Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-10-06
REPUBLICAN FAKE STORY.
SrAIE CHAIRMAN SIMMONS
DENOUNCES IT.
The ScarecrOW Formerly Used by
Republicans to Scare Negroes
Will Not Frighten White
Men

Men
1t having been called to the at
tention of Chairman Simmons tha
some of the Republicans are sayin:
that if the Democrats carry the Leg
islature they will disfranchise th,
poor and uneducated voters of th,
State.
Chairman Simmons said: Il hav,
heard the Republicans were again
circulating this threadbare and ridi
culous old story. Seeing that the,
are beaten on the issues which they
have raised by negroizing the East
and by their corrupt and incompe
tent government of the last two
years, they have become desper
ate.
1T is just like the Republican
party to try to run from the issues
their misdeeds have raised, and it is
natural they should attempt to di-
vert attention from their rascalities
by hallooing thief at honest men.
But it is astonishing that even il
their desperation and panic Repub-
lican leaders should have no better
sense than to suppose they can frigh-
ten the white men Of North Caro-
lima with an old bugaboo that has
long since ceased to scare even the
ignorant and credulous negro.
''For the past twenty years or
more, just before every election, the
Republican speakers, at their mid
night meetings, have been in the ha-
bit of telling the negroes if the Dem
ocrats came into power their right to
vote would be taken away from them.
After the Democrats came into
power in this State they always had
some reason to give these credulous
beings why the Democrats had not
DISTINGUISHED them as they had be-
fore predicted
First they told them if the Dem
ocrats got the State government,
they would disfranchise them. The
Democrats got the State govern
meat and did not disfranchise them.
Then they told them if the Demo-
Gratis elected a President, they would
disfranchise them. The Democrats
elected a President and did not
disfranchise them. Then they told
them if the Democrats got control of
Congress, they would disfrachise
them The Democrats got control
of Congress and did not disfranchise
them. All along the white men of
the State laughed at these lies, and
marveled that the negro did not
have sense enough to see that he was
being duped.
FINALLY the negro himself began
to see through the trick. He had
seen the Democrats in full power in
the State for twenty odd years, and
had learned through experience that
that party did not propose to dis
franchise him, and he, too, began to
laugh at these liars, and finally re-
fused to be frightened by their rot
any longer. So the old Republican
scarecrow had to bepulled down and
put away.
Now these same old demagogues,
aided by few pie eating and pie
hunting Populists who used to laugh
at this fraud upon the negro, having
again brought out the old Repubi-
can scarecrow of Acknowledgement
but, strange to say, they are now
using it in an attempt to try and
frighten, not the ignorant negro, but
the poor and uneducated white men
of the State. But these willy schem-
ers will be disappointed. They will
find that the educated white men of
this State are not SO easily fooled.
They will find that while they may
not have any book. learning, they
have the quick intelligence and hard
sense of the white race, and they will
find that they are not to be fooled
as the negro was so long fooled, by
bugaboo. There is not white
man in North Carolina who will be
frightened by this old Republican
negro bugaboo, and they will by
their votes teach these fellows who
are presuming upon their ignorance
that their intelligence is not to be