The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-14
FUSION SPElLBlNDERs ARE WINNING CON.
TEMPT.

The Fusion orators make themselves
ridiculous by declaring in their public
speeches that the Democratic party is
1.-The negro party" Men who make such
pect intelligent people to have much re-
spect for anything they may say. OF
course there is not white man of com
mon sense. nor a negro in the State who
does not know that the Republican party
is, and has been since the day of his
freedom, the home of the negro. No
body has ever claimed that of the 1oO.-
600 votes polled or claimed to have
been poled by that party in the last cleo
ton. more than 10000 We're polled by
white men. and the balance were cast
by negroes. There are probably no.
900 legal negro voters in this State. In
the last election they cast about 10000
fraudulent votes cast by the negroes in
the last election amount to 10000.
This immense negro vote. as everybody
knows, was cast solidly for Russell, Nc
Kinley and the balance of the Republi
can ticket, State and National, yet
Fusion orators have the gall to say that
the Democrats appoint negroes to. office.
Why should they appoint negroes to Of
flee when all the negroes vote against
them? This is one fact known to all
men, which shows the absurdity and
falsity Of these statements.
Again, it is well known that in Eastern
Carolina, Republican conventions, with
out an exception, are composed largely
of negroes. In Craven but few days
ago the convention had about 10 dele
gates, So Of whom were negroes. In
/, the Second judicial district the conyen-
ton which recently met at Rocky
Mount, and nominated Charles A. Cooke
for Judge, State position, there was
not a single white delegate. In every
county in the East where the negroes
have n sufficient vote TO eject Thelr
ticket. without the aid of the whites,
they nominate as a rule a number of ne
groes on the county Republican ticket.
In Craven county. out of eleven candi-
dates on the county ticket, they nominat-
cd SEVEN NEGROES. In Edgecombe
county they nominated quite number
of negroes, among them two candidates
for the Legislature Likewise in Halifax
colunty they nominated two negroes for
the Legislature. In Wake county they
were only kept from nominating negroes
ON the county ticket by the white Re
publicans, at the instance of the POpu-
lists, agreeing to give the negroes two
places with salaries of 5000 each in the
Agricultural Department, and they have
nominated negro magistrates.
The negro would always, as everybody
knows, insist upon putting some Of their
color upon a ticket, were it not for the
fact that in the counties where they can
not elect without the white vote, they
are told that if they put negroes upon
the ticket the Populsts and white Re
pubicans would he disinclined to sup
port the ticket. Since the Legislature
provided for the election of magistrates
and constabcs by popular vote, the ne
groes have almost invariably insisted
upon nominating persons of their own
race for these important positions, and
that accounts for the fact that i'm nearly
every township in the eastern part of the
State, where there is negro majority
there are only negro magistrates and con
stables. In these counties they also de