The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-25
THE NEGRO GETS BROKEN
PROMISES.

| ernor Reynolds made with the negro
| Senators near the close of the session.
| The negroes announced that under no
| circumstances would they vote to turn
| the institutions over to the Republicans
! and boiling Populists unless the insane
asylum at Goldsboro was turned over to
negro management. When the bill came
ND on its second reading, the promise
| had not been made to the negroes, and
| the bill would have failed of passage but
for the Lieutenant Governors casting
| the deciding vote when there was a tie.
| Between the second and third readings,
had a conference with the negroes, made
| the necessary promises, and when the
bill came up on its third reading the negro
conceament, that they had the promise
of the negro asylum at Goldsboro
Our telegraphic columns yesterday
told how the promise had been broken,
and how on the third ballot white Re
publican-a special friend of the Gov
| ernor's-had been chosen to the position
promised to the negroes. After this
| breach of faith, those of the directors
| who had some scruples against the utter
abandonment of the plighted faith of
| the two leaders of the Republican party,
introduced, so the Goldsboro Argus tells us
| "a resolution to the effect that the assis-
tant physicians and other Of
fcers of the asylum should
be colored men, This would
be robbing the negroes of the chief honor
promised them, but would be some bones
thrown to keep part Of the promise. Was
| the resolution adopted? Did the hungry
pie hunters who compose the Board have
any idea of even an appearance Of living
ND to the contract? Not bit. The Ar.
gus says that upon the introduction of :
the resolution. "a discussion arose. and
pending the discussion resolution to
adjourn is always in order-was
carried, and the meeting broke up sub
| ject to the GALL of chairman Person at
some future DAY
When the Raleigh Board met the pub
lie was told that while Dr. Kirby's ad-
ministration was above criticising, while
he had made the largest per cent of cures
in the history of the institution, it was
necessary to turn him out in order to car
ry out the bargain made between the
| Republicans and the boiling Populists.
1t was not pretended that the change
l.would be beneficial to the institution or
to the helpless insane confined therein.
But the idea of 'honor among thieves"
forced them to turn out DIR. Kirby.
L Now at Goldsboro they decide to- re-
move Dr. Miller, whose fitness and capa-
| city are unquestioned, in order to break
/ a solemn contract with the negroes, and
| put in a political doctor, a pet of the
Governor. If these new rulers were
| bound to keep a contract in Raleigh, and
| their consciences were so tender that
rather than go back on their promises
| they would make war on the insane, what
becomes of the consciences of the Colds
| boro Board who broke the contract with
| the negroes3
The truth of the whole scandal is that
| the State is in the hands of a gang of
pie-hunting marauders who hesitate at
| nothing to carry their end and make
places for their fayorites. The increase
| of salaries, the multiplication of Of
| fees, the appointment of incompetent and
! dishonorable .heelers to responsible posi-
| tons are but the precursors of public
debauchery which must follow the adj
! ministration Of the kind of men who,
in the main, have been placed in charge
of public affairs.
| The negroes may be expected for. a
| time to make an outcry against the brok-
| en- promises. But that will not trouble
| the Republican bosses whose whole his
Etory is one of alternately damning and
| cajoling the negroes. The Governor de-
| nounced them as ''savages," and yet they
voted for him. He, the Lieutenant Gov,
ernor and other leaders promised the ne
groes the negro asylum. They have, not
even tried to carry out the promises made
under duress. Amy denunciation by the
negroes will not cause them to lose Sleep
They know that the men who abuse and
curse the negroes most are surest to get
their support for Office.
One of these days the white folks will