The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-08

Granger, another negro, said to crowd
standing by:
Twin you all stand around and let
the - white man arrest one
of your race?"
A Baptist minister, Rev. G. w.
Blanchard, was compelled to rescue a
white child who was attacked in the
street out Of pure yiciousness by young
negro.
In Scotland Neck gang of negro
toughs attacked some white boys ,on the
way to prayer meeting and only the
ability of the latter to defend them
selves saved them from serious injury.
| A policeman attempted to arrest negro
and a crowd of his race. gathered about
the store where he was thought to be
concealed for the purpose Of preventing
| his arrest. Later they stood about the
edges of the town hooting and making
threats. Scotland Neck along with
many other towns has negro post
master.
| When it is remembered that all these
things have occurred within the past
| two months, that similar things happen
| daily and are never reported. and that
| they are but indications of the temper
| and bearing of the negro, some concep-
tion may be had of the effects OF negro
rule on the negro himself and of what
the white men and women Of Il large sec
ton of our State are compelled to en-
dure. While negro rule has effected the
negro chiefly in that section of the State
where it has full sway, the effects are
spreading, as was shown at Rutherford
ton. where the negro teachers entered
an institute for white teachers and at
tempted to participate until Prof. L. +.
Claxton who was in charge. informed
them that they could take no part. At
CLAYTON. only last week, "A negro insult
cd Il young white lady, the daughter Of
n Republican postmaster. because he did
not get letter and had to be kicked
out of the office by a white man who
happened to be present.
NEGROIZING is TO CONTINUE.
Negroes and white Republicans, until
they found an outraged public sentiment
was running against them, made no
secret of their intentions to negroize
the State still further. Thus negro Con-
gresham White said on the floor of the
Republican State Convention:
Il am not the only negro who holds
office. There are others. There are
plenty more being made to order to hold
Offices. We don't hold as many as we
will.
"The Democrats talk about the color
line and the negro holding office. in
yite the issue"
Lee Person, the negro nominee for
Senator from Edgecombc. said in a
public speech to negroes:
go to the elections well armed, with
rocks in your pockets. clubs in your
hands and carry your pistols. And don't
allow any officer to arrest you after YOU
have registered until the day after the
election, unless you have stolen some
thing or killed somebody"
He has attempted to justify it by say
ing white men had been making in
cendiary speeches and he was replying
to them.
Abe Middleton, negro member Of
the Republican State Executive Commit
tee in a speech at GoldsborO, in which
he was trying to persuade the negroes
to wait until after this election and get
appointiye places could not suppress this
boast:
why. / does the debating in my
county. and when / does the debating
we always wins"
Lee Hester, negro leader, said in
the Republican convention of Person
county: 1.-THE negro is on top in East-
ern North Carolina and we propose to
stay there if the Populists will stick to
| us We know they will stick TO us, but
the price we have paid for them is
mighty high.
Isaach II. Smith, formerly candidate
1 C0ndi-
date for the House from Craven county,
wrote a card to the Newbern Journal in
which he said:
Editor Journal: We saw in a recent
issue of the Journal where the white Re
publicans intended taking down or leav
| ing off the Republican county ticket two
of the regular colored nominees of the
Republican party Of Craven county.
1--WE say to the white Republicans to
please take hands off.
IF the colored voters who do the bulk
of the voting were talking about taking
down or leaving off some of the white
candidates. we could understand.
MIR. Editor, to make this matter short,
we will never. no, never, submit to this
intolerable insulting wrong to 100000
colored voters Of North Carolina"
The negro assistant, Wetherington, to
to the negro register of deeds. Willis,
declared in the Craven county Republic
can convention:
"In 1886, we pressed the button and
behold John b. Willis, Register OF
Deeds, came forth Again, we pressed
the button, and Robert Moseley, county
commissioner. came forth! We pressed
the button, and deputy sheriffs came
forth! We pressed the button and mag
istrates came forth!
And now in this convention we have
again pressed the button. and behold,
c. G. Roach, for county treasurer is be-
fore us, and with the past and present
before us, what shall the future give to
us?"
A negro politician, Tom Fields, said in
the Republican convention of Halifax
county, on October 4th:
white people are buying black pow
der, but we want them to understand
that we are buying white powder. We
have more 16-shooters than they mag
inc"
Columns of htterances from negro ora