Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-10-27
EVENING. OCT. 81, 1s99


massage in the Bible which speaks OF
"the dog returning to his vomlt ana
the sow to her wallowing in the swiil'
We are forcibly reminded Of the truth
which this scripture embodies when
we read in an administration organ thai
fine President gravely considered the
propriety of sending federal troops
to North Carolina to take part with the
republicans and the negroes in race
conflict alleged to be impending there
and submitted the matter to his attor-
new general. Just now the negro is on
TOD in North Carolina. The eizzard
foot of the beast is firmly planted on the
white mans PROSTATE form. He Is
down in the dust. Stay there says
the administration. This supplies fl
commentary OF Mr.. McKinley's late
anostrophe to united people" and
all his CANNON about reconciliation
He is willing TO consent to union ano
reconciliation, but it must be on his
own terms-the humiliation of the
South. Under the present infamous
rseime in North Carolina, the negro
dominates the white race IN q number
of counties. They dominate IN New
Hanover and other counties, I'LL the OF
fees of magistrates and control the lib
critics and property Of the white race.
This state of things has become so H.
tolerable that for a second time since
the war the whites are making su-
preme effort to free themselves iron
this negro yoke. In one county alone
there are upwards of forty negro mag
istrates. But negro mastery is not
enough for the negro and the degrad-
ed whites who are acting with
them. White men serving as
guards to maintain order, pro-
tect their homes and guard wo-
men and children have been shot down
from ambush by the negroes. This IS
she state of things which it is the de-
sire of the republican politicians at
Washington to perpetuate by federal
bayonets. In giving his sympathies to
the negroes in race conflict the Presl-
dent is only following out the lines he
inflated early in his administration OF
appointing negroes to prominent offices
in the South, regardless Of the rights
and feelings OF the white people. Over
year ago he had thus appointed a
naval officer at New Orleans, a collec-
tor of internal revenue in Georgia, q
collector of customs at Jacksonville,
registrars of the land Office in Misss-
sippi and Alabama, and q number Of
other negroes to Offices liz the South
and at Washington. The fact that he
did this sufficiently proves his con-
tempt for the white race of the South,
but in order to leave no doubt OF his
purpose to humiliate and degrade them
he took good care not to put any ne
groes in Office over whites at the North.
Negroes were fit to be put over the
Southern whites, but not fit to be put
over the people of the North. The TO-
suit thus offered to the Southern pee
pie was enough to reach men of the
most callous seDsbilities, but it has
not prevented some Southern men
from running to his ante-chamber with
applications for Office. The President
should not however, mistake the few
who seek his Offices for the great mass
of self.respecting whites who regard
his negro appointments with Just
indignation. After making these negro
federal appointments for the South, it
is only natural that the President
should view with sympathy the specta-
Gle of negro magistrates and negro rule
in the South He must uphold the lat
ter in order to yindicate his own acts
and antecedents He has favored
every sectional measure of the republi-
cans since The war, including recon.
struction, force bills, negro supremacy
and the like. He has, as President,
put negroes in Office all over the South.
He is committed to this policy of negro
equality or supremacy. And then he
considers that with one hundred and
fifty thousand soldiers he ought to be
master of the situation. Then there
are some other reasons operating with
the President. He knows exactly how
the negro delegates were bought TO
support his nomination at St. Louis.
He knows of the corrupt promises made
then and he cannot afford to go back
on MIR. Hanna, who created him. But
this is not ell. 1t has been demonstrated
by negro writer's since the election OF
1896 that the negro vote saved for him
the electoral votes of California Indiana
Maryland, Kentucky, Delaware, and
West Virginia, casting in al 81 votes.
Had these negro votes which held the
balance of power been thrown the other
way, Mr.. Mckinley would have been
defeated. 1t is true that without the
intimidation of Northern workingmen