The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-04

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lis is not a time for compromises.
The issue is clearly drawn-white SUI
premacy or negro domination. III you
favor white supremacy, the way to ex-
press your sentiments is by voting for
the candidates of the white mans
party. IL you prefer negro domination
the way TO manifest that preference Is
by voting for the candidates of the ne
gro party. This is the sum and sub
stance OF the matter in a nutshell
Winston Sentinel.
DR.. Norment may ask what Is the
meaning Of red shirts and may express
regret at their appearance in Robson
county. The red shirts mean white SUI
premacy, doctor. They are here and
here they will remain as long as you
continue TO make speeches to a crowd
of ffty-one negroes and eight white
men, in which you so far lose sight of
the color of your own skin as TO paint
a picture for those negroes in which
you place a young white girl in a posi-
ton so disgusting and obnoxious TO
truth that you, hardened politician as
you are, ought to be ashamed OF your
self.-Lumberton Robesonian.
1t is better for the colored people as
we'll as for the white people that the
latter should control every town and
county in this state. AS long as the
democrats controlled North Carolina
a most kindly feeling existed between
the two races, and every man, black
and white, was fully protected in all
his rights. Indeed it has often been
publicly declared by prominent colored
speakers that the colored people were
better treated in North Carolina than
in any other state. And this was IN
der democratic rule-under the rule
of the party which lying demagogues
now declare will disfranchise the ne
groes!-Pittsburg Record.
There are democrats in Robson
county who propose to draw the lines
more distinctly between men whose
faces are their only claims to being
white. At a recent meeting at Red
Springs, in that county, resolutions
were passed to OStracise socially and
treat as negroes all who work and
vote for negro domination in this
campaign, also, that where certain
kinds Of work is to be done a prefer
ence be given to the man who up
holds and votes for white supremacy"
And what more can such men expect
who deliberately put themselves IN
that position Gold Leal.
The democrats of North Carolina are
not going to precipitate any disturb
ances during this campaign or at the
election unless they are ~eXaSperated
beyond the point of endurance. The
affair of last week in Robson county
was no fault of theirs. 1t arose from
the fact that a negro applied to regis
ter at a time when, under the law, the.
registration books were not open. He
and his friends then burned a store
and started a riot in which one white
man was killed and two wounded.
There never was a more indefensible
occurrence or one for which it's vic
tins were less responsible. Senator
Pritchard and Governor Russell seek
to fix the democrats with the blame of
it, whereas they were not only not in
any sense at fault but bore themselves.
in the matter with amazing modera-
ton. The conduct Of the negroes in
this case is fairly referable TO the exist
ing political conditions. They feel that
under the present administration they
enjoy a liberty which they may run
into license. 1t will not do for this
condition of things to continue or it
will lead to worse. Charlotte Obser-
yer.