Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-10-06
THE IMPENDING CRISIS.
What Fusion Threatened For GoIdsb orc
in the Last Legislature and What
it did For Some Other Towns.
WHAT 1T MEANS IF SUCCESS
FUL THIS YEAR.


threatened for GolGsboro in its
municipal government by the late
fusion legislature-the diabolical
scheme OF negro rule such as runs
riot in New bern, Greenvllle and
Wilmington, by the same legisla
tive enactment that was designed
for Goldsboro and other eastern
towns, and which was only escap-
ed by us because of lack of time
on the part of the odious fusion
law making gang, owing to the
North Carolina Railroad lease
question, engaging almost every
moment of time up to the very
time Of adjournment. Otherwise
the Grant Person s'Police Bill''
for GoIdsboro would surely have
been enacted into law.
Our citizens have not forgotten
that bill. How we abhored the
measure and feared its conse-
que1ces and banded together to
avert its enactment as best we
could; at the same time realizing
our he!piessness IN the presence of
the demon of hate that dominated
Grant and Person and inspired
them to push the bill into a law.
Neither have our people forgotten
the act of the first fusion legisla-
ture, in which Grant and Butler
changed the wards of our city and
inaugurated the cumulative" sys-
tenn of voting, by which it was in
tended to turn the city over TO ne
gro rnle-for that's what Repub-
lican power in the east means.
But they had miscalculated the
strength Of Goldsboro's Demo-
cracy in the first insidious attempt
at the subjugation of our people,
although by its operation three
negroes sit on our Board of City
Aldermen, as reminders of what
might have been.
But the Police Commission
Bill would have done the work.
That bill is not dead, but sleep
ing 1t has not been destroyed.
but is filed in the archives of fus-
ion. If the unholy alliance, withs
out principle and for pelf, that is
again seeking supremacy sue
ceeds in gaining the next legiss
lature, the white people Of the
east will surely have to come un-
der the yoke Of negro rule as
completely as it now prevails in
Newbern. Wilmington and Greens
vile. This is what the success
of fusion means in North Caro-
lima. Republicans control the fus-
ion with Populists-the latter
want Office and the former want
power: power first, and they will
tend to the offices-all the Offices.
later. The Republican party in
North Carolina is composed Of
12O, 600 negroes and few thous-
and whites, therefore the Repub-
lican party in North Carolina is
the negro party, and Republican
power means negro supremacy.
This is already in evidence in ev
cry county in the east where Re-
publican power prevails.
No wonder the fair women Of
North Carolina are alarmed.
Many of them haye already been
subjected to gross indignlties.
There is work for them in this
campaign. Let them be at it.
They have work for every hour
that remains. The consequences
are serious alarming, terrible
to contemplate.
Democratic success means
peace, prosperity, safety and
progress to all the people, white
and black. This is it's record, this
is its mission.
Republican-sPopulist fusion
success means a few fat Office
for a few Populists, the destruc-
ton Of the peace of our State,
the constant alarm of our women.
the shadow of a nameless fear
over every rural home and stalk
ing by every roadside, and con-
stant turmoil everywhere.
: 1t is for the voter on election
day TO choose by his ballot
which condition he prefers in.
North Carolina.