The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-08
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! the news comes in it will be bulletined on
! the board.
! Get the News and Observer for the
election news.
The Fusion candidates devoted their
! time yesterday to getting the negroes
IN line and they were not at all squeam-
ish as to how they did it. Some of
the more influential negroes went away
with good-sZed wads in their pockets.
Others were promised subordinate places
after election and still others were
threatened All sorts of deals were
made and if the Fusion ticket is cleo
ted and one-tenth of the deals are car
ried out Wake county will, during the
next two years. be more completely under
negro domination than ever before.
/ Already Holton and Pritchard are pre-
pairing interviews in which they shove
all responsibility for Fusion defeat in
this State on Governor Russell. Poor
Dan
The "if'' now precedes all Fusion
predictions. IF we are defeated it will
be because our voters are inundated; if
we win Wen put those who intimidate
in the penitentiary," is the way they
talk now. Well, if the penitentiary is
depending on their success for it's inmates
it'll stand deserted for many years to
come.
Holton is mighty healthy predicter
for man who knows he's beaten. Many
better prophets than Holton have sus-
tanned serious falls between prediction
and realization. But the Fusionists are
going on the theory that it's better to
laugh first than never to laugh at all.
And their predictions do no harm.
The Fusionists have doubtless observed
that there's not newspaper of re-
spectacle standing, either in or out of
the State, that has seriously advocated
their side of this quarrel. White Repub-
licans everywhere are hoping for &
White Mans victory in North Carolina
to-day.
If you stand with the negroes politi-
cally don't be surprised if you are con
sidered with them sociallS
--
As Artemus Ward used to say, DIR.
Arthur o. Jones is IAN amoosin' cuss"
and that's all can be said about him.
-
Little Ollie Office-Hunter Dockery,
junior, has subsidized into innocuous des-
uetude. Let him subside, but first he
should pay that Selma bar-keeper for the
whiskey he yesterday gave the negroes
he loves SO dearly.
When you go to the polls to-day re-
member this: There is no national ques-
ton involved. You are voting on the
question of Home Rule. The Fusion
ticket represents Negro Rule official cor
ruption, public disgrace and private
scandals. The Democratic ticket stands
for White Supremacy, honesty and integ-
rty public and private, the freedom of
the people and just administration of the
law What honest man can hesitate
in his choice?
Several careful canvasses of the State
have been made, and the indications are
that there will he landslide. 1t will
not slide Fusonward, either.
White men: You have done gallant,
noble work in the campaign just ended.
Now take off your coats and to-day COM
plete the job.
The Fusionists will to-day carry the
State by majority of 10000, with
minus sign written before it.
| If YOU vote to-day with the negroes
don't be surprised tomorrow if the world
classes you with them. A man is judged
by the company he keeps.
| Since Holton is not pleased with his
surname Africanus, it will be changed
Hereafter he must be known as Steptoe
| Holton.
1t was reported yesterday that the
State Auditor, Hal w. Aver, would to-
day vote the White Mans Ticket. At
the time of going to press the report
| lacked confirmation.
| Saturday the names of some twenty
negroes illegally registered in Raleigh
| township were stricken from the books
on challenges. The challenge was sus-
tanned against only one white man.
The cotton mill operatives and en-
Iployes in the railroad and car shops here
will to-day vote the White Tickle. almost
| to a man.
White Men: Don't fail to vote. Go to
| the polls early and do what you can
toward redeeming your State.
| Can't Joe Rogers and Ham Jones give
lis some more moony circulars. Those
already published prove nothing and de-
ny nothing, A few more like them will