The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-02
Letters from the People
r,,on,,nued From First Psge.l

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But are their charges truef Must
he people be made to feel that a
great mistake has been made in ask
mo for a change in the management
Of the affairs Of the State; that they
had been deluded, and the subject
Of q huge joke9 What did the PEG
ple mot the Democratic press De
mand? Along what lines did they ask
for a changei Just such lines as
would give each and every citizen
voice IN the management OF the al
fairs OF State, county and township.
They had learned "wisdom"-not
from "the honeyed lips of Plato"
but from years Of experience and de
said the people-ma-
iority instead of minority-must
rule. Their minds were made up,
and the reform has come, the Dem
ocratic press to the contrary, not
outstanding. THE conspirators
have packed their traps and returned
to their wonted obscurity," but the
Democratic minority in North Caro-
lima is breathing less freely by far
than before the "conspirators" met.
The machine, which under guise
Of legislative enactment assumed the
name, and was known As the cleo
ton law, by which large per cent.
Of our citizens were dIsfranchlsed,
with the county government as
measure of it's application ard en-
forcement, was treated In heroic
manner, and only back from the
hollow grave Of the past, rung by
the beneficiaries of its wrongs, do
we hear the requiem Of its dead
shames; and the self-cOnstituted
court OF a trio Of citizens County
commissioner resolving itself into
an august tribunal from which there
was no appeal, will be found In the
secret archieves OF "the departed"
az the last reminder OF the corrupt
government in North Carolina.
Fusion fused imuch to the sorrow of
the enemy the pledges made to the
people were misunderstanding
unknown in the annals OF Demo
cratic reign-and every man In the
State guaranteed one unrestricted
ballot, and that counted just as cast,
from every officer from Justice of
the Peace to President.
The work has been dOne-the
cases hsard-and the jury will make
up the verdict in due time. Grid
each citizen himself for the fray,
and ut the first bugle blast, l0 each
tramp, tramp" to the sound Of the
Il he. sxfu tra 10 h<,h o1
lot for the rights of the citizens. We
iced not presage the result two
years hence with the declaration OF
great victory, but "To yonr tents,
o Israel" the battle cry. The same
banner will lead again, and the
ship that lost her moorings in the
great November storm will find many
breaker between the sea upon
which she now floats, and the main.
land and the harbor. Her machinery
il broken and her rigging lost. The
people have tired of deception anC
minority rule, and will brook it nc
longer. The first great reforms asked
fop|haye been accomplished, and the
people are satisfied.
True something has been said in the
Democratic press about a Douglas.
resolution, but the action of tn,
chief executive Gov. U'FerralD O.
Virginia, Immediately upon the heels
of the adjournment of our legisla
ture, in dining the negro, Teamol
from Massachusetts,, is so refreshing
that we can hardly find time to hun
up dead resolutions. Whateve
qualifications we have in other lines
our folks, compared with Demo
cratic friends, are less than anna
teurs in the art of dining negro
O'Ferrall takes the cake and tn,
Douglass Legislature is simply not II
it. The chief difference, as it ap
pears, between the fusionist an,
Democrats, relative to the negro
is simply a matter of whethe
you will pay him tribute of respec
when dead, or dine him at your ia
BILE while living. Democratic officer
seem to prefer the latter, as in tn
following doggerel:
Cleveland wined and dined, and Douglas
was is guest,
O'Farrell dined and wined, and Teamoh-
you know the rest.
The conduct of our Democratic
friends is about as much in keepin,
with their pretensions and declara
tons, in this instance, as it was dur
Ing the recent session of Congress
OF which Sam Jones said: "They
couldn't pass any Ming-not even
saloon. That the only man con
victed Of doing any thing was Breck
enridge."
But why talkf The people hav
learned to think, and the verdict i
made up. They have come-the
have seen--they have conquered.
SPENCER BLACKBURN.