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This question may well be asked by the quiet, conservative, (Jod-fearing citi zen, who desires to obey the law, to see justice done, and in turn prays the lull protection or the law. And naturally, the second question that presents itself with startling force is, have we any law, when it tomes to the punishment of criminals whose crimes are punishable by death ac cording to the letter of the law, when they have in cold blood, and with malice aforethought, deprived their fellowman of the priceless boon, and something to be desired more than anything else in this world, that something, when it ends, all elseend3 the right to live and breathe and enjoy the blessings (Jod has given him, which is his privilege as much as his slayer's? Several times during its short career the Times has pointed out the tendency of our juries, the care with which they are selected by the shrewd lawyers of the defense, the advantage the defense has to select men whose prejudices or sentiment may be worked ujon, or whose opinions as to their right to find a fellow man guilty of murder were so negatived that this question in their minds was allowed to preponderate, and the guilty man escaped. We have also called atten tion to other murders that deserved nothing more nor less than the hang; man's noose, and the guilty culprits were either turned loose upon the community or sent to the penitentiary to do service for a short time. The penitentiary having no terrors for a large class cf our criminals, this we consider practically no punishment for so heinous an offense as murder. Hut this case of which we are about to speak, that was, in the short space of an hour and a half, decided "not guilty," in the character of the kill ing, the cowardly, cur-like manner in which it was committed, for hellish brutality and fiendish deviltry, has never been excelled in the annals of this county or in any county in the State. We wondered at the time of its commission how our people could restrain themselves, but they did, and it proves that the people of this com munty are patient and law abiding, and is a compliment to them, but not to the juries who are straining to the greatest imaginable tension our peo ple's love of order and obedience to law. We understand that almost all the jurors thought it necessary to have witnesses to testify who saw the gun pointed and the trigger pulled before they would have brought in a verdict of guilty, and therefore these jurors refused to say that Jefferson was guilty, though they believed in his guilt. Even casting aside his confession of the murder, which was testilied to by two reputable witnesses, what caused them to believe in his guilt if it was not the evidence? And when they say they believe he killed Calvin l?arnes, they tell the truth, for there is no evidence that he did not kill him, but ample evidence that he did, and coupled with his confession, we cannot see how they could have brought in a verdict other than guilty. Now, either the evidence caused them to believe in his guilt, or they were determined from two other causes to bring in the verdict they did: and these two are, either objec tion to capital punishment, or we are pained to saynit, and only say it because we feel it is time to do some plain talking to the people of Wilson county it was prejudice prejudice that was skillfully played upon by the defense until the juror forgot his oath to God and his duty to his fellow man. And, fellow citizens, did you ever stop to think how prejudice, in the hands of the skillful manipulator, may be made to grow into a mountain, until it eats up the very marrow of our souls, how it arrays neighbor against neighbor, tenant against land lord, husband against wife and child ren against father; how that in its consideration we lose sight of justice in Wilson county, and we will never be people moving hand in hand for the upbuilding of our county, and for respect of the law ami prosperity of us all, until we can canily lay aside prejudice and look at a question on the merits of the case. Jurors, by their verdict, should teach such attorneys that such ap peals exert no influence in making up their verdicts, and we believe that lawyers in arguing their cases should not stoop to such arguments, either in prosecuting or defending. Now, as to objections on the ground of opposition to capital punishment, we say frankly that no man who feels that way about it is competent to sit on a jury where "you are to sit to gether, hear the evidence and render a verdict accordingly." Such a one should refuse, in justice to himself, for the sake of law and order, peace and good fellowship, to be a juror. A jurior should remember he owes a duty to society, upon whom he is turning such culprits as Jefferson, who does not deserve as much con sideration as a rabid dog. A rabid dog may give some warning as he runs towards you snapping and snarl ing. Even a rattle-snake thrums his rattle to warn you of danger; but this hellish brute, squatting in the fence ... . i V . i ..I I corner, wttn a iace ngniea up who a ! ghoulish grin that would pnt to 1 shame even the devil himself, sees his oncoming victim, and with a nerve not even quivering because of child ish prattle, sends the slug which puts out the life spark forever. And to you, juror, this blood calls for revenge, and under your oath you are bound a "true verdict give," or God is your judge. And this is not the worst: a people cannot long tolerate such crimes, and if an outraged public becomes in censed and metes punishment to law breakers thereafter, and some in nocent man's life is taken as the re sult of your indifference to justice, remember that blood is also on your head. You assume no risk when you buy Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy. The Porwy Drug Co., will refund your money if you are not satisfied after using it. It is everywhere admitted to be the most successful rem edy in use for bowel complaints and the only one that never fails. It is pleasant, safe and reliable. whiteIrblack? A Republican Paper That Advocates White Supremacy. (State Journal, Republican.) The amendment gives the unedu cated white male uudcr 13 years .of age eight years to learn to read and write, and all born after 1908 will have 21 years, and the Legislature has made ample appropriations for school purposes and can continue to do so. Is there anything in this that cuts oil the poor white man? To endorse the election of George White, the negro Congressman, from the Second district, or continuing a system that makes his election pos sible with his train of negro post masters, is more than we can swal low. The men who grease their throats with big salaries by catering I to this digrace, may relish the taste, we do not. l here is not a white man in the State who will endorse it over his own signature. We say if there is a man in the State who will show us how this can be prevented with present conditions and honest elec tions, we will not write another line in favor of the amendment. The Republican party, adopting a Democratic paper at Asheville as its Western organ and a Populist paper at Raleigh for its Eastern organ, is very inspiring for Republicanism. To appoint negroes to important and responsible positions and then not allow them to be delegates to a convention, is a strange idea to us. If it is not the negro that has de feated the Republican party in this State for the last twenty-five years, will not some solon rise up and tell us what has done it? The Democratic party set the trap and the State Republican convention stepped into it the negro trap. Our leaders by their actions said the negro is not qualified to partici pate in a convention; we have the same opinion of him at the ballot box. We are told that our course will help Democracy. If shouldering the negro and advocating his cause hasn't made Democracy in North Carolina, what on earth gives it life and exist ence? The negro is to be pitied, his life is a hard one, his inferioritj', color and ignorance stand in his way, his recent slavery and sudden acquiring citizen ship creates a prejudice against him, and this is continually fanned by political hatred. He has been led into the political pitfalls by one party and then trampled on and abused by the other. Out of all this, what has he received? Nothing but Jimcrow car bills and Wilmington massacre. We speak of the race and not the fellow in oflice. We say to the negro, you had better heed the advice of your able educational lead-ers,-eschew politics. By this you will make a good citizen, respected and honored by the white man. According to Senator Pritchard's statement, there are twelve counties with negro majorities: With honest elections the negro can and will dominate in these twelve counties. To vote for the amendment relieves these twelve counties from negro rule, to vote against it continues them under negro control. Is there a white man in North Carolina who believes this state of affairs ought to exist? To be plain, we believe it is mor ally, religiously, socially, financially and politically right to disfranchise the ignorant negro vote, if the ignor ant vote stands in a position to gov ern white people. FREE BLOOD CURE. An Offer Proving Faith to Suf ferers. Ulcers, Cancers, Eating Sores, Painf u Swellings, Effects of Blood Poison, Per sistent Eruptions that refuse to heal under ordinary treatment are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), the most wonderful Blood Purifier of the age, made especially to cure all terrible obstinate deep-seated Blood and Skin troubles. Is your blood thin? Are you pale? All run down? Have you Eczema? Pimples? Blotches and Bumps? Skin or Scalp Humors? Boils? Eruptions? Skin Itches and Swollen? Aching Bones? Rheumatism? Scrofula? Catarrh? Then yon need B. B. B. 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Charles Brantly Aycock, of the State at Large," He Made an Eloquent and Powerful Argument for the Amendment. (.The Statesville Mascot.) "In my speech I shall scarcely mention the fact that I am a candi date for Governor. I do not feel that this is a matter of supreme impor tance, either to you or to myself. "I do feel, however, that there is before the people of this State a ques tion that must be settled for our peace and safety. If there are Re publicans or Populists in this audience 1 hope they will hear me through, I will say no word of abuse; I am not here to vilify and berate. I am here to discuss issues. I shall speak dis passionately but with deep feeling. 1 am a Democrat. I was born that way and can't help it, although I have not tried very hard. "The Republicans will say that I am not going to say anything but 'nigger' and that they are tired of it. Well, my friend, you are not half as tired of it as we are. But as long as this question is left unsettled you men of the West shall hear of it. Our people are a conservative folk, we bear with prevailing conditions as long as possible. We do not change often nor swiftly. We were slow to leave the Union, but when we did go, we managed to sacrifice the first life on the altar of the Southern Confed eracy. We sent more men to fight in that long struggle than we had voters. O OCT When our men came back from the war, there was mourning in the land, they came back with their hearts in 10,000 graves. They came back to the chief business of meat and bread. They asked nothing except to be left alone to work out their own destiny. It was a time of poverty. I a small boy saw men go to church bare footed and coatless, for the reason that they had neither shoes nor coat. In that day the day of our poverty and distress the Republican party came into North Carolina. What did they do? They disfranchised 30,000 white men and conferred the ballot upon the negro. The Democratic party has never disfranchised and never will disfranchise a white man. The Republican party had the Legis lature, the Supreme Court and all the State offices. What was done? Our Lord and Master said you shall know a tree by its fruits. Did Republican rule bear economy in the day of our poverty? They ran the debt up from $6,000,000 to $42,000,000. It bore the fruit of pillage, plunder, death. "In those hours there our life something that ruin and came into had never been in it before. The negro formed the union league, and the white man, to protect himself, formed the white man's ku klux klan. In August, 1876, the white men came together and took the State out of the hands of the Republicans. In a few days peace settled down over our land, the law was at every man's door, the women were protected on the lonely roadside, our little girls could go to school without fear. We had the same laws as the Republicans, not an 'i' had been dotted nor a 't' crossed. Why was the difference? Because under Demo cratic rule you had behind the law the great white manhood of North Carolina. "We had peace for twenty years. We had no fears in the East. Our women feared not to go alone on the public road. But the story of negro rule grew old and the people refused to hear it longer. In HJ2 a new party came in. Prices on farm products were low, times were hard. This new party said that it would remedy the evils of the farmer. The Democrats sounded the note of warning and plead with the white men not to divide. The people would not hear us. We tried to tell them of the evils of negro rule. They treated us as a Populist treated me in '94. I was making a speech along this line, that if the white men divided it meant ne gro rule and negro rule meant death. My Populist brother called out, 'Oh, hush! Tell us something new.' My friends, you cannot for your own safety, forget political history. Hut we did forget. Oh, that we had some strong voice to say to us " 'Lord God of Hosts be with us yet Lst we iorget, lest we iorget. Again the Republican partv camel into power, and again you shall know! a tree by its fruits. Go with me to the city of Wilmington. The govern ment here was so weak and so vile, that impudent negro men openly in sulted white ladies. Impudent negro women formed in fours and crowded the ladies off the sidewalk and into the gutter. A negro went into a store in that town, knocked the white proprietor down and carried away some of his goods. It was done open ly and boldly, known and read of by all men in Wilmington. What was done? The negro was brought up for trial. On the jury there were ten negroes and two white men The ten negroes stood for acquittal and the two white men lor conviction, and it ; he could. He is told then that he can resulted in a mistrial. The next time J vote too. In this way you see no there were on the jury nine negroes, j white man is disfranchised. But a who stood for acquittal, and three j negro comes up. If he has the neces white men who stood for conviction. sary qualifications as to age and time Again there was a mistrial. Several lived in the State, and can read and times this was done and at last the write, he is allowed to vote. But if case was thrown out of court. A he answers that he cannot read and guilty man went unpunished, the write, he is asked if .his father could white man and the law were not vote prior to 1867. He answers no, vindicated, and the case cost the that his father was a slave; conld his county of New Hanover $600. j grandfather? No. His great grand- "So vile and weak was this govern- father? No. Anv bodv behind him IREDELL. ment that every white man that was not in oflice bought rifles and formed themselves into a military organiza tion. Ministers of the gospel forgot for a time their message of love and paced the streets with guns on their shoulders, while the women and chil dren slept. At last a white man was shot and the war began. The mes sage came to our town, 'For God's sake send us 200 men, the race riot is on.' I am glad to say that I was in the crowil of 300 men who went to the rescue. There was not a white man in Iredell count)' who would not have gone, no matter what his politics are. But now we want no force, no men, no guns; we want j'our ballot, the freeman's ballot, and all the power that comes with it. But, whatever you do, we have sworn by the Eternal God, not to submit another day to negro rule. "The Republicans are beginning to believe that something must be done. We sent the Republicans to the school of White Supremacy in '98 In that year one-third of the Republican State convention were negroes, and the ne gro who represents my district in Congress I have that honor made a speech saying that the business of ne gro ofiice-holding in North Carolina had just begun, and he was applauded by white delegates. This year there were only 24 negroes in the State convention. Holton sent word, 'Look a here, you nigger don't even call him colored man any longer if you don't stay at home and not raise a fuss this year, the white folks will do you like they did you in "98.' But, my friends, if you think that because the 'nigger' is not taking any visible interest in politics this year and that he isn't going to vote, you will wake up the 3rd of August and think the sun is gone into an eclipse again. "Our ropuhst friends say they have plan. The negro is not to hold ! a office. He makes a mighty good voter but he will not do for an office holder. You will have white officers, but who put them there? The negro, and it is the negro behind the officer that constitutes negro rule. No gov ernment can be better or wiser than the average of virtue and intelligence of the party that governs. I am to be Governor. I am to govern in ac cordance with the majority. I will give you a good government because I represent the virtue and honesty of the whjte man. If Spencer Adams is elected, he will govern in accordance with his majority. But his majority is composed of negroes and it will be negro rule. So the Populist plan will not do. "What do the white men suggest? They have adopted the Constitutional amendment as the best way out of the difficulty. The Anglo-Saxon race is the all conquering race intended by God to be the rulers of the world. Our ancestors 800 years ago in Eng land rode down to the palace of the king and demanded that he give them certain rights, lie gave them the great Magna Charta. It declares that justice shall not be denied or delayed and this is considered the bulwark of our liberties, and is written on our statute books. Who were those men who obtained this right for us? Were they scholars, lawyers and profes sional men? No. There was not one in the crowd that could read the char ter he had procured, but they were white men, every one of them. Who were the men who followed Stonewall Jackson in his valley campaign? Who were the men that carried the banner of the Confederacy farthest North at Gettysburg? Who were the men that stood in that last, long, wavering line at Appomattox? Were they scholars? Aye, many of them, but the majority of them were illiterate, but they were white men, every one of them. The amendment recognizing the superiority of the white man through inheritance says that no man that could vote prior to 1867, or whose father or grandfather could vote prior to that time provided he registers before 1908 should ever be deprived of that right on account of not being able to read and write. General Cullom, a Republican Sena- tor, expressed the idea of the Legisla- ture wnen ne saia mar. tne American idea oi universal sunrage presup poses a fitness for it either by inheri tance or education. The negro can't get it from inheritance, therefore we say he must get it by education. "Let us see how this amendment will work. A white man comes up to register. If he possesses the neces sary qualifications as to age and lengthtof time he has lived in the dis trict, and can read and write no fur ther questions are asked. If he can not read and write, he is asked if he could vote prior to 1867. He answers that he was not old enough. He is then asked if his grandfather could j vote at that time and he answers that ithat could ever vote? No. Well, ! then, the registrar answers you can't vote, and there are 75,000 more ne groes in North Carolina in the same ; fix. "But then Senator Pritchard ob ; jects to the poll tax because he is afraid some old Confederate soldier will be deprived of his vote. When I heard that I was afraid. But then I thought and calculated a little bit. I remembered that it has been 35 years since the war closed, and a boy that was 15 at the end of the war would be 50 now. North Carolina does not compel any one 50 years old to pay poll tax, so that objection does not stand. If a man is too poor to pay his tax, the county commissioners have the power to excuse him and this excuse serves every purpose of a receipt. If a man is aoln to pay his poll tax it is nothing but right that he should pay it. A bird that can sing and won't sing ought to be made to sing. A man that is able to pay his poll tax and will not pay it ought not to be allowed to vote. "But some cry against the injustice of having the boy that is now under 13 years of age.'to learn to read and write before he can vote. Is there any crime in telling a boy that he ought to go to school when the school house is put right at his door? This is an age that demands education. During my four years I shall spend my time in trying to create an educa tional sentiment in our people. I would put it in the power of the poor boy to come into competition with the wealthy and the educated. I want to let him read from the book of knowl edge. I stand for the opening of the Bible to every boy in the land. I call on ministers of the Gospel and mothers to work for, and every white man to vote for the amendment so that education may be abroad in the land. Then the age of demagogery will be at an end. The hour is come and now is, when the power and strength of the country is in the edu cation of the youth of the land. "But the Republican says he could stand the amendment but the election law is wrong. Senator Pritchard says he does not like that provision that requires, you to prove your age and identity by two witnesses. Senator Pritchard in a speech in-the Senate said, 'I do not believe you Senators could do that.' The law does not mean that you must prove your age to the minute. I could swear Senator Pritchard is twenty one and also that he is Senator Pritchard, although I hope I shall not have to do that much longer. It is the negro down East the law is meant to catch. What we want to do is to eliminate the 18-year-old and dead negroes, and after 1902 we are not going to let many of the 21 year old ones vote. There is do trouble about the election law. Every white man shall be secure in his right to vote. "With the negro eliminated we can hold great economic debates on vital questions, and in -the clash of intel lect raise great men. In that day the school house shall be opened all over over the land and every boy shall have his education. It will be a day of great agricultural, industrial and educational development. Then no longer wiil the blood rise and flush the cheek of the white Republican when he is accused of belonging to the negro party. "I come in the name of the woman hood of Eastern North Carolina to plead with you Western men. This State has a queen in every household, and in the name of these queens I come and ask for your help. I ask for peace, for we shall rule by all the strength that is in us, the white man must rule. The negro has noth ing to fear. We shall treat him with justice. The wages of the negro shall not be withheld, but he must not rule. "I have spoken deeply, because I feel deeply. The cause I have spoken for is a worthy cause to work for, a cause to live for, a cause to fight for, a cause to die for." FUSION JUSTICE (?) IN CHATHAM. A Negro Rapist Turned Loose The People Indignant and Threatened Lynching. (Pittsboro Record.) The negro, named Haywood Coun cil, who committed a criminal as sault on a ten year old white girl (as published in last week's Record) was brought hereon last Wednesday after- ml noon and put in iail to await his trial at the next term of Chatham superior court. This is one of the worst illustrations ; of Fusion misrule and incompetency that has ever occurred. Here is a j case of a negro committing a vile as j sault on a poor orphan girl, only ten years old. and when arrested and his guilt proved he is discharged by two Fusion magistrates, because, as they said, the crime was out of date. Fortunately for justice and the good name of our county, another magistrate had the negro again ar rested, and, after a fair hearing, jail ed him for trial before a judge and jury. We are gratified that lynching was not resorted to, as was threatened after the miscarriage of justice by the Fusion magistrates. Just such cases as this shows the necessity of the adoption of the pro posed suffrage amendment and ought to make all white men stand solid and determined for White Supremacy. The campaign in North Carolina is , not one of party against party but the fight is white man versus black man. : The white man who believes he is j superior to the negro will stand by his race just as the negro will stand ' by his race. White men of all parties ' in every section of the State are ' standing by their race and will sup port the amendment regardless of party affiliations. This is the wise thing to do. The elimination of the negro from politics means the better ment of the State morally, financially, i politically and educationally. Kin ston Free Press. Supports the Amendment. DR. H. F. FREEMAN, A PROMINENT POPU LIST OF WILSON COUNTY, And Ex-Member of the Legislature, Gives Good Reasons for Supporting the Constitutional Amendment Its Educational Feature one of Its Strongest Points Thinks all Al liance rien and Populists Should Vote for it on This Account No White Man Will be Disfranchised. (Raleigh rust.) Taylor, N. C, Special. Mr. Editor: I was asked a few days ago by Mr. Claude Kitchin to state why I was in favor of the amendment and with your permission, I will do so through the list. I am in favor of the amend ment because, as far as it can, it stops the black man from voting, and as far as it goes and can, it educates the poor white boy and girl. The education of the girls is the foremost and biggest question of this age. Because, it disfranchises no white man, but is a stimulous to all white people to better prepare themselves for voting and for the life the' have to live. One should vote with a party because of the principles for which it stands and for men because of the principles they advocate, and not for party feeling and party prejudice. So you see it takes some education to prepare one to vote for principle. The amendment will help along this line. But the greatest good will come from the education of the thousands of poor boys and girls all over the State, whose fathers, being uneducated themselves, are opposed to or arc in different to education. All true al liancemen, Populists and Democrats, can't refuse to vote for the amend ment for education is one of their fundamental principles. This educational clause, if passed and becomes a law, will be the big gest thing for the country people that has happened since the foundation of this government. We need men iu every county and township in North Carolina to till the places of govern ment. There are hundreds of town ships in this State that need better educated men for justices of the peace and school committeemen, but they have not got them. The black man should not vote in the United States, and especially in those States where he is so numerous as-to hold a blance of power. The white man, God's best and highest production, does not need black men to help make the laws, by which ho is to govern himself. He is not needed in this capacity as a citizen, and if he was needed, he is not flitted. I some times need help in my professional work, but I do not call on any one who may be passing, because they are not fitted for that work, so I have to ask help of those who have prepared themselves for the work. The black man is not prepared to fill the high position of the American citizen in the exercise of franchise, nor can he ever be so fitted in the United States. It is not only a drawback to the best and progressive political life of the white man's government for the black man to vote, but from every point of view, it is destructive of his own best interest. It unlits him for the life he must live, and for the work he must do. It tends to bring the black man in contact with the white man in our political life. This equality in no phase of our civilization will ever be tolerated by the white man. The white man votes or should vote for principles, and the black man never does. The white man, with his high ideals of government for himself and neigh bor, votes for the principles which he thinks will best maintain these ideals. On the other hand, the black man has no conception of principles, but is used as a tool to carry elections in the interest of party. This condition of things has held in check the high and progressive forces of our Southern life long enough, and I want to see a change. When the amendment is law, it will not hurt the black man, but will be of the greatest good to him. It will be the best that has been done for him since the war. Now, Mr. Editor, we realize that the olitical fight is now Wing fought on the amendment for psrty's sake. We know that the party which con trols this colored vote expects to stay in jower; now, if for uo other reason the black man should not vote in this country. There is, and has been, since the war. a contention over the black man, and parties havs been dragged along all these years through this dark mist, minus principles, un til the young manhood of the South is a kind of party sham. He is not m well fitted as he should be to appre ciate a high ideal of government and stand on principle, regardless of jar ties, and fight for its perfection. 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