The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-05-23
IN
SOUTH CAROLINA,
Big Democrats Who Were Elected
Under Certain Laws Say
They Are Wrong, When
Defeated.
WHITE MEN MUST CONTROL

WHITE MEN MUST CONTROL
says the Governor In a Ringing Address
The state Confronted by u Crisis-The
Black scheme of Defeated Democrats
What IL Good to Put lhem ip-Is Not
Good to Put Them Out.
The CAUCASIAN, last week, referred
to the condition of affairs in South
Carolina. They are beginning to
assume a serious aspect, if the utter
ances of the Governor of that State
may be taken as expressi ng tb e senti-
ment Of any number of its people.
1t will be remembered that the
laws governing the election in South
Carolina are of such a character as
to disfranchise the negroes and a
considerable number of white men.
Under these laws such men as Sena-
tor M. G.. Butler, of that State, and
other ''old liners" have been elected
to their Offices. More recently these
cold liners" were defeated for Office
under these very same laws, end then
they begun to cry "fraud!" Accord
ing to the Governors opinion these
men went to work with the courts,
and had the courts to declare the laws
"unconstitutional;" though this was
something they never thought of as
long as they were getting in.
The Governors ire is up against
the courts and the men who, he init
mates, practically manipulated the
courts, and he talks about them with
the "bark on" He seems to be not
the least afraid of them, and in fact
shows thorough contempt for them.
Governor Evans is the representa-
tive head of what is called the "Re-
form moyement," which threw out
Of Office such old fossils as Wade
Hampton and NJ C. Butler, and put
such men as Irby and Tillman in
their places in the United States
Senate. Both factions claim TO be
Democrats.
In an open address to the people
.of the State Gov. Evans reviews the
history of negro and "carpet bag"
rule, aud the days of reconstruction.
Then coming to later dates he says:
The Reform movement had moth
ing to do with the election and regis
tration laws. We received them as
legacy from the administration of
1882. We have have upheld them
as the acts of the people, and as con-
stitutional means Of self-preserva-
ton. Some of these men who are
responsible for and who have en-
joyed the benefits and honOrs of Office
under these laws have turned upon
their State since their retirement.
BY an appeal to one Of the bitterest
enemies of Southern civilization a
politician who disgraces the judicial
| ermine of the United States court
and masquerading as Judge, they
have succeeded in having the regis
tration law declared unconstitu
tional, null and void. The chief
argument made before him was the
defamation of your State, and insult,
if insult could come from such
source, to your State officers. Under
this decree the doors have been
thrown open and the ballot again
placed in the hands of every man,
white or black, of the age of 81 years.
The abuse and slander heaped upon
the State by the counsel for the
plaintiffs was only surpassed by that
of the Judge in his document styled
decree in equity.
JUDGE sIMONTON SCORED.
But the pity of it, the humiliation,
an1 the shame Of it is yet to be told.
Besides this Jefferies, on the bench
sat an old man, whose head was
grey, who had fought on the field OF
battle for States rights, who had
been Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentat:ves of South Carolina and in
whose hand writing part of your
registration laws exist il our ar
chives. There he sat wearing alike
the judicial ermine, hearing his State
DETAINED, his comrades in arms de-
nounced as rebels, and his own
handiworkladjudged as crime. Ifthe
law was a crime, was he not the Grim
inal? Should his head have not been
bent and his eyes moist with tears of
humiliation Alas, they were not!
With Mephistophelean grin on his
wrir kled face he nodded assent to
the most infamous document ever
emanating from a court in equity,
while the black audience exclaimed
IA Daniel has come to judgment;
yea, Daniel"
BUTLER RECEIVES A ROAST.
The ex-senator who has been hold.
ing caucuses in Columbia at private
houses, having the ear of the court
and holding "the foot of the chan
cellor," returned to his home, feel
ing that his movements had not beer
detected; but the responsibility shall
rest where it belongs. Let the peo
ple not blame the poor, lean and hun
ery counsel, who are barking merel,
for bone, but visit the sin upon th'
r heads of the arch conspirators.
A crisis confronts US, and has beer
thrust uron us without our will o.
consent at time when peace was hov
ering over the State. South Carolin'
!. is en- njoying an era of industrial i'm
provement, factories are being bull
: in greater numb than elsewhere IL
the South. The credit of the Stat
ranks higher than ever in its history
our bonds not being purchasable q
f o pre- MUM of less than ten per cent
4 The march of progress is about to b
stopped; the black pail of neer
domin alton bowers over US; we mus
n meet the issue like South Carolin
TO-. Tnoro aro Onlv two f1aOs tn