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' ' tr.' would have been lost to lii- .-,;a'-- :y r'.-ai'i:i of the deiay of tii ii,aii.. id paving promptly. An-! while rep.-ling all of the al-ga-t.oi.M ..f li 'iH- :. hs in my office, as bas b-s.- fabrications, gotten up for polili-' ii !T' t. t '-rh;i as a sort of flank movi!.' lit, i'.-':;iJ3i- the Democratic speakers have made cliarfcs asamst s-'.ni'- '.f the officials under the present fusion administration, i suppose I otigl.t t" refer t'j the fact that lr. Thon.t.i-.r, admits than when he came in I hd a settlement and paid over all the pl.1.. ic money then in my hands to ' him An 5 s I have 1-r Thompson's, i t.fi- at.- that I fjliy settled up. what- ever that i worth. 1 No.v for that t.art of I)r. Thomp-1 son's fi'-i---h which refers to the! and the balances which he fays ; w-re left m my hands. He calls atu-n- j tion to hoin- figures appearing in a! sta tement made by J. W. lenm;irk. Clerk of the Treasury Department. Let ,in one h- mislead Into the conclusion that this statement Is a. copy of the records in the Treasurv Department of payment during my term, into that office. If it were, it would show speci ficaly the amounts paid In on Septem ber 1Mb, I on account of all collections-aKrcxat ing HS.w.Ki.OO, which is not embraced in it. liut the printing of that Mould have spoiled a good part Of Dr. Thompson's speech. Nor la Mr. Denmark statement a copy of the tu counts in the Secretary of State's of fice; if it had been, in corporating into it that statement would have spoiled all of Dr. Thompson's stx-ecri. 'ihis .statement is Mr. Denmsrk's conclusion from what he claimed to have ascer tained in each of these departments. 15y the way, 1 hsve seen a statement of like tenor, which he was pleased to communicate in a letter to Collector Duncan, a Republican iiliticiaji, who has, I understand, had it published and distributed over the State for party purposes. This statement Mr. Den mark signed as Clerk of ttie Treasury Department, to give it the effc-t of of ficial authenticity. Now this statement Is in no sense ;i copy of the record of the Ticimiii Department, and 1 should be flow to believe that the head of that Department would sanction tin- perver sion of the I . partrnwiit fur any such partisan purpose. Hut to the matter. n some of the five accounts the law was for monthly settlements, on others for quarterly settlements; on others the period was riot specified. When 1 entered upon the office. I found that the rule there and In the other Department was to make quarterly settlments. I attempted no change in that respect. The statements were monthly and the payments quar terly. The settlements were made In reference to the balance foand due on the day for quarterly payment; and although for some cause or other there might be delay in making the settle ment and actual payment, that would in no wise effect the amount that would b- turned over to the Tr asury. Koi the amount due on the dav of the last quarterly sett 1. merit would con trol. It always happened that be tween the day for quarterly settlement and the as ortaining Hie balance on that date, and the pavment to the Treasury that there would be collections- but thev would be charred up on the books in the office as they came in and d posited in the bank to await the day for the ncM quarterly settle ment. The payment to the Treasury would be credited on the book on the day when it was actually made, and would in order of time and position on the book appear after other collec tion had been made. The payment al ways represented the amount due on the last day of the preceding quarter. Intervening collect ions went in the next quarterly payment. The public will understand this. It would be affecting charity to assume that Dr. Thompson And Mr. Denmark did not understand it ton. The inference that Dr. Thompson wants the public to draw from this part of his speech is suggested by him it) these words: "If he had put these ar rearages at interest and iaid the State interest on them. It might have been some ex'-use for his delinquency, though a violation of the law. Hut he did not do that." Yes, Dr. Thompson stumbled on the truth th. n in ssying that 1 did not do that: that 1 did not put these ar rearages at interest; and his purpose to sucgest it to the public will fail to be of the political benefit and advant age that he hoped to rean from his insinuation. Dr. Thompson has the record of my hank accounts in his of fice and sees the b iok daily, and has before him s record of where ever.v cent was. Not one cent of interest was ever charred or received. The deposits for the most part were made in the Cit iens National I'.snk. Less than $10,000 in the aggregate was deposited in the Farmers and Merchants Hank of Iuis burg. The certificate of deposit copied was given for the balance In that bank In December. INKS, and for the purpose of passing it over to Dr. Thompson in the settlement; and there was some thing less than fivs thousand dollars on depos't in the Commercial and Farm ers Hank of Rsleigh. These I think i are all banks of deposit for State funds, and made so by the State Treasurer. ! In ret ard to the charge Dr. Thomp-I son makes with reference to the condi- j tion of the stock of books on hand, and; the place of storage. I will say that the: books were in that warehouse when I; came in .and I had no other place to: put them. The Council of State had' for veat'H desired to have a storage building erected, but lacking the au thority to erect one. thev had some years before I came into office rented Slronach's warehouse to store not only these books, but all other books be-i loneimr to the various departments. In the absence f a better building, the council or Mate rente 1 that one. i i oe iiuniei wu not unuer my con trot. The appointments of the General , Agents of Insurance Companies were! me, and not to yourself as you turned fibrin the office, and were there when ovep to n,e not only thp fcut he Tl'.eie were some Commissioners ofire'"- of this art of your office. These Affidavits and Notaries rubiio appoint-i articles wets left duly filed in the Sec- ad during my term, and the oath of each that whs received was properly filed as the luw required. The statement of Mr. Hatchelor ex-' p.a.ns wr-.y some or tne chartsts of in-. corporation were not recorded. Dr. Thompson found no letters re- ceived during my administration in mn ne ney or other things of value d. lontrinr to the State. I He did tell me that he found stored Imernf'mUy yearsTaok ! taining sums of money of email value and Some checks and a draft, of these I 1:01:1:115 iri;;e 1 was in ir.e omre. They were not in the desks of dsily use. If Col. Saunders or Col. Coke were here they might explain to whom these: moneys ana cnecks really belonged, or : whv thev I'll not )tn ftjBr.o, ' Ther might have be-n for fees belonr-1 lng to them. In any event, they had not been carried out of tht offlcs. nor appropriated. v-o- . . o, .m.. sffice when it wss tura4 over to Dr. Thompson. He says he arily bslisvea : that there was aot an ctT.ee sf a Rag- aVMon. 4a1 thea rr. Thowiaa aaas Sows af the farsaer Secret a Me kt a Wall that samy h amt fex. n mttmrnm ef asr f- ien months. What had former Sec rtar!es to with it? Why lug in the Ttr-t, if it be a fact, that some of the former Secretaries wt-rc disposed to -how hosiptality after their own no tions? What had it to do with my oifiee? The condition of my office i a matter of which Dr. Thompson may have his opinion. Persons who had Imsir.ess with the office also have a riirht to their opinion. 1 can rely with .nfiiience that It. Thompson's opinion ( ily office was o.i.- i i ilways kept in good condition. And as ar as my books of accounts are con- rm d. I have understood that r. Thompson has mfoie no change in their , ethod or the manner of keeping them, ,,,, jf , i,.,.,ur, n.nhinirlii nav- ing that the changes has not been for l.e better. ,'Iere is a copy of tin 'ictween myself and .-. cretary of State, th settlement made I )r. Thompson day he was in- r.al'ed: "Halance Sheet of M. Cooke, Sec retary of State, 12 January, 18V7: Kx. and Adr. fee $ 1.S0 i.icenss 1,314.80 fax 1,517.8$ i,and Grants 6,273.01 -'iprema Court Reports 516.08 -seals IS. 0& Fees U.20 Laws and Journals 2 Redemption of I'roierty 3S6.Sli $V.7.C4 "h In Citizen? National Hank j:2.24 'fish In Farmers & Merchant' of Louisburt; ,414.40 JM.766.S4 "Ths above is a settlement between ". M. Cooke and Cyrus Thompson, his mci'Mtiiioi-, this day, January 12, 18W7. "C. M. COOKE, "Former Sec. of State. "CYRUS THOMPSON, "Secretary of State." My tiooks contained detailed account showing where each one of th balances barged In that settlement came from There were my accounts with the Sanks. There were the checks I had drawn and which had been paid. All these were turned over to Dr. Thomp son at the time of our settlement, ''rem then until now ie has never com eained to me that the settlement was jot in every respect fair, correct and iest to the State. It would be difficult to convince the :iir minded that this attack by Pr. Thompson is inspired by anything ei "pl the consciousness of an exigency n Ihe fortunes of his party that o u 1 d seem to him to justify a resort o unconscionable methds. C. M. COOKE. Kaleigh. N. C Sept. 9, 1S88. "apt. c. M. Cooke: Dear Sir I have read Dr. Thompson's l iticlsm of your administration as Sec--etaty of State in hie speech at Clin ton. As I was, during your whole term is Secretary of State, your chief clerk, ;t Is fair to you that I should state what I know of your conduct of the office. I know that your books were care fully and accurately kept, and present a true statement of every dollar which was received in the office, what it was received for and what disposition was made of it. Every dollar which came In was deposited in bank to the credit of the Secretary of State, not a cent to sou privately, and at no time did you or could you have diverted any part f the money collected by youas Sec retary of State to your perosnal use, "en temporarily. The great bulk of the collections of 'he Secretary of State are In checks and draft. These were always en dorsed to the cashiers of the several bunks in which they were deposited. Not a cent of the proceeds ever came nto your hands. There was not over $1,000 collected in currency during your term. Further than this, it was the rule that every Saturday you and I should go over the accounts together, and while this rule may have been varied, whenever we did not examine the accounts on Saturday we did so within a few days thereafter. I have recently examined all the checks given by you a Secretary of State. With one exception, they were filled out by me, and on their faces spe eify for what purpose they wers drs wn. In regard to the charge that a num- ''or of srticlee of agreement of cor- porstfons were not copied in the record , books. I have to say that while this is ,rl!e - ,ll-p blame for it should attach to retary's office, and neither ths State nor any individual can have suffered from the failure to cory them. In retard to the charge th.t th ...l ! tax on corporations was not paid. I beg eon-i'r"ve lo y ,nat L'r- Thompson is in j ,rr"r - r-.yery cent or this tax was duly t !,' to th Privat. qt.q-, .v. - - . Ui X.IITT Oovernor in accordance with law The .te .ecret.ry kept a list on which fvr-T 1 affixed to every document for the Secretary of State wa tim.,1 the time It was so affixed. This record wat v?rif! by the signed initials of the secretary or clerk by whom the j document was sent for sealing and 1 X'T' rA u on thia account wa i Pls awsrterly in this conaertlcn I beg lear ta Bar I.. . ... , ' ,h,t w'n th "w requires scsae of ths ' -", ni inp nssrrsirft r -w ska . soar trly Ml some monthly, it haa. as a asattar af sonvenience to all th m. """ "ae awartarly. a snaklag ys-ur settleaneata awartarly i mm mm r jw T srahr ysws, Answering Statements Made in The Progressive Farmer. From the Demoe.ra.tic Hand-Book. The books and records of the various departments of this State have been in the possession of the enemies of the Democratic part some more than eighteen months. These enemies have had time and opportunity to search them through and through. The only suggestion of any failure of duty on the part of any Democratic official comes from a newspaper against two hrave and chivalrous men, who are now dead, and cannot speak for themselves. L;ut Hon. C. M. Cooke, late Secretary of .-Hate, has so fully and completely an swered the insiuations of this paper, ihat we give his letter to the public, j Neither he nor the letter needs any i words of commendation, both speak for themselves, and no one can discredit either. The letter is as follows: "Eouisburg. N. C, August 8. 1S98. "My attention has been called to a publication made by the Progressive Farmer in its issue of ADril Mth last, comparing the piesent administration of the Secretary of State with the ad ministrations of his predecessors, which does injustice to the latter. There have been other references to this subject by the same paper and by other papers in the State, and unjust deductions drawn from the estimates and figures given in the said article. "The article referred to gives what is claimed to be a correct statement of the taxes from insurance companies col lected and paid to the Treasurer by the present Secretary of State, from Jan uary, lSi7, to A.pril 1, 1S!)8, and com pares this statement with the amount reported collected and paid over by Secretary Cooke, from September 1 1S95, to January 1, 1S'J7. To one unac quainted with the law, this comparison would seem fair. Hut to one familiar with the law, it would appeal-, as is tht fact, that the period covered by the time selected from Dr. Thompson's ad ministration is for the purpose of col .'ecting the commission taxes on insur ance, to which it refers, practically two years; while the period covered by the time selected from Secretary Cooke's administration, in respect to this same subject-matte., covers prac Lically only one year. "The law in respect t the commis sion taxes on insurance companies is: That the commission tax of two pel ent. on the receipts of the insurance ompanies, is due and payable within :il'ty days after the reports of the com panies are filed, and that such reports .oust be filed within thirty days after the first days of January and July, re spectively.' A much larger business is lone by the insurance companies dur ing the fall months, and the taxes on January reports are mu,--h larger than on the July reports. It will be seen that while there were sixteen months of the Cooke administration, it only embraced the times for the receiving of two semi annual reuorts and two semi-annual taxes, namely, January, 1S:6, and July. 1VJ6, while the fourteen and two-third months taken from Dr. Thompson's ad ministration include the return periods of January, 1S87; July, 1S97, and Janu ary, 1SSIS. There are two taxes on insurance companies. The one is the commission tax, referred to above, and the other the specific and license tax. The com mission tax has been uniformly two per cent., but the law allowing a re duction of this tax to one per cent, for investment of the companies' receipts in this State has not been uniform in respect to its requirements. For years this reduction was allowed on the in vestment of one-half of the premium receipts in this State, and a number ol the insurance companies complied with this law and onlv paid one per cent, taxes on their receipts. In lSftfi, during the last year of Secretary Coke's ad ministration, the law was changed so as to reauire the investment in this State of one-fourth of the entire assets of the company to secure this reduction. None of the companies, except those chartered in North Carolina, availsd themselves of this new law. This should be considered in fayor of Colonel Coke snd Colonel Saunders in considering the increase of the amount of taxes collec ted by the Cooke and Thompson admin istration over theirs. The license tax has been several times changed. At the commencement of Colonel Saun ders' administration, in 1879, it was $100 on both fire and life insurance com panies It so continued until the Act of the Legislature preceding the adop tion of The Code in 1883. when it was raised to $120, and it wa so written in The Code. But In 18SS. this license tax was reduced, both for firs and life insurance companies, to tit, and so continued to 1S$1, when it was again Increased to $100. In 1SS the tax on Are insurance companies waa left at $10, but was increased to $20s on life com panies. In March, 1897. it waa in creased to $200 on fire companies and $250 on life companies. So it will be seen that during the last year of the Coke administration, and during the Cooke administration, the license on fire insurance companies was twice what it was during six years of the Saunders administration, and the license on life insurance companies was four times as great as during the said six years, snd twice as much as it was during Saunders" administration, from I8h3, and all of the Coke administration, except the last year. Now, the tax during the Thompson administration has been twice as rreat on the Ore In surance companies as it was during the Cooke administration and of the Coke administration, and the tax on life companies 150 per cent, greater than in first three years of the Coke adminis tration, and 25 per cent, greater jhan in the last year of Coke administration and during the Cooke administration. 'Acccording to the reports made by Secretary Cooke to the General Aasem- Diy, the amounts collected by his Predecessors and htm.elf .rot r,.;, the treasury on account of thee insur- roo .. .V- . ng December 81. 15. as follows- Insurance commission tax, 18 (by Coke) $25.K!.4i io.ei.5i License tax. 1JI6. (by Coke). $4,m 14 Insurance Commission tax, ISM, (by Coke)..$44,tt.l License tax, ISM, Cooha) 13.37S.Ss SJ 7M M 1 In addition to the aboVe 'their , was on deposit in the bank aa part of the amount and turn ed orsr to Secretary Tho ana son am 14 K-i ? . "Ttr. Theipam's hoeks shew that he eollected during ths rs year of his , aaministrsttoa ... that to, ap ta Jaauary 1. 18. as follew ,,, X.MS. For Comrnissioa tavx Mt. tSS.IS H wTTT he Mast the call ea rl es ta im vm4r ftVe Caake atrnrata trwMeai saraa tfca ssHseah af 1W, latotrm- the aa year mt the Oslas laml " HT.m . 9e hssasan fa WM ! increase in the number of insurance companies and the extension of the business. The increase of Secretary Thompson's administration for 1S97 over 1V.6 would be accounted for by the inciease on the amount of the license tax because of the higher rate, this alone would amount to something over $10.000 and a slight increase in the number of companies, and the increas' of the commission tax on account of extension of the business, which has been much. Those who have not in vestigated the development of the in surance business of North Carolina have no idea as to what extent and how rapidly it has grown in recent years. A leference to the annual statements of Secretary Cooke, maae in 1896, and 'to Iht of Stu'rptnrv ThnmnSitn rrmde in ls7, shows that in one year this in crease amounted to over a quarter of a million dollars for sixteen life com panies, and the increase in the commis sion tax thereon to more than five thousand dollars. The license year of insurance com panies is from April to April. Some of the taxes aggregating over two thou sand dollars, due for the year com meneing first of April, 1896, and end ing first of April, 1897, which were col lectible under the Cooke administra tion, were collected by Secretary Thompson soon after he came into of fice. Some of these were from old com panics which had been doing business in the State for some time and who had made their regular reports, and their solvency approved, but the tax had not been paid, for new li censes issued to the companies. The other companies were doing business without license and without the knowl edge of the Secretary of State, who had no means of detecting1 them in so doing. When these companies filed re ports at the beginning of 1897, these re ports showed that they had been doing business in North Carolina in 1896; and Secretary Thompson, as was always the rule of the office, collected the full imount of taxes which they should have paid in 1896, before authorieing them to do business for 1S97. It appears from the report of Capt. "oke that the collection, from the 1st if April, 1891, to April, 189. amounted 0 $1(;.991.00, an average of $41,498.65. Vow, the fact that the amounts coi eeted per year by Secretary Coke were ss than the amounts collected by Sec retary Cooke and Secretary Thompson eight not to be considered as evidence if unfaithfulness on the part of Secre ; ry Coke, for the reasons: that it is iccounted for by the increase of the license tax and the large extension of he insurance. And this applies also to he c Elections made under Colonel -launders' administration. During the aily years of his administration the lisurance business was insignificant as ompared with what it is now; and dur ng the last six years of his administra ior; the license tax was only $50 a year "or all companies, whereas during Sec etary Thompson's administration it is 2.-.0 a year for life companies and $200 1 year for fire companies. During these ix years the annual amount of license ax could not have been more than ibout J'i.ooo. A greater injustice could ;ot be done to the memory of this irave and honorable man than to sug rest this as ground for impeaching his haracter either for integrity or faith fulness. "On the day of Dr. Thompson's qual heation as Secretary of State I pre sented to him a balance-sheet showing i balance on deposit to the credit of the -Secretary of State on all accounts or 59.709.ti4. which amount I immediately urned over to him. I at the same time timed over to him the books ef the of fice, including two ledgers, which con tained a full account of my adminis tration of the office. I believe Dr. Thompson is an intelligent and effi- ient off icer. As he did not call my at- ention to any error found in the office. i am oongea to conclude that he has -:iven out no statement to any one which reflects in any way upon my ad ministration of the office, and that he is in no wmiy responsible for the nubll- -ation referred to in the besrinning of tens communication. , "C. M. COOKE." WILL WHITE MEN STAND THIS ? We ask the white people of the State, if Western North Carolina specially, to think of the following, and aay wheth er they will yote for a party who per mits such an outrage. What we relate is a matter of record and earn be easily verified. The whole State Is aware- af the fact that Craven county haa a so-called white man, a carpet-bagger, elected by the negroes, aa sheriff, named Joseph L. Hahn. Kvery deputy sheriff serving under him in the county is a burly ne gro. Every process or execution served from the sheriff's office is done by this sheriff or one of his negro deputies. Some time ago it became necessary. under the laws of the State, to send a yosjhs white man. named li. L. Hanf, to the hospital in this city for the in sane. He is a young man of poor but very iespectabel family. Providence had afflicted him to that degree that the pnsJsT'tion and care provided by the good people of the State were neces sary in his behalf. He waa ordered sent to the Raleigh asylum, and, was duly brought by A NEGRO DEPUTY, from Newborn to Raleigh, and delivered to Dr. Kirby. The name of the negro deputy is W. D. Pettifsr, as appears upon the records of the asylum. This is a simple statement of the fact. It requires no embelishment. Now we ask every whita Totar this simple question: Suppose your father, son or brother, mother, wife or sister for had it been a woman instead of a man the carpet- bag sheriff of PriT.n - V 4.1 no doubt havs followed the sama course were to become so afflicted that treatment at the asylum were neeeaaary. Would you like for him or her to ba taken to the lnstitutioi "-"miioa oy a nerror Answer thi" qUMtlon to youraalvea honeatly. fors. your Maker. If not, than in the nanse of that Maker and those you hold dr" vte to relieve those of your awn C.roMna who are thu. aahUct tTvf oatTwsaa, and whoa omlr eu- eoma froaa yoa. e Haras tats ahomic hwra a assariu vtartaa hi the FhtUsm.-- lljilT 13 rsveart a CsSlew TttE re-pop-lican scarecrow. THE BOGY MAN Republicans Attempt to Frighten the Unlettered White Man V.l i the Same Bogy Man They Have for Years Used to Scare the Negr . Day by day we are called upon to nail some lie put in circulation by the Uepubliean managers and their allies. Their exposure in one false statement 1ms no effect whatever except to cause them to invent another lie which they hope to make uneducated voters ac cept as the truth. Cpon the issues of the campaign the managers already see that they are defeated, and they have been driven U) their wits' end to shift the issue to ome false plane upon which they can deceive the people. They no longer appeal to men who "pn read, because they know that all .vho have read the details of the in famous record they have made will vcte for a change, but they insult the intelligence of those men who were lenied the advantages of an education by presuming that tV.zy can be induced to vote to continue negro rule by false ly telling them that if the Democrats win this year they will never be allow "d to vote again. They have scattered' this lie broad cist over the State, and in every neighborhood they send their agents to the homes of the unlettered and say: "If the Democrats carry the State this year they will disfranchise every man who cannot read and write." They presume thftt the man who cannot road has not had access to the usual sources of information and that ths false plea will be difficult to counteract, because the uneducated man has not read the papers. They also. argue that the unlettered man is very jealous of his political privilege and that if they can make him suspect any attempt to deprive him of his rights to vote, they can, by an appeal to his desire for the political rights that inhere in his manhood, secure his vot for negro domination and con- -rt t 11 1 V'f-"vtrnment- , ; "V,. " l?." , ?UVT. a.r rreaa- 111 uiimuiwi mis latest ne in tne vaia nope that the unlettered will believe it. .:LW lherLhZthat thY .9 not understand the intelligence of the on- educated voters in North Carolina. The late lamented. Hon. Joseph J. Davis, one of the best and ablest men of his day, always maintained that an un educated North Carolina voter under stood the principles of the government, and the questions at issue better than many well educated men in other sec tions, ite attributed this to the fnc-A that in hardly any other State did th? peopie attend courts and public speak- ings so much ns the people of North Carolina, and listen so attentively to the discussions. He said th t th habit sharpened their intellect and made them much better posted upon who knew ho w to read wr ite and cipher. The Republicans 'who are now ..,"-oom (o me Urieiucat1 unon the idea that they are so ignorant as not to know a ne from the truth are pre paring th?Tr5f Ives for a rude awaken ing in November. Though deprived of the nrivile-e of roinc -,e v. . and incompetency that mark this ad- ministration, the unlettered voter is very far from being ignorant. In most casee a son or a daughter reads the newa to him. and when that is not th caee ne bears it talked among hie neia-hbore and acquaintances, and he hue treasured the facte in his mind and know, more of the scandals and short comings of Radical and Fusion rule thsvxt many of his educated white neighbors. He knows too. that bl. 1. tr n3 hi destiny are linked with nta own, aoa aot the negro race, and a" 11 ,8 familiarly sallsB. asaa do is to tk te future of his children ia fl- rr r,,rnmend a chansre to the people and peaaeut apon white supremacy. He to flo 'TP'n that requiraa eye vof rnmomm that ttcis ia true of the unedu- tn-ffths of both hew. A Denr aate4 whita snaa eren mare than of his crtlc I-fialature. ha aa mi Helf, is s ortsxsmte naiahbar. nr if rA powerless to chansre tke ttntton ' V?f J"1? " the aaholar can ,T mnV afaawhara. while the poor and uneducated have not the mT"T?ithvWlih to seek new homes! The Kepubbesns have forottn an- unlettered men by a falaa threat to vote for aesrro dominate,. ti... i fh7n thftJn lmo-t Instance th. un. : chieiy ft,, wi VhiTdren lis wn? w sacrlflre. rr t,l -i?' " wl 1 v. . 'uuwra, or which ire wealthy know littia They have forgotten tkat k-. or nothlnr. in burden, to educate them and glv. dented to him. He knows that their - r ths mis of aay T the Damoaraus Is bear- history. He knows that in North Caro lina it was the Democratic party that gave his father the right to vote for State Senators, and that it is to that party he can most safely trust his right to continue to exercise the right of suf frage. He knows that from motives ef principle and interest the Democratic party will in the future, as it has in the past, preserve his right t vote, and will not subject him to the humiliation of having a negro ta determine his right to cast his ballot. Under the constitution of the State no qualification, either that of property or of education, can be attached by the Legislature to the right or suffrage. The (institution prescribes in plain and unmistakable terms who is entitled to vote and the requirements can not be changed either by addition or subtrac tion of a single item until the voters of the State have passed upon the pro posed change. It ejinnot he sone by the Legislature. The constitution of Norta Carolina, Section 1, Article S, provides who shall have a right to vote in the following plain language: "Every male person hora in the Uni ted States, and every m;tle person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who eha.ll have resided in the State twelve months next pre ceding the election and ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector. Hut no person who upon eolivictisa or confes sion in open court shall adjudged guuty of felony or any other crime in famous by the laws of tax State and hereafter committed shall he deemed an elector unless Buch pereon shall he restored to the right of citizenship in a manner prescribed hy law." That makes it sufficiently clear that no one nw entitled to -wmtf mii be dis- franc hise 1 unless he dinfrasseliises hirn- self by committing a felaar- The only way ia which the qualifica tions of ttlCfc I'ntdr . ,1 ia V. it changing the constitution. There are two ways in whicii the oonstitution may be amended, bnt hat prescribe th at the nrnnnafi1 niilmani d-oill TTc STUM ITTED TO A VOTK OF THE PEOPLE for adoption ar rejection. The first method is aaaeadment by convention and the asLstittion says with regard to it. .Becti L, Article IS: State shall ever b rilM lrr the Gen- eral Assembly unlasw hy tfce concur- rence of two-thirda of aM 4se members of each House of the iJosseral Assem bly, and except the proposition, convention or no aayewtiaas. be first submitted to tha qualiJs-sl -roters of the whole State, at tise swart genera! election, in a manner Xp he prescribe by law. And should a ssBsrity of the votes cast be in favor if ssmid conven tion, it shall assemble tsa sasrh day ad may be prescribed b .eral As sembly." t,i L 1 . . "l1 Ihisclauw nsr,ently a?" to- . i"?' um 'J? Z ti'l r.OI t tViot Houses thev every savBsarr oi oov. woald he owerleH.i t; y the people haa Hon ct",Vt:n" The other method of amendment in thus prescritted by Sectiesi t. Article 1. "No part of the coaatJtwtion of tlr State shall be altered tsaleas a bill t, alter the same shall have heen agreed 5? by thre-1'ths of ear ouse of the General Assmblv. Aa the amend- n ent or amendments sa sxereed to shall be submitted at the next general elec tion to the qualified Tate as the who State in such manner ate asay be pre scribed by law. AmA hi the event ' ' their adoption by a asajarity of the votes cast, such mm nasraiilm ' "f amendments shall beraaae a part of the constitution of thta Stae. It appears that the that tVe r:rral Asembly or the -UeeTlslatur".' te Htat a it wmiia -r h iTn'ta States. The peonle tfcmalve n.'lJt n'UhorUe a change, else the constitu tion will forever remaha the same. These facts were, of csrarae, known f th dematfogues who maaufactured 'he fake and started it oa the rounds. The fact that they shoula resort to a ! . i'n every msi wha can reajr-r which ' ? Wh h" theCH.itu- . tion read, can prove ta hefT lie by ; simple ref.rene ,r his State. ihn. t- j ps aa they have bee-. b.ri, .v. rising tide of DoniiU i.ji,.i.'. t the calamitous mlarahj tar which th'T rre responsible. .,Ihe lr-2nr mm she Baseness r-f the fabrication shswa aJao that tirf nemy of the illiterate vwter is not iht rt? i?ltm U con.'.it i-W..-f ZPJO?- mongrel co! laatlsa af fuat., elaa-haiosrs who at-
Henderson Gold Leaf (Henderson, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 29, 1898, edition 1
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