The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-20
ANGLO SAXONS MUST CONTROL NORTH
CAROLINA.

1t seems that at the recent meeting
of the Populist State Executive commit
tee one member saw the open door
through which the white people could
enter and restore good government to
the State. Mr. John A Sims, Of Cabar-
rus, who has been sheriff and treasurer
of his county, proposed that inasmuch
as the negroes had drawn the color line
in politics, it was the duty of the white
people to do the same thing for self pre-
servation. We have not seen the resolu-
ton offered by Mr.. Sims, but understand
that such was its purport. We also I'M
derstand that there were other members
beside Mr.. Sims who agreed that the
paramount duty of the white people was
to unite to secure good government, but
that the majority of the committee elect
ed to ignore the evil conditions that ex-
lists and make sham battle upon ques-
lions that, in any event, will not be set
tied right as long as the negro vote
dominates in North Carolina.
There are many important questions to
be settled in North Carolina, but not
one of them will be settled except in the
interest of corporate greed or by pur-
chase as long as the Republican party
dominates as it has dominated since
1894. Negro votes in the Legislature,
and men who owe their election to ne
gro voters as a rule, belong to what
ever interest pays the most for them. Mr..
Sims and those Populists who think
with him have found out this fact. and
they know that there is no hope for
any sort of reform that rests upon an
alliance with the negro. They found it
out from bitter experience. When a
Populist, who has been fusing with Re-
publcans, declares in favor of making
the color line the dividing line in poll
tics he shows that he has been burned
by the hot Goals on which he has walked.
He may not be aware of it, but the
resolution of Mr.. Sims is one that the
patriotic people of the State want to
see carried into effect. We are per-
suaded that there are some white Re
publicans and many Populists who,
thoroughly disgusted with the disgraceful
condition of public affairs in North Car
DINA, are ready to join their neighbors
of the Anglo-Saxon race in making a
stand for Anglo-Saxon rule. 1t is the
part of wisdom for patriots to forget the
differences of the past and welcome this
dormant or smothered spark that
may be kindled into flame
that will brighten and blaze
until it utterly consumes all who come
in it's devouring path. If we know any
thing of the spirit of the white people
of North Carolina it is that they yearn
for an opportunity where white men
can stand together fighting for white
supremacy. The negro domination in
some Eastern counties and the reign of
evil that hangs like a pail over the
State, evidenced by the lawlessness in
the office holders like the chairman of
the board of county commissioners in
Vance and in destruction of all that is
good as in the conduct of the Vance
county negro rapist, have made thought
full citizens shudder. Where will it end,
if the present regime is continued?
The Populist party is responsible for
this condition of affairs. But for their
cooperation with the negroes the present
reign of terror, debauchery and lawless-
ness would not curse the State. We state
this as fact, not by way of denuncia-
ton of those Populists who have been
instruments in this undoing of virtue
and honesty without realizing it. There
are Populists who never intended to give
Jim Young and his allies the control OF
the blind institutions in North Carolina
who never purposed to give negroes a
voice in the management OF white
schools; who never joined the Populis
party to restore the 1868 rule in the
Eastern counties; who never dreamed
that ex-Confederates would be turned
out to starve so that impudent negroes
should live in luxury. And yet thes'
rem have lived to see these disgracefu
things, and worse, come about by viz
tue of the manipulation Of their votes
They have elevated to office men wh'