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The Republican. Ques. What party nominated three negroes for the Legislature in Edge combe, two in Halilax, one in Vance, one in Granville, one in Craven, one in Pasquotank, one in Warren and va rious other Counties? Ans. The Republican party. That party has nominated negroes in all certain Republican Counties in the East. Ques. Do the Republicans nomi nate negroes for County offices as well as for Congress, Judicial and Legisla tive offices? Ans. Yes. They have named them for County offices also in all those Counties, and also' in other Counties. They have named negroes for Registers of Deeds, Treasurers, Coroners, County Commissioners in many Counties of the East. In fact in all Counties where they are certain to elect their ticket. Ques. Why do the negroes claim the office of Register of Deeds in all usion arrangements where possible? Ans. Because that office pays well the duties are easy and pleasant, and because no white couple can get mar ried without getting the consent and iceuse of the negro. Ques. What parties this year are appealing t o the negro yule? Ans. The Fusionist and Republi can. Ques. Is there r a party in North Carolina which does not rely on the negro votes? - - Ans. Yes, the Democratic party reli"e3 entirely on the votes of white men. Ques. Is there a party in this State which has not nominated a single ne gro?. Ans. Yes. The Democratic party has not nominated a single negro for office in this State. Ques.- Is there any other party which has put no negro on its ticket? Ans. No. The Fusionists have ne groes on tbeir tickets in many Counties. n Halifax the Populist Clerk is on a ticket with many negroes. In Edge combe the negroes have the entire Legislative ticket and give the Pop ulists some County officers. In vari ous other Counties it is the same. In Wake County they kept the negro off by promising to give them two places in tne Agricultural Department at $ 900.00 each a year. And the Fusi onists nominated Dan. Young for Clerk and Ham Jones for Sheriff and each of them has a negro deputy. Ones. Who controls Republican Conventions in most of the Counties of the East? Ans. The negroes. Ques. Name some Counties in which the negroes had a majority 01 delagates in County Convention? Ans. There were out of 120 dele gates to the recent Wake County Re publican Convention, ba negro dele gates. Nearly all the delegates to tne Convention in Craven, Edgecombe, Halifax,- New Hanover, Pasquotank, Warren, Vance, .Northampton, Duplin, Richmond, Robeson, Columbus, Green, Pitt, Bertie, Lenoir and many other Eastern Counties, were negroes. Ques. What candidate for Judge was nominated by a Convention com posed entirely of negroes not a white man in it? Ans Chas. A. Cook, Republican Second Dis Convention single white nominee forjudge in the trict was nominated by a in which there was not a man. , QuegHow many negro -voters are in North Carolina? An j. 110,000 legal voters and 10, 000 fraudulent voters. Ques. What party do they vote for? Ans.' Solidly for the the Republi can, party. ', :;V nnoo What nartv does the negro regard as the negro Party? Ans. The negro knows the rtepuo norfv in the nesrro Dart v. and he 1IWU fCM "J o , votes that ticket. The Best Plaster. : nf flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on to the affected parts is superior to IflbW w . ---- any plaster. When trouDiea wiw. pain in the chest or side, or a lame back, Rive it a trials Ton are certain to be more than pleased with the prompt relief which it affords. Pain d..i. ia .ian a. ArLa.i ti cure for rheum- .tim:- For aale by E.. T. Whitehead Commonwealth SCOTLAND NEOB4 N. O., THURSPAY, NOVEMBER 3, Lesson No. 2. NEGRO RULE. Question. Are there , any negro Justices of the Peace in this State? Answer Yes. Ques. How many? Ans. About 300. Ques. When were they appointed or elected? Ans. All were appointed or elected since the Fusionists came into power in 1895. Ques. Before 1895, and until the Democrats lost the State, were there any negro Justices of the Peace? Ans. None, except a few who were appointed by Republican Clerks of the Court to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation. Ques. Are there any negro police men in the State. Ans. Yes, In Wilmington there .are ten, and in Newbern and Greenville there are others. Ques. Who appointed them ? Ans. The Republican Boards of Aldermen of those cities. Ques. When the Democrats were in power, were there any negro police men? Ans. Not one in the State. Ques. How many negroes now hold office in the State? Ans. Nearly a thousand ; and the negro Congressman White says they haye just begun ; and that negroes are being made every day who will hold office in North Carolinar Ques. Are there any negro store keepers and guagers in this State? Ans. A negro, Jas. E. Sheperd, of Durham, is a general store-keeper and guager, and has charge of about one third of the suspended distilleries in the Fourth-District. And the negro John T. Howe, Republican member of the last Legislature from New Han over, and traveling agent of the negro paper, "The Daily Record," that slan dered the white women, is a store keeper and guager. Ques. Who appointed these negroes over White distillers? Ans. Republican Collector Duncan. He tried to put the negro Howe in charge of Mr. Bradshaw's distillery near Wilmington, but Mr. Bradshaw said he was a white man and would not work under a negro. Ques. Are there any negro Collec tors of Customs in North Carolina. Ans. Yes ; negro John C. Dancy is Collector of Customs at Wilmington, the largest city in the State, with a salary of over $3,000 a year, and has several negro deputies and clerks in his office. Ques. Who is John C. Dancy? Ans. The negroe Collector ol Cus toms at Wilmington, N. C, who was a delegate from this State to the negro convention recently held in Rochester, N. Y., which devoted much of its time discussing plans to bring about the repeal ot the laws against mixed marriages. Dancy is now canvassing the State under the auspices of the Republican State Committee. The Republican Committee advertises him as follows : - , THE HON. JOHN C. DANCY will address the citizens of Raleigh, N. C, at the Court House on Friday night, October 14th, 1898. W. S. HYAMS, A. E. HOLTON, Secretary. Ch'm. Rep. State Committee. Que8. Are there any postmasters in the State ; and if sor how many ? -- Ans. Yes : there are between twenty and twenty-five negro postmasters in North Carolina now. Qu8a Who appointed them? Ans. McKinley, at the request or Senator Pritchard and negro Congress man White. Ques. What big towns in the State have negro postmasters: - Ans. Wilson, -population b,UUU ; Rocky Mount, population 4,000 ; Wel- don, Windsor, etc. Ones. Were there any negro post- masters appointed by the Democratic administration? Ans. No, not a single one appointed by the Democrats. There were one or two hold-overs from Harrison s iasi au- ministration. - ' S: Ques. Who chained a white con vict and a negro . convict together last week?. - .'-v'-v' A na Jn Hahn. Radical Sheriff of Craven county chained two convicts together one a white man and one a TTT ANTE V i V iUtHAJU j IfttOl- .-r-m.t . r fPTlTTLlTI Vll worthy persons in mis suae w manage our business in ineir own j nearby counties. It is mainly office work eonductea at ihhimj.. - oawy straight $900 a- year and expenses definite, bonafide, no more, no less salary. Monthly $70. iteierences. jhu close self-addreseed stamped envelope, Herbert E. Hess, Prest., Dept. M. Chicago. (Dominion Co.) "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. negro and bragged about it, saying that the white man was the only Dem I ocratic inclined Populist in .Craven county. Ques. Do negro Constables arrest white people? Ans. Yes ; a negro Constable, not less than a month ago, rode into War ren ton with a negro tied with a rope. In Wake county Ham Jones has a ne- gro deputy, who recently served a sub poena on the Mayor ot the city Ques. Do negro Magistrates try white people? Ans. Yes, frequently ; both white men and white ladies. Recently in Newbern a negro Magistrate arrested, through a negro Constable, two highly respected white ladies on groundless charges, and tried them. Ques. Have the Republicans filled the jury box with negroes? Ans. Yes : in New Hanover county, at the lost court, a jury-was empan- neled with eleven negroes and one white man on it. Olten the juries are more than half negroes and the negro rid den counties of the East, and all juries there have more or les negroes on them. Lesson no. 3. BROKEN PROMISES. Question. What party controlled the Legislature of 1S97? Answer. Republican and minority Populists. Ques. What party promised to abol ish useless offices, reduce expenses and cut down salaries to the base of the price of farm products? Ans. The Populist party. Ques. How many offices haye the Fusionists abolished? Ans. None, but they have created many new ones. Ques. What salaries have the Fu sionists reduced to a parity with gold standard prices? Ans. None. '. Ques. Have the Fusionists reduced expenses? Ans. No. But they have increased the expenses of the State Government about 100,000 dollars a year. Ques. Have the Fusionists reduced any salaries at all ? Ans. Not one. Salaries, wages and mileage of the Penitentiary employees and officers alone cost $9,644.08 more under Jno. R. Smith in 1897 than un der A. Leazar in 1896. Ques. How much more did the last two Fusion Legislatures cost than the two preceding Democratic Legisla tures? ' Ans. $14,032.70. . Ques. How many members are there in the State Senate?- ' Ans. Fifty. Ques. How many men did the fif ty members ot the Senate in the Legis lature of '97 employ to help and wait on them? Ans. One hundred and twenty three. , Ques. What did A. L. Swinson, En rolling Clerk of the last Legislature, say about the extravagance in that office? Ans. He said that be had bean forced by the Legislature to employ men at a cost of $1,500 to do work that THREE MEN could have done in THREE DAYS. Ques. Have the Fusionists decreas ed the expenses of the State govern ment? Ans. No. The expenses of the State Government during the last three years under the Fusionists exceed those of the State Government during the last three under the. Democrats, $299,633.93 about $100,000 a yea Ques. What party levied a special tax on beds, garden seeds and medi cines? Ans -The Fusionists have the hon or of levying special taxes on these articles. . ,. - Ques How did the Fusionists treat the widows orphans? Ans. They levied a special inherit ance lax upon the pittance which was left them by their husbands and fathers and this special tax in addition to the regular ad valorem tax. In short, they have double taxed the widows and orphans. Ques Who ordained that the bodies of poor people, without consent of rela mitrht ba turned oyer to medical students to be dissected and cut to pieces : AnB This horrible law is the work of the Fusionists. Verily they spare not even the dead.: - ' "Ques. What party lowered , the tai When you ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve don't accept a counterfeit or imitation. 4 uBre mrtra nnsna 01 Piles being cured others combmed.- bv tnis, - man an -E T. Whitehead & Co. of N orth Carolina. on billiard tables and raised the taxes j on horses, cattle, hogs and farm imple ments? - Ans. The Fusionists. Ques. What partv decided thai the farmers falsely valued their hogs, cat tle, horses, etc., for taxes, and gave the Railroad Commission power to increase the value beyond what, their owner had sworn their true value to be? Ans. The Fusionists. Ques. Did the Fusionists empower the Railroad Commission to increase the value olbank stock, solvent credits, bonds, jewelry, etc? Ans. No. They only empowered the Commission to raise the valuation on the property of the farmers. Ques. What did the Republicans promiee about the price of cotton? Ans. When McKinley was elected President they were to get at least 8 cents for cotton. Ques. What are the people getting for their cotton? Ans. The first year of McKinley prosperity enabled them to get 6 cents and the second they got 4 1-2 and 4 7-8 cents. ,., What they will get in the next t wo years no one can tell. Ques. What do Republicans say they have put up in price. Ans. Bull yearlings. The great demand for beef for. our soldiers has run up the price of beef cattle and the Republicans claim credit for that, and when charged with their misdeed, cry out that bull yearlings are higher than ever. They hope to get to the Legislature riding on bull yearlings. Lesson No'. 4. FALSE PRETENSES. Ques. What party ac the beginning of Ihb campaign declared that the Democratic party had no purpose to disfranchise the negro? Ans. The Populist party issued a Hand-Book, edited by Thompson and Ayer, in which it was stated that the Democrats had had absolute control of the State for twenty-three years and had not disfranchised the negro or at tempted to do so and that it has no purpose to disfranchise him. Ques. Who is now charging that the Democrats will disfranchise the negro? Ans. The Fusion Populists, notably Thompson and Ayer, are now making this charge, thereby flatly contradict ing their own statements made only a few weeks ago. Ques. What party is denouncing the Australian ballot? Ans. The Fusion Populists. Ques. What psjty put in its plat iorm in 1S94 a plank favoring the Australian ballot? Ans. The Populist party. Ques. Who said in the beginning of this campaign that he would not be drawn into a - discussion o! the negro question? Ans. Senator Marlon Butler. Ques. What speaker ts now devot- ! iug most of his time in discussing and ! apologizing for negro rule in North Carolina? Ans. Senator Marion Butler. No Radical orator in the State has ever so delighted and tickled the negro as Senator Butler's speeches are now de lighting and tickling them. - Ques. Which is the only party that ever issued a campaign book and omit ted to discuss in it any of the princi- nles which that party professed to ad- ... r vocate? Ans. The Fusion Populists, repre sented by office-holders Thompson and Ayer. The Populist Hand-Book, is- j gue bythem this year, neither dis cusses silver, trust or monopolies, nor contain.3 the Populist platform, State or National. QuesL Why this omission? Ans. Because these office-holding- Populists did not wish to hurt th feelings'" of the gold-bugs and monop olists with whom they are trying to yoke the Populists party. Ques. What party advocates silver and votes with gold bugs? Ans. The Fusion Populists are do ing all they can to build up and strengthen the arm of the gold Repub lican party In this State and tq weaken, disorganize, pull down and destroy the cMwt.. fnrwa of iho State. .S Ctltbl .v.s v. - - 1 - - - - Queg Who is furnishing the mon ey to run the Fusion campaign? Ans Mark Hanna, financial agent of the gold-bugs and -monopolists in the United States." Ques. Why does Mark Hanna give The sooner a cough or cold is cured without barm to the sufferer the better. Lingering lds are dangerous. Hack- mg cougn - - . -,. nni ia with. i uuueu uuic uuivij buuw - A - . - in reach ?a -.It is pleasant to the taste. " ; SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1898. NO. 46 $20,000 to a State campaign in an off year? , ' Ans. Because Pritchard and Hol- ton told him and he saw the point, that if the Fusionists carried the State this year it would be easy .to carry it for . McKinley iu 1900. Mrk Hanra knows a thing or two and always puts his money out when and where it will tell the most for his 'masters of Wall and Lombard streets. Ques. Is there any party in the State composed entirely of white men? Ans. Yes. The Democratic party is composed entirely of white men? Ques. Is there any party in the State composed of a majority of ne groes? Ans. Yes, the Republican party has about 115,000 negro voters and about 30,000 white voterc nearly four ne groes to every white man. Ques. Which is the white parly and which the negro party? Ans. An idiot can answer this question. To every negro in the State the question is easy," yet Thompson, Butler and Ayer pretend to ba greatly puzzled over its solution. Ques. In what way do the negroes propose to secure negro supremacy in North Carolina? Ans. By voting the Republican Fusion ticket. Ques. In what way only can white men secure white supremacy in North Carolina? Ans. By voting the Democratic ticket, supported by 155,000 white men. Lesson JNo. 5. REPUBLICAN DISFRA NCHISE- -MENT SCARECROW. Question What are the quahfica tions of a voter in North. Carolina? Answer That he shall be a male citizan and 21 years ot age. Those are the qualifications in general terms. Ques. Who fixes those qualifica tions. Anp.The people in the Constitu tion. Quea. Who can change those qual ifications? Ans. The people, and only the peo ple. Ques.How can the people change those qualifications? . Ans. By changing the Constitution- Ques. How can the people change the Constitution? Ans. The Legislature first has to adopt the proposed change "by a two thirds majority, and then the proposed change is voted on by the people at the polls. ; Ques.--Cannot the Legislature pro vide that no illiterate man shall vote? Ans. No. The Legislature can do no such thing. The Legislature has no power to do it. Ques. What does the Constitution say about it. Ans.Tbe Constitution gives the right to vote to'every male citizen 21 years of age. It then says that this Constitution shall not be amended, nor shall it be changed in any particular, except the Legislature first passes the proposed amendment by a two-thirds majority, and then the piopcsed amendment is ratified by a majority of the people at the polls. Ques. Is there any party that is now proposing to amend the Consti tution in this or in any other respect ? Ans.--No. No party is now pio posing any cnange in the Constitution whatever. Ques. 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