The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-06
WITH SUBORDINATE PLACES.
BUT WILL DEMAND OTHERS
LATER
NEGRO RULE A MENACE TO w0MANHooD
Especially on the Farms. It's Continuance May
Cause those Who an 10 Leave The State.
A Man Who Voted With his Wife
Instead of the Negro.
Goldsboro, n. G.. October
ATLANTA constitutional

Goldsboro, n. c., October 4.
If the whites in North Caro-
lima were united they would
have majority, but divided as they are
between three parties, the negroes stand
ing solidly together. and with the aid
of an element Of the white Populists
and white Republicans outvote the white
Democrats. Since the negro has come
into power this last time, he has been
STRENGTHENING his entertainments by leg
islation. The negro has proceeded
shrewdly, partly by design, partly by
force of circumstances. While some or
the white Iscariots thought, they were
playing the blacks for office, the latter
were cunningly using these office hun
ters as mere tools for whom they had no
respect or use beyond the temporary
assistance which they could give. The
colored leaders realized that they must
keep the whites divided and, protesting
subservience they offered the white Re-
publicans and Populists some of the high
er places, taking for themselves less con-
spicuous positions. Hence we find negro
aldermen, and white mayors. white
chiefs of police and negro policemen,
white sheriffs and negro deputies, white
Judges and solicitors. black magistrates
and constables, white governor and
black legislators. 1t is absurd to speak
of the white Republicans and fusionists
playing for the negro vote. The truth
is the negroes play for the white vote.
A Republican convention in Eastern
North Carolina looks like a spot on the
sun. as prominent Georgia Republican
once described Lyons Rucker-Buck
convention in Atlanta.
The blacks are bent on capturing the
State and carrying out their plan OF
colonization. They do not want to drive
the white man out, but to have State
in which they viii be supreme. 1t has
been suggested that some Of the blacks
would prefer that the whites stay IN or
der to lord it over them.
But if the whites fail to regain supre-
macy on November Sth thousands Of
them win 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 sup
port will find it Il hard matter to leave
their homes. 90 into new community
and make their way. Hence it is that
the poorer whites, the operatives in the
mills. the farmers. the workingmen
everywhere. are aroused and desperate.
They are fighting for their homes in Il
double sense. They realize that it is TO
their pecuniary interest to drive back
this advancing waye of black supremacy
before it engulfs them in everlasting
ruin.
THE MENACE TO WOMANHOOD.
And then there is the other danger,
greatest of ALL the menace to the Wo-
manhood of the State. the constant ana
growing peril of each mans wife and
daughter That is the thought which
is scared in the mind and on the heart
Of every man who loves his family. !
know it to be a fact that. the operatives
in the cotton mills and the tobacco fac
tories and the yarions shops and manu-
featuring concerns all through the State
have given more attention to this phase
of the subject than to any other. q
And, so far as my observation goes,
the same is true of the farmers who
heretofore have voted with the Repub
licans. 1t cannot be denied that in
many counties the farmer leaves his
family with apprehension. While in the
field his ear is strained to catch the
first shrek Of warning. Ills eye ever
turns in the direction Of his humble
home. There is prayer III his heart
If not on his lips for the. protection of
his dear ones when he goes out in the
morning and there is gratitude when he
returns and finds them safe
al -.
TO power have lessened the respect and
fear Of the law among the vicious. In
oendiary speeches and writings by black
men to black men must have intIancd
some Of them Such-a tremendous wave
of indignation has Just sept the State
over a published SANDER on the white
women that actual violence by The crimi.
naIly inclined has been checked. But If
the campaign of the blacks for the con-
ouest of the State succeeds this fall. an
epidemic of assaults upon the unprotected
in the country is predicted.
This has aronsedefhe pore woman
hood of North Carolina from The sea shore
TO the mountains. They are asking their
husbands and sons how thcy attend TO
vote-for the wives and mothers and Sis
ters or for negro supremacy and a reign
of terror?
a POOR BUT NOBLE WOMAN.
Here is case in point A Populist Of
some influence in his community was given
a postoffice by the Republicans in or
der to win his support. The @ncome
from the office. thongh small, helped
him in supporting his family. He had
made UP his mind to vote The fusion tick
ct this year.
A friend who knew how the postmaster
felt, asked the latter's son how he was
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