Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-10-13
Mr. 6udI6'S GhdnQ6.
WELL N WI REPUBLICAN
COMES OUT SOUARELY FOR
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
All White Men Should Vote it This Year
Went to Wilmington and Saw Negro Rule
for Himself-FIis Ideas Completely
Changed.-ACCount of His Trip.

says tn0y 40 uOG lut0f10Te Will
the arrest of of a white party un'
less it is necessary. He said the
people of Wilmington liked the
negroes better for sanitary pc
licemen than they did the whites
He is a strong Republican.
AFTER leaving the sherif's of.
fee I went to see Mr.. W. FL. Der.
nard, editor Of the Star, one Of
the leading newspapers. He
showed me a copy of the follow
ing resolutions passed by tbs
Wilmington chamber of com
merce:
BE it resolved by the cham
Der of commerce. That the po-
litical situation in. this city and
county is a menace to the peace
and order of the community, in
which property has 40 protec.
ton and the life of the citizen nc
security; that the feeling OF un
rest and apprehension following
upon an incompetent public SER
vice which, while it eSacts tribs
ute in taxes offers no immunity
from danger to the property or
person of the citizen, is detri--
mental to every business interest,
arrests enterprise, hampers
commerce and repels capital
which might otherwise find in
vestment in our midst. That such
commercial stagnation and So
cial disorder are logical outcome
of a condition which finds the
control of government in the
hands Of corrupt and incompe-
tent men, whose authority fails
to inspire fear in the worst ele-
ment of our population as it does
to command the respect of our
best citizens; that this lawless
and wholly irresponsible element,
fortified by the consciousness
that the authorities are either
lmpotent or unwilling to impose
restraint upon them and protect
life or property, convert liberty
into license, perpetuate outrage
on every hand, disturb the peace
Of the community and offer in
..gnities to our white women
have eliminated in in~
stances of personal violence to
them on our streets, and in an at
tack. on the virtue Of the woman
hood Of our Southland by the ne
gro editor of the Infamous Daily
Record.
Resolved, That in view of
these intolerable conditions, it is
the sense of this meeting that it
IS the duty of every good citizen
to exert his utmost influence and
personal effort to effect results
will restore order, protect
and give that sense of
security to our lives and our
homes which obtains only in CIV
communities.
sResolved. That this chamber
is sensible that its province is
commercial and not political, and
the intention or desire to enter
the sphere of politics is distinctly
.isclaimed, but the conditions
confronting us and calling for
solution are commercial and
social, and not political; and as
citizens and business men, with
the one desire to promote the
prosperity, peace and happiness
Of the community, we declare to
the world that these blessings
are not possible under govern
ment by the present political
regime, whose existence and
power are predicaled on the blind
adherence of the negro element of
our population. which taken as a
whole, with some worthy excep-
are under the most absolute
bondage and domination of few
designing men of their race, who
for selfish ends play upon their
preludlces to array them against
order and good government"
He said that the president of