The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-10-19
IN A BAD WAY.
What Popu!ism Has Done for
North Carolina.
FROM BAD TO WORSE.
South Carolina Is Indebted to
Ben TiIlman for Being Spared
the Fate of Her SIS


tion to Tillman S craftsmanship can best
be understood by some study of politi-
cal conditions in North Carolina, where
the agrarian movement for relief, which
swept the country in 1890 and 1892,
was not kept within the Democratic
lines. This unwisdom has been to
North Carolina the direful spring Of
woes unnumbered." The condition Of
the Tarheel state is now almost as bad
as prevailed in all the Southern states
in reconstruction times.
The North Carolina Populists were
not strong enough to carry the state,
neither were the Republicans. I'm
der such circumstances fusion was
natural. By fusion the Populists and
Republicans overthrew the Democratic
government The decay Of the Populist
party elsewhere, and especially its fail
ure to make itself an important factor
in national politics, inevitably led to
it's disintegration in North Carolina,
from which disintegration the Republi-
can party was the chief gamer. Things
have gone from bad to worse in North
Carolina, until now miscegenation is
openly advocated by Negro orators and
Negro papers are sneering at the virtue
Of white women. a correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution, who has been
carefully studying conditions in North
Carolina, thus reports his conclusions:
THE white race and the black race
in North Carolina are engaged today in
a momentous struggle for supremacy.
Although it has been conducted in
peace, without loss of life or even the
letting Of blood, it is as much war for
conquest as We ever fought and won or
lost by armed hosts. The black race,
united, solid, aggressive is marching as
one man against the divided whites
with the avoTed purpose Of over
throwing what slight vestige Of their
power remains and setting up for them
selves sovereign Negro state.
Then they will repeal the laws
against intermarriage between the races
and mixed schools, and all other laws
which in any manner, shape or form
provide for separate accommodations for
white and black. This may be denied
for political effect, but there is abun-
dant evidence to sustain the assertion
and the evidence is furnished by the
colored people. Their aim is to co.
lonize and Negroize North Carolina and
to so firmly establish themselves in
possession that the black race will flock
here from other southern states.
This is the solution Of the race
question which the Negroes are attempt
ing for themselves. 1t is 20 secret that
coIored leaders, ambitious for their
race, have matured in their minds
plan by which they hope to obtain
absolute control Of the legislative ma
chinery and then to rapidly carry out a
scheme of colonization by which this
will become a thoroughly Negro SOW
ereigu state, with that population in
the majority and furnishing all officials
in the public service, from the United
States senators and governor down
through judges, legislators and sollcl-
tors: to the last constable and janitor.
IF their plan succeeds, North Car
olina is to be the refuge Of their people
in America. Their! brethren from all
the southern states will be invited to
come here, cast their 10! among their
fellows and together to work out their
destiny in whatsoever degree Of pros
perity and advancement they may
be able to achieve for themselves.
If North Carolina goes Republl-
can again this year, we intent
to move over there. The Negro has
more rights there than anywhere else.
This was the substance of the talk in
both South Carolina and Virginia:
The blacks are very much dissatisfied
with the political conditions in the
former states and are anxious to get
away.
If the whites fail to regain super.
macy on November 0th thousands Of
them will move away. They say that
they cannot endure the conditions
which now exist and they know that
if they lose in the coming election
their last hope will be gone. The rich
can move away by sacrificing their
property, but the poor white men with
families to support will find it a hard
matter to leave their homes, go into a
new community and make their way.
"Hence it is that the poorer whites,
the operatives in the mills. the farmers,
the workingmen everywhere, are arous-
ed and desperate. They are fighting
for their homes in a double sense.
They realize that it is to their pecuni-
ary interest to drive back this advan-
cling wave of black supremacy before
it engulfs them in everlasting rain.
And there is the other danger,
greatest Of all, the menace ito the To-
manhood OF the state, the constant and
growing peril of each mans wife and
daughter. That is the thought which
is seated in the mind and on the heart
of every man who loves his family. |
know it to be fact that the operatives
in the cotton mills and the tobacco
factories and the various shops and man
usacturing concerns all through the
state give more attention TO this phase
OF the subject than to any other.
Thanks to TilIman. there is politl-
cal piece and Quietude in this state.
The Populist movement in this stase
died a-borning' and Tillman's per
sistent fight secured a constitutional
convention which makes Negro noml-
nation in South Carolina an impossl.
biIity until the Negroes acquire edu-
cation and propersy.-Columbia Re-
cord