The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02

plan by when tne AlllhHCe beLHocIdtS
could vote for a Populist for President
and stand with all other white men TO
save the State from the evils he knew
would follow in the train of negro and
Republican rule. The denomination or
Cleveland threw the fat i'll the fire. Then
came division in the ranks of the adj
vocates of free coinage. Many of them
quit the Democratic party, declaring it
had become gold-bug organization.
Others. foreseeing the evils that would
result in q division of the white men, ac'
cepted the declaration of the platform
and Mr.. Cleveland's assurance that
equal treatment should be meted out to
both metals. This division could not be
healed. Great bitterness and much vi
tuperation followed as always happens
when there is a family falling out. But
even then there was no antagonlsm to
the Democratic State administration. 1t
had been responsive to all the denahus vi
the people. 1t had put honest men in
office. In it's twenty years of power there
had not been breath Of scandal direct
ed against any department of State gov
eminent. Outside of bowling for a re-
peal of the county government system s"
as to turn the Eastern counties over
to the negroes, not even the Republicans
preferred any charge against our home
government In all the history of gov
eminent such universal satisfaction and
approval of the administration of any
party in any State is not known to have
existed.
mo CRITICISM OF STATE GOV
ERNMENT.'
Taxes had been steadily reduced until,
instead of so cents on the 500, as when
the Republicans were in power, the tax
rate was % cents. Public schools, for
which the Republicans expended only
$3S. 9S1 SO of the 1919, 55919 collected
from the people, had been improved and
the educational facilities for the youth OF
both States were being improved. While
no human agency is perfect, the Demo
cratic administration in North Carolina
was so near ii that those men who went
into the POpuliSt party i'll 1892 openly
declared that they had no complaint
against the State Government. Keep
that fact in mind! 1t refutes all the
canards which are now being invented by
republicans and their allies. They can
not stand the contrast between their four
years of incompetency and corruption
and the twenty years Of Democratic rule
of decency and honesty. Against the
false assaults of the demagogues who
Islander the dead and invent and repeat
falsehoods against the living, place the
statement of Col. l.. l.. Polk, made early
in 1892: I'VE have no criticism of the
State Government. It's officials are
honest and faithful. 1t is not the State
Administration that is robbing the peo-
pie and making farming improbable. 1t
is the wicked financial system of the
National Government, and it is to Con-
gress that we must look for relief"
UNDER DEMO
CRATIC RULE.
What else does Col. Polk say about
our State Government? On page 159 of
the Hand Book, issued by the Agricul-
tural Department when he was Commits
sioner Of Agriculture, Col. Polk, dis
cussing the advantages offered to settlers
by North Carolina says:
Thousands of the better class at
the North are anxiously looking to
the quiet and peaceful South as
a hope Of escape from those disrup-
tons of social order which unfort-
unately threaten to be a source of
perpetual danger, not only to their in
dustrial prosperity, but involving Sc
riously the personal safety of the
citizen. The turbulent spirit of their
society must give it an unrest which
will impel its more peaceable and
law-abiding members of society to
seek that tranquility and repose. now
so happily prevailing in our State
When Col. Polk wrote thus Of the
State, there were no hindering influences
to keep away capital How is it now
under Fusion rule?
NEGRO RULE DRIVES AWAY IN
VISITORS.
Not great while ago a real estate
agent in Wilmington induced some CAPT
talists and real estate men to visit Will
mington with a view to making some in
vestments. They came, they saw, and
they went away without making any in
yeStments.
In private letter, dated September
10Th, one of the gentlemen, Mr.. G.. Fred
Ausland, wrote as follows to gentle
man i'll Wilmington from Cambridge,
Nd:
while in Wilmington we were very
comfortably located. We spent part of
Saturday, August 18th, at Ocean View,
where the spectacle Of a burly negro
fighting a white policeman, and defying
everybody, was witnessed by myself and
Mr.. Ortensten. Sunday, August 14th.
we spent a very pleasant day at the
Hanover Club, Carolina Beach, and l
must say that we thought your white
population charming and your city and
surrounding country all that could be de-
sired, but the POWER OF THE NE
GRO WAS MORE THAN WE
COULD STAND. With a feeling Of re-
gret, nay Of sorrow, saw fine coun-
try, with the greatest possibilities,
RUINED OF IT'S PROSPECTS,
THROUGH THE BANEFUL INFLU-
ENCES OF A RACE THAT FEW
WHITE MEN AND NO WOMEN CAN
TRUST. You have negro police in your
city, and we would absolutely refuse
negro protection for our families. We
saw thousands of acres OF land lying
waste, but / WOULD NOT ADVISE
ANY OF MY CLIENTS TO SETTLE
ON THEM WITH THE NEGRO AS
A POWER IN YOUR STATE.
'We found the same deplOrable condi-
ton in Weldon (cOlored postmaster, etc.,
Wilson, and over the State"
POLK'S RULE VS.. JOHN Il.
SMITH