The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-28

Wilmington, N. c., Oct. Is.
c. r. Simmons, Esq, Forest City,
N. c.:
Dear Charlie:-Was surprised and
glad to hear from you. l send you un-
der separate cover several papers. The
Messenger gives the array of negro Of
flee holders down this way, four-fifths
of all the offices filled by negroes. They
are numerous, and when you find a
white man in office he is generally sew
eral degrees meaner and lower than a
negro. AS a matter Of fact, If he had
not put himself on an equality with the
negro, he would not be in office. John
G. Dancy, a most genuine specimen of
niger is collector of customs, and has
as clerks a varied assortment of white
republicans and negroes. Any white
republican job hunter is always ready
to work side by side with the niger.
@. Il. French, a c~arpet-bagger from
Maine, acts as sheriff, gets all the pay
of the office, and pays the real sheriff
$500 a month. 1t is said the real
sheriff cannot write his name. Caleb
Jockey is a lawyer and barber and
does the dirty work for the gang. Yes
terday in the court house he asked a
juryman if he was related to the pris-
oner-the juryman was a decent white
man and the prisoner black as the in
side of an ink bottle. The courts are a
farce. This fellow Jockey is candidate
for judge. Wright. the mayor, belongs
to the rang and is about the same mig
ger associating fellow as the others,
though less intelligent. The question
in this campaign is white or black n
these white men named are blacker
| than the blacklist negro, for the negro
| only gets the small plums or nothing.
| but these white negroes with superior
| intelligence and inferior morals swipe
| the biggest pies off the counter. These
white leaders determine and direct the
| negroes. and work tooth and nail
| against the government desired by the
| tax payers; yet their mouths are ever
| glued to the public teat and the COW is
fed by taxes 95-100 of which are paid
by white people. They are long suf-
fering and forbearing here; for proof
the editor Of the negro paper, who
wrote the slanderous article against
the virtue Of poor white women and
defended the negroes raping them, still
lives. There is little doubt in my mind
that in South Carolina or Georgia. he
would ave been properly lynched in
ness tina t~wenty-four hours. But the
lukewarmness of the democratic party
has passed away: they are in the fight
day and night and determined to win,
we feel that his may be our last op-
portunity 10 save the state: in another
two years the state would be negroiZed
l Dy the "HoItSdlt lHlpOIldliOH VI Aid
~being-good in his place but damnable
in politics. The ~populists are focking
back to the democratic fold; they were
intelligent: they are procuring di-
vorces and coming back TO their first
political affiliation. Those who do moi
see that fusion was a profound failure
are either knaves. pie hunters or fools
ard are rightly classed where they be
long-with the negro. We folks dOwr
in the eastern section have suffered
most, and we are counting on you good
patriots of the west TO help US n sc.
that the next legislature is democratic
From il relief will come. Draw tn
color line. Try TO win back the pOpu
list. II he loves black domination an
disgrace OF his native state, the gooC
white people should have nothing 4
do with him.; since he loves the negrr
sO-let him join their churches an
lodges. and when he and his family e
for q social call. let him. wife an
daughters, visit the home OF som
black negro. He must be either whit
or a negro-there is no half way groun
in this campaign.
= Sincerely.
", F, ROBERTSON.