The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-23
WHAT NOR TIL CAROLINA EDITORS
THINK.

AoA LadSA RSAaS ool oAAN5C0
of Democrats putting negroes in Office.
II there are a few such instances they
were not obnoxious negroes. y
though no such instances should have
occurred. However, every man of
sense and observation knows that in
North Carolina Democracy trium-
plant mean the rule of the white mar
while fusion success is the triumph of
the negro. White people rejoice over
a Democratic victory, while negroes
rejoice over a fusion victory. The
bulk of the negroes are in the fusion
party, while the bulk of the white peo-
pie are in the Democratic party.-Kin-
ston Free Press.
Can We wonder, after this vile and
~slanderous abuse of white womanhood
that this very crime has again been
committed within our own borders
and the big. black. burly brute" sat
isfying his lust because his crime has
a champion in the press and ministry
of his party and race. AS truly as in
the dark days of so does crime and
misrule follow republican or negro
domination. With the creatures of
his own vote in Office the negro is
promised protection and is bold and
insolent in the exercise of his fancied
rights and privileges. He expects and
finds the administration of justice a
shield to his lawlessness rather than
a protection to his rights. The alarm
ing increase of crime in our state was
foretold, it is a legitimate result of our
states present political condition.
Snow Hill Standard.
We nave addressed this article to
white men, in keeping with the appeal
which our democratic state committee
makes under its wise plan of cam
paign. Really the matter concerns
those of onr colored voters who are
not Office seekers in very great de-
gree also; but long experience has
taught the democratic party that it
has nothing to hope from them. It
is they who have drawn the color line,
voting sOlidly against their white
neighbors and benefactors in every
election of moment. And yet we take
occasion to say here, what we have so
often said before, that the democratic
whites bear nothing but kindly feel
ings to the colored race, and intend,
if work will accomplish it, to save
them from themselves and their de-
signing white and black leaders by
restoring that just rule of the superior
race under which both races enjoyed
their greatest prosperity.-Fayette-
vile Observer.
Hello, this wont do, Says a Homo
lulu telegram: The territorial form
is adopted as being in accordance with
American thought and tradition and
gradually preparing for statehood and
extension Of the municipal idea; or,
in other words, local self-government
is adopted as affOrding a means of re-
stricting the suffrage SO hat there will
be a certainty that the whites will
rule. This restriction is a ~precaution
against the Japanese, who are already
the largest element of the pOpula-
ton" "A certainty that the whites
will rule" Nice language for a re-
publican commission working under a
republican administration. Why
should Hawaii be thus favored when
North Carolina is not? Many Japa-
nese are more capable of self govern
ment than is the average North Caro-
lima negro. And if negro rule is a
good thing in the south, why are p
the mildly colored brethren to be al
lowed to vote in Hawaii? It appears
thai the republican party is in favor
of universal suffrage-sometimes, and
then again not.-Asheville Citizen.
The indignation of the white people
Of North Carolina on account of the
editorial which recently appeared in
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is intense. But for the fact that the
black race has become emboldened by
the present Russell-Butler administra-
ton no such article would ever have
appeared. It is hardly fit for publica-
ton, but we feel impelled to reproduce
a part of it that the people may be in
formed of the dangers into which
they are drifting as a result of the eX-
listing political conditions in this state.
The portion especially important is
the following paragraph: When
white men controlled the state govern
ment, white men who were not depen-
dent upon the suffrage Of ignorant and
vicious negroes, nothing of the sort
occurred. 1t would not have occurred
if the government of such men had
been continued to the present time.
You cannot SOW the wind without reap
ing the whirlwind. The negro cannot
be elevated to positions above the
white man without his coming to feel
himself the equal Of the white man,
and to resent the fact that the white
man does not so consider him.-Mor-
canton Herald.
The charge Is OFTEN times made by
bitter partisans that those who are al
ways advocating the supremacy Of the
Anglo Saxon race are actuated by pure
ly political and race prejudice. But
such a charge is both cruel and I'M
just, and in bad taste from all
those who feel inclined to make such
a terrible charge. In the first place it
can oe demonstrated with mathemati-
cal certainty that the Anglo Saxon
man is free from hatred and race pre-
JUDGE than any other type of man. In
fact it would be a real compromise of
dignity and self respect for any true
Anglo Saxon man to feel conscious Of
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