The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-17
~JUST A CHAT~*
BY w. E. CHRISTIAN.

With the hub-bub Of the nations i'll
their ears, men. meeting one anotler III
the public place, ask What news?.
but they ask not What of Phillip
And yet the State is quivering under
the shadow blacker than that from
the serried phalanx of Macedon.
Crimson with passion as if from the
drunken root of the Scythian cactus,
when the homes of the State cry out
against the potential dangers of the
negro+Republican orgie, the benefic-
ialtes do but grow ap0plectic with gloat
and delsive laughter. Is it not time to
take heart, and to take heart togcth-
er. white men?
What boots it to handy hostile
epithet when men should ike
brothers be banding themselves together
for Il common safety? What profit to
undermine with suspicion exalted mo-
tive TN men for a normal State gov
eminent when congestion presses alb
normally upon the very motor nerves OF
the States well-tloing? There is no
use in sneaking up to the statement OF
the only remedy i'll hand for the res
toration of the State to its normal con
diton There IS less wisdom and char
ity III questioning the sincerity of those
who are not prepared yet to see the
remedy against "a continuation of Ne
gio-Republican rule IN a combining oil
the white forces of the State.
In the last election in Alamanc,
county Watson received 2.166 votes
Guthrie, 23S, and Russell 2212 The
practical question is. do those 23e
voters wish to repeat the performance OF
1896 toward Il result from which they
themselves get only suffering? The to
tai vote for Governor was 331. 23I. oil
which Watson received 145, 266; Guth
RE. 81 143: Russell. 1918 The -prac
teal question is what relation durin.
the next election should those 14o. 26t
and those 81 .143 voters bear toward
one another? Because the Aorme,
were Democrats and the latter Were
Populists. is it logical that they should
stand apart to the undoing of BOTH
That is the practical question. The mat
ter may be twisted. but when straight
ened out it comes back to the clcM
question above.
There is no use in quoting further
from the returns: the principle is IL
Illustrated by those figures given, a.
well as it would be by the whole list.
Nor is there use in summarizing the
evils of the present government III the
State and its unnaturalness to the peo-
pie who stand for the decency, proper
ty and intelligence of the State. The
only question is. shall the separate
forces called Populists and Democrats.
each wishing white government. scatter
their forces again for the success of
10000 white Republican wolves who
fatten on the meat that is thrown to
them by 100000 negro voters.
T1ere has been. as far as is known.
no clamor among the people against the
cooperation of these white voters to-
ward white government. The obiec-
tons come mainly from the leaders.
whose sincerity is not part of this
discussion. The cause of their objec-
tons is the main thing. Some of them.
at least fear an intrusion of populist
leadership in the midst of Democracy
and vice-yersa That seems to be the
only well-defined objection. This must
he met 1t may be met and mastered,
if there he conference to the end that
the union of forces for the next cleo