The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-02-07
OUR AMENDED CHARTER.

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her business and educational policy,
can be safely placed IN the hands OF
the white men of the town. No man
who witnessed the malice and hatred
displayed by the negro voter, led
on and encouraged by several un-
principled white men, could doubt
for a moment that the town govern
ment and interests were in danger
of being placed, or rather taken, into
the hands Of ignorant and malicious
persons, by reason Of the large and
increasing ne.yo vote, which can A.
ways be controlled by the worst
white clement in the community,
and hich always allies itself with
the most dangerous classes of the
white race.
There are about fourteen hundr d
voters in Winston, and aside from
the great difficulty IN depos;ting
that number ii ballots at one voting
place, the further fact MAS plain at
the last election, that the two races
could not he crowded in such masses
on election day without great danger
ofbioo,l she'd. Ihenegrocs, Influenced
by desperate aad cowardly white
men, were So defiant and exhibited
so much malice and hatred, that the
patience of many of our best men
was so sorcly tried, that several
times, but for the prevalence Of cool
counsel, blood,hed would have been
the result # their insulting conduct,
1t was also evident that if something
were not done our town wnuld be-
come the center Of regular system
OF negro colonization for election
purposes, and thus carry all the
elections in the count. 1t is well
known that but for The fraudulent
voting of between three and four
hundred negroes in the last election
at this box, nol a single radical can
dictate would have been elected. To
secure the town against the threaten
ed negro supremacy it was thought
best to divide it into wards and TO
establish their own voting places,
and put the negroes into one ward,
SO that he could vote with his own
people, vote his belly full and do no
one any harm, and keep the town
safely in the hands of the best elc-
ment Of white men.
The negroes, flushed with the
success of their ticket in November,
had openly boosted that they intends
ed to elect all the officers in the
town election in next May, and they
would have had the i3ower TO con-
troll The leading politicians in their
party here. Indeed it is q now
known fact that in the scramble for
Office under Harrison at this place,
a negro is carrying around the petit
ton of Il certain radical living in
Salem asking to BE appointed post
master at Winston. 1t is useless to
deny the fact that the NEGROES are
the republican party in Winston and
Forsyth county. But for the. ne
gro vote that party would not nom
mate candidate for a single office
in the county.
When question is put to man
by the registrar it can't be answered
by a bad white man standing at his
back urging him in his fraudulent
purpose. Under the registration
law contained in the amendment re-
Gently passed by the Legislature,
every qualified voter can vote, but
no fioater Or fraudulent voter need
apply. The registrative books and
the registrars are guarded BY ample
provisions, and the ballot box is pro-
tected from the onslaughts of I'M
scrnpulous men. It IS we'll that
these securities are thrown around
the ballot box. If we had had
such in the last election there would
not now be the blot upon our bisto-
~ as a county that exists at present
and at least four hundred fraudulent
voters would have been prevented
and the will of the majority of the
bona fde and qualified voters of the
county would have been made effec-
tual in installing into their respec-
tive Offices the candidates of the
white democracy of Forsyth. While
some of our white citizens may be
at being placed in a ward
with large number of negroes, still
the fact that the town is safe from
negro radical domination ought 70
all considerations merely
personal. Men are often called
uoon to make some concessions M
the nnblic good aud His ,x.,s ,..aa