The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1888-09-08
eHERE WE ARE 7"
THE RADIoA1 CIRCUS TO-DAY,
In Which the White clown and the
Negro Monkey Will BE the
Principal Features.

! ASN-1 ~SAaLOi SiAO4 AoNiNSAA Sti
Gus will crack hisradical whip in the
court house, aud the aged clown of
the continuation will hop in'o the
ring. with the eray-hearded exclam-
atinH; Hare ire" You al
kno@ isin; you i:2ye seen him
| otieaiilngs before. aat! his old cos sl-
nuts ebeut lie county government
system; the surplus, 1ing-rule, ne,
gro Intimidation, and a1aRependent-
gsne, have caused your ears TO ache
each t:,,,le he has fred them at you
duEdg these Hlany years. Like
Banquo's ghost, lie would mot
down. but kept intruding his ugly
phiz into the faces of decent people
until they, i'll their desperation,
have arisen in their might, and de-
termined to burg the hydra-headed
monster forever from their sight in
Buncombe.
The people are tired of radical
ism and its pernicious influences,
and dissolution and destruction,
like the sword of Damocles, hangs
threateningly over it. The slender
thread will break on the sixth of
November, and vengeance will be
wreaked upon those who have
sought by false doctrines and hypo-
critical professions, the disgrace and
degradation of North Carolina. Will
not the judgment be a righteous
one, and will not the people endorse
its issuance? We think they will.
The Independent feature of the
show to-day, is not a new one to
our people. Aged as Methuselah,
and as false as Annanias, it fails to
be regarded by honest people, other
than it really is-a miserable SUBJ
terfuge, INDUCED in and used by
those whose only object is to in
veigle the unsuspeeting into the Co
bra coils of radicalism.
Watch the horizontal bar and
flying trapeze artists; the juggIers
and acro5ats of the great independ>
ent circus t2sday, and see if in them
you do not recognize the old-time
manipulators of the radical revenue,
bull-dozing conventions of the apos-
ties of radical1sm. Watch their de-
liberations and see if radicalism is
not STAN ped in plain letters upon
their every action. See who the
candidates are, and what they have
been all of their liyes. Watch for
the Independents, my son, and
a0hea :ygQp catch one, you will have
struck a bonanza in the dime mu-
scum business. See if every inde-
pendent who takes part and parcel
in this radical convention, has not
been a radical, and is pot now a
radical. See if he does rot wear
the Dockery collar and the Blaine
badge. And then, watch the men
who do most OF the talking in
meeting, and if they are not all
straightout, regulation, all-wool-
and .yard~wide radicals, we con-
fess that we are no judge.
But of all the actors in this farce,
watch the negro monkey, the ring-
tail coon" of the great radical me.
ragerie. See how obediently he will
open his capacious mouth, and
show his molars, when the time
comes to "cheer" the nonsensical
utterances of his white brother. See
how numerously he is represented
among the 'saviours of the State, +"
and observe with a powerful field
glass what he receives from his
white master as a compensation for
his vote and influence. Will he
be placed on the ticket with his
white chums? Not much. 1t is not
exactly the right change of the
moon. for a negro to get
nomination, and the right
change never will come to the ebony
toilers in the radical vineyard, who
nominate the ticket and then work
SO hard to elect it. The white rad.
ial takes all the honors, if honors
they be, and the black radical re-
ceives all the cursing, and takes it
as meekly as if he were a Moses.
The "blaek guard" always came up
at the radical Waterloo, and it is thier
fidelity to the party that has gained
for it all its victories. Their reward
is kick and a cuff, with a sprink-
ling of promises that are never kept.
The negro is fool that he does not
insist upon his right to share the
Offices viii; i,.- white brother. By
every reds1h I'm .wn to justice ard
equity he is t.,,itled 10 rerrese:,a
tton upon the tick.t, NJ Il why lie
does not assert his rights, and Oh
tain what justly belongs to him, We
confess we are at a loss to under,
stand. His white brother, however,
bulldozes him out OF the idea of
claiming. by right, what is his own,
and the brother in black" submits
to being swindled AID humbugged
without a murmur. He goes to all
the conventions, and he shouts, aud
t-yeIls, and furnishes his share of the
general pandemonium, but he
| doesn't get any Office. A great friend
to the negro is the radical party of
North Cardinal
Now. in all justice and right, the
| radicals should put a negro on the
ticket to~day, as recognition of
his services, and thus strengthen
the alliance OF the a0lite and the blqci:
and show an appreciation of those
services, past and present, which
have given the radical party in this
State all that they have obtained.
Give the negro show. He deserves
it and he should receive it at the
hands OF those whom he has pulled
out of the political mire on sew
eral occasions. Will they do it {?
We answer, No
But don't forget to catch an ipde-
pendent if you see one loose.
= Ha Ovill ha a stuondar - and No