The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-08-25

eS, sir. go INTO any department OF
| the county or city government and let
| the records tell their own tales"
| | went into the office Of the clerk of
| the Superior court and asked him to
| give me list of the negro magistrates
| in Craven county. He gave them to
me from the records i'll his office, and
here is the list of negro magistrates:
Ii. e. Dawson, w ID. Pcttiphea,
Jessee L. Godett, e. w. Fisher, David
| Ambrose, Dock Cooper, Abraham Den
mis-, .Alonzo Pelham, Washington Sprey,
| Jas. r. Hooks, Albert Foreman, Alex
| ander Pelham, a. y. Bryan, Lewis
Ham, W. w. Lawrence Robt. G. Nose
lev. John g. Willis. Thos. o. White, Nj.
w. Chapman, w. Ii. Green, w. ii.
Burton, Fred Douglas. L. W. Eubanks,
Dennis Perkins. Frank Raspberry, John
\. Boons and w. j. Rountell.
| asked for an official certificate as
to the correctness of this list, and here
it is:
State of North Carolina,
Craven County.
/. w. NJ. Watson. clerk Superior court
of Craven county, do hereby certify that
the foregoing is Il true list of the col
ored magistrates of this county as APP
pearing ON the records i'll this office.
w. NJ. WATSON,
Clerk Superior Court
Ncwbern, n. c., August 1G, 1898.
| asked Republican how many
white deputy sheriffs there were in
Craven county
''Not one" he replied, ''we give these
positions to the colored men,"
l asked for Il list of the regular negro
deputies, and here it is: Nathan Cobb,
]. Ii. Fisher, Willis petipher, J. G.
Payne and c. Il. Physic.
| was told that the white man who
tas re-nominated for sheriff of Craven
county by the Republican county con-
vcntion boldly stated in his speech of
acceptance that he was going to give
all the positions under him to the ne
groes and that no white man need APP
ply.
| asked another prominent white Re
publican to give the fnames, color and
politics of the men nominated by the
last Craven county Republican conven-
ton. He readily complied, and here is
the list For sheriff, j. l.. Hahn. white,
for clerk, Il. w. Carpenter, white; for
register of deeds, j. Il. Willis negro;
for treasurer, Chris, Roach, negro; for
the House of Representatives,, Isaac Ii.
Smith. negro; coroner, W. l.. Lassiter,
negro: county commissioner. IL. q.
Mostly negro, county commissioner, H.
i. Williams, white; township constable,
j. L. Stanly. negro; county standard
keeper, JAS. Dudley negro.
Il see you have no Populist on the
ticket" | remarked.
mo, we don't need them i'll Craven
county," was the reply.
| asked the clerk of the Superior court
to give me list of the negro school
committeeman in Craven county, and
here is the list: ii. Il. Dawson, John
4. Dixon, Jr., w. ID. Pettipher, Thos. IL.
Moore. Jonas Hargctt. w. L. Morgan,
Nero Groom, John Il. Holland, Jesse
Brooks, Robt Il. Davis, w. w. Law
renee and II. w. Williamson.
| obtained Il list of the negro police
men in the city of Ncwbern, and here 1t
is:
NEGRO POLICEMEN.
Isaac Richardson, II. c. Baker, Henry
Pasteur, A. \. Bryant and Bob Nose
ley.
The following negroes are on the
Board of town commissioners: w. Ii.
johnson. j. e. Shepherd and Elias
Hays. In the Register of Deeds office
are two negro clerks, y. w. Weather
ington and George Willis. Then there
are special negro deputies, negro consta-
bles and negro road Overseers, all over
the county. OF these negro road over
seers under whom white men have to
work the public roads shall have some
thing to say in subsequent letter. |
shall also have something 10 say i'll de-
a. q .l,or afp Of af,1
of some of those who are entrusted
with the affairs of tins city and county:
| could tell here of the harvest that
is being reaped as result Of negro
domination in Craven county, but what IS
the use? Doesn't every thinking white
man in North Carolina know that the
fruits of ignorant and incompetent con-
troll are bad very bad, / could tell of in
dignities heaped upon as brave and as
loyal white people as live within our
borders. but what's the uSe Doesn't ev
cry intelligent man in the State know
that insolence and arrogance are the nat
uraI results Of negro domination where
ever you find it?
/ could tell of Il very natural back
ward movement in the financial educa-
tional and commercial life of the town
and county since the advent of negro. con-
troll. but what's the use. Everybody
knows that business suffers by bad gov
eminent, that property declines, investors
pass along to some other community
and that the energies of the people are in
measure paralyzed. ] could tell Of
the conniving on the part of negro
magistrates. negro constables and depu-
ties, to fitch fines out Of the unfor-
tunates. both black and white, but why
is it necessary to say so? Is it not an
established fact that where corrupt and
incompetent officials hold sway the .citi-
zehs of that community suffer individual
ly as well as collectively!
My information is that aside from the
arrogance and insolence of the rabid
negro politicians and their faction the
whites and the blacks Of Craven conn
ty have always and would always
live in harmony one with the other.
There is a class of colored people here
as elsewhere. who are not Extensively
insolent or inclined to hoist themselves
over the white people. 1t is the rabid
ambitious colored politician and place
hunter and those who are mislcad by
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