The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-13

States is the slandered woman. 1t
matters not, however, whether the
,!andered woman he the wife OF tie
President or The wife Of the hum
hlcst citizen 10 tie land, provided
only she is honest and reputable,and
THIS no man who knows her, OF what
ever political creed, will deny Mrs.
Cleveland to he.
b.. To the SANDER.
Colonel Oliver II. Dockery, hadI-
cal candidate Tor Governor, in h.s
pubic spet cnes CHARGES thai Mrs
Cleveland, q reputable white woman,
50 far debases and degrades herself
Is to kiss negro wenches." Now
he it known, lest it be supposed
otherwise, that DockerY is a white
man, a SOuthern-bOCn white man,
born North CarOlinian we are eS-
pecially ashamed to say, who under>
9tands fully the vile reprOach in
volved in the charge to which be
thus gives the sanction Of his name.
No man better than this same Docks
erg understands the Odium and in
fanny involved in the statement for
xmch he has thus become sponsor
and TO which he thus gives currency,
to wit that a reputable white wo-
man is given to kissing negro
wencheS, 3 charge that, If true,
would shut in her face every respect
able white door in the State, We
say Colonel .Dockery understands
fully the force of the vile CalumnY
he is circulating, for in his own
antipathY to negroes he went so far
when in the Legislature as to favor
driving every free negro from the
State, or forcing him to become q
slave, No negro, he thought, was
fit for anything but slavery.
What, then, shall we say about
| it? For one, we say he ought to be
disowned by every white man, wO
man and child in North Carolina
and, like Stanton and the writer,
and other signers of the borribl
Legislative Address, consigned tC
everlasting infamy. With such mel
he has made his bed, aud upon 1t h
must lie.
But what q warning all this ough
to be to any one thinking about JOIN
lug the Radical party If Dockery
with all his social, educational anC
other advantages be brought t.
his low, dirty level by his assOcia
ton with his negro and other Radi
cal allies, what can other men hop
for? If man with Dockery's ante
cedents is brought to open slande
Of an honest woman, what may b,
expected of any other man who goes
into the Radical ranksP Can an,
man touch pitch and not be deiled
Can any man become a Radical ant
rot be dirty? Alas, poor dirt,
Dockery how YOU have fallen from
your former high estate
And this ie the man who is parad
ing himself before the farmer of tn
State as a farmer of farmers an
their special champion aud friend
That say you, We white men
farmers Of North Carolina; will yo
own himP We think not.
And this is the man who is goln
about over the State asking whit
men to make him their GoVerno
their chief magistrate What ga
you, We white voters of North Ca
F DINA, who have wives or daughter
or sisters or mothers; will you vot
! for him2 In Gods name, no, sa
we.
If the wife of the chief maglstrat
, of this great country cannot escaE
: the Shiny drippIngs from unclea
lips what woman in all the land
safe And Colonel Docdery say
Mrs. Cleveland kisses negro wenche
with all the vile words imply Thin
= of all this when you 90 the poll
1 fellow citizens
From Weldon.