The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-11-12
NORTH CAR0LlNAS WOES.

The following extracts from tn,
address of Mr.. Z. Ar. Simmons
chairman of the North Carolina
State Democratic Executive Com.
mittee. are taken from the Raleigh
Post, and are a presentation Of the
causes Of the amazing poIitica
condition in North Car0jiua. Mis-.
sissippians who remember the
thrilling times Of 1873 will ap,
preciate the picture, and rejoice
that by wise and timely action
Mississippi has saved herself from
an experience even worse than that
which Carolina is undergoing,
"It was charged and proved, that
the Fusion Legislature of 1897,
coming into power, under a prom
! ise to cut down salaries and fees
to the level of the price Of farm
products, did not decrease the
salaryA Nan officer, did not decrease
/ he 60 a single officer, did not
Jec appropriations, stopped
no NO. whditures; but multiplied
| nl99icS creased public expenses
onJ @ toxatIon throughout the State.
" To the charge of extravaganza
wos snner-odded the charge Of
It was charged and proved, that
knowing Senator Pritchard to be
a Gold Republican, nineteen rus,
| ionists. elected as Popuhsta and
pledged to Silver, betrayed the
cause of the honest Populists, who
voted for and elected them, and
sold their votes votes to Senator
Pritchard. in consideration Of ap
polntments under Mckinley adj
ministration.
II was charged and proved, that
public office was made a CONNER
clal commodity, and barterod and
sold for Il price, mblushIngIy'
openly and Systematically.
1t was charged and proved that
the Superintendent Of the Peniten.
tiarv had squandered and misap,
propriated the public property Of
| that institution until his conduct
had become notorious, and the
Governor then transferred HIM to
the head Of the Agricultural DE
partment. where, he said, the op-
portunity for despoiling the peo-
pIe would be less i
In the midst of all this DIN ana
conflict. there came a voice from
the East. like the wall of Egypt
midnight cry. 1t was not the
voice of despair, but OF rage A
nroud race, which had never
known a master, which had never
bent the neck to the yoke OF any
other race, by the irresistible
power of fusion laws and fusion
LEGISLATION had been placed under
the rontrol and dominion OF tnat
rae race w which ranks lowest, save one'
in the human family.
The business Of two o. the Iarg
est and most prosperous clIi9s III
the State had been paraIyzesu oJ |
the blight Of negro doinlna'lou'
In another city a white major
itv had been Disseminated against
in in favor of a black minority, ana
the white man, who bore all the
burden and expense of government
had been given only ope-haIt thg
representation of the Ignorant anu
non on-tax-paying negro ~
White women, of pure Anglo
Saxon blood, had been arrested
mon proundless charges, by ne,
GRO constables, and arralgned ana
tried and sentenced by negro
magistrates.
Finally, as a result of the lnSQ-
lence and aggressiveness Whlc1
his sudden elevation to power mao
engendered in the negro, leader
and representative of that race
dared openly and publicly to ls. as
sail the virtue of our pure "nl'e
womanhood.
Then came the evidence, dlss-
closing the actual condition OF al
fairs. in that section of the state,
which astonished and shocked the
consciences and moral senslolIlties
of the people.
NEGRO CONGRESSMAN NEuRo -
LICIToRs, NEGRO REVENUE orr
GERS, NEGRO COLLECTORS OF GUS
TOMS, NEGROES in charge OF Whilc
institutions, NEGROES IN charge VI
white schools, NEGROES holding III
quests over the white dead NE.
GRoEs controlling the finances OF
GREAT cities, NEGROES in contro! OF
fbe sanitation and police OF cltles'
NEGRO CoNsrABLEs arrestlng Whllo
women and white men, NEGRO
MAGISTRATES tryiRg white women
and white ~ white conNlclI 'I
chained 10 b CoNvIcTs and
forced to sSss equality with them
until the proofs rose up and stooa {!
forth like Pelon on Ossa plleo'
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