The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-05

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gentleman, ''ain't this putting the bot
tom rail on top?' When | heard it /
thought of Locke Craig's Buncombe
! county neighbor who made II visit to an
| When Sunday came the Irishman took
his mountaineer friend to church, which,
of course, was a Roman Catholic cathed-
raj. When the deep-toned organ peaied
forth, reverberating from pit to dome as
preliminary to the highly ritualistic ser
vice, and especially when the priest fired
the aromatic incense that rose in clouds
to the roof, the mountaineer turned to
his friend, and said: Pat, don't this
beat the deyil?" Yes, be iabers, re-
piled Pat; that's the intention of 1t.
So. in answer to the old mans interro-
gatory ABOUT the bottom rail, | say, y IS,
be jabers. that's the intention of it.
"Rnt | am sorry for Sheriff Smith; he
is an amiable man, and | know this from
NV acquaintance with him. He has been
in trouble about this negro deputy bust
ness. / verify believe, and, the worst OF 1t
is the negroes themselves are hard on
him because he denies and would re-
nudiate the charge of having a negro
deputy. So you see his position is that
Of being placed betwixt the upper and
neither milestone. The fact seems to be
that Sheriff Smith, Henry Dockery,
Claude Dockery and Zach Long-indeed
the entire shootin' match of leaders
are, more or less. bossed by their negro
co-partners in politics.
Mr.. Dockery our United States mar
shall. appointed this same Hamp Town
send to take charge of n capture of wills
KEY at Hamlet, either as Il Waterman,
guard or something. and there was good
pay in it for Hamp; but having forcible
reason to apprehend that it was not
healthy there for Hamp you know that
low country, south of Hamlet, is subject
to malarial he didn't know how soon
Hamp might ''drap off, so Marshal
Dockery removed him for Ramps and
his country's good Mr.. Dockery said
that is. to his friends-that he sent Hamp
to Hamlet because of his being Fan old
family servant" Now don't you know
he was talking through his hat when
he said to Democratic friends it was
because Hamp was IAN old family ser
want "--and, therefore, could be trusted
by hin-that he appointed him to that
position at Hamlet? Do You suppose he
gave that as a reason to Hamp for his
appointment, or told his party friends
that Ramps peculiar fitness for the
place consisted in the fact that he was
a faithful ''old family servantY Not a
bit of it. Fact is, the negroes are de-
handing recognition of their party
friends. and as equals with them, and
their party friends arc doing for them
the best that they dare to do ms yet;
later on, doubtless they are told, the full
fruition of their hopes will he realized
in legislative and congressional seats and
other high offices. And who sblames the
negroes for making their demands? Not
the Democrats. We say the white Re
publicans have nursed you and coddled
You and fawned upon you for the sake
Of your votes. They have pulled you ~
with an exaggerated idea of your own
Importance as citizens. Instead of leav-
ing You in a contented sphere rs peace
able, Industrious people. satisfied that
your superiors and the true owners Of
this whole country shall make and exc
cute its laws for the good of all hu-
mainly, they have pursued too far the
policy of putting the bottom rail on
tom
We call you negroes, your true name,
as honorable to you as race as the
name Caucasian is to us. We like the
old name, negro-not ''colored people"
or "niggers." A candidates got up mt
Wadesboro to declare himself for repre-
sentative of the 26th Senatorial "Decs-
trict." Judge Bennett, interrupting him.
arose and gave him a hearty shake OF
the hand, at the same time saying with
heartiness. God bless you my friend. /
love YOU for pronouncing that word
Deestrict." So | say. give me the old
word -negro, as applied to that race to
which | yield every right on earth ex-
cept the right of social equality with
and the right of ruling over the white
race.
Another proposition in the way Of an
instance. The existing conditions in
Richmond county are such that deli
cate and refined white lady, wishing to
apply for situation as public school teach
err, may--under possible and probable
circumstances-be obliged to come face
to face with negro school official of
some sort, who, with all the aping airs
of his white superior, will be ready to
sit in Judgment on the merit and quail
fications of the applicant. By-the-way,
who is your School Board of Education
in this county? Composed Of Daniel
Jackson. a negro: bud" Yates, chin
quepin Populist. and a Democrat (God
save the mark, who knows just how
much ''inhooence" will go out from this
Board of Education % to elect H. f.
Long to office again.
But why continue further to justly
portray the political condition under
which our poor old county has writhed
in its impotency and hclplessness until
"forbearance ceases to be virtue? 1t
is high time to declare that we recognize
in all its enormity the perilous situation
in which the moral. social and political
interests of the white people Of Rich
mond county are placed by the condi-
ton referred to, said condition being the
direct. predetermined and logical result
of Republican rule as established, fos-
tered and maintained by what is popu-
larry known as the Long and Dockery
influence. whose own purely selfish and
unholy purposes are promoted by it,
while the interests Of the unselfsh, non
offce-seexing public and society at large
are being irretrievably injured by it.
Therefore. in conclusion, we appeal es-