The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-16
NEGROlSM EXALTED WHITE FOLKS MUST
STAND ASIDE.

49,
programme to annihlate Mr.. j. w.
Bailey and the Biblical Recorder because
Mr.. Bailey resigned from the Board of
Agriculture and gave reasons that dis
graced the Governor and his creatures
who compose the Board. Mr.. Bailey is
an independent in politics and has writ
ten many articles in the Recorder about
Democratic action to which we could
not assent and has taken positions con-
trary to Democratic teachings. But
no Democratic papers have felt called
cor,ler as dishonest and untruthful. Since
he resigned from the Board of Agricul-
ture, however. the Republican press from
the Winston Republican down to the
Progressive Farmer, have villified him as
if he were the sorriest knave in the
State.
Recently the Biblical Recorder con-
tanned the following editorial:
''We are not going to do anything
but call the recent killing of ii negro
near Scotland Neck by its right name.
The evidence is, from this distance,
that it was murder, not lynching; and
not for the usual crime. but for grossly
indecent conduct, which never the less
did not merit death. We are not going
to shift the responsibility from the
shoulders of the murderers, nor are we
giong to condone the crime. But we
do declare that the action of Congress
man White, Senator Pritchard, the
Postmaster General and the President
of the United States 1--WE take it that
the first named is the prime mover and
the others are responsible because they
have power to prevenD i'll appointing
negro postmasters in our eastern coun-
ties is not altogether to be separated
from the disposition of negroes to be
fiendish or from the disposition of the
whites to lynch them 1t is almost an
incendiary act to appoint negro post
master at Scotland Neck-not that it is
illcgaI-but that it is in the truest sense
yindictiye and immoral. Yet this has
been done twice recently. Congress
man White is a negro. and his attitude
can be undcrstood; Mr.. pritchard' S
might be explained upon the ground
of political Obligations; but how can
one believe that the President of the
United States or the Postmaster Gen
eral are also bound to most reprehen-
sible policy by SO mean n considera-
ton. Indeed il is hard to believe that
the Senator can be so unfeeling, incOn-
siderate and short sighted, not to say
yindictive and base"
This weeks Progressive Farmer
4. Il
Bailey for writing the above editor
al. The Farmer can stand almost
anything except the suggestion that the
negro is not as competent to rule as the
white man. That suggestion throws il
into fits. Since its editor has been in
daily contact, in the same. or in the adj
come to regard the negro as the fit ruler
OF white people, and to demean every
respectable editor who opposes negro
postmasters, negro magistrates, and tt
grow red in the face and abusive at any
criticism of Jim Young. the Chief Fer
tizer Inspector and official associate
of Editor Ramsey.
After column and half of abuse
and misrepresentation of the Biblica
Recorder, the Progressive Farmer takes
occasion to give expression to its belle
that the negro ought to he put in office
Indeed its whole editorial is based upor
denunciation of Editor Bailey because