The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-30

the SITUATION, and, as a white man, L
| call upon you in the name of the white
/ men ana women of North Carolina to
| give the strength of your ballot ON the
Sth day OF November to the support or
the white mans ticket and the whlte
mans party. Yes, more. l beg you TO
use your influence in the meanwhile
among your neighbors and friends Tor
the success of the white mans party, for
you nave my word for it. we stand face
to race with crisis in North
, Carolina, and that crisis will decide
| whether the negro or white man VIII
dominate North Carolina.
| what can it mean when Mr.. IS. w.
| McClement, lifelong Republican, OF
| the State of New York. now manager
| of the Railway and Electric Power
| Company. at Winston, n. c., represent
ing Sl50,0O0.0O declines to further affi-
| late with and vote the Republican fusion
| ticket? In the News and Observer of
yesterday, Mr.. McClement announces
that he cannot and will not vote the
| Republican Fusion ticket, because it
means negro domination. My dear
| friend, is it II possible thing. that Mr..
| McClement, Northern man by birth,
| and if | mistake not an eX-Union soldier.
and Republican from principle, thinks
| more of the white people of the South
| than some Of us think of ourselves! lie
says he cannot conscienti0usly vote Tor
| fusion this year. representing as 1T does,
| negro domination. AS a good citizen he
| owes it to the community, he thinks, to
| vote with the Democrats for the reStora-
| ton of decent and honorable government.
| But you argue that there are ether IS
| sues besides the ''nigger' involved III
| this campaign. That is ve.y true. and
with your indulgence ] viii consider
some of these hurriedly. For instance,
| there is the last Legislature; | will
| not ask you to believe any Dem t:ratc
| testimony touching the last Legislature,
| but will quote only what Senator But
| er's papers, the Caucasian end the Pro
gressive Farmer said touching the last
Legislature These with you, l take *
are authority.
up to this date the legislature is a
damnable disgrace to the State" Cauca-
! sian February. 9th, 1897
THE good done by llI2 Legislature
| could be printed in a snail pamphlet.
| The bad done and the good omitted
would fill several large volumes. Fro
gressive Farmer.
There is some talk of an extra SEES
sion of the Legislature. Please don't,
Governor Russell. We can endure fam
| inc. pestilence, drouth. war; but don't
infict any prolonged agony on the State,
such as an extra session. Progressive
Farmer. March 2, 1897.
"As to the Legislature of 1897, the
one now in session, we have To say
as fact that it has won the contempt
of the people generally of all parties,
and we have TO say as an opinion that
we do not believe that it can overcome
that contempt in two years time. and
hence cannot get the approval of the
people" Caucasian.
THE Legislature has now only about
ten days to complete it's work, and it
hasn't begun the work yet. Let the mis-
| cradle pie-hunters go TO work or go
home Progressive Farmer, February
BIRD 1897.
"Swepson is not the only boss our
North Carolina Legislature ever had.
| To man up tree it appears that the
Pops nominated some extremely sorry
| timber for the Legislature last year"
| Progressive Farmer, January 10Th, 1897.
Nor is this all touching the Legislature
the cry of the great reform party was
| retrenchment of expenses. Now let's
see how they kept their promise to the
people:
The Democratic Legislature of
1871 cost ........ 9Oo,olool
The Democratic Legislature of
1893 cost ................ 63,9I6IS
These were the 1.-TWO last Demo
L 81, ND thnty
cost .SlZS,334 %
The Rep-Pop Legislature of
1895 cost .................S 12,266. II
The Rep-Pop Legislature of
1897 cost ............... 10, 1000
The two Rep-Pop Legislatures
cost ..... SAB, O2I ~
SO the two Rep-Pop Legislatures cost
| the taxpayers S14032. 20 more than the
two preceding Democratic Legislatures.
This, candor will compel you to admit,
was pretty costly reform.
Nor is this all, my dear friend, for /
want to convince you that there is some
thing beside the niger" i'll this mat
ter
Let us compare the cost of the State
government for the year 1891 and 1893
when Democratic Legislatures made the
appropriations, with the costs TOT tne
years 1885 and 1897, when Rep-Pop
Legislatures made the appropriations:
1891 Cost of State govern
ment OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81 10 i9foo
1893 Cost of State govern
ment 1,%}9,G4s ~
Cost for 1901 and 1893 Dem
ocratic years. HZ,f93'4ff'oo
1895 Cost of State govern
ment .9l,ofo,ooo.oo
1897 Cost of State govern
ment .i'oor'ohe'-
Cost for 1895 and 1897 Gre
publican years.. ........ ~, 'lo,ooo.3f
The two Republican years, cost the
taxpayers S213,93S.96 more than the
two Democratic years; this is another
exhibition of Retrenchment and Reform,
that does not show up very creditably for
a party that rode into power on the
cry of "Retrenchment and Reform
Surely, with Madam Roland we may
exclaim, "Oh, liberty, what crimes are
committed in thy name"
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