The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-06
The @esser@m.
A NEW POLITICAL APPLETON.

The east under the piebald, combine
regime has Jared badly. Many DUN
ties have doleful experiences, and the
white people of whatever name who
are white are growing mighty tired"
of the black rule and the Anglo Saxon
slavery. There is a steady growth of
hearty public sentiment, and good
and true citizens who have for some
years an~tagonized the democratic
party are preparing to cooperate with
the White Mans party this year. The
indications are certainly propitious,
and Hope is beginning one more to
sing her merry, jubilant song.
The Messenger recently presented
to it's readers how good government
had suffered at the hands of negro
rule in some of the Eastern counties.
We take from the democratic Hand
Book so carefully prepared by Gov
ernor Jarvis and Captain Samuel
"A. Ashe, other facts and evidences
that tell plainly the story of political
transgressions:
"In Perquimans there are 6 negro
magistrates, 10 school committeeman,
1 member board Of education, l county
commissioner, n 1 town constable.
In Jones there are 3 negro magis-
trates, II negro school committeeman,
in five townships, there being two
negroes On each committee.
In Hyde there are 8 negro school
committeeman.
In Beaufort there is / negro school
committeeman in each township.
In Caswell there are 7 negro magis-
trates, 1 negro school committeeman
in each township, 1 negro deputy
sheriff.
In Wayne there are 6 negro magis-
trates, 2 negro postmasters, 3 negro
aldermen, / clerk in OGldsbOro post
office.
In Nash there are 3 negro magis-
trates, and II school committeeman.
In Carteret, l negro town commits
sioner.
In Edgecombe there are negro post
masters in the towns of Rocky Mount,
B~attleborO and Lawrence; there are
35 negro magistrates and 8 negro con-
stables, besides a large number of ne
gro school committeeman.
In Montgomery there are 10 negro
school committeeman.
In Richmond there are 10 negro
magistrates, % negro school commit
teemen, two negroes being or every
school committee Except one, where
there is a vacancy, 1 negro IN the
board of education, 1 deputy sheriff,
and 8 negro road overseers."
A examination shows that the
central counties were also suffering
from n~egrophilism as we'll as the east.
The state all over is suffering from
Gegrotic poison. If the disease shall
. 9ntinue in it's sweep and m~alignity
orth Carolina will be indeed a very
s. ck patient before the first year of the
ext century-1S01-comes. The Hand
Book offers in connection with the
bad examples the following comment:
Elsewhere in this Book We have
laid stress on the fact that under the
republican pOpulist fusion the share
of the negro in the pie was the local
office. The above illustrations show
how true this is. And in mother
place we nave suggested that as the
states to the south of us have put up
a barrier against the negro, and the
states to the north of us Won't give
him anything, North Carolina is the
only state holding out to him the al
lurements of office, and thus invites
him to come here and agitate for Of
flee; and, unless there is some change,
if the negro progresses in office hold
ing in the future as in the last two
or three years, it will not be long be-
fore he is in absolute control
There is possibly a plot on hand
among the reckless schemers to negro
ize North Carolina-to rush in from
every border the negroes of other
states to rapidly swell negrodom in
this state. The white men have the
matter in their wi hands if they
will unite to prevent it. The office
holding mania has fastened it's grip
upon Sambo, and he finds the pie
counter so inviting and the pie so
toothsome that he is willing to eat
pie and steal the remainder of his
worthless life. The east has had to
suffer long from malaria, and also
from mal-aqua, and now under the
leadership of white demagogues it is
a victim of ~mal-negritos.