooley is given in full herewith: "It will sometimes be found that an act of the legislature is opposed in some of its provisions to the Constitution,- while others standing by them selves, would be unobjectionable. So the forms observed in passing it may be sufficient for some of the purposes- sought to b? accomplished by it, but insufficient for osiers. In any such case the portion which conflicts with the Constitution, or in regard to which the necessary conditions have not been observed must be treated as a nullity. Whether the other parts of the statute must also be adjudged-void because of the association must depend upon a consideration' of the object of the law, i and in what manner and to what ex ! ten: the unconstitutional portion affects the remainder. "A statute, it luis been said, is judi cially held to be unconstitutional be cause it is not within 'the sc ope of legis- j lative authority. It may either propose j-to accomplish something prohibited by the Constitution or to accomplish .some j lawful and- even laudable object by means repugnant to the Constitution of i the I'niti'd States or of the State. A statute may contain some such pro- visions, and yet the same act. having ! received the same ya.net ion' of all branches of the legislature, and being i in the form of law, may contain other j useful and salutary provisions not ob ! noxious to any just constitutional ex ception. It would be inconsistent with ; all just principles of constitutional law to adjudge these enactments void be ! cause they are associated in the same 'act, but not. connected with or depend ; ent on others which are uncenstitution ! al. . i "But if its purpose is. to accomplish ! a single object only and some of its : provisions are void, the whole must fall ! unless sufficent remains to effect the object without the aid of the invalid portion.- And if they are so mutually I' connected with the dependent on each I other, as conditions, or compensations i for each other, as to warrant the belief j that the legislature intended them as a I whole, and, if all could no be carried : into effect, the legislature would - not pass the residue independently; then if ! some parts are unconstitutional, all i the provisions which are thus depen j dent, conditional, or connected munt i "fall with them." ! The sum and substance of the argu i ment. as the reader will readily see, is thh 'A section of a statute cannot be j declared unconstitutional without an j nulling the remaining sections, uniess j that section is .independent of, or not i connected in subject matter with, oth er L-Mitions. As, Judge Cooley, as a conclusion of the whole matter, after stating it as a general rule that an un constitutional section may fall leaving constitutional sections standing, gives these notable exceptions: ! Cases where it is evident that, from a contemplation of the statute and the purpose to be accomplished by it, that it would not have been passed at all except as ah entirely and that the be defeated if it shall be held valid as ; to some cases and void as to others.". '. A man with half an eye, it occurs ' to us. can see that this exception am ply covers the case of the proposed amendment. If it be passed by the popular vote, it will be passed as an entirety, and with it as a matter of common knowledge that It could not have been passed without a provision exempting illiterate whites now of age, and that to hold it void and Section 4 valid would "defeat the general pur pose" of the people. So that were Section 5 unconstitu tional all the sections being to quote Judge Cooley, "connected in subject matter, dependent on each other, oper ating together for the same purpose" all would stand or fall together. t The arguments to the contrary by Senators Edmunds, Allen and Petti grew are based upon the mistaken as sumption that the sole purpose of the people, irfaould they adopt the amend ment, would be the establishment of an educational qualification, whereas, their purpose would be to restrict the right of suffrage to -the educated and to such illiterates as they consider by long training, etc., qualified to vote. In- elligently. .ToiJttgte the :msaent equire a simple ijjicationa qijfica- ion and exclude these ill) gates' vould "defeat thei", general purie." The. view of the vtse which wv laare oaintained iu tsfcis-f.-irticle ffsads hfiX. aaition n numr.o court ipoiand egal arguments. '-'From tb& m p ' of .estlmony that railjt be ciid -fj'iis-ain our contention,- we select bygone, hat of a very receiU case rall L jritlx Jhat we are coasiguning. fly;joout .wo months 4gO&a January. --8tih. L900, to be ext $u"dge Khlsij f of che United Stmt's Circuit Oofirt, . con sidering the IH3oiiaiiti-trit It ft the iinth section ot weh exempted A cer tain class fro "th provisions ?3$tne remaining NsectiDib.-( jus4 as Se 5S-n & of the amendment5exempt5 a c $is. of voters, wnites.fix, the pfgvist: of Sections 4) handeO-down s jion: "It is urged .hat grahtibg t un constitutionality Qfsaid niith jUuse yet it. may be'jjecTared v3 .'Vtf)out affecting the valio.fcjy of the; rem l ing clauses of said uctrlf thdsf weso, :hen by declaringid clause vojHthe courts would taftl the act -bytiing .i 4-V. rnrt 1q dating narorinc Vi V f T1 the State whih .tife legisitur f had Specially CA.llV-U-.vTi WAA A't-s? i. W t ff, vu This would t& Jft.dr&ial leJgjfelaM of the most flagf&nt haracte. ifmy opinion the said tuse 9 'iain!tne whole act and Tenors it aij vo- ' This case,aa,$$ne can se in volves the same. Identical pinci as that the court-; woufl, bave Ss'gfor lit in considering th ifidiendencf i sec tions of the proposed amendmen V And the courts wdild b competed ti de clare, as in th$ cas5$?just citQd. t $U by declaring the grandfather clfrus fpld, "the courts would; aake th'actj find ing upon those clas of person -34 th in the State jwhici? ,he legistaittf ;has specially exempted., :;from ii .f divis ions." And tills iqVthe latuaLSf of the court itself, "wjnild b$ "jfcial legislation of the tnst flagEntpaar acter!" In viewvOfhis strong sytftin mistakabe lang'iageof the -.tsmrfH nd the views of -.JitdgsjnCooley, e jtnot doubt that if,tte grkndfatheiclfH? of the proposed atnea-ment isfunrsti tutional, the whofc imendmelit be 3 STATE jffttJLITlCS.f Run of Things asSfen From Otap- ciuivsiy. 1 r Spet-lal Raleig CtWyesp 3irBce All the new Vh,ih come? iere tends to confirai tS!&ta Lemest otate Chairman &macii&that7.'tKj RlbU- can leaders' in. .cstea ..cStiew favor the -con-ti ;rtjcn tl aaenj!ent.. There are likfJv te 1:11 etstirf de- vol.nnmontc ' vn& nrffV -it h ts TriAl': ?l!Ch will surprise tKe.'Wfctem Bjfp'uans who ai3 now WHlMlng in echgast ing of the sbliSflJsf- of -tillr'arty against the ainStfegent. ll W$ It is really CN'Hfmuhdngo id of ; I. TO. Jl - t V 1 11 LUG f VI v.Tte. This. emxsr-iif was disoyssfed a j lew oavs or pways-r.ours ;arco tao iezisiaxure ivs. a-eiu1 leu. kii ?xm iu some way escaeitftite legal seye.rn ed on it. But "of Soti:rsej??nctg is more simple-t Him for the iljegiijure, wiif!ii 'ii .nitfd.s .u. 77tie, cu.iBtriie' out the matter f Ue riijprjty qt the. gis-; tered l ii e ma Ie.mocra 1 liepublicains th "JugU thevoulf m?e i'js .wteftu!. the negroes reMsterv'heavifst .anhen no go to the kJlbj; hey5gavefjfout gsTJiKii at the same tine .that tree neSBws cared nothing . ooLiotin thiCgpear. Democrats havt ;sarirfd at this "pii of .the Republicans . ' yfe ' disbveripfejjthe latter made a"ctMinfct;for a rjbod jl of their 'beihavlor.A of theni oke of the matter vptli "Bongre?mai. Fin ney bcattod -.-rf fs ""'"lnd." The Reptfoli an? K: con'tihue it'ir bushwhaclcing A, giit de4' ,df ii done by revehin tjlrs, b'!aalr"o mnch in eviderv1 ''-onlyfet Rjbl' can, but at PopJtionventjonsgrte Republican "s't JL goi6 intf tfie41 higihways and bTand iaik tiJ in- uividuats, i t Secretary of -S-- asked- the diir-E r I was a candii'd'ateftfr fiis1 nditina i ticn. for kvi nNu.e replied-. 5,'? am f'not a candidate ' Ajfen aikedi f ' he j dad not believe 'theman'ation -vralj' ; be tendered hiriMf"f5p.ly w$.s: "ave j no id,e)i -Jtiz-.l 'it Vilt- Tf&n qtteKion I No. 3 was- pu ' "$uippo-the i nomination is tVnrkfy you what ill you do?" WitE 4 Areata lau&CDr. Thompson repl.tsd - "jfea m iiot ccfifc.d ering it serltfusl'-eiSp-n t4;-ay v$?t t would do." , It'wrjbe rlmeibgred that the d'ly a3c-r tlpj eorsferenst' " of Republicans aaril PdplHi?ts')-iwas teld here, two weebSLgo. -n interview -4it.h a Papulist wa&, reported to the fet that .while Dr. -ThoaapBon F-had een bluer" iban licdiO h wjas niride to-feel quite in the hur fox takiriathe om-inatic-n by the rt.wnts. whitfa the -fitn- ful brougbt in.(,TaieT aref(oroe.le pu'bMcans who f.wor.ingnytMtff on earth which t2i6 Paajiksts ' wsftit ?Sne. There are somi- wiw ; violerifly appose the PopCi:ats--a dhance attae givin:; b& lion's sbare, the-y &y And'-as ot of their State miiwl'ttiemein irsely,ut it, "The Repubiians: are rfot as in; any questions thfe "Jvear. Wbatevet-'-w say goes. s:. Democratic tai' headattar'ters. 'are opened at the GarroJSpn Hotl; ijahe sjme roams ' whl ftjt -Tijere oqupiej "n 1898. Great .wor-, !v4a done Ihere-ieii and it will be A-cnf again "'Bhls iyjsai . Tbere has beens's;afiy work; alftbs year; It is a tiffl'"Jw,ien ' ceasele ac tivity is a u!"?.' r Dr. John Milton- "Worth, ,fvbo jras elected, State treatmter on )the tjftet with Vance ia. 187ffnd who! servf! 8 years died today af'JjjShboro.lllis Ijcie. He was ope vt tfag a'blesit ;freaJ9U-ers the State has erer bad, and! the ypu lar title of "HUsat John? Woi," was most worfhH e-sfcoWe? it The twentieitih Vn .milfor VIOO. was charitfTied 'by te. St.3te'4o-ds it t belag the Dteksqm, t. RocklchafflCC: Congressman WttEfs d-iveru.pt "a mare's nest wia lS?g?s naineMSthat Avgust nexv tne peo in one part of till', franchise aeml- ! with j-an overw ment it provide fjg"rat .ficatfon the j For llirty years we same by a majf ttvote ani ftp .an- ! wth-aii-s problem. W other bv a matorlf ioi theiTe.s&fered I witn 4t, for fear we -os tv t'ter in3ar Jrjl'reiore givp'jp no t 'Hip .ie-h.tii:t f -t,-f rr ;7T )l f onion ;i klbe uas.ranisea-me or ne u ,j t . . -nn: -Ji-... , Lmore flcent (lavs named hia n -.utjr .l Mv...-.' .1 '.riw. r..w inm j i- i.ii i - - ,i.n.n Triiiit 'rirtfek Caucasjan, .implying that he art The;: State conivenMon- ,miev, next WedfejSdiay, -ait -the Academy ? Musi'c. Tihere are 960 delegates, and' .y;ls ex pocted that the percentage c 'ttend ince of these- will 'be as liargyij was a-verifenowli. Next year R'ilft will havefg. spaaious aduitorium a meet ing place not only for convennts, but jor alu other large asseni'blagw;- The $10,QC) requ'ired 'has been suir.iei;bd. TAtf;t!ate (board of elections:;! meets herein the 12th instamt. It fi'.'l then eleet-.;the county boards. Eac -f the la'btetf is 'to have three memiheji There ire ajRepufbliioaia and a Ppiftlfjst on the State board. These "fus-r; and stfbrHiftted a list of persons dared to be appointed, ' one on eacihf?"Ou:nty bciarj all those, thus recomim ed be ing ioSj course either -Repub ifi or Populists. ''. . ; Thre is a federal offteiaj at Ral eigh 1 svhoas pol itii oal ideas ah. most uhiiqufe. He is a voter of hi city Denn'oratic ticket, the Papulki winty tlckeS, tbe fusion Sta.te .ticket id the Rpuilican district and natio ij tick ets, iyear after year he hias 3ng this. Aitipharleston' to-day two ft tstlors wer9?arguedi 'before Judge Sirt3Qton of the i6 "S. Circuit Court; on f'.jether the 0&rporatiion comm'ission cj. . Nortlh Oarplina can investigiite to i pertain whether railway . property inder valu4d; the other whether c Judge Sh'tpth(&rd, the standing maji- can forcejjeorporations to produ -. : their book etc., and other testing a' rfct their SOME POINTS Strongly Set Forth By a ipAintnent naucator. . 1 . . to Democratic Promrt, - MiButler says the Demiocrl prom ised!6ot to curtail the suffrj;' 1 and quoltef Chairman Simimons ajfj s others to thlit effect. So did Mr. Linrlh and the IjteptfbMcan party dsclarej ii 1 1860 that Slavery was not to ibe jji b'aohed, shouiaLincoln be elected. . Bufe? when in the midst of ;j(10cdy warr. Li'nooln decided that f;. cause of itliall must be remioived, hi f j d not hesifie to do violence to his- if id and thatf bis party in conventio j-issem-blediConditions had .changed. i f at the openfeg cif the campaign tw;- years ago,:iho one conteoosplated- a a-mnd-meniti1to the constitution; ibU f ivs the camHai'gn progressed it becan V" more and -laore clear that the old SHgi; must do simethi'njg -whii-cih would prjixt the reoeffition of sucii condiitions'" were reve&d. The campaign beea4;; rev olutBn. Thousands of men brf party lines because the question at J.e was metal," not political although i 4ompa miedJby political results. Wtsfi the nigh-mure was over, DemociV' Re "puiblftjan. and pcpuilist wifio- h ivotd for ihite supremacy, and tu$t who had fypt, served notice on th-f pmc crati!that something must .be;J?aie to preve'nt the 1 epstition of the 'jtjering of-trfe" white pe'ople in EafteiNorth Carolkia. The good cf the Stele de manded 'the Constjitutional .ir7mehd- msEitj-bthe people demanded tit? jnd in pie swill imny it whelming "xatJ,l-ijaiion have Wrestled e must;fG done ome narrow as a people. iiile the proolem.T-emains we caimot develop the other iea of government, it is th sword'ey. Damo cles .acgfcg over every movnt of eeonritniCs, industry and poli'l life in th. State .and the South, rjjfle it remits neither the 'Rsp'U-blifs nor the Democrats are Mkely evefife) pro- duce la great political leader. -He Re publicans have produced narie"M thir ty, yeiyrs in the South and tiu.-rXtemo- f oetter oniyjecause ! the tsartv lacked leaders. fr.ai the! ; e w" j i - - Trtjf. Tl I E RKPU ii LICA X S SUDDf , AND ir . TH WHITE MAN. i& anid g'trtler shod crccodi'.e tels. over tMs part ip'f their if ore"oodf;. One woulShJftiink to hear them tSik that 'the .Republican .party is the.'; 'Special rTZii V-T . ; Tnan.JThis is so sudden! That, party t whitevman m 1866-1876, during.! part of -which tume fuhv forty thor-fraiiid cf mHt initelttinarent white m!fl-! n tn '.aeter-Ahv'hile the rece n tly entire ma t ed sliyes", armed wiibh the balij.rush ed tbe-j.SSaite head-long to ruirj-ijiad as was tie war cf '&l-'65, it wasitjbhdng 'besideirthe devastation and ruf jUf the years; jrcrn. '67-'72. For four yi:& the Northftried to comquer us anik.itylast succer.ed in overvvhelmii'n'g-utB. bv lorce, but .aid not crusb OUR S1TORTT It waa brave enemy thit 'ffjteh,t in the oprii, and it honored bravi.,. But when the war had ended bIod':i pub lican: partisanship, led by car; 4; bag gers of the Tourgee stripe, in jftfer to break the spirit of brave men, disfran chised thousands of white nisi; and turned,'over the State of our fjfji&rs to be robbed and rained. Was tW pubHcafi then the party of tri(; . white man?'! Js-it the friend of thf'i white man in.Hhe South to-day? No,.t cares nothingfor the white man otjkr the State. is only intent on get i;g of ficfe for, the few wbo live" on th(olia tion ofthe State. Butler, wbf'-Mti (his the -cd for the white man how, despairing, ;' again being atble to win by dividing t;-'" white -1 vote, chines out ior tne suprecy or the nesfo. race. : , IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTf HAD - LISTENED TO REASOf" : If I ljd had the ear of the ff. lead ers of he Republican party -dictate itattpolicy I should have :Vised it to k9p hands off in this maVi, The wihite men of the State are djffem;u ed by he help of Gcd. to sejlr thi3 questioa; They want to be fi2e In th nature of things theretn be no greqst Democratic or great jiubli can leaders or promulgation prin ciples siiong as the menaca offt race Questlof hangs over us. j ,S " We dfiinot go before our'pHj and discualihe principles of gov, ment as the3frise- We dare notJ ivide. When the Republican partyfgreafc party 4 it is) is so fortunate r is "to Lwin flection, in the puth.tlj? iliaaa- TheRepirblicans exihbit greinxie ty abput the possibilities of ;isfra.n-chis-irjLg siome white men. J;haru fgreax.ssx lnxeingience ana lartuot, cnar- ter tnat overtakes it is no less than that which befalls the State. There fore, I -would have advised the leaders of the party not to advocate a con tinuance of negro illiterate suffrage, but holding aloof to have been ready to welcome those voters dn the State who believe in Republican principles find would be attached to that party if it would stand for the supremacy of Anglo-Saxony civilization. A party with 120,000 negro voters and thirty thousand white voters, is constrained ,to enact, legislation demanded by its majority. In the legislation of -1897 negroes dictated to Jthe Republican and Populist party arid they (or it) dared not refuse. The negroes held the bal ance of power in the Legislature and although there were only eight or ten of them they soon made it known that they must be consulted. This year presented a great opportunity to the Republicans. They had been saying that they were as much opposed as tho Democrats to negro rule and that the Democratic was the real negro party. The party had everything to gain and nothing to lose by joining the Demo crats for the amendment, and making their fight on national line3, where they have strength as they have abso lutely none (in view of their record) on State issues. "HEART FOR IT; BTTT STOMACH AGAINST IT." ' Many Republicans will vote for the amendment for reasons herein set forth. Others will vote in favor of tho law, but are opposed to the bill." If it had been made different; if it included all the negroes.in tha United States, if it were this way or that way, they would vote for it. In 1881 Governor Vance humorously indi cated the situation of such people when he told the committee that wait ed on him 'in regard to the prohibition of the liquor traffic, that his "heart was for it, but his stomach was against it;" so with these Republicans, their hearts are for it, but their stomachs are against it. Like the dog returns to his vomit and the sow to her wal low, so they fain would keep the stench of negro suffrage in Southern politics, because they do not hope for promotion from white, men. The lead ers know full well that if their party should bave an accession of respecta ble white members would soon be "statesmen without their jobs." THE PITIABLE CONDITION OF THE NEGRO A CAT'S PAW. 1 pity the negro from the bottom o my heart. He has been made a cat's paw and a tool by those who souglht their own selfish purposes, and not tha negro's good. There was never a kindlier relation than that, which ex isted between the old negro and hi3 master. It amounted to affection. Politics ended it all at one stroke. Instead of affection . it engendered hatred. The Republican politicians fearing that the master would have un due influence made it his business to foment some fad ramharahali nutual distrust especially in politics. The negro goes to the white Democrat for aid and advice every day in the year except election day on that day ,you can't get in forty feet of him. His case ! is pitable indeed. If he had refused 1 Rennblican advice and divided his vote ! ne would have ceased to be a menace and would possibly have avoided the race antipathy. At least he would have avoided political antipathy which joined to race antagonism is one of the strongest repellent forces in the world. The negro can never rule the Anglo Saxon all the laws and all the bay onets In the world can't secure for him this power. But for the teachings cf such men as Pritchard and Butler he would have learned this long ago, as he nas in other States and ,1 - i. would have : ixasi;u lu suite w uu l LOSS OF POLL TAX AMENDMENT. BY THE Both Senator Pritchard and Senatot Butler, as well as chairman Holtou seem to think that there- would ba great loss of revenue from the failure of the disfranchised negroes to pa"y their poll tax. Let It be said that W9 lose this poll tax anually, in one cf the largest counties in the State in 1896 fully 500 negroes failed to pay 1 Poll tax. This was nearly half of those ; subject to zt tax. In that c ounty v.i -ufl i , -n, xv. 4. 4 1 . . J . ,, tne scnooi money; yet ail 01 tnem dodged paying their pittance. Thesa are 'the voters who will be retired by the amendment. Most of the poll tax delinquents in the State are negroe3. Under the last election law they came up to the polls from the ends of ths earth and tendered their- votes, yet were listed for taxation nowhere. The better class of colored men will con tinue to pay their poll tax because they have acquired some property and intelligence, and they will generally yote. As to the white poll tax, why the white men will vote if he cares to. All those over thirteen now will vota whether they can read and write cr not, and it will be a great incentive to the 13 year old boy to learn to read and write if be would vot4 Besides, the Democratic party is pledged td Anglo-Saxon voting and white men need not fear. Again the Democratic party is pledged to longer school terms, and in view of the rawdarahrhr "tho school appropriation last year $100,000. I have been asked to give my views of the Constitutional Amendment from an educational foint of view. It will be seen' that I lay no great stress on that view. Incidentally, the cause of edu cation will be greatly benefitted and that is by no means a result to be de spised; but high over all, abovo educa tional questions, above all questions cf political issue, is the larger question cf the survival of the 'fittest; and no real friend of the Anglo-axon or of the African, unless be does so unadvisedly and mistakenly, will ask the negro to stand on the track in front of the mer ciless engine of civiliz?tion. When some one asked Stevenson wfeat would hap petf if a cow got before his locomotive, he replied: "I pity the coo." So I have rfcthing but pity and superlative com miseration for the misled negro; but for him who, for his own selflsb pur poses, put him in the place of peril there should be nothing but the con demnation of an unforgiving people. J. ALLEN KQLT. Oakridge, N. C. D'S GREIT SHOW. A Free Street Fair to Be Given Alay 14th to 19th. REPRODUCTION OF DEWEY ARCH. Fifteen Bands of Music A Floral Pa radeA Wonderful . Show flany Premiums Mimic Mardi Qras Thousands of Visit ors riany Other Attractions. During the week, from Monday, May 14th, to Saturday, May .t&tir, Richmond, Virginia, -will take on an entire new dress. Broad street, 118 feet wide, is to . be transformed into a World's Fair of attractions, consisting of manufactur iers of tobacco, booths for the mer chants' exhibits, some of the bootlhs to be built of stone. These will occupy two miles of streets at both ends, for6 which contracts have been let to erect magnificent arches, modeled after the Dewey arch in New York. These will be built of artificial stone, and will give to thousands of people in the South the first idea of what the Dewey arch Is like. The magnitude of this FreeStreet Fair, undertaken by the combined Bus iness Associations of Richmond, can be estimated when it is known that they are to build an independent electric light plant to supply the thousands of lights necessary to make the night as bright as day. Fifteen bands, includ-' Ing the Stonewall Band of Staunton, one of Jthe most famous in the South, and others from different cities oft North asd South Carolina., who will! play continuously throughout the day,; which will u.ake It one of the grand-i est collection of bands ever assembled, in this section of the country. The Floral Parade has been taken ini hand by the leading society ladies of! Richmond, whose magnificent carriages; and horses will make one continuous parade of flowers, wbiea will take more than one hour to pass a given point. Direct from Brooklyn N. Y., will come the great Hagenbeck Animal Show, combined with the Streets of Cairo, German Village, and other ori ental features, to make this Free Street Fair worth coming 'hundreds of miles to see. Every railroad will give special rates to Richmond duTing t3his Carnival Week, and at committee headquarters board can be obtained for as little as $1.00 per day, including lodging. Besides the Free Street Fair, the Floral Carnival, the Brass Band Carni val, and the Hagenbeck Animal SIhow, the Streets of Cairo, the German Vil lage, the Crystal Maze, Yateh Riding on Land, all of which will 'be crowded into Carnival Week. The Business Men's Association have arranged for Mardi Gras night, for wihicn artists from New Orleans are now building ten floats, symbolical of some historical subject, and in -which all the fraternal organizations, consisting of the Elks, Odd Fellows, Knights cf Pythias, Royat Arcanums, Heptasophs, (Red Men, Woodmen of the World and many oth-! ers, are preparing floats, designed td Illustrate the objects of the various or ders. Also thousands of Richmond's citizens will parade en masque, mi gorgeous fireworks and tihe throwing of paper Confetti. From reports this fair, will be as elaborate as was that in New' Orleans. It is expected that some five tib-otis- and militiamen from the So-nth will be present 'to help partioipcrlte if the mamy parodies. A speioiial feiaftuire of tfoa week lis to be a dinner pvm to eorme of the business men of Richmond by tfhie managers of the trtai'taied eciimQl tsfhow, at which. iHbese mea wS.ll strt down to dine with -the traimekf wiLd anlmala eiitfcimg .betiween eacth man. Nearly, five Shuarlrcd' ipremiinims, to be given aiwiaty on dafreneinit idays of cani--val week, iinJcil'tiidi!'Pig pftaxvos, cIcttLMng, fkrar ,and even $10.00 goM pieces, for all of wMdh every'body in Boy section of tlbe country mln conitffTt. T(he con tests are very novel, and a premium list wiM be seirlt 'by meal ifree, if you wiriite a pofctal to tihe KtyJh?mDn' Car nival .Association, Richmond, Virgin ia. Paieparroitfons (!wre been .nraide to en tertain three hundred thousand visi tors. Notrs. Ha.1 dozen, fone'igweT recently ap peared before Judge Lent, of West Chester, N. Y., ibefi'Eg aippWcamits' for na turalization papers. His Fowor look ed tthem ovwir amid pToceeded' to leotura tJhem soundly on .tfhetir dCcity appear firace. "01etanlint?8 is one of tihe mosif imiporuainit quaiMficaticBis of American citizenEfhiip," eM the Judge, "amid 1 advise you to analce generous and' dailj use of soap alid water." An aieetrlen town 18 gthttflimg pkamt ha been installed' at Hawep, Yortedhire, Dngl'aintd. It was touiUt on a ctapffltal ol $3,500. There are two large . gehera tjors, in wMch the gas i3 wasfined by passnng ttthrotnglh the waiter. Thie (ho-Her (has a capacity of 1,000 cubic feet. AJbottf a mile of it3he maSns have thus faf been laikL One EnigKisih marquds bias to work for ' hlLs living. The Miairqu.is of Norman by, wfto was a clergyman -When ihe suc ceedeid Do tihe title ten years ago, and . is .now a canon' cif VTlTii5sor, foumtl hla esftalLie's t'savtly encBCTitbereld. He there-,; upon turxuad ecboolrui.'jS't'eT 'end opened t a prepairaiiory ecSuorfl for the son of nio.rj-e'in'en cird gfnltleanen tlhdt haa , In Sam Francisco the brard. of health Suas c!eateld the pasLtion of . aesdaiaiut dlty phyfiicSiaji, wiS'Jh a ealairy 'of $1C0 a imonth, and .put dt in .tSie ih&adjs of Dr. Beatmice Hink3e.' Her duties will b the care of eic-k worr.-tn actj fiiildTeh In tbe puiblle dnOjitultu'o.i,s. Temiparance :is mak'ij hftjilway in ? Mumiich lanld tihe Gerrriiin MciJf.'ial TotaJ ; Abatinence Union afcsrcwns that here- after at (iCie etutdenitg' kpLp "onQy, a mod'erLaite ue of beer wall be allowed" . Dr. Bunge aotvd Dr. Kriupelia eare ltdera.ia Si nwr " HOI
Eastern Courier (Edenton, N.C.)
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