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THE SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1898. TI'HAT BLACK RADICALISM HAS COST TAX-PAYERS. The Messenger last week had some thing to say of heavy, oppressive taxes and the needless high expenditures in municipal, state, and federal govern ments. The rigid economy and high sense of responsibility of the fathers prior to the war have taken wings The public expenses are like the hotel charges. Before the great war the finest hotels in the great cities charged $2 a day. The war got the prices up and they have never come down. The charges are from $3 to perhaps $10 a day. The expenditures of governments of all kinds have increased at a much more rapid rate than the population has increased. The war sent up the cost of government, and for thirty-odd years it has rapidly multiplied and against all reason, all justice, all necessity. While the population of our country has increased 2 times, the public expenditures of the federal gov ernment have increased about seven times, and with a steady upward ten dency. The republicans are mainly responsible for the robbery and op pression of the people. It is very strange that the tax-payers give so lit tle attention to expenditures of offi cials and the great sums taken from them each year unnecessarily, unwise ly unjustly and even unconstitution ally. Let us come to North Carolina. The public expenses of the penitentiary, in which so many of Russell's "savages" are entertained at the public expense, have been higher latterly, under the Russell misrule than under the demo crats. The statement is this as pub lished in the Raleigh News-Observer of last Saturday: UNDER DEMOCRATS. Wages and Salaries $48,704.58 Mileage and per diem 2,435.69 Total $51,140.27 UNDER FUSION. Wages and salaries $57,619.95 Mileage and per diem 3,165.00 Total $60,784.95 Difference in favor of democrats in two items of expense $9,644.68 or 482 bales of cotton at McKinley gold standard prices. This reveals to the public why the fellows in charge did not wish to show the books and let the tax payers and honest people know what was going on under the ruinious rule of rabid Russell and his gang. The expenditures in the legislature show how black radicalism burden and rob the patient, oppressed toilers and tax-payers. Remember that the popu list tax-payer or the republican tax payer, of what ever race or color, must bear his part of the unnecessary, rav . enous increase. Here are the figures: The following figures will show the -cost between the state administration under democratic rule and the extrava gance that prevails when the republi cans are in control. COST OF LEGISLATURE. 1891 Democratic rule $63,018.01 1893 Democratic rule 65,976.78 Two dem legislatures $128,994.79 1895 Fusion rule 72,226.74 1897 Fusion rule 70,760.75 Two Fusion legislatures $153,027.48 The two session of the fusion legis lature cost $4,032.70 more than the two preceeding democratic sessions. As with the penitentiary and the leg islative branch of the state government so with other departments, there is needless increase of expenditures and a consequent addition to the tax-payer's burdens. The more money squan dered and wrested from the submis sive tax-payer, the less money he has for himself and family, the fewer lux uries or necessaries of life, and the less for indulgence in pleasure, holi days, jaunts, etc. COST OF STATE GOVERNMENT. 1891 Democratic rule $1,179,794.88 1S93 Democratic rule 1,319,648.10 Two yeara dem rule $2,499,444.98 1895 Fusion rule $1,349,335.65 1897 Fusion rule 1,364,048.29 Two years Fusion rule. . $2,713,3S3.94 The two years of republican rule cost the tax payers $213,938.96 more than the last two years of democratic rule. Tax-payers ought to look at these figures for they mean much to him. In ten years, if by the curse of heaven black radicalism should reign in sin and madness and folly and abuse for ten years instead of two years, then the increase at the ratio of the above two years would aggregate $1,000, 026.00 and this huge sum would come out of the hard earnings of the bread winners in the race for life. Ten ses sions of fusion legislatures would heep up burdens amounting to more than $140,000 above what democratic ses sions cost Think on these things. It is not a hard question to answer which of these parties it is safer to en trust with the public affairs of North Carolina. Can you hesitate to choose as to which has proved by actions to be safer, better, more trustworthy? Will you hesitate for a moment as be tween the White Man's party and flag rant ruinous black radicalism? If you make your bed hard so you must lie. CAMPAIGN IIAPfJI3C;S At Princeton, Johnston county, the populist remnant held a "convention" and counted exactly three noses. Mr. Nigger presided "in course." Mr. C. V. Byrd, of Smithfield, de clines the republican nomination for register of deeds, announcing in the excellent Smithfield Weekly and say ing "I am a white man in favor of white supremacy opposed to negro rule and intend to vote accordingly." Cy Thompson is "petering out" fast. At Kinston his harangue fell dull and flat, and he seemed only to arouse ne grodum. Fine work that for a fellow of gifts. Dabb, the populist nominee of free bibulous proclivities, speaks very freely of the gang in the Raleigh capitol. He is reported in the News-Observer as saying off-hand and with exceeding freedom of speech: "When the man in the moon passes over North Carolina, he has to hold his nose, and if the Blue Ridge Moun tains were converted into ipecac, and poured into the mouth of hell, it could not possibly vomit forth such a lot of low-down damnable scoundrels as are now in the capitol." Dan Russell is cooking over a slow fire because of his unpardonable offence in setting free the rascally seducer Reuben Davis. Dan deserves it all, but he has a very tough hide and can stand a good deal of torturing. The "Hal Liar" black radical "Hand Book" states that the democrats on the board of education in Warren county voted last year for a nigger in prefer ence to Rev. T. J. Taylor and is only another lie freshly told. The Warrenton Record denies the charge. Cy Thompson will become more dis creet as the days go by, especially if Charles Aycock is to meet him often on the stump. He is now in an apol ogetic vein, and learning to be wise. The News Observer reports this: "When Mr. Aycock drew the record and proved that in Dr. Thompson's published speech he had falsely charg ed Colonel I. F. Dortch with having voted for negro magistrates in 1877, the doctor apologized in his speech to Colonel Dortch for having said it, and also for having charged the late F. M. Aycock with having voted for them." In Cy Thompson's campaigning in 1898, Concord and Hood's Swamp proved to be his First and Second Ma nassas. One or two more such defeats and there will not be enough of Cy left to furnish solemnity at a funeral. Down in old historic Halifax the white folks are greatly aroused and great unity of purpose prevails. They are resolved to their part as white men to save North Carolina from further vandalism and negro bossing. Our dear old friend Captain Edward A Thorne, (he got his title in the war) who was a populist candidate for congress and a Methodist steward of more than forty years, an University of North Carolina man, of the best families of Halifax, came back to the old party and made a patriotic speech worthy of him self. The News-Observers report says: "Captain E. A. Thorne who has acted with the populists, made a speech in which he declared that he had held no position which he did not think was for the best interest of the people; but now he sees no hope for North Carolina, ex cept in and through the democratic party. He called upon all men with one drop of Anglo-Saxon blood in them to rally around the democratic stand ard. The declaration was made in the convention that most of the populist in the western part of the county are coming back." Holton, black republican chairman state executive committee gives out now that white rads have now all the nig gers we want in office. He hears the awful mutterings of an outraged peo ple. In Wake the white-skins of the black radical gang dropped every ne gro and nominated only white skins for office. It is an anti-nigger ticket clean through. Significant. Claud Bernard, a white skin fellow who runs with the black radical ma chine tells the niggers that they "must fuse with the populists until they get an election law" suited to the peculiar wants of the conspiring gang, and "then the populist be d d." This is the account of the News-Observer that gives a cartoon of this amalgamation and plot. Rev. Dr. R. F. Sample in the Presby terian (Northern Journal) pays a dis tinguished divine of our city a fine compliment in the following short par agraph: "The Rev. Peyton H. Hoge occupied the pulpit of the Fifth Avenue church last Sabbath, preaching with great ability and genuine eloquence, suggest ing the remark that America can fur nish as great preachers as the capital cities of the old world." POLITICAL SNAP SHOTS. It is but thirty-seven days to the election. Bestir yourselves ye white men of North Carolina and redeem and disenthrall your race from the bondage of Africa. So many men are publishing letters of withdrawal from fusion and inde pendent populism and identifying themselves openly and squarely with the White Man's party, that to publish all would indeed be a burden upon the columns of a daily. It is very evident that many a white man in other par ties are coming up to the salvation of the good old state from negro rule, the disgrace of the age. A negro in office in an enlightened state ought to be as infrequent as ne gro (Capacity for such office. The crime of the age is the infamous attempt of trading white republicans and a small populist contingent to put the 700,000 blacks over 1,100,000 whites. The black "dying swan" is making a last effort and it is as doleful and false. The note squeeks mightily. It is that the white man's party will take away the vote from the niggers, and after thirty-odd years voting, the lat ter continue so ignorant that they be lieve the lie and do not know that the constitution gives them the right to vote and it must be changed by regu lar process to cause any change. An inspection of exchanges daily in this state leads to the conclusion that the democrats are putting up this year good and true men for the legis lature. That gives great satisfaction and promises well for results in Nov ember. The great end to be sought in the campaign of 1898, is to lift the yoke of bondage from the necks of the white people and rid the state of negro rule, an unmixed curse and disgrace. The way out of the wilderness of sin, ruin, oppression is by and through a Wrhite Man's legislature. Let your best licks be made to elect a legisla ture favorable to honest government by white men, and to turn out Sambo and Pomp and Jim forever. Let there be no pie spread at the White Man's party table when the black gang are expelled. A LIE OUT OF THE WHOLE CLOTH. An editor should indeed have many Fabers and be indeed a "ready writer" who should undertake to keep up with the lies of the black radicals-and their helps among the lingering populists and give them fitting exposure. The silliest of all the falsehoods started up-to-date is the one that democrats will disfranchise niggers and poor folks if they get into power. As to negroes we wish the constitution of the United States were changed and negroes were disfranchised in ninety-five per cent richly deserve to be. As to North Car olina democrats disfranchising any one if they secure the legislature it is all a lie, out of the whole cloth. They had control for fifteen or twenty years of the legislature and did not abridge them in their rights, but fostered their interest, laid heavy burdens on the whites to educate negro children, sent negroes to asylums, etc., and showed a magnanimous, friendly, most marvel lous spirit of kindness, sympathy and good will. The only possible way in North Carolina to ever abridge the rights of negroes or any one is by a change in the organic law the consti tution of the state. Whenever this is done it must be by a popular vote. You can not call a convention to change the constitution in any particular except by an act of the legislature to have a vote of all the electors as to whether they desire it to be called or not. So do not heed the liars. They know they are lying. After a convention is called by a popular vote, then the conven tion's work must be ratified by the peo ple at a second election. So there can not be possibly any snap judgment taken or any wrong wrought in dark ness. It must all be open, fair, square. Stop lying. Seeing lately mention of the sending of the sabre of the late gallant Lieu tenant W E. Shipp to his wife, we re called a pathetic incident of the great war. Among the many gallant soldiers North Carolina gave to the war was Captain George T. Baskerville, a na tive of Virginia, who was graduated at the University o North Carolina in 1S48, married Miss Goode, daughter of Hon. William O. Goode, the able rep resentative of Petersburg district for many years in the federal house, and settled in northern Granville. He was a very pure man and a most devout, pious Presbyterian. He went into the war and was kiiled in the second year, we think. When his sword and pistols were handed to his sorrowing widow, by a furloughed soldier, it literally to Best to take after dinner; isi Polls prevent distress, tion, cure cons Purely rege table ; do not gripe or cause pain. Sold by all druggists. 25 cent. Prepared only by C. L Hood Con Lowell, 3u broke the wounded heart and she lay down to die with nothing but grief killing her. The doctors could find no disease save the great and consumming sorrow, but she died. We never knew of but one other instance of death from grief alone. It was that of a most de voted wife, who died from grief over the debauched life of a gifted but most unfortunate husband. He survived her but thirty days, dying in a debauch. He broke the rich casket of the heart and she died. It Shows the Lie on It Fare. It having been called to the atten tion of Chairman Simmons, that somt of the republicans are saying that if the democrats carry the legislature, they will disfranchise the poor and uneducated voters of the state. Chairman Simmons said: "I have heard the republicans were again circulating this thread-bare and ridic ulous old story. Seeing that they are beaten on the issues which they have raised by negroizing the east, and by their corrupt and incompetent govern ment of the last two years, they have become desperate. "It is just like the republican party to try to run from the issues their misdeeds have raised, and it is natural they should attempt to divert atten tion from their rascalities by hollowing thief at honest men. But it is as tonishing that even in their despera tion and panic, republican leaders should have no better sense than to suppose they can frighten the white men of North Carolina with an old bugabx that has long since ceased to scare even the ignorant and credulous negro. "For the past twenty years or more, Just before every election, the republi can speakers, at their midnight meet ings have been in the habit of telling the negros if the democrats came into power their right to vote would be tak en away from 'them. After the demo crats came into power In this state they always had some reason to give these credulous beings why the demo crats had not disfranchised them as they had before predicted. "First, they told them if 'the demo crats got the state government, they would disfranchise them. The demo crats got the state government and did not disfranchise them. Then they told 'them if the democrats elected a presi dent, they would disfranchise them. The democrats elected a president and did not disfranchise them. Then they told them if the democrats got control of congress, they would disfranchise them. The democrats got control of congress and did not disfranchise them. All alone: the honpst whifp mpn of the sra'te laughed at these lies, and marveled that the negro did not have sense enough 'to see 'that he was being duped. "Finally, the negro himself began to see through the trick. He had seen the democrats in full power in the state for twenty-odd years, and had learned through experience that that party did not propose to disfranchise him, and he, too, began to laugh at these liars, and finally refused to be frightened by their rot any longer. So the old republican scare-crow had to be pulled down and put away. "Now these same eld demagogues, 'aided by a few nie-eatinir and nip- hunting populists who used to laugh at their frauds upon the negro, have again brought out the old republican scare-crow of disfranchisement; but, strange to say. they are now nsinc it I in an attemnt tn trv q n r! ficvtcn , " - - -" . " v (1 1)1111,11, MUl the ignorant negro, but the poor and uneducated white men of the sta'te. But these wily schemers will be disap pointed. They will find that the uned ucated white men of this state are not so easily fooled. They will find that while they may not have any book learning, they have the quick intelli gence and hard .sense of the white race, an'd they will find that they are not to be fooled, as the negro was so long fooled, by a bugaboo. There is not a white man in North Carolina who will be frightened by this old republi can negro bugaboo, and they will by their votes teach these fellows who are presuming upon ignorance that their intelligence is not 'to be thus trifled with and insulted with impuni ty. They know the democratic party was the party that removed the prop erty and educational disqualifications to suffrage in North Carolina. They know the the democratic party has always stood for .manhood suffrage, and they know the democratic party will never under any circumstances under the sun, consent to the passage of any law which will take from them, however poor and ignorant they may be, the riglit to vote, or which will in any way diminish or lessen that great privilege. They know that the demo cratic party is composed largely of poor and uneducated men, and that it looks to this honorable class of our citizenship for its support, and that it will in turn respect them in all their rights to citizenship, and guard them, their wives and children in their homes, their reputation and their virtue. "It must be remembered it is the re publicans who are circulating this silly story about the democrats. Even the populist wing of that party denounced the story as absurd. As barren of truth about most things as is the Handbook recently issued by Dr. Thompson and Hal Ayer it is frank enough to admit that there is no truth in the republican clamor about the democrat disfran chising the negro, much less any white man, and that the history of the past twenty-odd years of democratic rule in North Carolina proves the utter fal sity and absudity of the republican rant on this subject. Nor do responsi ble republicans openely and publicly make this charge. As reckless as they are, they have too much respect to vis it' upon themselves the scorn and con tempt which an open avowal of such an absurd and ridiculous charge would invite. But while these republican leaders are silent themselves upon this subject, they send out secret circulars, and put out sneak speakers and bush whackers to try to frighten and de ceive the people by clandestinely cir culating this falsehood concerning the purpose of the democratic party. 'These leaders and their claquers know, as every intelligent man in the state knows, that the democratic plan to protect the white men of the east from the "horrfble. negro rule under which that fair section of the state now suffers and languishes is to take advantage of the recent decision of the supreme court to the effect that one section or county may have one sys tem of county government and another section or county may have an en tirely different sT?tem of county gov ernment and while according to the white counties the right to elec't all their local officers, to restore the old democratic system of county govern ment In the county having negro ma jorities, thus lifting the ruthless heel of the negro from the neck of the white men who live In the negro-ridden counties of the se&st." sJspr Don't wear your i-L' tim- its a siim of all your cleaning with and yon cw dianpe ycrar uuuio cts IV 1U l-UC UA mm TOE 5. K. FURBiJK COHP1M, Chicafix St. Lout. Nw Y .-. Bj:.a. 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