Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-09-28
READING.
WHAT COLORED REPUBLICAN ED
ITORS THINK OF FUSION AND
THE BUTLER POP
PARTY,

Dy COlO1eu 1lell. ~ llllS JullSlu4S
it is interesting to see how they
stand on the question of a Re
-Populist fusion.
Here is an extract from ali ed
itorial that appeared i'll the
Biadr.'
"Colored Republicans should
bear in mind that the Popullsts
care nothing for them; they are
after your votes, and when you
have helped to place the rcins Of
governement III their hands you
can go to Guinea, 50 far as they
are concerned. 1t is 10 secret
with the Populists and some Of
the white Republicans that they
want to get rid Of the negro and
all they want now is to get III
power and they will draw the
color-line with a vengence,
Their leaders have repeatedly
said that there was material
enough i'll the Republican party,
together with dissatisfied Demo
Gratis, to form a white man S
party which would beat the
straight Democrats. This is their
game, and it does not take a sage
to see it. All this talk about
changing the election laws, and
doing away with the present sys-
TEN of county government Is
simply used by them to catch
votes. If the Populists should get
into power with the help Of your
votes, they would pass election
laws that would be a disgrace to
civilization. Why do we say
50? Because the Populists hate
the negro worse than the devil
hates holy water. The Populist
papers have written column after
column of abuse of Cleveland
because he appointed few col
Ored men TO office.
at would be thousand times bet
ter for negros if they never vote
again than it would be to vote 9
set of men il power who would
make political serfs Of them
The Populist party is composed
of fflce-seekers, and if they W ere
to get into power the negroes
would be done holding Office O
any kind"
This from the Herald is equal
ly decided in tone, and indicate:
that the Pob. ofice-seekers who
expect to poll the negro vote vii
be disappointed.
We have it from a reliable
source that some blasted pig.
head Populist editor wrote us NJ
and charged us as being editor
of a Democratic organ for the
white people of Wilmington
We have tried but 50 far have
not succeeded i'll getting hold Of
the paper t. which we refer
Would say to the editor that tc
our mind he acted devilish COW
ardly, and if he or any Of the
other pig-headed Populist editors
who copied his editorial on us
wish to open discussion with
us OIL the charge above mention
ed, say so bravely. We have al,
ways been against fusing with {
few negotiating Populist voters
and always will.
Mark our prediction and weigh
the result this Fall. The intel
ligent negro is not going to vote
with the editor of the Home and
his followers. How i'll the duce
is it that up to four or five years
past the Populists had been vot-
ing Democratic ticket, advo-
eating Democratic principals
edited Democratic papers, pray
ed Democratic prayers, attended
Democratic conventions, and
now pull out and pop up over i'll
Raleigh, and we are told four
white men to one colored in the
SO named Republican convention
there said what the negro should
do and what ticket he should
vote? Give us a Republican
ticket i'll our hands and we will
castit. Give us a Republican
platform and we will support it.
But a ticket fused and named BY
the negotiating Pops for over
one hundred thousand negroes to
support is ridiculous, and weswill
not support it. Our party is the
older, why didn't they allow us
to nominate and they do the vot-
ing? We have the majority of
the votes, SO why not have the
loudest voice? Can, or will we
sit still and allow sucho In de
fence of our race and rights we
rise up and say, regardless of
whose OK we gore, dive Or die,
survive or perish, we shall do
all in our power to defeat the
Populist fused, negro hating
ticket.
FOUR BIG SUCCESSES.
Having the needed merit to more
than make good all the advertising
claimed for them, the following four