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THE EALEIGH POST, JANAXT3Y 25. 1900. THE RALEIGH POST RALEIGH, N. a PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE glORTII CAROLINA PUBLISHING CO ROBT. M. FURMAN - - - Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: ) On Year 11.00 Six Months .60 Offices In .the Pullen Building. Fayettevllle Street. The Raleigh Post will publish brief letters on subjects of general Interest. The writer's name musit accompany the letters. r Anonymous communica tions will not bo noticed. Rejected man uscript will not, be returned. Brief letters of local news from any section of the State will be thankfully Merely personal controversies will not be tolerated. Address all business letters and com munlcations for publication to "THE RALEIGH POST." Thursday, January 25, 1900. ' ' 5 WEATHER TODAY. .g . Fair. oaxvis, i'llIXCII.KD'S SPEECH fcenator Pntchard addressed the Senate Monday in support resolution, declaring . the 'Southern States fwhich undertake to regulate ignorant negro suffrage so as to take from the negro as much power for barm ' as possible tb be ""out of the Union." tile occupied much of the full text of the speech delivered yes time of the Senate in its delivery, but terday in the Senate by Senator Mc the Senate is burdened with more Enery of Louisiana upon the 'Pritchard time than anything else, so there was Reconstruction Resolution, not much lost, and our .Senior -Sena-' It will repay reading. The .Senator tor was gratified with J:he opportuni- presents as forcefully as truthfully ty .of misrepresenting the best the conditions which have existed in finfcerests of all. the peojle of the the Southland from which his State State he claims the honor of repre- has emerged through an amendment senting in that body. - ! to the State Constitution almost iden- He cites declarations of .the leading tical with -that pending in this State, Democrats of this State, made thirty which amendment is unanimously sus vears ago in 1870 just two years af- tained now by all classes and parties ter the constitutional am eridments . in the State; and as graphically de conferring suffrage upon all the ne- scribes the contrast, by way of good groes regardless of qualifications or government, kindly ' relations and Jack of them went into effect, to show prosperity now existing, as the ro th at the efforts now made to correct suit of the adoption of the amend- unbearable evils is in bad faith to ward the constitution and the coun try. These amendments had but then just been forced upon the people at not only were opposed to the 'grand the point of the bayonet, and in their father' clause of the amended consti anxiety to avert" the evils which j tution of their State,, but had declared they feared none the less, and. it unconstitutional." SBUbsequent events have proven their fears but two well founded, an earn est and an honest effort was made to eo shape affairs that the two races would dwell together in harmony and work together for 'the good of all. Liberal appropriations were1 made then, and have been continued since, to give the negrOf 'an education by which he might be somewhat fitted tfor the new' duties imposed upon luxm; asylums an'cl other institutions were built, all of which were paid for and maintained by these very white pose to fuse with the Republicans and men who were then willing to.accept divide the offices out among the Re the situation and improve and up-build 'publican and Populist leaders. To the negro if be could be up-builded. ! enable them to do that they rely on Thirty years have elapsed. From the strength of the negro voters. The 1S70, the date of these honest as-jjg are to he tiv stepping stone Eurances of the white men of -the'to offlce- It was m past theJ IState, to 1S94, affairs progressed qui- it so d,n he f utUre. etly enough; peace prevailed through-1 eefe Senator Butler and his as out the borders of the State, just laws claes want the negroes to vote and were eaia-eted, enforced and respected, j . . m ne-ro voters, not In an ovrl hour, under the sinister and sinful infiuence of Butlerism, the element whidi has never had or shown any disposition to get above the low plane-which ignorant negro j suffrage only can beget, was restored ' to power in 'this State so far as legis lation was concerned, to be followed by a clean sweep in 1806; and in u airuary iimmg tue guv eminent and every branch thereof was turned over w wieiKui rcuuui; .pnuid- and vicious negro, population. .vnu ;"00:suppoiit possible. once more on Top; xuuer anu .rn.wai- ard were sent to the Senate at Wash- . . i t. ?i t ii i i .1 u, vvn i utriu uixe, cuDuiuiauirS m .wvmuw , a all Know. I The condition of affairs in this State during those two years needs no re - capitulation. But this condition followed, not only the honest and earnest assurances 'of the good people of 1870, but after 25 years of the exercise of the privilege of citi zenship and the enjoyment of the ad- vantages and opportunities for pre paration which tbe'se same Democrat ic statesmen gave. y The new opportunity which the up- beaval in 1S06 gave the negroes after all these years of preparation and the enjoyment of the peace which only ftwrtrf , ifrov.ernimenfc could secure, show- BwV. 0- . u iuu yruv.uicu,, -v Hent unfitness, always feared, man- dfested itself riirougnout, ana omy ... 1 j t debauchery air degradation and ruin was reaiizea. t as nice nor uu and Pritchard to sit in the seats h on- ored by Ransom and Vance, and so long as this can continue what carej among the people at aonve J vote, and;, therefore, must, to- curry The results of this second trial of favor with, the negro leaders, advocate the negro to govern In North Caro- jthat negroes should hold office; but in lina, ending in the bloodshed at Wil- stead of that Butler objects to the m'ington, also ended all obligations as- amendment because he says it does sunned by the white -men in 1870, and; not depriTe negroes of the light to Hater, and before high iHeaven they have registered vow no sudh "condi tion shall again .be endured in this State. The act of Congress, quoted by iSenator Pritchard,' enacted when the South -was totally ''unrepresented, !has no bearing -whatever on the pres ent situation. The constitution, "Which is of higher authority than any act of 'Congress, expressly gives the right to amend that installment in any particular the people may decide will be for their general .welfare, There i's no attempt here 'to alter or amend I that constitution, but an effort to ameliorate the evil results of laws enacted thirty-odd years ago, and af ter thirty years of experience have shown them to be only evil in ten dency and result, in accordance with the amendments then adopted. In 'full view of and obedience to the con stitution the people of this iState, tired unto death of the turmoil and disorders and constant menace of un limited and unqualified ignorant ne gro suffrage and its vicious abuse thereof by both ignorant negroes and, of the negro,. -worse "white men, the good- citizens That Butler is a shrewd man is evi of this 'State propose an amendment, dent from the fact that he has con which, while protecting all white citi zens, only provides qualifications he can hereafter exercise a controlling influence in this State. SENATOU ItfENERY'S SPEECH. The Post presents this morning the ment. Republican opponents of our Amend ment have told our people repeatedly that "the Senators from -Louisiana The speech of Senator McBnery answers this canard fully ah"d com pletely. fHe defends its justice, use fulness and constitutionality in a man ner vigorous and unmi stateable. And all that (he says concerning 'Louisiana is as applicable - to North Carolina. We ask all citizens to read the speech carefully. t i The Populist Executive Committee have had their meeting and they pro they want more negro voters fewer. Certainly then these men oppose anv measure that would lessen the number of negro voters. They are thus consistent in opposing ; the constitutional amendment, which, if, adopted, will greatly cut down the voting strength of the negro race. -M .g s lai to need no !disOTgaton; propose to fuse with . t and certainly they want the negro party to be as stron as possible so as to give them all the fl71Tr Trvno1Mo-n tha will tend to deprive them of any negro . .- strength at the polls , Therefore tlly atoor the proposed (constitutional amendment, ' 1 ijf were as honest as they are existent, they would say plainly: We oppose the amendment because it I will deprive us of negro strength at . the polls. - Instead of that, however, they fijro I pose to send out 50,000 copies of But- ler'-s letter to Wilcox, 4n which Butler argues against the amendment because it does not deprive the town negroes of the right to vote, but only deprives tpy negroes of the. right of i guffrag.e . i lboot jg exactly on the cither leg: oTf!Who says so? Butler and his -asso- j imtrli VJ'p nj o i t i vj ji i3 uuisM. vii auv. i.uvv , it pnyes any negro 01 tneir . iinf mf ,. . , t liimited. For their unose the amendment is ioo broad b theJ comipia-m that it is not broad g, Again if tlhey. were honest, they held, office. Their acts prove their "dis honesty. For they oppose the amend ment only to curry favor "with the -negro, hoping, praying and begging negro votes. To tbis last end has the Populist Executive Committee come! Their descent from the high and lofty re solves Vhich. they ' proclaimed years ago, has been (marvelous. Then they proclaimed that they proposed to re form abuses and to deal with public matters on a 'high plane. Now they cast anchor on the negro vote, and all itbeir hopes, aims, objects and pur poses are controlled by their political association with the negro. White men of North Carolina, you see the milk in the cocoanut! .To defeat the amendment is the salvation of the negro party, and the Populist Execu tive Committee is to fuse with that party, merge into it and become a part of it. Any one now seeing the situation, will know .what value to attach to Butler's argument in favor trtived to obtain a seat in the United States Senate. He is shrewd and art ful and full of dodges. Now -listen to him.f He is so artful that he tries to defeat the amendment by persuading white men to help him. His purpose is to favor the negro race, and he seeks to accomplish that by the aid of the whi te race. The struggle in progress in North Carolina is to establish White Su premacy.and Butler by an artful dodge expects to array white men against their race, and in favor of the negra To do this he plays upon .their fears, and he has such a poor opinion . of them that he thinks he can make them tools to his purpose.. We think the white men of North Carolina Will not be entrapped by his artifices. The struggle in North Carolina is to secure white supremacy; To , that end the white Legislature has sub mitted a proposition drawn up by zealous men, bent and determined on having white supremacy, and the only purpose of this amennimemt Is to estab lish white supremacy. Butler, and his associates in their hearts dread this amendment because it'wfll cut off their negro votes, but they have the audacity to say that it will also cut off white votes, and they try to alarm white voters by pretend in 2 that the amendment will take away their rights. In this they show that they have no reasonable opinion of the intelligence and . good sense of the white men of North Carolina. The amendment contains two lead ig ideas : First, tha t ' the qualification for. suffrage shall be an educational test, ability to. read and write. - Second, that this test shall not apply to any person who could vote in 1867 or any time prior thereto, or who is descended from any man who in 1867; or at any time before that, could vote; As all white men in North Carolina are descended from men who could vote in 1867 or before that, all white men in North Carolina are exempt from the educational test. Their right to vote is ' continued without any educational test, Theyf have got that right now and it is con tinued.. Their fight to vote is not de nied, or at all interfered with. It re mains by the very words of the pro posed amen dim en t unchanged. 1 The suggestion that the Democratic Legislature would propose a measure which did not saf eguard the rights of all white men is a vile slander. What is the Democratic party? What bas it been? What has been its history? First, it is composed exclusively of white men and it has struggled always for White Supremacy over the negro voters, not only because white men should rule, but because negro rule was an abomination and a terrible disaster wherever it has been inau gurated. It relies on the white voters exclu sively and it urges them to rally to gether for their common benefit; : ils It possible that the Democratic leaders would be guilty of the folly of offering and proposing a measure that could by any possibility deprive .the illiterate whites, of whom there are so w in &e of tlleir Iower and .a d ;i. woum ve to lessen tne voting strength of the party. . Is it possible that the party would be so foolish as to do that? Certainly not. - f - - w favor, and who concoct tms .canard ionlv to set the heto of white men bv ;! playing upon their fears. No. The Democratic party is the itself. It id that anew cigarette . ; - friend of fie white man; not his ene- concern had recently started in sew Ridgwis., by her doctor after vain my. Indeed, being composed exclu- j Yrk a&d ?was Soin ahai with most t jy trying to cure her-of a frightful slvely of white men, it may be said that it is the white man himself. And are the white men of, North. Carolina made of such stuff that they will turn against each, other, and take away the right of suffrage from earib other? Certainly not; and yet Butler and his xecutive Committee have such a poor opinion of the illiterate whites in North, Carolina that they aire trying to persuade them to believe this mon strous falsehood. But the inherent good sense and intelligence of the Anglo- Saxon will prevail and it will be found that our white men are not to be duped Mke the ignorant negroes (have been duped in times past by their art ful leader's. The Democratic party seeks to pro mote the happiness, prosperity and welfare of the white men, especially because they are all 'whites together; and because In doing so, it best pro motes the welfare of the -whole State. The tru th Is, the color line is a f act The negro stands by his color; and the whites generally stand by theirs. The white race is fit to govern them selves. The negro race is not fit to administer government. They are not fit to govern themselves, much less to govern the white race. The struggle in North Carolina Is to secure the beneficent, just, intelligent operation of wise laws and the domi nation of the superior race over the ignorance of the black race. . Is it not best so? Is it not proper? Let all the whites stand together to secure this result. - Coming from .Senator Butler and Secretary Thompson' and Auditor Ayer and Treasurer Worth, not omit ting Chief Clerk Denmark and QBro. Cade, th,is admonition to "co-operate" with any and all elements, without regard to race or color, to continue the disorders and bad government which humiliated and injured the State from 1897 to 1899, sounded like hollow mockery, the mere echo of the wailings of departed and departing spirits to ex-librarian Cobb, ex-Labor Commissionier Hamtrick, ex-Railroad Commissioner Otho Wilson and ex Sheriff Zack Garrett. This mortgaging-of-the-soul busi ness for office is just where these last named 1 statesmen dropped their watermelon. Pay-day came in 1898 and the people foreclosed. Another pay-day approaches, when Senator Butler and f'his associates" will have to pony up, ' and notwithstanding those who have gone before did not even save the homestead, the Sen ator pleads with the-m to mortgage all they have to' help him and those not yet retired to "hold on!" The states men on the "retired list," no more than the people generally, can see wherein they are to be benefited by mortgaging themselves to keep Mr. Butler in the Senate and the devil turned loose to roam at will through out the State. From our esteemed cotemporary the Wiinston Tobacco Journal we get two interesting items, as follows: The first is "The cigarette has done far less in jury to the health of the smokers than to the reputation for veracity of those that denounce it. We can only add surprise that our friend in stating this proposition did not attach a qualification thereto. something as to the manufacturer of cigarettes that possess the merits claimed. From what we have seen in print, sometimes the party manufac turing has much to do with the vile- ness of, and -injury inflicted by, the little miseniei-maKer. But the next item from our cotem- porary, somewhat in the nature of a rebuke of The Post, is as mortifying as surprising. It 'says: "The Raleigh Post gets facetious at the expense of the newly formed Re- tailors Cigarette Company, f New York city. Ironically it says: Tt (the company) is the rising sun which must usher in the bright day of eman- eipation from low prices of the weed, and should be helped rather than halt- ed by spiteful and mischievous, sug- iolli' . ?We should say that The. Posti knows what it is writing for, rather than what it is writing about. The 'Retailers' Cigarette Company does not set up to be a giant concern. It does not lay claim to ability to overthrow the lAmerican Tobacco Company, nor to cut an important figure in the bright leaf market. It is a modest en terprise, started by men that ' have not been fairly treated by the trust tft is an independent cigarette fac tory, however, and not the only one. There are several others. We are glad to see their number increase and hope that in time they will be of much benefit to the trade and to the tobacco growers. They should be encouraged and not sneered at by newspaper or person avowing friendship for the farmers." . CS'ow, really, this is tough, and we say so in nu feSeuuU1 ini-rauitu : one of humiliation and prayer. The ! 'Posfc thought it knew "what it was I j l c 1 writing for" as well as "about." We I o.y.vil rhif Tee were writing for the . . frrpr nd, if friend ins3sts we bulged m sucn, upon tut? aiuorin axiom jusd Ait- j i"- j 1 then Conveyed to us by the Journal SCROFULA AND ITS :V- v;- .. .'.'-''- -CURED BY .. Johnston's Sarsa QUART BOTTLES. ; A. MOST WONDERFUL CURB. ' r A Grand Old 1-ady Gives Her Experience. Mrs. Thankful Orilla Hurd lives In the beautiful village of Brighton, Livingston Co., Mich. This venerable and highly respected lady was born ia the year 1812, the year of the great war, in Hebron, Washington Co., New York. She came to Michigan in 1840, the year of "Tippecanoe lind Tyler too." All her faculties are excellently preserved, and possessing a very re tentive memory, her mind is full of interesting reminiscences of her early, life, of the early days of the State of Michigan and the interesting and re markable people she has met, and the stirring events of which she was a wit ness. But nothing in her varied and manifold recollections are more mar velous and worthy of attention than are her experiences in the use of JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA- Mrs. Hurd inherited a tendency and pre disposition to scrofula, tliat terribly destructive blood taint which has cursed and is cursing the lives or thousands and marking thousands more as vic tims of the death angel. .Transmitted from generation to generation, it. 13 found in neary every family in one form or another. It may make its ap pearance in dreadful running sores, In unsightly swellings in the neck or goitre, of in eruptions of varied forms. Attacking the mucous membrane, it may be known as catarrh in the head', or developing in the lungs it may be, and of ten is, the prime cause of consumption. Speaking of her case, Mrs. Hurd says: "I was troubled for many years with a bad skin disease. My arms ana limbs -would break out in a mass of cores, discharging yellow matter. My neck began to swell and became very unsightly in appearance. My body was covered with scrofulous eruptions.. My eyes were also greatly inflamed and weakened, and they pained me very much. My blood was in a very bad condition and my head ached severely at frequent intervals, and I had no appetite. I had sores also in my ears. I was in a miserable condition, I had tried every remedy that had been recom mended, and doctor after doctor had failed. One of the best physicians in the state told me I must die of scrofulous consumption, as internal abcessea were beginning to form. I at length was told of Dr. Johnston, of Detroit, and his famous Sarsaparilla. I tried a bottle, more as an experiment than any thing else, as J had no faith in it, and greatly to my agreeable surprise, I began to growlaetter. You can be sure I kept on taking it. I took a great many bottles. IBut I steadily improved until I became entirely well. All the sores healed up, all the bad symptoms disappeared. I gained perfect health, and I have never been troubled with scrofula since. Of course an old lady' of 83 years is not a young woman, but I have had remarkably good health since then, and I flrmly believe that JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA Is the greatest blood purifier and the best medicine in the wide world, both for scrofula and as a spring medicine." This remarkably interesting old lady did not lok to be more than sixty, and she repeated several times, "I believe mj life was saved by JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA." favorable prospects of success; that it' sold its product at $3.50 per thousand, n. , ' Tft.Jn' .rr jOTTC! which tAir. Jordan said a few days M -f ago afforded an "enormous profit; , and that, while the start in business had been made with becoming mod- esty, "it could get all the money it , , m T , . , . needed' The Journal also suggested, u. xd aiu hot say so m pram woi us, that the retailers of the city,, if not country, were behind the new com pany, were members of it, in fact, rvT 7 -u tJ i. .-r i. joice at the appearance of this new corporation, combination, or. organ- ization of the retailers this anti trust dgarette trust, we may say, . ' C -j. having such agencies to push it, with ability to command all the capital needed? And when the new company is finding ready sale for its goods at prices which are declared to afford enormous .profits, why was it wrong fmm nwr ram. election -in The Post to hail it, not only as a in August, the best speakers for and promising competitor of the great against will take the field and ma ko octopus, but as assuring to the farmer,- the welkin ring. While" the fight ., , . , . . -is to be no baby play yet tliere as no necessarily, we may say, higher prices dot what i4ult.4ill be, the ig- ror nis crop.' xuie compeutors, ana we are gratified to be assured by the Tim'ni "fVio. -or-o. Vic Tinii if their ' goods to1 the consumers at prices away down belowi that which! the old concern! has charged! or charges, ' it would be expected that the company could only pay lw prices for their material; but when we are told they have fixed their prices at about the same charged by the others, from which, "enormous profits" are made, then why should not the farmer, and The Post for him, expect better prices for the farmer? If competition is not going to com pete, and all' the profits taken from the consuimer must go into the pock ets of the competitor and none divert ed into the pockets of the f armer7 then, we ask our friend the Journal, as a Christian and a brother, to tell us wherein the farmer is to get .any benefit at all? Xow, we are on the - side of the fairmer against undue exactions of not only THE Trust, but the anti trust Trusts as well. If "enormous profits'" tare made these should be equitably divided with those who grow the raw material and an anti-c tmt ketillg these profits and . , x 1 still failing or refusing to make any concessions to the farmers has no m0re claims on the sympathy of the farmer w bic the first . . , , I original sinner. . So come, (Bro. J ournal, The Pos t is willing to help ' you boost "this New York cigarette trust, employing New York labor and spending its 'enor mous profits" in that city against even our INorth Carolina cigarette trust, which employs -North Carolina labor and spends a large part of its "enor mous profits" in North! Carolina; but you must give us something to stand on show that while making those enormous profits the New York con cern, compelled as it is to use our North Carolina bright leaf, is doing something for' North Carolina farm ers. The New York Retailers' Truest surely cannot expect either the Jour nal or The Post to stand by it against our home trust, when it pursues the same method's as to profits and re fuses to help our iNorth Carolina farmer by paying out some of "those large profits to him. Cold Steel or Death. There is but one small chance to save your life and that Is through an AWFUL HORRORS pari Ha case of stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. He didn't count on the mar- vellous power of Electric Bitters to c. j t cure Stomach and Liver troubles, but heard f itj toak sevin bottles, was wholly cured, avoided surgeon's knife,- now weighs more and feels thsm eyer- Tt's "positively,-guar- an teed to , cure Stomach, Liver and Kkney trouMes and never disap- points. Price &0c at all drug stores. CAMPAIGN NOTES. Greensboro Telegram.) election oome's earlier than usual this year, and it ds high time now, to be- gin to cast about for the right men to he selected for standard bearers The convention is to be held m April flnd is only alout three mnm olf JS'ame your men. (Aberdeen Telegram.) ; The campaing on the constitutional iti onrlmiiTif n c jirt .n n I fVfo jrtTi facf ' 1 14 norant negro vote must and will be eliminated forever, and the quicker it is done the better it will be for both races. The w-hite people who pay tiny taxes and compose the intelligence of eastern North Carolina will never, again submit to negro domination and the Wilmington riot is only a sample of what will occur all over, the east ern part of the ;State before they wilt again submit to it. This is no idlo threat but is iSimpiy a statement of, what is bound to occur to protect lil't and property if 'tlie matter is not set tled peaceably. The White Republi cans and Populists now have a chance to settle the negro question and got him out of politics; if they do not do it then they twill be responsible for any more race riots that may occur in North Carolina. ' ' f (Sanford Express.) - "It is now dearly seen that negro enfranchisement .was, next to seces sion, the most; fatal blunder in our history. It has brought nothing but injury to either race, and it has to tally failed to serve the purpose' of its adoption." The above paragraph- is from the Wrashington Post, a paper that has always been fair ami just t'o the, 'South. The white people of the South were long since convinced that the enfranchisement of the negro was one of the most fatal blunders in our history. WThen the negro was eman cipated he wras little better prepared for the suffrage than are the negroe who live in the jungles of Africa r day. He had been in bondage for j cades and had had no opportunity to prepare himself for citizenship. He has 'been, a tool in the hands of corr rupt men and designing politicians and it seems that the only may to remedy the evil is to deprive trim of his right to' vote. This may seem unjhst, but in the end it will prove a blessing to .both races as the people of the .South will then be permitted L(l 1H K UM 'I JtJl ffr-. I til f fill ST 1 T IITI fcTl Ml amendment which wilj.be voted upon In this State next August grants the. negro the right to -voteaf ter he, has become qualified. A Night of Terror. "Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave Ceneral Burnham of Macias, Me., when the doctors said she could not live till morning' writes Mrs. S. II. Lincoln, wiio at tended her that fearful night. "All thought she must soon die from Pneu monia, but she -begged for Dr. King's New Discovery, eaying it had 'more than once saved her life, amd had cured her -of Consumption. After three -small doeses she slept easily all night, and its further use completely -cured her." This marvelous medicine is guaranteed to cure all Throat, Chest and Lung Diseases. .Only 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles 10c at all drug stores. : Sdllicus "He has very grand idea?, hasn't hf? ir,Tn;n: "v,w,. . - V!.'UH.UJ VVO. 3 be wouldn't serve on a jury-unlesa it was the grand jury."
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