The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-21

1t IL well to keep some things right as
we move along. This weeks Caucasian
says: .o ~
when the negro school commit
tees were abolished and all the
white and colored schools in a. town
ship put under the management OF
one committee, and where a colored
man has been put on, it was done 20
he could look after the interests OF
the colored schools of the township"
The Biblical Recorder does not SO I'M
derstand it, for in recent issue it says:
"The present school law is defec-
tive and must be amended. 1t was
shame to so shape the faw that the
negroes must have TO do with the
white schools in order 70 have any
thing to do with the colored schools"
However 1T may be elsewhere, the
question as to the right OF the negro
committeeman to have equal voice was
raised and it was settled that it must be
accorded them in this county
(Wake.) Mr.. j. Ell. Fleming, a
member Of the Wake county Board of
Education, when he found that his Pop
alist and negro associate on the Board
were determined to appoint negro COM
mitteemen, sought to define their status,
and offered the following resolution:
Whereas, it would be detrimental
to the public school system to appoint
colored men on the school commit
A. n
the white schools either in whole or
IN part, a..
at rs therefore resolved that such
colored school committeeman as may
be appointed are expressly appoint
ed by the Board to assist in looking
after the interests OF the colored
schools. and it is the, opini0nsof this.
Board that such committeeman
should not interfere with the control
Of the white schools either in the en-
ployment OF teachers or otherwise"
II this resolution had been adopted,
ahe Caucasian might have had some
ground for saying that the negro was APP
pointed 80 he could look after the in
terest Of the colored schools of the town.
ship" but as the resolution was defeated
by vote Of two to one, it proves that
the negro was appointed to have a voice
m white as well as colored schools. Mr..
Fleming sought to to have it clear that
the negro committeeman were express
Iy appointed by the Board to look after
the interests Of the colored schools" and
mot interfere with the control Of the
white schools either in the employment
of teachers or otherwise" This reso-
luton was defeated because the Fusion
majority ON the Board intended to give
the negro voice Sin the employment OF
teachers for white schools" just as they
have done in Wake and many other
counties.
Facts will not he.
Negro control of white schools will not
be tolerated.
When the Fusionists won in 1894, they
gave negro magistrates and negro door
keepers, adjourned the Legislature in hon.
or of Fred Douglass, and took other steps
in the direction of negro rule, but they
would not turn over the Eastern coun-
ties to them or give them a voice in the
control of white schools.
The last Legislature, encouraged by
the first concessions, let down the bars
everywhere, turning the Eastern coun-
ties wholly over to negro domination and
giving the negroes a voice in the selec-
ton of teachers for white schools. Such
things may be achievements greater than
the barons won at Runnymede-to the
negroes. But they are forerunners of the
destruction of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton if they are permitted to stand.
And the end is not yet. Unless the
white people bury their differences and
unite, we shall see negro school examiners
to examine white lady teachers before the
century closes.
The great Vance said,S in the las
speech he made in Monroe that the Re
publicans were the greatest claimants OF