The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1890-10-09
4 WORD OF WARNING.
FOR DEMOCRATS no
THINK ABOUT.
Are We Prepared to Return to the
Days of Radical Rule and Ignorance
and Corruption in High Places.
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! We copy below to-day an editorial
from the Raleigh Chronicle called "'The
Sword Of Damocles," which we ad-
wise all our readers to consider we'll.
1t has for US in Granville a word Of
warning.
Who does not remember when
Granville county orders were at forty
and fifty cents in the dollar, and when
the poor and needy were at the mercy
Of money jobbers9 Not so now. An
order Of the Commissioners now is car
tried to the bank and promptly paid
just as check would be.
If the county commissioners are
elected in Granville county by the
Radical party, how soon think you, be-
fore the days Of" split stick county
orders again ? :
Do We wish these things? Ought
not business to be conducted on bust
ness principles
"No thinking, respectable man can
contemplate the effects-,he horrors
of one Radical Legislature in North
Carolina without a shudder!
What does it meanl Where does
it lead II What are its effects finan-
cially, economically, in the home cir
Gle, for the taxpayer, for the poor and
self-respecting white man and his wife
and little ones3 4
1t means that hereafter each Judicial
district will vote for its own Judge as
now it does for its own solicitor, What
does this mean? 1t means that Geo.
H. White, the present colored solicit
tor of the Second district, will be elect
ed Judge of the Superior Court of
North Carolina (article 4, section
II, of the State Constitution.) Bear
in mind, this colored judge will ride
every district in North Carolina. He
will preside in naughty Asheville and
he will preside by the sea, in Dare.
Surely, the Radicals will not nomi-
nate negro for judge7 Well, per-
haps not, and yet they have a negro
from the Second District in Congress,
and they have negro States Attor-
ney, whose duty is nearly as response
bic as that Of Judge. Are the white
men of North Carolina ready to have
a negro on the bench? Are they
ready to have the delicate rights and
duties of themselves to each other, and |
the privileges of their wives and chill
dren, as between themselves and their
colored neighbors, passed upon by a
negro1
Again The next Legislature will
divide the State into Senatorial dis
tricts. This was done in 1881 (see
Laws I88I-chapter 296) and is to be
done each ten years. By comBina-
tion and gerrymander the State will
be so redistricted that for ten years to
come the Legislature will, at all haz-
ards, 60 Radical, and with it goes the
credit of the State, and with it goes
the charters of Raleigh, Wilmington,
Charlotte, Durham, Asheville, Fay
etteville, New Berne and other East
ern towns and cities and with their
charters 60 the prosperity of these
cities.
The next Legislature redistricts the
Congressional Districts of North Car
olina, and, by gerrymander, the State
will lose certainly half, probably three
fourths, of her Congressmen-and
this means endorsement of Speaker
Reed-and the odious Force Bill-and
of the stabs of Northern Congressman,
during the present Congress at South
ern industries.
Again Radical Legislature means
the repeal of chapter II, section TIC
and of chapter ~, section $40 of the
Code of North Carolina, which means
chaos, hell and confusion, shall again
break loose and reigE supreme in
BERTHE, Halifax, Northampton, Vance,
Craven, Pasquotank, Granville, Hert.
ford, Warren, Washington, Currituck,
Edgecombe, New Hanover and Wake.
Shall these things be? Shall the f.
nances of the State be thrown into
irresponsible hands again. Shall
county script again fall to IS and SO
cents on the dollar in these counties ?
Again Radical Legislature means
the defeat of Vance, and when tribune
of the people shall fall, this man who
has incurred the displeasare OF hydra
headed monopolies and who has grown
old and poor and blind in his fight
for the rights of the oppressed against
the rich-when this man falls who will
dare to champion the cause of the
poor and the needy, seeing how little
the reward for duty done?
Again and above all, it means that
North Carolina has taken a step back
ward. Its moral effect will be great
for evil. 1t means that the inevitable
conflict between white and black is
nearing. 1t means that the van guard
of the black and the rear guard of the
white have met 1t will give the ne
gro false idea Of his own position in
the State. 1t will reopen the old
wounds of I867-I87o. 1t will turn
the head of the colored man from bus
mess to politics. 1t will make him
insolent and stiff-necked. 1t will af- |
feet every household in the State. The
farm hand and nurse, the house maid,
and even the cook in the kitchen, will [
feel licensed TO greater freedom and in
competency.
In the name Of the great State of
North Carolina-her business relations
and her rising tide of prosperity-in
the name Of that Peace and Security