The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-09
The @esserwa.
THIS Is FOR WHITE POPULISTS

The Messenger has lever thought or
believed otherwise than that there
were thousands of good, well meaning
citizens in North Carolina who unit
ed with the populist and for sincere
h condition of the country and to
favor their own personal interests. h
Messenger has never intimated other
wise. In the campaign of 1894, it dis
tinctly stated that in an editorial ad-
dressed to the populists. They were
homes but they were extremely unfor-
tunate in being most unwisely and
u~nfaithfully led. We feel assured that
in every county in the state there are
true, good and even religious men,
men Of high character and strict integ-
rity, who are at heart thoroughly pa
triotic and white men all through and
not ashamed of it. Some are stlll
following unsafe, unfaithful leaoer-
ship. Others have seen the true DRIFT
of things and are aligning themselves
with the democrats again to help save
North Carolina from ruin, and place
the people once more under the con-
troll Of white men capable Of governing
themselves and governing others.
They art sick at heart at the politi-
cal trend, and now realize how they
have peer deceived by ignorant, self
ish men who have no real genius for
government, but who are self-seekers,
Unbalanced, disappointed, hungry, I'M
s~crupulous and consumed with lust
of office and unholy ambition. 1t was
a prodigious mistake when the better
class, the honest class of populists,
ever listened to the beguiling promises
of the demagogues, yielded to the al
Turing catch Of the fusion hoWlers, and
that, too, while sincerely believing in
the fundamental principles of the
Peoples Party that a~ntagonized the
black radical gang at every point. The
principles of the two parties were as
unlike as day and night.
1t is surely full time now, for the
day of ~deliverance is breaking, that
the true and honest men of the Peo-
pies party should spurn and repudiate
forever anu WIFI HOl, COilSulIllllS IL
dignation the base combine, the dia-
bolical betrayal to which they have
been so cruelty subjected. Come out
from among them. Oh, men of North
Carolina, who love your state, you
race, your family. If the total worthy
men Of that party will sever their af-
filiation and return to the help of the
White Mans party all will surely be
we'll in North Carolina. The vandals
will be incontinently kicked out and
honest men will have control. Surely,
they will no longer agree to cooper
ate with q party so venal, so vicious,
so cruel as the black radical party.
Wholesale surrender to them would
simply mean wholesale ruin and deSra-
luton. The Peoples party originated
f. needed reforms and how wrong,
INV ~treacherous it would be to unite
" tn a bad party, ~entrenched for more
t nan thirty years behind the very
principles and courses so we'll and
warmly denounced and r~epudiated by
the pouplists in their platforms,
sSpCCCllCo oIu
did, honest advocate of populist prin-
rciples can possibly without ~degrada-
ton now, in face of niger domination
and niger ISLANDERS and black radical
foulness, unite with the black radicals
without being guilty of a shameful
desertion of principles, a disgusting,
~inexcusable desertion of race, and a
gross betrayal of the best interests of
their commonwealth. It would be a
foul and false act. In all political his
tory there would be found no blacker
record.
Then to think of eastern ~men-white
men, honest men, reformers at heart
good farmers and true citizens, living
in counties once so harried and robbed
and ruined by the scOundrels and
plunderers in 1867, and their negro
allies who rioted in the consciousness
that they were hurting and wounding
all they could the democrats who gave
them work, fed their families and en-
abled them to live; to think of further
cooperating with such a low, debased
tribe as the Russellites. All through
the years the black radical leaders
have warred upon county government
because it protected to some extent
the white taxpayers and gave in part
honest government.
Under the return to power of this
very baleful, clustering black-radical
gang ruin again is doing it's fearful
work, and the old era, with added and
intensified bitterness and devastation,
has come, and all the concommitants of
vice and evil, with high taxes, robber-
les, open rascality are making the
times pregnant with woes and filling
h air with curses deep. The very
mildew of death has fallen on prosper
ity and peace, contentment and safety.
Lawlessness and unbridled lust. devil
try and deception, demagogy and ly-
ing wholesale have taken the reins
and are riding the people to death like