Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-11-03


ical effect, there were FOURTEEN
negro policemen in the city of Wi
mington, all of whom were appointed
by the Republican party?
21st. Do you deny that one OF
the members of the Finance Com
mittee of Wilmington is a negro,
appointed by the Republican partyy
22nd- Do you deny that there are
negro policemen and negro aldermen
in the city of Newbern, all elected
by the Republican party?
23rd. Do you deny that under the
gerrymander of the Fusion Legisla-
ture of 1895, although there is a
white majority in the town of Green
vile, your party SO divided up the
wards in that town that the negro
minority have -FOUR members OF
the board of aldermen, while the
white majority have only TWO
members of the board of aldermen?
oath. Do you deny that there are
THREE negroes running for the
Legislature in Edgecombe county,
all of whom we're nominated by the
Republican party, and have been en-
dorsed by the Fusion Populists?
25th. Do you deny that there are
1.-TWO negroes running for the Leg
islature in Halifax county, both of
whom were nominated by the Re
publican party, and have been en-
dorsed by the Fusion Populists2
26th. Do you deny that there are
two negroes running for the Legisla-
ture in Granville county, and that
both were nominated by the Repub
lican party?
9th. Do you deny that there is
a negro running for the Legislature
in Vance county, one in Craven, one
in Pasquotank county, one in North
ampton county, n In Warren
county, and in several other Eastern
counties, all of whom were nominal
ed by the Republican party?
28th. Do you deny that the Re-
publican party has this year nomin-
ated in various counties in the East,
negroes for registers of deeds, treas
urers, coroners, constables, county
commissioners, and magistrates?
Goth. Do you deny that there are
upon the Republican ticket in the
county of Craven, a negro for the
Legislature, a negro for register of
deeds, a negro for treasurer, a negro
for coroner, a negro for county com
missioner, and a negro for standard
keeper, all of whom were nominated
by the Republican party, and are it's
regular candidates, and that the
white Republican candidates for
sheriff and clerk in the county have
promised the negroes, if elected,
they will appoint negro deputies?
30th. Do you deny that there are
several hundred negro school COM
mitteemen in North Carolina, APP
pointed by the Republican party and
having authority owe white as well
as colore1 schools?
Now what constitutes negro
domination or negro rule may be a
question of opinion or taste. What
the people want to know is not what
constitutes negro domination, in
your opinion, but your unequivocal
statement of the facts with reference
to negro ofice-holding in the East
and negro candidates on the part of
your party, SO that they, as intelli-
gent beings, may decide for them
selves, whether there is negro rule
in Eastern Carolina.
The Democratic people living, and
the Democratic newspapers pub
lished, in the localities where these
Offices are held and candidates are
running, have asserted and published
and I, rs chairman ofthe Democratic
party, have asserted and caused to
be published, and do now assert,
(either from personal knowledge, or
from information obtained from
thoroughly trustworthy and reliable
sources, duly verifed), that negroes
appointed or elected by the Repuli-
can party, now hold the Offices these
question represent them as holding
and, that negroes regularly nomina-
ted by the Republican party, are
now candidates for the offices these
questions represent them as being
candidates to fill, and in view of the
alleged statements, made as afore-
said by you, denying in general
terms the fact of negro domination
and ofice-holding in Eastern North
Carolina, I call upon you to specif-
cally answer, over your own signature
without evasion or equivocation, and
upon your responsibility as a man
and representative of the people in
the United States Senate, the ques-
tions above propounded. Not one of
them, but all of them.
IF you make denial of these ques-
tons, or any one of them, I ask that
you will give the authority upon
which you base that denial, and if
you are INST sufficiently informed as
to the facts to enable you to answer
categorically, I ask that you will in
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