The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-17


ton Because it Did Not Endorse Him.
Jim Young, in his paper, fires into the
negro convention and ridicules the idea
of negroes asking for more pie as
against him and the wishes of his
crowd. Jim evidently thinks that the
negroes ought to be satisfied in view
of the fact that he has about all his
fl mily provided for
ID. j. Lane, whom Jim mentions as
one of the conspirators in the negro
convention, said yesterday in reply to
jim:
about a week before the assemblage
of the convention | met jim Young on
the street, he asked me for one Of the
calls / told him that ! would get
him one, and he said that the thing for
the negroes to do was to come together
and endorse him for postmaster at Raj
eigh. He said he had little place. but
it was only given to him temporarily,
until he could get Il better place, and
he was tired Of negros fighting one an
other; and the time had come for them
to come together. ] told Jim that
would see the men who had ii in hand
and / would do all that | could to get
him endorsed. | saw some of the men
and they said that they were not going
to allow anyone to be endorsed, for they
were for the race and not for a few
men to hold office. ! reported the same
to Jim and he said he thought the con-
vention ought to endorse him; that the
white Republicans had enough and it
was time that the negroes were holding
| some responsible places, and he wanted
| the postoffce at Raleigh and could get
| it if all would come together and en-
dorse him.
"Yet in his paper he attempts to ridi-
Guile the convention and borrows Grant
| Fosters expression by calling the con-
vention a Democratic aid society. Fos-
ter did not so term the convention, but
on the other hand stated that the con-
vention could not be made such and he
accepted the office of treasurer of the
conventions which he holds now. 1t is
the old case of sour grapes-they were
sour only after the fox found he could
not get them; and so with Jim and the
negro convention; it did not appear to
be bad thing till Jim found he couldn't
get endorsed for the Raleigh postoffice.
Had the convention gone into the en-
dorsing business Jim couldn't have been
| recommended TO Mckinley in view of
the fact that he tried to sell out Wake
county to Bryan in the last election,
and stated in his paper that the Nc
Kinley electoral ticket must be taken
down.
$50 he is a pretty cock-robin to at
| tempt to ridicule colored Republicans;
and he shows the effrontery of satan
in asking the convention to endorse him
to Mckinley, to whom he acted the part
of a political traitor in the last cam
paign. The negro convention was not
called to endorse traitors and hck-spit-
ties like Jim, who is now the plant tool
of Russell, who a few years ago called
him a scoundrel and threatened to put
him in the pententiary. He also mem
tions the fact that ] fought him in 1885,
Yes, ] did and defeated him-his ma
jority after / got through with him was
two "stickers," and they were counted
for him by a political dependant over
protest. He can also look out for me
again, as / shall continue to fight him
until he is less selfish and ceases to
| fight for Bryanites instead of McKin-
| leyites, and can learn to stand by the
principles of the Republican party.
"Jim makes no fight in his paper for
our people to hold office, and does not
seek to have any OF the pledges of the
politicians fulfilled except those made
to himself. He has got himself in office;
his brother-in-law in office; his father
in-law in office, and his daughter in Of