The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-16


The last sentence is sop thrown to
those Populists who are disguised with
having negroized Eastern cities and coun-
ties If the Farmer thinks it not GOOD
policy to give the public offices to the
negroes at THIS TIME" what is the
date when it thinks it will DC good
policy" If the Farmer thinks the ne
groes are to be given 1.-THE offices" in
the future it must mean to give them
all the offices then, for they have plenty
of them now. To show this we give II
few proofs of how the negro is on top
now when it is not good policy to give
the Offices to the negroes at this time:'
/. jim Young is chief fertilizer in
spector at $1,000 per year, and State
Senator Henderson is assistant fertilizer
inspector in the State Department OF
Agriculture jim gets $1,000 per year.
while Henderson and the white assistants
get $40 per month.
2. A negro is assistant clerk of the
Superior Court of Wake county, and
recently when two young white ladies
had to prove their witness tickets, they
were Inundated by having to do so be
fore the negro assistant.
g. The Federal offices are crowded with
negroes from the collector of customs
i'll Wilmington to nine negro postmasters
in one county.
4. There are negro register of deeds, ne
gro commissioners, negro deputy sheriffs,
negro magistrates, negro members on The
boards of education and negro legislators
in most of the negro counties of the East.
). Negro policemen of the chief city
of the State, put there by Russell's
agents, are so VIGOROUSLY incompetent
that burglary or robbery is almost Il
nightly occurrence in Wilmington.
6. A negro absolutely controls the
State white school for the blind in North
Carolina, is head of the educational COM
mittee, and has control of the course OF
study and inspection of the rooms of the
white teachers and white pupils.
Z. a negro is colonel of IA negro regi-
ment, the officers of which manipulate
politics while the privates ride up and
down the State on the railroads, disgust
ing decent people with their insufferab bic
airs.
s. In the Eastern counties, the negroes
are naming few candidates for office ex-
cept negroes. In the Second district a
negro is the Republican candidates for
Congress and Il negro is likewise their
candidate for solicitor. In Craven county
every nominee for an important place
on the ticket is Il negro except the sher-
iff The sheriff and clerk can keep his
office only because it is full of negro
deputies.
These eight illustrations of what we
already have of negroes in office might
be indefinitely continued, for these are but
illustrations of the determination of the
negro politicians to govern by put
ting" themselves ''in places where the ex-
ercise of citizenly functions is impera-
lively required of them" But this is only
beginning. At the Republican STATE
Convention held in Raleigh July Goth, the
speaker who received most applause was
the negro Congressman, George III.
| White, who, among other things, in
mean and low speech, said:
Il am not the only negro who holds
office. There are others. THERE ARE
PLENTY MORE BEING MADE TO
ORDER TO HOLD OFFICES. We
don't hold as many offices as we will
'"The Democrats talk about the color