The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-27
Wlessenger.
THE NECESSITY OF A WHITE
MANS PARTY.

Jarvis opinions as to political mat
tiers. He carries with him a well-bal-
znced judgment, is not apt to bestride
a crotchet, has large experience, takes
a wider view thar the ordinary politi-
clan, and has political sagacity and
wisdom. He has erred sometimes, but
that is human. He has exactly "sized
up the in North Carolina.
1t is plain beyond all observation that
the radicals are helpless in North Car
olina without the help of the ITO, 600 ne
groes. A more docile. obedient. time
serving gang never disgraced TIE cleo
tive franchise han the negro who
have for thirty years voted as ordered
by their radical white MASTER, and
yelled and beloved and paved as the
ring masters cracked their whips. We
shall never forget Judge Russel1s an
swer to an inquiry we made several
years since. Meeting him, we asked:
"Well, what about the election? who
will win" He replied studiedly: THAT
depends on one thing, whether you can
get your fellows to turn out or no. We
can Whoop up our crowd in forty-eight
hours" He spoke wisely, knowingly.
He knew his Crowd" the pliable,
agreeable "savages" he so well under
stood then and understands now. The
negro practically keep alive the
white radical gang. If they were to
split or to give $4,000 votes against
white boss rule and sustain the only
party that ever CAV them employment
and gave education to their children,
In two years the white stampede from
the radical tribe would be equal to the
traditional scampering of rats from a
sinking ship. The negroes practically
are the radical party aided by a $4,000
or 5000 white contingent who prefer
office or the hope Of it to their own
race and the real welfare Of their state,
native or adopted as the case may be.
While the negroes are overwhelming
rIy in the majority they allow them
selves to be constantly, regularly, sys-
tematically bossed and led by the nose
by the hungry whites who use them at
will to promote their own selfish and
often vicious and destructive ends. No
people ever invested with the right of
Suffrage great privilege indeed in a
republic and ought to be properly val
ued and used-ever showed so little ap-
probation of it's Importance or ever
displayed such servility and ignorance
Nine-tenths of them in 1897-thirty
years after beginning to vote-are
without n proper qualification for
the judicious and intelligent and pa
triotic exercise of that great right in
q free country. They vote as COM
manded and know not he consequences
of what they are doing. They have
about as much knowledge of the great
fundamentals of government and the
basic principles Of parties-of finance,
of the tariff, of states rights, of gov
ornamental limitations of power, Of the
duties of citizenship, of all that enters
into a great, puissant, free republic, as
fhe blacks in the Dark Continent have
OF the British government in it's his
tory, deeds and successes as we'll as Of
its powers and mode of procedure.
1T is a marvellous thing that after
thirty years of voting that the most
of them are children in any knowledge
of government and are submissive
slaves to their imperious white mas
tiers.
We do not write a lin Of this moved
thereby by the slightest unkindness for
In "colored man and brother" We wish
Elm all that he needs, all success COM
mensurate with his qualifications and
condition, and would always contrib
< ute what we can to elevate him in the
moral, intellectual and physical scale
and make him indeed a Man. But so
long as he votes as ordered, and takes
delight in thwarting the white people
who employ him, support to a consider
able extent his family from their own
Earders, and tax themselves by tens of
thousands of dollars each year to edu-
cate his children-so long as this
course is persevered in he shows himself
utterly unappreciative of favors con-;
finually rendered, ignorant of his own
best interests, unwise above ever be-
fore known. and unfit for the great
right so stupidity bestowed upon him
by the men in the north-to help run
II government based on freedom, edu-
cation and moral principles.
So we take it that ex-senator Jarvis
speaks wisely when he says that "the
republicans cannot govern North Car
oIina without negro support" If they
did not have this support they would
not essay the vain n impossible thing
of attempting to govern it. Their sole
hope of success is in the plastic char
acter and the profound ignorance and
laundering stupidity of the negroes.
They argue we'll hat having never fail
ed them in any political crisis when
their own grub was involved they will