The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-28

accept the issue. Our faith, we repeat
| is in the people and we urge all who
believe in the supremacy of the Civil
Law, in the supremacy of the White
Man and in good government to speak
ont through the ballot box on the day
of election in favor of these blessings
and to rebuke this effort of Pritchard and
Russell to Cubanize and negroize North
Carolina.
Senator Pritchard some years ago, it
will be recalled, undertook to organize
a White Mans Republican party. He
seems never to have put himself at the
head of Black Mans Republican party
and now that he is ready to use the army
of the United States to maintain its SUI
premacy in North Carolna I do not be-
| lieve that the honest White Republicans
will follow him in this new role. l am
satisfied that thousands of them will
| this time vote with the Democratic party
for White Supremacy and good govern
ment All, my fellow citizens, may l
not expect tens of thousands of them to
put the seal of their condemnation upon
this bold effort of their leaders to Gu
banize and negroize North Carolina? The
ballot-box is the place at which and the
IDpnlOCr1IlC IlcheL llle lHSlIuliicut Win
which it can be done.
The Senator talks in his speeches, so
read in the papers. about upholding the
honor and dignity of the State. i hum
bly, submit that he strikes Il wicked
and cruel blow at his State when, with
out any cause, he publishes to the world
that it is necessary for the President to
send troops here to keep the peace. Fer
7 4, n, sIa ,IoY
upon a State whose people are
among the most conservative and law
abiding of any in this Union. | am will
ing anywhere to compare records with
the Senator as to who has labored most
for the honor and dignity and good nam,
of North Carolina. | am willing 10 sub
nit these questions to the conscience and
judgment of the good men of his own
party and to let them decide between us.
/ say this to emphasize the protest
am making against this grievous wrong be
is doing his State. If he thinks Re can
intimidate the white men of the east with
United States troops he knows bu5 little
of the men he has the honor to repre-
sent in the greatest legislative body in the
world. They are the equal in virtue
and intelligence of any people in
the world, and they will not be ruled by
an inferior race and neither Pritchard nor
Russell nor an army can compel them
to submit to it, and the sooner Mr..
pritchard learns this the better for him
and his party. Let me tell the Senator
he cannot intimid1.e these peopie. They
are not made that way.
And may | not appeal IN the white
men of the West without regard to party
to rise up in Their might ami power
and say to Pritcharl AMI Russell that
their State shall not be Cnbanrzei anil
that the men who would bring an army
into this State shall be Condemned and
denounced as enemies of the State and
her people.
Men of North Carolina: For twenty
years the Democratic party gave YOU 81
peaceful, prosperous, clean government.
No man, however humble. felt insecurs
in any of his rights. Peace ana law
and order and security dwelt in every
section of our beloved State. Ihe Re
publican party has now been in power
less than two years and ~ bad has
been the government given the people
by it that the Governor has felt called
upon to issue long proclamation 20
uueH the evil forces his party has put in
motion and we are told if that fails
the army Of the United States is to he
called upon Do the people need any
other argument to show the utter inahil-
ity and unfitness of the Republican party
to govern North Carolina. With these
conditions staring him in the face can
any honest man who loves his State hest
tate TO vote to drive this party of mis-
rule from power and to turn over the
government of his State to the Demo
cratic party to be ruled by white men
and the civil law?