The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-13

under the control of negroes; to exercise
the recklessness and destructiveness Of
an administration marked by temnar
hyprocisy and cant when not smircbed
by rascality or reeking with corruption
il Governor Russell thinks these thinos
can be forgotten while he wages an anti
corporation campaign, he does not know
the A + C's of the wrath of the good
people of North Carolina.
We speak of Pritchard and Russell as
the leaders of the enemies of white gov
eminent, because they are the foremost
men in their party, one chiefly response
BILE for the sorry men elevated to tbe
high positions under the Federal admin
istration, and the other for the sorry
fellows who have disgnced the State
administration.
There are McKinleyites who have
been Pritchards assistants and
aids, and so-called silver men who
have rallied to Russell's support
The day has come when all men must
come out and show their hands. The
overshadOwing issue in North Carolina
this year is represented in the shibbo-
lette of 1.-THE white man and the white
metal" and the contest is going TO be
so fiercely waged that there can be no
trimmers or dodgers. All men in the
State, no matter what their past p0liti-
cal affiliations, who are diSgusted with
the indecency and incompetency and nil
lage that invariably follow in the wake
of Republican rule in the South, and
who are opposed to the domination of
the selfish disastrous rule of the gold
standard-all these men will be found
on our side in the coming contest. Those
who try to run between, the lines will
be consumed as stubhle. HE that is
not for us, is against us.
There are other important questions
TO be solved, such as the just regulations
of railroads and other corporations, sup
preston of trusts, the betterment of our
public school system. the construction
OF better roads, but it is idle to hope
for any real or permanent reform as
long as our women are debauched, our
public offices filled by corrupt and wan
ton men, our schools controlled by ignor-
ant negro partisans who in one
case dismissed a white young woman
teacher at the behest of a corrupt pOliti-
clan, whose base purposes she thwarted.
our credit injured at home and abroad,
our positions of trust snapped off like
boys swap knives, the peace of communi-
ties threatened, and the safety of the
women of the rural districts put in
peril
to this reign of terror, lust aud incompe9
tency. They alone will restore Il cle;tii
government like Vance ihaugurated.
They alone will hold corporations in
check, while melting out to them the
same measure of justice, and requiring
of them the same obedience to law,
given and exacted of the humblest citi-
zen.
THE negroes. almost always go with
the rascals,' wrote Governor Russell
some years ago. 1t is sad truth. 1t is
the only race known where the most
ignorant and vicious control the political
actions of the most intelligent and virtil-
Gus. Therefore, the only hope of reform
lies through the white men, Of the Slater
The attempts to wage the campaign.
on false issues will not fool the people. -
The false promises of the Mckinley
ties, and the scandalous administration
VS.. the free coinage Of silver and clean
government by white men is the issue
already submitted to the jury. If there
remains the virtue and intelligence in
North Carolinians that have character
lied them in all their past, the verdict
is already known and awaits only an OPP