The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-11-09

sulting Negroes and wantonly pushing
their women from the sidewalk? 1t is
only when the Negro in my State gets
out of his place that he is mclested.
Your people might as we'll let it be un-
derstood that the white men are to gov
ern this State, it will SAFE trouble. In
South Carolina, where the white peo-
pie control, the Negro is treated with
respect and consideration, and there is
sincere desire on the part of US all to
make mis- condition as tolerable as We
can. We don't wish to make our rule
hateful and odious but We want to get
along as pleasantly as possible. What
spectacle it is to US to see our breth-
rcG over here treated as they are, with
the evident desire of the Negroes to
make their sway as harsh and oppres-
sive as possible. We are watching
events here where it is proposed if pos
sible to pin Negro rule to your backs
with Federal bayonets. After making
conditions so intolerable that nature
rebels, they would crush you with
brute force.
Fellow citizens, without good govern
ment and peace, permanent and as
sured, there can be no progress, pros
perity or happiness within the borders
of your State.
1t is fundamental rule in our socia
and political economy that white men
must control our State government.
Without white supremacy assured be-
yond peradventure, there can only be
turmoil and strife.
care not what you are-Republican,
Populist, Silverite or Goldbug-your
skin may be as fair as the lily, but your
heart is scanned with the blackness Of
hell in this crisis, forgetful of the glo-
rious traditions of your own race, you
cast your lot with those who would
put black heels on white necks. The
Negroes themselves have made the race
issue. Can you do less? Whether
from patriotism or self-interest, it is
the paramount duty of every man to
stand by his race before party and be-
fore creed.
/ am not unmindful of tn: fact that
in North Carolina, especially in the
mountain regions, a great many emil
nently respectable families are Repub-
lican from principle. | know many
whom | esteem and respect most high
ly but | would say to them that the
present issue rises far above party, and
they can as i'll afford as you tc have
this State controlled by Negroes. The
black brute who insults your wife or
daughter on the streets will not be
more considerate of theirs, and the evils
of corrupt and expensive State gov
ernment will not bear less, heavily upon
their property than it does upon yours.
LIE: me say to those white men who
hold office by fusion" that l know that
many good and patriotic men were led
through their belief in Alliance princi-
pies into the fusion movement. We
had the same thing in South Carolina,
but We have learned to settle our differ
ences among ourselves. The Demo
cratic party has enacted into its plat
form the very doctrines for which you
have been contending, and there is
nothing for you to do but to come back
home.
To those white fusionists holding Of
fee l say, lay not the hattering unc-
ton to your soul, lit will not last. You
are only tolerated for your votes, and
then you will be thrown overheard.
The Negro is determined to control if
he can, and mark my prediction: The
fusionist will suffer more than any enc
else. Come back while yet there is
time, saving race" will be spent by
the Sth of November. After then you
will be Stunned and ostracised like a
leper by your own race, and looked
upon with contempt by the Negro,
whose tool you have been.
We had crisis like this in 1876,
and those men who failed in the hour
of need have never regretted it but
once, and that is all the time. Like
the revolutionary tory, the man who
didn't vote for Hampton in '76 will
bear the stigma on to generations yet
unborn.
The holding white need not de-
ceive himself, he caut use the Negro to
ride into cthce as he did ~ years ago.
Don't you remember the old joke told
on Malone in this campaign? A Ne
gro SAID he dreamed that Malone died
and knocked at the gate of heaven and
they told him no foot passengers"
could enter, so he went off and fooled a
Negro by telling him to get down on
his all fours and he would ride him in,
and both would thus get inside. But
when they reached the gate Malone
hitched his ''boss" outside and walked
in. Well, he couldn't fool ''Tar
Heel Negro that way today.
They are riding white Republicans
and Populists, and if they can they
will hi,ch their "hosses" outside the
party gate and walk in alone.
a New Comet.