The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-08-29


party lines and a crusade is on to restore
Anglo-Saxon supremacy and decent gov
eminent.
So domoralizing has been the regime OF
the fus!onists, that a horrible condition of
affairs has resulted.
Negro leaders on the platform and in
their newspapers are daring the whites to
make the race issue and encouraging their
men to commit atrocious crimes. This week
has seen the pent-up indignation of an
outraged people burst into flame Whch
is sweeping the state with the fury of a
forest fire
The issue of white supremacy and pro-
lection for the family has been made up.
and on that line the decent white people
declare that they will rescue their falr
state from the fusion politicians.
Four years ago the republicans and pop
ulists captured the legislature. and from
that day to this life has been a burden
to the whites throughout large part or
the state. Ignorant, incompetent VICIOUS
and corrupt men of both races obtained
public office, and their scandalous conduct
has had no parallel IN any state since th@
days of carpet baggery Cnmenuonaple
crimes have been perpetrated by officials IN
high places. Political power has been
freely prostituted to prosecute personal
enemies. IL ne uOIlIIid'loll u IiIr 'AN'N 1900
over the white has been as complete as
it was in the dark days Of the early
seventies.
BY special act of the general assembly,
cities with u white majority are given over
to the rule of negro aldermen who elect
the mayor and other officials; negro com
mtttcemen examine white teachers and
direct white schools; negro magistrates Cas
many as forty In one county, issue legal
processes which are served by negra deputy
shcrffs and negro constables on white men
and women, who must answer before negro
justices; negro police patrol the streets
negro commissioners conduct county al
fairs; negro clerks register voters negro
judges preside at elections, and, until re-
Gently. a negro politician was the con-
trolling director on the board of the
asylum for the blind white people.
White Women Slandered.
The climax came this week when a negro
paper at Wilmington. the commercial
metropolis Of the state, published a viii
famous Islander on the wives and daughters
of white men, declaring that poor white
women on the farms and white girls OF
culture and refinement are not aVerse to
falling in love with and ihicitly meeting
negro men.
The police have 1een guarding that
newslapcr office ever since. Governor Dan
Russell and all the other white republican
office holders and candidates We're prompt
To denounca the incendiary editorial, know
ing very well that they would De Aeio
morally responsible for it.
In the coming contest for control or the
general assembly every white man VIII
have to walk up and openly take a stand
He must say whether he IS with his own
race and blood against them 1t Is eN-
pected that the white republican once
holders and some of the popuiist ONCE
holders and candidates will go with the
negroes. but the masses. certainly the
masses of the thlrd party Will Inc "P VA
the other side.
Fusion Is Doomed.
The rank ana file of the popullsts are
breaking away from the unnatural alb
ance which they made i'll 1894 with the
republicans For the past year they cave
been realizing more and more torclp4S
every day that fusion with the repuo-
leans had restored radical rule ana was
operating to defeat the bed rock princi-
pies upon which populism was louhuer'
Populism In the south drew It's Steh6'n
from the democratic party. 1houSailuS oa
sincere men left the old organization III 1897
and the two succeeding years because they
be ieved it could not redress the eVlls Will@H
afflicted the country. In North Carolina
the pOpulists were strictly a third party
in 1892, but in 1894, under the Leadership
OF Marion Butter, they fused with the re
pubiicans and gained 2ontro! OF the state
legislature. TIE fusionists had n sIea' VIC
tory at every point and in 1896 hney re-
peated their success ana elected thelr can
didate for governor For the past two
years they have been in full control OF
all departments of the state admlnistra-
ton
This should have a special interest to
Georgia democrats and populists where
q similar fusion scheme has been arranged
by the republican and popuist politicians
in the eleventh congressional district.
Thousands of North Carolina populists
sending greeting to their brothers IN
Georgia, warn them to beware the Greeks
bearing gifts -
What has been the result in this Old
North State?
Aided Their Enemies.
Aside from the negro domination, II
that were not enough, the popullsts mere
see that they have helped to send to the
United States senate a republican &oIdbug
who stands with Mark Hanna on every
high tariff trust ana monopolisuc propo-
sition that comes up in congress Senator
pritchard, twice elected to the senate by
popust votes kills every vote which Sen
ator Butler casts for the principles dear
TO the populist heart. The same Is true
of the republican representatives elected
to congress from TINS state by the ala or
populIst ballots.
Recognizing the Inconsistency of this
course. the populists are abandoning the
republicans. Senator Butler is for keeping
in the middle of the road. though his
partys state convention offered in May
to fuse with the democrats. Thousands of
the honest, conscientious third party men
are coming straight back into the demo
cratic party just as their brothers are
doing in Georgia and Tennessee. White
supremacy IS the campaign issue will tinlSh
the business for the fusion regime.
The democrats are lighting for princi-
Piles honor and good government, while
their opponents are confessedly after the
Offices Hal T. Aver, state auditor and
one Of the leading popuiist politicians al
nitted this in conversation | had win
HIM Il day 50 ago.
THE only principle involved is to beat
the democrats" he SAID
In other words. the fusion politicians
are after what they call the pie and
they hope to induce enough pOpuiistS To
vote with them to again elect fusion
legislature and to capture the county Of
fees
Ttle governor and statehouse officers are
not elected this year, their terms running
four years IN the trade of 1896 the re-
publicans took the governor and attorney
general, and the populists got large share
of the other places.
Unbearable Conditions.
North Cardinals nearest NEG nbors have
only q vague conception of the manner