The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-11-08
LETTERS FROM REPUBLICANS
AND POPULISTS

Many republicans and populists who
are patriots are coming over daily to
the help of the White Mans party. Mr..
Calvin Jones, an Intelligent and intlu-
entail populist is out for white su-
premacy in a letter in the Durham
SUM-. We quote from his clear-cut let
ter:
Il believe in the white metal and
the white ma The time has come
when the white men are getting close
tOgether-elbow to elbow. L rejoice
in this. We have his year no president
to elect, but a great state to save; to
restore good government. Who can
possibly doubt that good government
can be secured by the control and SUI
premacy of white men. Will any man
say that white men cannot best cOn-
troll old North Carolina?"
Mr.. Calvin Moore, a strong republi-
can and ex-manager of the South Side
cotton mills. writes as follows from
Albemarle to a friend in the west:
Tell all the men up there that it is
not a mistake about the negro in the
east and that it is every white mans
duty to vote the democratic ticket. 1
thought possibly it might be a cam
paign scheme, but 1 have seen enough
honest, upright men since l ave been
here that AVE told me how it is in
the east, and not only that, but they
have been to me for work and said
they wanted to leave the east on ac-
count of the negro, as it was getting
too bad for the white people down
there"
Mr.. Walter M. Byrd, a leading repub-
lican in Montgomery county, is in
complete revolt. He writes another
letter to Pritchard, who seeks to prop
the ballot boxes with bayonets, bid
ding him good bye. He gives him some
very plain, pointed talk and arraigns
him for his bad course. He shows up
Pritchard's bad faith and his violation
of his promise. He rakes the artful
dodger n political creamer from side
to side. Towards the close this patri-
otic republican who is a white man,
writes as follows:
LAS for myself, for the past thirty
years my fights for the republican
party have been many and very bitter
as the democratic party of this Mont
gomery) county, we'll knows, but so
far as county and state matters go,
the republican party will have to do
without me.
1T is very strange that a man of
your intelligence would think that re-
publicans were all menials or fools"
Mr.. R. J. Emerson, writes to Colonel
Julian S. Carr, chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee of Durham
county, declining to run as a fusion
candidate for county commissioners.
We make an interesting extract from
his letter:
I'm view of the political conditions
in our state today / feel it my duty to
say to the public, and would to God
that every Anglo-SaXon could feel it,
that IL there was ever a time in the
history of North Carolina which call
ed, in thunder tones, for the coming
together of the white men of the land
it is at hand. l a been true
to the populist principles, and her prin-
cipleS are mine today, but the trun
which her affairs, through fusion "a
taken, are not in accord with my idea
of pOpulist principles. Since designing
politicians and unprincipled office hold
ers and seekers have, through an I'M
holy fusion, steered the party far from
her mornings until little else than re
pu"DllcanlSm, ana gold DuSlSm, ana ne
gro supremacy, can be seen either in
the minati for office, or in any
thing else which is connected with, or
has grown out of fusion"
Mr.. c. NJ. Orr, of Mecklenburg, whe
is a faithful, conscientious populist,
writes from Newin, n. c., to The Char
lotte News, withdrawing and giving his
allegiance to the great democratic par
/. ty. He writes of his party:
| list. 1t certainly has forsaken its
principles of reform by fusion with, and
Offering to fuse with any party that
would throw a bone. End. The stu
alton today is of a racial type, ap-
parently. Who is to blame, I shall not
attempt to discuss. l we'll re-
member reconstruction days, and the
threat to send United States marshals
or troops to support either party,o or to
| help keep the peace in old North Caro-
liam. astounded me. The white people
of North Carolina are a p~eace-loving
| and ~law-abiding people, and friends of
| the colored race. The situation today
| is deplorable and I hope may be adjust
. ed peaceably. / am neither CO.
creed nor abused into this step. Duty
alone l claim is my motive"
Colonel Thomas S. Lutterloh, a lead
ing citizen and republican of Fayette-
Vile ever since the war, is out In a
letter in Fayetteville observer. From