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E.QJJAL RIGHTS TO ALLSPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.
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Vol. I
. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1898.
No. 29.
EDITORIAL NOTES, The Wake County "middle-
- - . j of-the-road Populists' do not
Big talk this is, about Demo-! conceal their disgust at the ac
crats carrying Wake county. tion of the Democrats on the
They carried it in iS94and 1896 Congressional matter.
uii me vote was .counted.
RIOTS.
. We need exp ct to hear noth
ing from now until election, but
riots, riots, and race riots. It is
FUSION PROSPECTS BRIGHTER
EVERYDAY.
COULDN'T EXPECT AXYTIUX;
i else. .
For Win. A. Guthrie's oppcr-
BUCK KITCHEN TAKES THE
LAW IN HIS OWN HANDS
C. C. Fagan sends us greeting
and says that Martin county will
come up this year with an in
creased fusion majority over two
years ago."
Ask A. C. Green, W. J.
Peele, or any consistent silver
man, what they think of John W.
Backwater, the recommeneded
candidate of the D. O. P,
Fusionists, go quietly to the
polls on the day of election and
vote your honest sentiments.
Your cause is just and no man
has a right to question yourpiv-l
.Hege.
Boys stand firm and another
grand victory awaits the fusion
cause. The 'Democrats see the
handwriting on the wall but are
row whistling to keep their cour
age up.
The Democrats all over the
State admit that their chances
are shaky for the election of even
one member of Congress. Then
where are their hopes for carrying
the otate.
Theophulus White says Hert
ford county is in line, and tells
the West to keep up their row,
and the East will have theirs
weeded out and in good growing
condition by the 8th.
Dr. McBrayef, of Cleveland
county sends greeting -to the
East, and tells them that the West
is more solid for fusion than ever
before, as will be seen after the
8th day of November.
Water never flows up hill, but
At water is trying to pump him
self up to Washington, but the
John Atwater and Fnnk Fer
reil are said to be advising peo
ple .to vote for Secret-Circular
Simmons Avery Cleveland-gold
ticket. Who art thou?
Is John Atwater "fusing with
a bull yearling," as he declared
at the State Convention he would
do if the Democrats refused. our
proposition to fuse? He will if
hecan.
l his is yihe most important
campaign the State has had
since i860. . Upon the right so
lution of this question of right of
sutlrage hangs the future of gen
erations to come.
The Democrats deny that they
will disfranchise any citizen if
they attain power. They may
deny it,, but they can't take it
back. It they openly advocated
disfranchisement, they would be
less likely to do so, as they nev
er keep a promise. . ;
Better have the South Caro
lina election law than the Payne
law. Under the former, you
don't vote and under the latter
you think you vote and the ma
chine counts it for your oppo
nent. The former saves time
ard labor.'
Remember that the Democra
tic party claims all th,e honor,
chivalry, brains and manhood,
and that during each election
year they claim all the votes till
the voters vote, When they are
Just so, when they meas-
Hon. Hill E. Kine a close ob
server of current events, returned -j tunities and social relations, he
all rot. ; yesterday from an extended can- has done Jess and made more flnri Fnrppc a Rppictrar tn Ro '
If one man strikes another it is ! vass in the; 4th t Congressional . mistakes than any man in the . . ' : 'D '
a race riot I district, also through- a number: state. tor a numoer 01 yeai& u'bu
. If an officer arrests a man for 1 01 eastern counties and reports, tie passed as a jepupucan, uiu
cnrae, it is race riot.
. Sensible people will pay no
attention to any such riot-howl
ing.
- We are aware that the enemy
will try in evey possible man
ner Mo bnnsr about all such
troubles, but because Republic-
cans and Populists would not let
them have justifiable cause , for it.
Be men brave men, and have
the courage to do your whole
duty to yourself, your country,
,your God, and on the 8th of
November don't forget who it
was that kept you so long In
political slavery, and who would
to-day gladly consign you to
even a worse condition; . ' v -
j without fear of contradiction, that I his party -friends, .never. knew j THREATENS TOtKllX HIM IE UK.
the fusion cause is even in better ! when to risk him in any import- KhtisEs-B.l.R. STEPTOE is
condition than it was two years! ant position for fear he would
THE REGISTRAR.
ure up beside other men they
are not so mighty as they think.
John Bradd', the old Poulist
patriach from Gates, says Joe
poor old fellow is not cutting Daniels and his negro pitures
-.r-ice. He 11 have soiidintid iief 1'opuiists and
much frozen, water
Have a freeze next Tuesday.
Look out, be alert, for just, on
. the eve of election, all kinds of
. misrepresentations aud buga
boos will be sprung by Demo
crats. See that they deceive no
one. Do your duty and all will
be well.
Our friends and subscribers all
over the State are loud in their
praise of last week's big addition
of The Home Rule. It fs no
small job to get out such an ad
dition, and we are glad that our j
efforts are appreciated.
. Any method short of an open,
free ballot and a fair count in
this State is in violation of the
laws of the State, and any man
or set of men, who attempt any
thing short of this should be ar
rested at once and given the full
limit of the law.; ,t
We have heard of candidates
being "independent, ""nominat-
ed," and endorsed, but Mr. At
water is a new issue and entirely
uniquep; he is simply recom
menced! Better get a patent on
it before1 election' as it will bej
too latel 'aftenvrrd.
Republicans in Gates, and the
rotten-egging of old Brother
Buros, a one armed Confederate
soldier, has given all fusionists a
determination to show the Dem
ocrats that their rotten-eggs-warfare
is contemptible in the
sight of all decent, people.
Mr. E. W. Pou said - in his
speech, at Smithfield, in his joint
discussion with Dockery, that all
white men were already in the
Democratic party ; except some
white trash. Well, that's what
we . always knew these aristo
cratic Democrats considered the
poor Populists and ' Republi
cansmost of whom are farm
ers "poor w,hite trash. How
that akes us back to slavery
time poor white trash.
POU, SIMMOXS AND POU.
This is the triumvirate that is
leading the Democratic hosts.
Simmons broke : into Congress
from the black" district by fraud
and corruption, stole the State
for gold in-1892 and is selected
to do the same thing thisyear in
the State. .; '
The Pous, by the same meth
ods, vheld ' Johnston county in
thralldom. . E. W. Pou was.elect
ed Solicitor by the most flagrant
deception on ignorant voters in
Johnston connty in 1894, and
tried to get into1 Congress
in 1896, while holding on to the
judicial teat, by printing his
nametbn the McKinley tickets
and such base methods should be
forever stamped out, and such
men condemned by all honest
voters. Your days are numberd.
ago. Our people are notmaking
a big blusterjand parade, but are
more determined than ever to
givethe Democrats a set back
that they will not recover from
for some time to come.
Mr. King was also present at
the great advertised white men's
meeting at Goldsboro, and from
actual count there was not ex
ceeding fifteen hundred people
present. "He says the First North
Carolina Regiment of volunteers
would have made a longer pro
cession, and this "was their crowd,
after a big advertisement in every
Democratic paper in the State
for the past thirty days.
They are badly beaten and they
know it and are now lying to
keep up appearances.
Wake County Democrats at
their first County Convention
begged Populists to fuse " with
them bya vote of 1 7 1 to 1 7. Now
they swear this same set are un
fit to rule. Wake County Pop
ulists wanted no fusion with you
because your' record was before
them. Every good citizen knows
-' the count is well managed un-
der lusiou rule ana tney reiuse
' ' f AKi COUNTY.
The Democrats are making
Herculean efforts to carry Wake
county, but from a review of the
situation we are glad to be able
to say they have no hope of do
ing so. Every man who loves
liberty , and hates oppression
should do all in his power to
bury that corrupt" Democratic
machine beyond hope of resurrec
tion. Be up and doing and see
that none of their work shall take
root in your community. Nig
ger, nigger, nigger, is their only
slogan. If they get control the
white man who refuses to do
their bidding will be not as good
as the nigger.
THEN AND NOW.
Joe Daniels said to a gentle
man while enroute to the Con
gressional Convention, in 1890
that it was a badge of dishonor for
any Democrat to be elected to
Congress from the Second Dis
trict. Now he is doing the bid
ding of this same man and wear
ing the same badge, a white but
ton, a tag to let people know he is
white. The other side of that but
ton is a color corresponding to
his political record and cow ardly
heart. . 1 '
Ml the Populisls and Repub-1 to enthuse at the Democratic
licans will, have to do on rout of "nigger,
the day of election is to buck j- The News and Observer, Char
right up to the bull-dozing Demo-;lotte Observer and such ilk call
crats and let them know that you ! p0pUiists who refuse to bow the
;ntnd to vote your sentiments or k to tjiem and their nartv.
die in the attempt, and that- will white-livercd cowards. Choice the counties that sent Demo-
THE WEST GAINING.
All the reports from the West
ern counties are very flattering
for the caise of fusion; a number
end the controversy
epithets this tor Joe Daniels, who j cratict members to the Legisla-voting is concerned.
HONOR BELOW PAKi
The Morning Post gives forth
the statement that ; Mr. Strowd
will support.Mr; Atwater. Now,
if after Mr. Strowd went into
convention, took his , chance?,
was defeated for nomination, and
Mr. Atwater, who helped to
nominate Mr. Jenkins, 2nd went
out and proclaimed himself an.
independent candidate against
Mr. Jenkins, be true, then honor
is at a discount, and Messrs At
water, Strowd & Co. have de
scended so low in. the scale of
political honqr thaf no political
balance willweigh them. Pop
ulists said that Strowd, Atwater
& Co. were. Democrats, and this
nroves the assertion. Now, if
men of honor can thus degrade
themselves and debase their hon
or as to traitorize themselves
politically, it is only the strong
est evidence that there is neither
cause nor purpose of character
in any man to support them, and
the people of the 4th District are
not fools enough to be led into
any such combination. Remem
ber that we once lionized btrowd
and this writer was among his
and strongest sup
after such demon
have already been
made by said Atwater & Co., it
is impossible fur any honest Pop
ulist to support them and when
they design to impeach the in
tegrity of J. J. Jenkins as a Pop
ulist, then they have before them
a task which will be hard to
prove.
THE SEVENTH DISTRICT ALL
RIGHT.
Mr. Morrison Caldwell, writ
ing to a friend at Raleigh, says
he has just returned home from a
thorough canvass of his, the 7th
Congressional; District, and is
satisfied that his majority will be
.fifteen hundred at the lowest
calculation. Populist and Re
publicans were never more de
tr rminedf being fully satisfied
thatl if the Democrats were to
carrv the State this vear; it
j .
fail them when the pinch of the I B. B. Steptoe, a rcirular i a-
gamcame. lie next joined the j pointed . Registrar ' of Halifax
Populist party and the Popu-j county, has just arrived in the
lists, for lack of other legal tal-jcity and we have the report from
lent in its infancy, advanced j his owri lips, who savs that Buck
him, as they found out rfter- Kitchen, his son and a number
vvrds,' far beyond his true worth, of other Ku-Klu democrats
as was fully demonstrated, when
they placed his name at the head
of their ticket for Governor in
1896 as his course will show,
having 'started out to carry their
banner to victory, and before the
campaign was over, changed
about face, and ' advised his
friends to vote for Cy. Watson
the Democratic candidate, his
opponent, for Governor ; a thing
unprecednted in the history 09
nations, lie is now booked as
the Grand Mogul of the Golds
boro Democratic negro racket
meeting, and it is well enougfi
for them (the Democrats) that
the election is so near at hand or
we would not be surprised to
find him again affiliating with
either one of the other parties or
some new party, if it was pos
sible for a new party to be found
before the election comes off.
As to Mr. Guthrie we are not
surprised to hear of any new
freak from him, but unfortunate
ly for the party that he affiliates
with, it seems to succeed better
without his help, as such has
been the case, both with the
Populist and Republican parties.
best friends
porters, but
stratious as
j WE TOLD YOU SO.
Last week we said the way to
be great was to leave fusion and
declare for the Democrats. The
advice was taken by two men,
for whom it was intended: W.
A. Guthrie, who tried to sell his
party out in the last election and
W. E. Fountain, who tried every
way to deliver the Populists into
the hands of the Philistines, "and
after, being denounced as a mid
night assassin by Democrats an,d'
having all the starch scared out
of him, goes over to his malign
ers. ! You are welcome. .
! THE SAME OLD RESORT. 4
The Democrats, as in all other
campagns, first opened their
campaign by a big flurry with
trumpets and loud-mouth hench
men, going up and down j the
State hollering nigger, nigger,
and failing to produce arguments
or reason. 1 heir next resort is
Ku-Klux, late name being Red
Shirts, and even failing to scare
the people with this bugaboo.
Simmons now gives out word all
along the line, for his henchmen
to claim everything in sight, and
now, it is amusing to hear these
little fellows, sitting around : ,dn
the street corners ; and goods
boxes, and with no argument and
no nothing, saying, '"oh, we are
going to beat you," and some
times they modify their state
ment by saying, "if we- cannot
came to his house on last Satur
day night and forced an entrmce
after the family had all retired to
rest, not even waiting to give his
wife time to dress-Ku-Klux like,
and told Steptoe. that he hail to
resign his position as Registrar,
and if he failed to do so they would '
kill him, and haying; no means of
resistance and to avoid violence
he complied with their -request. '
y Steptoe is here appealing to ,
the law for- protection" as j an
Aiherican citizen in the "faithful
discharge of his duties; '
We learn that warrants for the -arrest
of these violators of the
law will be issued for their ap
pearance, before the Supreme
court at once, to answer the
charge; against them.
Ain't this a pretty state of j af- '
fairs? But old Buck is just car-,
rying out his threats made at the
Democratic State Convention, but
thank God there is a remedy for
all such lawlessness as the-ftbove,
ancl we are also thankful that
there are enough good citizens in .
the State to see that such jaw
breakers will receive their just
dues, arid that, peaceable citizens,
will be" protected. " ; '
EPITOR OF THE RECORDER FA
VORS DISFRANCHISEMENT
7 Editor Bailey of -The Record
er, is on his high -horse. In a
circular stating the plan of the
Democrats to disfranchise illiter
ate voters, an extract from Mr.
Bailey's editorial, favoring that
proposition, was produced and
he was spoken of asa Democrat. .
Now Mr. Bailey is attempting to
deny the charge and says, "And
we still stand for the disfran-
chisment of illiterates.
.... 1 . - . A .
That is just what was charged
and Mr. Bailey proves the truth
of it by declaring what we have
above quoted from the last issue
of The Recorder. . y ,
We are informed that ninteeh
thousand tickets were sold on
Thursday of the State fair as
entrance fees, a5 much larger
number than at any time since
its existence. If the Democratf
were in power they would,1 of
course, I claim that f this grand
success was all attributable to
Democratic 4 good government, "
but as they are not in we wonder
if they will let the party, that is
in have any credit- for the State's
grand success for the past two
years ? j; Of course not, but rather
say it is because the Democrats
are out.!
THE REGISTRATION.
The registration in Wake
nek rrr tVi f'5tntf WP -will rrft tVi
would- put .an end -to the POr Legislature " anyway,' and bless county has progressed vt-ry atis- :
people's privileges, so -.far, as j M hvnoc.ritical souls, 'factorv to the fusion party in the ,
. j 1 ; - . : ' " -1 .'-'.' - ii , . -
f this is any consolation to county. , .now, 11 all our lnends
1I of our speakers that we has been cowhuted, slapped down i ture two years ago will elect the I , . -.. ..' ; them; let them fing this song will .come out and vote, our'ma-
i-n brim' the most cheer- and sat upon by men of his own j whole fusion ticket tliis year. ! The DemVcrats of North Car-Lfrom morning till nigh
a- , r.ir i f Kmris u.iiix. iiiii yjL t -i rifrei(Jif Lilt" 11 it-'ii 11 s st" 1111 iretL- ; a hni hnvf pnn un irfiu n ts vdis umu dijp i ne v " " .
in 'r neWS Iium mv; . . . ; . r i """" j - - , ?- . j o , 0 - ; -. . r j
mi sav that the fusion -ticket is Ijvered-coward is her lie is de- jng to their Eastern brethren, j their own, in the way of ignor-; same song. Twenty ; thou- W .Tr-': ' 1
!l t -;m th-iti it was two void of backbone, liver, gizzard, ! an'd ask them to stand firm and !'ant ne irro.es i and yet "more des-;sand majority is what they cl?iim- W viniO V.; JIAIJ,, Ili:KSllKXT.
4rrid the State or anv organ common to the hu-Vthe registration will be over- i nicable white men. Charlotte ed and it turned out . that the We are dad to announce 1 1 Ji
( tv thousand majoritv tvb. years t man species. whelmingly for fusion. Ohserccr. - fusionists carried the State by - electionj of Ir. AVlrren A' I fall v
0 15 IlUL IIIC flt'ffv uiai uuiiiv-ia.. iun tuuuoaiiMj auu iiuiu tiis. iui 1 lOiULUi ui U.HU h
INTOLERANT. this set, but 'white men, their best information that can. be sob- State Republican Club. This is
n rr
o'and with still" brighter pros-
pects, where win i-j---v
go tor
'i-i i. s-ix" tlint since O. H.
I lll'V I1U Cll --
A
lSuck ivitcnen says tnai ne
never voted the lusion ticket.
When he was candidate for
Railroad Commissioner this was
. - t " '.,i.:".,wi IVm rit rhnr-tHl on him and he said it bad ecrir.
mhii;W when Tou got Dock-" was true, but that he advised all -pregnant hinges of the knee
" " "hi : ' Pou friends " sa- if PopiHists in Halifax to decline you are all right' at once. Well,
l)aJWv comes "to Smithfield to vote, finvusf he knew it zvould as lor our part, we had rather be
XL thev will whip him. Mav-7 counted for the Democrats, ' a dead dog than the tool of any
aj,ain uy 1 . . v0te, it would set of men. ; The Democrats may
he vou win. v.
' If vou do not declare yourself ! equals in morals,lntellect, stand-; tained
a tool of the machine, vou are a liner and capacity, and supe- there w
but if vou bow the i riors in honesty and-good citizen- terence
hnrlchnned
, . tW man the uouisuoro Kefuuuu mc mj. ..... umv. fe
said would leave "in jority, ior mey wuuiu mvhi an iuicuuns u r -tv.,
,rokc in that town, the boxes. . ; tney will get no mc.
ship. These gentlemen, honest . fusionists from two years ago.
VOterS ana gOOU auzdUb , aic meiciuic ici us . any tu -.um
dubbed white-livered cowards, j Populist and Republican friends
hounds, vagabonds, and other ! to pay no attention to the Demo-
choice epithets of the ' slums, j crats claiming the btate, they are
rom all parts of the State, a very wise selection, "as ihef.e is'
ill not be a thousand dif- ho better worker in their party
in the maionty lor the than young man Hall.- ' t .
I emocrats
pox
;f
ne
-
You are scared; weU you. may
be, for honesty shall control this
State. ""A. ';
only Whistling no w to keep their
courage up. They are beat bad
and they know It.
: I f-I say thatthe man' whoi votes
must own $300' worth of pro
perty bf fore he can vote,
why shall not some other and
wealthier citizen say the " min
imum should be $5,000 or $i6o,T
000 ! - . .-':