The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-12
NEGROES CONVENTION
A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DELE
GATES AT THEIR CONFER
ENCE YESTERDAY.
ALL WERE AGAINST FUSION

Fusion--Negroes Demand COIored
Chapel Hill--Fa'eigh Union Depot
Authorities Denounced--In Favor of
County Superintendf nts of Schools
Board of Control Created, From
Which There is to be lao Appeal
The State convention of negroes met
in Metropolitan Hall at noon yesterday.
Some hundred and fifty delegates yer, IN
attendance, and it is doubtful il more
intelligent body could be cleaned from
the negroes of the State. These negroes
are the best element of their race. To
a casual on-looker they appear to be
deeply in earnest, and determined that
their demands" shall be heard.
The convention is great success, y"
said John Williamson, one of its pro-
motors. Ed Johnson also thinks it
measures up to the ma k that had been
chalked for it.
Jim Young was sitting in the rear Of
the hall. He had tried to kill the con-
ventIon by sowing the town with Little
ton Young's circulars denounciDg the
affair
what do you think of it ~ he was
asked.
sit pleases me very much. John
Williamson and Ed Johnson have failed
to carry out their plans, and the con-
vention didn't stab fusion as they said it
would. It's really triumph for fusion"
But others say that while it does NOT
appear in the resolutions, the whole
movement is aimed at fusion, and that
fusion, so far as the negroes are con-
cerned, is dead duck.
Henry Cheatham, the colored ex Con-
gresham, said not long ago that the
negroes would not take any stand on silver
but would go with the Republican party.
Anyway, this convention didn't mention
silver, and whooped it up for the g. O. ?.
Some of the speakers roundly de-
nounced fusion. John Williamson stirred
up the delegates by throwing hot shot
into fusion-and as side issue into Jim
Young, and Clerk of the Court Dan
Young. He said the clerk had promised
to appoint negro to place in his Office,
but hadn't kept his promise, and said "if
you were to ask Dan Young about it,
he'd call you liar; amt that true, mig
ger 2" He urged the negroes to act in
dependently in the coming election.
Rev. r Fl. W. Leak said he favored
eco operation, but not if Butler and
Tillman had to run it.
Rev. A. r. Davis, of the colored Pres
byterian church, who was yesterday con-
verted to the convention, made good
address, in which he said he wanted the
negroes to stay here at home and develop
themselves. 1.-THE negro" he said, lis
the best labor the South can ever have.
When you bring in the Irishman you
bring the shillelah; with the Italian
comes the stiletto; when you bring in
the Scandinavian you bring in an an
archist. The negro has no labor
problem"
L P. Berry and George Lloyd also
spoke at the afternoon meeting.
At the meeting last night they adopted
a long series of resolutions in which,
among many other things, they say:
1--WE recognize that the great mistake
of the South in the last thirty years,
among both black and white, has been
this dependence on some outside infu
ence to bring it UP in the fulness of
those rights guaranteed in the Declare
ton of Independence. We now desire
to look TO the true source-God, our
selves, and our Southland-for our
salvation, realizing that this is
our home and that it is
neither practicable, nor desirable for
negroes ca masse to leave the Southland
and that since We are to stay here, we
should, both black and white, live peace
ably and friendly with each other as
neighbors and good citizens"
The G.. 0 P. got q fireworks endorse
ment az follows: 1--WE call upon all
true Republicans, white as well as black,
to unite with us in helping to perpetuate
the trne and tried principles of the grand
old party-au who will, if need be, sac
rifice self for the good of : ate and race,
and who will not be for filing his own
pockets to the injury of others" Bat it
condemns rings, cliques and party boss
ism, ana demagoguery WHEREVER found"
'sWe are in favor therefore, - says the
call, ''of throwing our united strength
and influence where the greatest good
will be accomplished for the creates,
number Of Our much abused and crushed
race, both as 10 the recognition Of our
women as SUCH, anu our own mdn1OOu,
our rights as citizens and in gaining for
our worthy and meritorious leaders The
enoluments, benefits and prizes Of office
and reward and honor to whom due
That in local and State politics hereafter,
we shall discriminate more sharply and
select our true and tried friends.
THAT, hereafter, we strive with all
our might to save cur youth from folly,
ignorance, sin and crime; from the already
overcrowded jails, prison houses and
the penitentiary, by educating and train
ing in the strict duties OF citizenship,
love for state and nation, for family and
home and love for labor, especially farm
ing, agricultural and mechanical pur-
suits. While others are fiocking to the
cities our duty is to get hold of land
earth, more earth, we must have"
They appeal to the white people of the
State to "nse their influence to suppress
mob ard lynch law" and to let negroes
be tried by a jury of their peers-a jury
part of whom are negroes.
fWe favor an educational reform aud