The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-04
White Supremacy.
Especial TO The Messenger

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Raleigh, n. c., November 1-senator Butler is sick n vas n ot able
come here today. He sent a copy of his open letter by his private secre-
tary 1t is a most specious letter and is really an attack on the North
Carolina democrats. He declares their White supremac campaign a fraud,
and say he made a proposition to unite with the democrats last May on
the white supremacy ssue-in fact o n more than white supremacy. This
is construed to mean that a PROPOSITION made by him to disfanchise
the negroes. 1t a charged m time ago that he had made advances
along that line. He say that before he made a speech this year he made a
proposition through the democratic state chairman. He expressed the hope
that Van Wyck will be defeated in New York, saying it will be better fol- the
aus of free silver
Williamson. n. C., November 1-For some weeks or or the negro
leaders hereh have been advising their followers o arm themselves and pro
tett their rights, as they put it.
They have been holding secret meetings for more than two weeks.
Last night they gathered at a schod-house near town, and after hold
ing n Of their meetings organized and armed themselves, forming into
two squads entering the tow from W different points and paraded through
They numbered about rs to 100, carrying guns pistols clubs, etc. No
violence as offered, they seemed to be content making display Of themselves
Considerable uneasiness is felt among US and serious trouble is appre-
dended.
Laurinburg N. c. November 1.-The largest parade OF red shirts ever
seen in this state a. had here today. The parade formed in the Presbyterian
church park and proceeded through the finest section of farming lands that
your reporter has ever seen-lands that make the yield of cotton per acre
in Richmond county third in the United States. For ten miles this caval-
cade proceeded, consisting of a mile of red shirts, nearly all Of whom were
O horseback. Among them were batlescarred veterans riding by the
youth who has n sweet anticipation the casting of his first vte n week
hence. Among them were the honest populss of this section, who declared
for reform and wen with their partyup to the door of the republican party,
but. seeing over the ports the black drapery Of negro corruption n mis-
rule, returned o their first love with a ardor born OF frmest conviction
that white me will be ruled only by white mn
Returning by circutous route to the town., Maxy l. John, president of
Hon. Claude Kihhin, of Halifax county: For ear W hours he held the
large audience M nee 'oeo , ee Sn III. . unHns um WI" n eoau ns,
of orator and people and filling their hearts with even greater determination
to redeem old North Carolina from negro rue.
The speaker told his audience their opponents told the people without the
negro cry the democratic party would have no issue in NOrthC Carolina and
he reviewed the history for twenty years of democratic rule in North Caro-
lima in which only n scandal occurred in office and that tin the caseo of a
republican retained in the insane asylum because he "a a thoroughly COM
petent scientist Since the fusionists have come into power for four years
the state has had n scandal after another to stain its fair name and to
damn the fusDnits. They clamored for reform in expenditures generally
and exceeded the preceding democratic legislatures. They promised re-
duced salaries, and reduced lot n but increased the output for salaries
enormously. Then he can down o negro incompetence and mBrue and de-
cared that negroes will ct be governed by rave white men who crawl in
the dust before negroes for office and declare that negroes are Is good as the
whites and advise, as vas done ten days ago by a republican orator in this
county, that negroes put their arms around the white college girls when they
return from school as they drive their carriages fol the whites.
He closed with a mighty peroration. AS the tragic day after Chancel
louisville had seen its intrepid leader fall and when J Z. B. Stuart saw his
lines wavering he cried, Charge, Charge. Onward Ito Victory and Remem-
Der Jackson" s., Numbered the orator rising % his full pitch with hand
raised aoft; 80 l cry to you if you see your lines wavering Charge, charge
onward tt victory and remember the immortal Zebulon B. Vance"
The effort al grand, the effect electric. A truly rebel yell went up and
for minutes the band could not be heard. Men old and young rushed
upon the rosrum and seized the speaker by the hand, eager to clasp the
palm Of n who is Draw as his words porend. The orator is a brother of
Congressman Kichin