The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-28
EATING AND DRINKING WITH NEGROES.

The Kinston Free Press this week,
refarrinp ia The attempt OF Populist,
Lewis Grady, and the Caucasian to
SANDER the good people of Kinsion, says
that IL is not true that Democrats have
recommended the negro liargctt for
postmaster. We regret that we have
space for only portion of the article In
th, Free Press. 1t says:
ave thank the Raleigh News and
Observer for it's article defending the
pcaple of kinston against the vile san
dor OF some Kinston Democrats ny
| | owls Grady and The Caucasian,
eve referred briefly TO part of Lewis
Crady's record in our last issue. In the
present issue we publish commnnica-
tion from Joe Hargett, colored, defend
ipg himself and showing mp some OF
Eroiv's recent doings-- showing him to
he even more contemplate than we had
lever imagined Grady, who so severely
consumes kmston Democrats in his artl-
Gle to a paper away from home. mt home
actually makes himself obnoxious, says
Joe Hargett. in forcing his company on
negroes, That's the kind of man The
ICaucasian quotes to condemn good men
of Kinstoni! The character Of joe Har-
gett. the negro is u thousand times bet
| ter than that OF Lewis Grady. the whltc
man, who abuses Democrats and negroes
| in The Caucasian and eats and drinks
with negroes ut Negroes house in Kin
| stonti
"Joe Hargett says he never asked any
Democrat to sign his petition for post
master, and that Grady's statement that
Democrats signed il is a lie out and out
and il is a lie!!!! What a few Demo
Gratis. who have known Hargett for
twenty years, signed was, when his
character was attacked, a statement that
he had been citizen of Kinston for
twenty years. had been in business for
sixteen years in Kinston and maintained
GOOD character, all Of which Ia true;
and not word was said about recon-
| mending him for postmaster or any
other Office" ~
1.-THE Democrats OF Kinston are all
right, are good men. 1t is Grady who
| is not honest and suncere.r BY the way.
he stated in his co3nmuntcation TO The
Caucasian that he Favored white rule.
vet he practices "fusion~ to such an
extent as to eat and drink with negroes
at a negro's house! The migrate, the
.raitorl To break bread with his col
ored friends and then write such al
article to a paper. where perhaps he
thought his colored political brethren
would not see it! Oh! the miserable
fraud and lhypocrfe!"s ~ QSAs /
The test of whether aeman favors
| white supremacy is: Does he work for
| it? He works against it when he fuses
with negroes to get offices, when he eats
and drinks with them, and when he
| never does anything looking in that
direction except when he is a candidate
against negro for an office. The ne
gro Hargett writes the Free Press that
he has seen Grady ''since January LIST,
1897, eating and drinking with negroes
and at a negro's house." and that he
has been embarrassed with him forcing
himself on colored company"
| If this is true, Grady's letter to the
| Caucasian was as Infamous as Butler
speech at Rocky Mount.
We have had terrible proof in an
Eastern county in North Carolina that
.'eating and drinking with negroes" leads
to miscegnation and all its horrors.