The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1888-09-20

OI tile OtdlS. Ilc NOte cast LOT Scales
in these counties, and it was al. white.
was 45,424, that is to say 90 per cent,
or more than nine-tenthS of the white
men in the negro counties. In the
white counties of the State only 70
per cent, or seven-tenths of the white
men, voted for him, that is tosay one
fifth less.
In other words, if the white men
Of the negro counties had voted, ac-
cording to their strength, no better
than the white men in the white coun-
ties voted, according to their strength,
Scales majority would have been only
10000 votes. Whereas, had the
| white men in the white counties voted
as we'll as the white men in the negro
counties his majority would have been
more than $4,000.
Why this is 50, any thinking man
may see at glance. The white man
in the negro county realizes fully the
Importance Of going to the polls and
casting his vote in the State election.
1t is only in the State election that his
vote counts, and he knows he must
make himself felt somewhere if he
would get relief from the Legislature.
Deprive him of this relief and YOU
will take from him the induCement to
vote the Democratic ticket with the zeal
that he does vote it. Send him back
to negro rule, with the knowledge that
it Is the Democratic party that sends
him back thus cutting him off from all
hope IN the future, and you certainly
cannot expect him to go TO the polls
any better than his brethren do in
other countries in the State, and then
-lnd then, what can you depend
on especially in "off years? Jarvis
majority in 1850 was only 6,237.
Benefits was not 900.
Are we ready to risk the surrender
of our State elections to the Republi-
cans? If not, then we must not send
our brethren of the negro counties
back to negro rule.
We do not say that the white men
there will join the Republican party,
! hut we do say that they will have no
more inducements to 60 to the polls
and vote than white men elsewhere
have, and not as much. There,
nine-tenths of the white men vote the
Democratic ticket; elsewhere only
seven-tenths. See difference and count
the cost, before voting to change the
present system of county government,
for it is the hope of holding that sys-
tenn that makes the white men of the
East vote SO well.
Let every man who considers the
success of the Democratic party essen
tial to prosperity IN North Carolina
ponder well these things, for SO far as
facts and figures can tell the story, the
ascendency of the Democratic party
IN North Carolina has depended upon
the protection it affords to its white
voters in the negro counties. What
the future has in store remains to be
seen.
3. But what are these negro counties
!, worth to the taxpayers of the State?
The whole amount of taxes levied
for the last fiscal year was in round
numbers s543, 5000. Of this amount
the twenty-seven negro counties, thai
. is to say the white people OF those
, counties, paid 100000, much more
than one-third of the whole amount
that is to say, over 38 per cent. of the
| whole amount.
: With bad county government in The
r negro counties, with heavy levies 0
: taxes and extravagant expenditures
: with the unsettled, disturbed condition
| of society sure to follow the effort tc
! force negro rule on white men; with NJ
5 immigrants coming in; with good citi
zens leaving to seek homes where whit,
! men rule white men; with firm afte
: farm thrown upon the market onl,
r to find no purchaser, except at
terrible sacrifice; with bad blood en-
! gendered between the races, does any
e man suppose that these negro coantie
can contiue to pay their present pro
e portion Of the State taxes? Propert
] must decrease, values must diminish
: and taxes with them, and the othe
parts of the State must make up tn
: loss.
Under the Candy system of count
n government in two years personal prop
D erty in the negro counties deprecated
5 IS per cent. of its value; that is to say
e in 1873 it was worth s3,489,6z9 les
than it was in 1876. On the othe
e hand; in two years under the presen
: system personal property in thes
s counties went up II per cent that
2 to say, in 1880 it was worth S2,8I5,
t 400 more than it was worth in 1873
h Does any one wish for palmer proc
of the advantages to him as a tax
/ payer of the present system over th
Y Candy system of county government
: And does not every taxpayer kno'
# that if the east, by reason Of depre
D citation in property, pays less taxes
: that the centre and West must max
up the dlherence2
5 We say, therefore, that before an
man votes to return to the Candy sys
: tom of county government, it will b
/ well-very well-for him TO pause an
n consider all these things.-Gemoeratl
e Hanabook ef A0'th Ca, alma Polite!