The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-15
FUSION LIES REvAMPED.

! North Carolina the Fusion leaders have
issued big supplement full of car
! ICONS TO be sent out by the organs Of
Negro Supremacy.
This eight page is but re-hash of the
lies contained in the so-called ''Hand
Book of Facts" Its first and chief fea
ture is the SANDER upon the Democratic
members of the Legislature of 1876 that
| was put in circulation by DR.. Cyrus
Thompson in his harangue which he
| called his great speech" In Wayne
county, Thompson apologized for saying
that Mr.. |. +. Dortch and Mr.. +. NJ.
Aycock had voted for negro magistrates,
and Mr. NJ. S. Robins and others have
shown that the statement is false. And
yet it has the first place in this cam
, paign supplement-.
| Next follows a repetition of the charges
which have been exposed as false alleg-
| ing that Democrats put many negroes
in office, accompanied by lying affidavits.
+ The editor of this sheet has the effront
| cry to repeat the charge that Sheriff
| Page had Il negro deputy when the Popu-
| lists of Wake county themselves know
F., that the charge is without foundation.
and when it is well known that most
of them will support him in 1898 as
many of them did in 1896.
The Fusionists, in thus keeping the
negro question to the front as the para
mount State issue are doing exactly what
the Democrats want done 1t has been
easy to refute their trumped up allega-
been fully and promptly done. As the
| people read these canards they will
, ask themselves some questions that will
show them that the Democratic party is
| the only white mans party in the State.
| Some of these questions will be:
/. If the Democratic party puts the
negro in office. as alleged, why do the
negroes vote solidly against it?
>. If the Democratic party is the mig
ger" party why does it make no appeal
for negro support?
8. How many negroes held Office in
| North Carolina when the Democrats
went out Of power on the first of Janu-
airy, 1895?
The answer is. not one in county con-
trolled by Democrats
4. How many negroes hold Office in
North Carolina now? The answer is over
900, every one of whom was elected or
appointed by Fusionist>.
The answer to these questions. even
without the positive proof of the falsity
of the statements made by Fusionists,
puts an end to all the buster about the
/ Democrats putting negroes in office.
There isn't five year old boy in North
Carolina who does not know that if the
Democrats put negroes in office negroes
would not be soldly arrayed against it.
And there is not boy who does not
know that every Fusion candidate in the
State is down on his knees, praying in a
! bondsman's key, to the negro to keep
| him in office. More than that: there isn't
voter. white or black, who does not
know that of the 100000 Fusion votes in
North Carolina, more than 100000 of
the votes were cast by negroes, and that
in fifty counties ip the State the negroes
| compose a majority of the Republican
conventions and dictate all Fusion nomi-
nations. Even in Buncombe county,
take out the negro vote and the Fusion
party would never have the ghost of a
chance Of winning.
But it is useless to follow up the false
statements which the Fusion politicians
in their desperation scatter over the
State They bear falsity on their face
and refute themselves.
The negro party is the party that con-
| tains an overwhelming majority of ne
groes. makes them Congressman, solici-
tors, colonies, legislators. school eXamin-
crs. directors of white institutions, and
obeys the dictation of the negro. That
is what the Fusion party does. and no
amount of iterated and reiterated lying
changes the facts.
The Fusionists recognize that they can
not defend negro government and are
driven to the position of trying to show
that the Republican party is not the
negro party. Upon that question issue
is joined
Their position amounts to an admission
that the white people ought not to vote
for the negro party. If the people find
upon the evidence that the Democratic
party is the negro parts, white meh
ought not to vote to put it i'll power.
If they find that the Republican party.
with its allies, is the negro party, the
white voters ought not to put it in power.
Gentlemen of the jury: Take the case
and render your verdict in accordance
with the evidence