The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
THE EAST WAKING Up
And Getting in Line For a v c.
t Try in November.
THE WHITE MEN TOGETHER
Colored Voters and Leaders
Have Drawn the Line.
A FIGHT TO THE FINISH
Wish the Friends of the White Man and
the White Metal Rapidly Uniting
Their Forces Against the
Enemy.
THE WHITE MEN TOGETHER
A. FIGHT TO THE FINISH


Goldsboro. n. c.. Oct. 17.-(Special) -
/ have been over che East from Column
bus to Greene, and these Eastern men,
among the bravest of all fighters for the
honor of the State and nation, and for
the supremacy OF the white man and
the white metal, bid me send greetings
to their Central and Western brethren
and beseech them to stand by the flag.
They send this message: The battle
is on, the fight is a fierce one, but
our lines are nov compact and thou
sands of recruits are joining us
The scouts Of Marcus Auriferous
Hanna have been here, they have blown
their bugles, beat mudled tattoo 10
their colo,ed cohorts, commanded :hcm
to get in inc and vote against the
whites.
The local place hunters Ire march
ing mp and down the dark column with
black flags, on which are letters in red,
''BLACK MEN STAND TOGETHER
If a single one of them, either by word
or action, intimates that he is weary
OF political race wars, that he has no
grievance, political or otherwise
against his white neighIbors he is court
martialed, and by every manner of
intimidation, is commanded to
get in line. One told me
that he had not voted in
twelve years, and that he announced
that he did not expect TO vote this year
Since this declaration he and his
family have been subjected TO all man.
ner of illJtreatment; midnight maraud-
ers had stoned his house, had
broken out his windows, fright
ened his wife and children, and
bounded him by day and
by night Another told me that he had
intimated that he was going TO vote for
one of his white Democratic neighbors.
Immediately he was warmed not to do
it, Emissaries had been to his wife to
poison her mind against him, and 9th
erwise intimidate him.
The burden of the speeches that Han
mas men have been making in the
East is for the negroes TO get together
and stand together, or their liberty
would be taken from them"
These things have stirred the white
men in the East, and they, too, are lin
ing up in AN irresistible phalanx, with
q determination written on every face
to resist with all the might that God
and the law gives them, this effort to
again despoil the State and to bring
about that race prejudice and political
turmoil that was such menace 10 the
State, and especially to Eastern North
| Carolina, some years ago.
The white men in this campaign have
| been 10th to drag the color line in. They
have ben talking to the people about
| questions OF great Importance, appeal
| ing to men of all parties, all classes, adj
| colors, to forget past prejudice, race
| prejudice, and all other prejudice, and
| vote as their conscience dictated upon
| the great issues involved in the cam
| paign. In the meanwhile the hordes of
| Holton are arraying the negroes
against the whites, arousing their pref
| udices and using every effort intheir
| power to marshal them en- masse in
| favor of Mckinley and their worst de-
| famer, Russell
/ don't think have heard a Repub-
| licau speak in the campaign land |
have heard nearly all the leaders, that
didn't from one to half dozen times
use the hackneyed phrase, 1.-THE Dem
ocrats are in favor of free trade, free
whiskey, free silver, and free every
thing else except free niggers and
free ballots" Pritchard rolls it over
his tongue like a sweet morsel. Rus
sell wells it into the ears of his "sav-
ages" Reynolds and Walser and all
the others repeat over and over again
the exact language to every crowd Of
negroes addressed.
The negroes in number of instances
in these Eastern counties have drawn
the color line against the white Re-
publicans. They have practically kick
ed them out of their primaries. They
have nominated, so / have been told,
in number of instances solid negro
tickets for magistrates. They have, IN
several instances demanded solid ne
gro legislative tickets. They have,
wherever they had the majority in
county or township, kicked out, not
only the Populists, but the white Re
publicans as well, and III over Eastern
North Carolina they have, encouraged
| by Holton and his crowd, drawn the
color line so tight that there has been
nothing left for he white men to do
but to get over on she other side.
Holton's brag about twenty thousand
| increased negro registration has proved
boomerang. OF course nobody who
| is well informed has regarded it as
| anything but y bluff, but il has shown
to the white people of the State that
Holton and his crowd are relying al
most entirely on the negro vote. These
things and the new Hanna and Holton
brand of arrogance and even impu
dence that you find among the mis-
guided negroes in many places in the
East is waking up the whites, and
for the eighteen days between now and
November the Bird there is going to be
a mighty mingling of white men of all
PARTIES in Eastern North Carolina
/ have always regretted to see any
such state Of affairs. ! wish it were
different now, I wish, after a careful
survey Of the situation in this section
| T co,1ld report a contest being fought
o,,t on the issues involved without any
race or other prejudice, but | can't do
| II and be truthful. The negroes them
| selves uroed on all by the few, who