The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-30
RUSSELL'S CANDlDATEs--TALKlNG TO THE
GALLERIES.

In his letter to the Wilmington COM
mittee, Governor Russell said it was
the purpose of the Republicans in New
Hanover county this year to nominate
Mr.. B. +. Keith for the Senate, and
for the House. Mr.. Keith has declared
himself in favor of White Supremacy
and stated he will not run on the negro
ticket, and Mr.. Gore has also repudiated
the suggestion that he would lend himself
to further negroiZing the State. Capt
Davis was appointed quartermaster of the
Second regiment by Russell. He has
said nothing but his friends believe that
when he speaks he will stand with Mr..
Keith and Mr.. Gore.
Governor Russell asks the people to
believe that his party would name
ticket of fair men. The test of the
kind of candidates he prefers and the
kind his party dominates is the kind
elected in New Hanover in 1896 when
Russell was running for Governor and
dictated the nominations. The members
of the House elected then were David
Il. Sutton, now serving a term in the
one of the editors of the negro paper that
basely slandered what he contemptuously
called ''the poor white women" of the
State. To the Senate was sent one
George H. Cannon, so-called Populist
who voted for Pritchard and Republi-
can measures. After the Legislature adj
iourned he was appointed by Russell a
director of the penitentiary. While act
ing as a member of the board he was
on the pay roll of the penitentiary as
an employee drawing a regular monthly
salary and at the same time attending
meetings of the board and drawing his
per diem and mileage in addition to his
regular monthly salary. These pay-rolls
have to be approved by the chairman of
the board, Mr.. Claudius Dockery, and
this double pay was given Cannon UNI
der the administrations of both John
r. Smith and j. Nj. Mewborne. The
sheriff elected, one Hewlett, is charged
with having farmed out his office to
Gee Zee French, of Fraud Commission
fame.
In the light of electing such men
to office in New Hanover county two
years ago, Russell agrees if the white
men will supinely submit to Negro
Domino ton, he will nominate a ticket
partially composed of 9better men than
were elected by his gang last year. 1t
would be a silly white man who would
agree to the surrender to Russell in one
campaign, when the offer IS made in
gro party. If the Radicals could get de-
cent men to run on their ticket in New
HanOver-(and it is to the credit of that
county that decent men will have moth
ing to do with Russelism)-it would be
nothing but temporary change, and in
1900 Howe and Sutton and G. u. French
and other such fellows would be again
saddled upon the people.
Russell says the Republicans of New
Hanover propose to vote for decent men.
How does he know? We assert, and
prove it by the past record of the Re-
publican party in New Hanover coun-
ty, that when there is a chance of electing
it, no decent ticket can be nominated in
a Republican convention in that county.
If a decent ticket is named now, it will
be only because Russell persuades his
gang to make Il show of decency now
that the people are so outraged that
they will no longer tolerate Negroism.
To-day, if the people of Wilmington were
not aroused to the highest pitch, the
Republicans would have nominated an
other ticket Of slanderers of white wo-
men, convicts, takers of brides, and 9th
err unfit and unworthy fellows.
Russell's letter is II case of death-bed
repentance.