The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-09
WHAT The NtGau POLi''u,

! must nave ueen huSSell VI IitCudiu, ~
| they are the only two men having
the power to ''negroize." An,
yet a negro controls absolutely The
white as we'll as colored State schoo
for the blind. paying his own daughter
more to teach than the white teacher in
the white school receives; a negro is
Chief Fertilizer INSPECTOR under thu
Agricultural Department of North Car
DINA. having white men under him: ne
gro policemen sell justice in our Chief
metropolis: negro school committeeman
have voice in selecting teachers for white
schools; negro officials at the peniten-
tiary go to sleep and let negro convicts
escape; Republican Senator gives the
best place North Carolina has received
under the administration to a negro; a
Republican Governor makes appoint
ments to the deaf, dumb and blind board
to secure the election Of VIGOROUSLY
incompetent negro head Of the deaf and
dumb school. parions negro convicts up
on political grounds, puts negro police
men over white people, and sought to
hegroize the Goldsboro asylum.
If this isn't negroizing, not only East
ern. but the whole of North Carolina.
what else is necessary to do it? Russell
and Pritchard are both ready to do it If
by SO doing they can keep in power.
And yet Hill and other negroes are not
wholly satisfied. Hill writes:
IF our presence in office is detri-
mental to the Republican party the
sooner we get out the better. l
shall not advocate getting out. /
am for taking possession Of it and re-
organizing the old thing"
Hill. who is a leading Duplin negro
politician, goes on to say:
~ can pick out more than a score
Of negroes that would make as good
"A governor as Russell. Unless there
is great and sudden change I vote
for none but colored men for Con-
gress. We have been forced to it,
and now in the majesty of our pow
er vested in us by the American
Constitution let us show the white
bosses something next year. Every
colored man in the State is with me,
and I know it by intuition. If we
undertake to leave our own we are
fools; that would suit the office
seeking gang. The riot act is read.
pass it down the line. No white man
is to be sent to any convention or
nominated for Congress or any other
office where we have the right kind
of men,"
The white man who thinks that the
negro does not want power and is not
grasping after it is an idiot He wants
it more than the white man wants it
and wherever he has the majority he
takes it to himself. If any one doubts
it, look at the Second district Twenty
years ago a white man who was an
enemy to his race and affiliated with
the negroes, had chance to 60 to
Congress. For dozen years past. al
though there are several who would eat
any amount Of dirt to get the nominal
been considered for the nominal
ton. 1--WE have the numbers
and we will elect one of our own
color" is the motto of the negroes. We
do not write this to blame them. but
merely to show that they are determined
to hold office and gain power wherever
it is destructive to good white gov
eminent. 1t shows that the white politi-
clan who, for selfish reasons, tries to
prevent concert of action by white men
to check negro domination, is either a
believer in negro rule and therefore an
untrue Anglo Saxon, or he is after an
office which he thinks the intelligence
of the white voters will deny him. That
is all there is of it.
The negro will not be satisfied until
in counties where he is in the majority,
he can become County Superintendent
of schools. From the standpoint Of a
Republican and folks who intend to
keep in with the Republicans there is no
logical reason why a negro should not
be county superintendent in Edgecombe,
Halifax and twenty other counties. And
they will hold these places if they win
at the next election. The fact that they
are resolved to have voice in the selec-
ton of white teachers was shown in
Wake county where the Board Of Edu-
cation voted down a resolution to the
effect that the negro school committee
men should have no voice in the selec-
ton of white schools. the negro member
and the so-called Populist member voting
to give the negro committeeman equal
voice in selecting teachers for white
schools.
There is no end to the encroachments
if the negro party Is not driven out of
power. The white men only need to
remember the unifying power Of the
campaign 81 1876 and the brave lead
ership of Vance, and consider the deplor-
able depths to which we have fallen. to
repeat the enthusiasm. determination and