The news & observer., 1898-09-22
Is A RACE CLASH
UNAVOIDABLE 2
A NUMBER OF INSTANCES OF NEGRO I'M
PUDENCE AND MEANNESS.
The White People Must Stand Together. Can
Clash Between The Races be
Avoided.
(Winston Free Press.)

MIS-. j. II. lHNlOF ana h1FS. II. H. MUS
! ley were out riding ON their wheels one
evening last week. They turned into a
narrow side path to avoid meeting n lot
of negroes who were going home from
the tobacco stemmery. There were sew
eral negro woman in the path. The
negro wenches seemed determined not to
step aside to allow the ladies to pass.
Mrs. Taylor was in front and determined
that she would ride ahead anyway, so
she brushed past the negroes. One of
the wenches then got right in the mid
die of the path and Mrs. Mosley had to
dismount from her wheel and roll it
around the impudent negro wench, and
all the impudent wenches laughed loudly
and clapped their hands at making her
dismount. Such exasperatng occur
rences would not happen but for the fact
that the negro party is in power in North
Carolina, and that there are negro
magistrates and other negro officials in
office. which emboldens bad negroes to
display their evil, impudent and mean
natures.
Negro men on wheels do not turn out
ut all for ladies but would ride right
over white women if they did not get out
of the way. Their brazen impudence is
result of the negro party being in
power.
A negro woman whipped one of DIR.
Faulkner's little boys one day last
week with a buggy whip. 1t was done
without the slightest provocation that
we can learn. DR.. Faulkner is awfully
mad as he has just cause to be, and is
trying his best to learn the name of the
nasty mean negro Wench
The negro Congressman White, said
in his speech here Saturday that the
Populists were in honor bound to vote
for him. He slandered the Populists
Hereafter there should be no Populists
The place for all white men, with white
principles. is in the Democratic party.
All true white men must work together
and vote together to restore white gov
ernment in North Carolina.
Saturday evening Chief of Police ].
FL. Rouse arrested John Bright, a negro,
for being drunk and disorderly. The ne
gro resisted arrest. When Rouse took
hold of him the negro tried to stamp
the policeman's feet. and the latter hit
the negro over the head with his billy
Amos Granger, another negro, saiG
to the negroes: "Will you all stand
man arrest one of your raceY
The negro Bright was finally arrested
and lodged in jail and then Chief Rouse
arrested Amos Granger for counselling
resistance to an officer. Both negroes
gave bail for their appearance for trial
Tuesday.
A negro woman was also cursing and
snorting around advising resistance to
n. h,,f Il
find her after he made the other ar
rests.
The Free Press has only given n few
facts. There are many others of SINH
lar nature constantly occurring. The
condition is becoming unbearable. We
have proper regard for good negroes who
know and keep their places, but for
mean, impudent and unruly negroes we
have the utmost contempt. The rule of
the fusionists has served to develop in
the bad negroes all their mean traits.
1t is rapidly approaching the point whore
the patience of all true white men will
be eXhausted-when such men will take
the law in their own hands and by or
ganzed force make the negroes behave
themselves. Unless white government
is restored at the next election this point
will certainly be reached and there is
strong probability that it will be reached
before the election.
There are many good negroes, who
are disposed to be, and are, polite and
respectful. If this c1ass has any in
iluence over the unruly ones of their
race it is high time they were exerting
it. Unless they do, a clash is surely
coming between the races, and in such
clashes the white race is always victori-
Gus.