The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-18

friends. 1t is an appeal to white men
and appears in the daily Kinston Free
Press. His address is well prepared
and shows information and reflection.
He reasons and does not rant. He
says:
"And there is not a genuine populist
today that was in favor two or four
years ago of cooperating with any
party and most especially the party
that favors negro rule, or negroes hold
ing any office, however small.
Nevertheless, DR.. Thompson says
we must swallow the negro party in
order to be organized in 1900, and says
further that democrats do not see how
DOpulists can vOte the fusion ticket,
but that populists will show them bet
ter on election than they can now eX-
plain it.
"Now I ask the true populists, are
they organized? Was not every pOpu-
Hist principle sacrificed at the cOnven-
ton composed Of such leaders as Cy
Thompson who are figuring on a seat
in the United States senate or some
other big position, who are willing to
see eastern Carolina dominated by
burly and incapable negro officials in
order that they can draw a big salary?'
How true this is. More than half of
the pOpulists who left the democratic
party were moved by pure and up
right mot, yes. They were, we think,
mistaken in several of their new prin-
ciples, but they were in earnest and
were actuated by right and unselfish
motives. They never intended to en-
slave their race and their white neigh
Dors. They never started with the
idea Of putting ignorant, vicious, bad
negroes in office over the white men.
Unfortunately, d~isastrously they were
miSled, mistaught, deceived by self
seeking, corrupt leaders and were land
ed into their old enemy's lap, the vile
black radical thing that has proved an
unmitigated curse to all North Car
DINA.
Mr.. KoOnce has a memory of the
past. He remembers the blackness of
darkness in the Holden-Kirk times and
HlS pdl y CLuS vi CltI1- IIC
writes:
II don't believe the pOpulists have
forgotten the dark days in North Car
Olina when such men as COlgrOve,
with his hundred negro militia, intim-
idated our homes, and negro commits
SiOnerS were allowed to nave our old
and decrepit white men who had out
lived their usefulness to be put up at
public auction and bid Off by negro
brutes not capable of attending a ken
mel of dogs.
That should certainly arrest the at
Jention of all good and true populists
who have been hoodwinked by the
tricksters and used as tools for their
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The bad days have
returned. History repeats itself. The
baleful rule of 1S6S-70 has returned
with some of it's own aggravated fea-
lures added. Mr.. Koonce asks:
"NOw, populist friends, what are you
going to do? You see on every hand
these kinky heads exercising their au-
thority and demanding places on the
fusion ticket, and in a good many
places they have succeeded in getting
on the ticket. Now, will you sit idle
and suffer these ~incapables to get full
control of North Carolina? No, lever
There is not a white man in all this
land that is in favor of such a terrible
calamity. There are some things in
this land that loo like hat white men
favor such. May God have mercy on
them but it may be they do not have
souls"
He deprecates a conclusion that the
white men are hostile to negroes when
in their proper places. He thinks
with all men really Of sense and can-
dor that the men to govern in a free
race. He therefore declares that ''be
1t now and h%enceforth forever dis
tinctly understood, that the Anglo
Saxon race are determined to ever
stand at the head of the law-making
department, even if we have it to do
at the point of the bayOnet."
We cannot follow him through his
Cogent, timely appeal, but he gives them
information and advice well worth
needing. He begs the populists to
wash their hands clean of black radi-
b calism, to stand faithfully by their real
principles. to vote now with the dem
ocratic party to help save the state and
rid it of ~accursed negro rule. He urges
his friends ito come out for white SUI
premacy and the publication of the
democratic party,"and says to the white
men of all political creeds that if there
eve was a time when white men
should stand together in North Caro-
lima this election of 1898 is the accept
ed time.