The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-25
NEGRO. OFFICE HOLDERS.
What the POpulist and Free silver
Folly Did For North Carolina.

From the Wilmington Star.
We have heretofore named a number of
counties In which negroes have come to
the front as office-holders, and have given
the number in each We herewith give "a
number of other counties, with the negro
otIice-holders in each:
"In Columbus county there are II negro
school committeeman, negro magistrates
and negro postmasters.
In Hartford there are negro magis-
trates, l constable, 10 negro school COM
mitteemen, 2 negro postmasters and l ne
gro on the board of education.
I'm Chowan there are uegro aldermen,
school committeeman, l county commits
sioner and l member of the board Of edu-
cation.
In PasQuotank there are negro mag
istrates. 1 policeman, and school COM
m.tteemen.
"In Perquimans there are negro magie-
trates, 10 school committeeman, l mem
Der board of education. 1 county commits
sioner and / town constable.
In Jones there are negro magistrates,
u negro school committeeman, In five
townships there being two negroes on each
committee.
I'm Hyde there are negro school COM
mitteemen.
I'm Beaufort there is negro school COM
mItteeman in each township.
I'm Caswell there are negro magis-
trates, l negro school committeeman in
each township, negro deputy sheriff.
I'm Wayne there are negro magis-
trates, negro postmasters, 3 negro al
dermen, clerk in Goldsboro postoffce.
I'm Nash there are 3 negro magistrates,
II school committeeman.
"In Carteret there is negro town COM
missioner.
I'm Edgecombe there are negro postmas-
tiers In the towns of Rocky Mount, Bat
tleboro and Lawrence; there are 30 negro
magistrates and negro constabes, be-
sides a large number of negro school
committeeman
"In Montgomery there are negro school
committeeman.
'In Richmond there are 10 negro magis-
trates, % negro school committeeman
negroes being on every school committee,
Except one, where there is a vacancy) 1
negro ON the board of education, l deputy
sheriff and 3 negro road overseers
"In Pender county there are 10 school
committeeman, magistrates and con-
stable.
"In Baden there are 10 school commit
teemen, county commissioner and post
masters.
I'm Wake there are / deputy to Superior
Court clerk, 2 sheriffs deputies, school
committeeman in all the townships but
three ! on board of education, / superin-
tendent In the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asy-
lum, / assistant in the same institution, l
chief fertilizer inspector, 2 magistrates, 1
tailer, l janitor of county court house, 3
aldermen i'm Raleigh, and several guards
in the penitentiary. There are also num-
Der employed In the federal service.
Sampson county has 10 school commit
teemen and magistrates.
chatham has 10 school committeeman.
Union has magistrates"
The number of negro office-holders in
some of these counties Is smaE1 and they
are nearly all east of the center line. but
they give a pretty strong indication of
what we may expect IF the mongrel party
which has put these negroes in office wins.
If they make such a showing In few
years what may we not look for IL their
party triumphs AMI they get on top
again?
Rapidly they have advanced westward
and asserting themselves in every county
where they are factor in politics. and If
the white men of the state fail to declare,
and emphatically, too, for white supremacy
ii will be considered as an endorsement of
negro rule, and we win have within the
next two years five negroes in Office to the
one we have now, and counties win have
them that are free from them now This Is
a matter in which the counties of the CEN
ter and the west are interested, as wen as
the counties of the east. The east cannot
be negrOIzed without more or less negro
izing these sections.