The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-16
WHITE men,
""'' Alt altogether
The Question is Not How a
Man Has Been Vot-
ing, But
HOW Is HE GOING TO VOTE
THERE IS NO MORE DANGER OF
THE PARTY's GOING BACK
WARD THAN THAT THE
SUN WILL MAKE A RE-
TROGRADE MOVE
MENT.
THE WHITE MAN AND THE WHITE METAL
Is the Slogan That Ought to Draw All White
Men, including Populists and Re-
pubIicans, to Redeem the
State.
Fayetteville, n. c., Nov. Il, 1897.


To the Editor; Ia view of the fact
that Chairman Manly has called the
State executive committee to meet on
November 30th, would it not be good
idea for the News and Observer to ask
from the leading Democrats in the sew
eral counties of the State Chose who
only seek the public welfare and are
neither aspirants for office nor Office
holders) for their views on the best and
most practical way to get the white men
in full harmony in North Carolina for
the next campaign. Such information
would certainly be of much value to the
State committee in its deliberations.
The redemption aaof North Carolina
from the control Of the irresponsible
and incapable hands, that are now in
charge, is an imperative business neces-
sity, in which every citizen, regardless
of his calling or past political atf-hatlon,
is vitality interested, and it seems 10 me
that this is not the time to bubble as
to how a man HAS BEEN VOTING,
but rather to plead with him as to how
he is GOING TO VOTE. The writer
has been for twenty-five years an active
organization Democrat, always on hand
before, on and after election day, work
ing for the best interests of the party,
desiring no reward other than the con-
sci0usness of having performed his duty
as a citizen. l am a firm believer IN
government by party, and L also be-
lieye that the Democratic party is the
only one that can satisfactorily govern
North Carolina, if for no other reason
than for the simple one, that its mem
bership is composed almost exclusively
Of the property-owning, intelligent, edu-
Gated white men of the State. In many
Northern States, which ever national
party gains contfel Of city, county or
State goyernmenfsy the result is merely
one of official change, and in either
event, Anglo-SaXon control is assured.
Conditions are entirely different with
us, however.
Our last State and national platforms
fully meet the views of an overwhelm-
ing majority. Of our party membership
and there is no more danger of the party
going backwards than there is in the
SUMS making a retrograde movement.
The "bogy' that a few timid Demo-
Gratis are afraid of in the shape of the
tail wagging the dog" in our next con-
vention, exists only in their individual
imaginations and is really unworthy of
serious consideration.
| Every Populist and white Republican,
who is not an otfice-holder, is as much
interested in good government as you
and / are, and be is bound to know, now
| that he has had some expensive expe-
| rience, that his best political home is
with his brethren that controlled North
Carolina from 1872 to 1894.
/ know scores of our best citizens,
former trusted Democratic workers, who
left the Democratic party in 1892 on ac-
count of Cleveland, and what they be-
lieved his policy would be, and | also
knew a few who left us in 1896 be-
cause they fully believed that the cleo
ton of Bryan would be a calamity.
These men were evidently sincere, as
they are for all material reasons equally
as good citizens as their fellow Demo-
Gratis are. / feel satisfied that the bulk
of these voters have fully found out the
error Of their ways and will be found
with us in the next campaign.
The problem that confronts us Is to
unite all these former Democrats into
| one satisfactory whole. With our party
record from 1872 to 1894 on the one
side and with the fusion record from
| 1894 to 1898 on the other, it surely
ought to be one easily solved.
Your slogan of the "white man and
the white metal is a good one. Let us
rally to it every possible white man,
who voted for Bryan, for Mckinley or
| for Palmer.
| The Democratic party is the only
'white mans" party and is also the
party OF the white metal"
| Let us all rally to the standard of the
people and put it back in control of the
destinies of our State, county and
municipalities in 1893.
JAMES d. McNEILL.