The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-28
GOV. JARVIS
ON PR|TCHARD
Democrats Appeal to Ballots ;
Republicans Appeal to
Bullets.
HERE'S THE SITUATION
GOVERNOR JARVIS THROWS THE
SEARCHLIGHT OF TRUTH ON
PRITCHARD'S ISLANDER
or THE STATE.
HERE'S THE SITUATION
GOVERNOR JARVIS THROWS THE
SEARCHLIGHT OF TRUTH ON
WHITE MEN WILL NOT BE INUNDATED
Pritchard's Appeal and RusselPs Proclamation
Show that The Republican Party Can
not Give Peaceful and Good
Government to the State

Government to The State.
Extract from a speech by Governo
Jarvis delivered at Marion, October 10Th
1899.
So far in this great campaign | have
discussed principles and conditions aht
have studiously avoided with rare eX
ception offensive personal allusion TO th(
those who differed with me. whenever
/ have referred to Senator Pritchard
have done so in the most respectful man
ner. but the time has come when | feel
called upon to severely criticize his pub
lie utterance and acts. His party in con-
vention in the city of Raleigh in July last
declared him to be the leader of the Re
publican party in North Carolina. His
acts and utterance, therefore, have a
special significance and may be subject
to special criticism. / see by the papers
that he has called upon the President for
troops to be sent to North Carolina. The
full text of his letter to the President
has not been given to the public and we
therefore cannot know what representa-
tons have been made by him, but the
press dispatches tell us that his letter
was the subject of a Cabinet discussion.
We may, therefore, assume that the
charges he makes against the white men
and taxpayers of his State are of n
very grave character. He, of all Repub-
licans in the State, should have been the
last to do this grievous wrong to law
abiding people for he is very largely re-
sponsible for the conditions prevailing in
the very sections of his State where he
desires troops to be sent. As a United
States Senator he has through a Repub-
lican President filed Eastern North Car
Dina with negro postmasters and other
officials. AS the leader of his party he
has through Republican Legislature
connived at turning over cities and towns
to the negroes and their allies. Hundreds
of negroes now fill the Offices of justices
of the peace and school committeeman as
a result of Republican Legislation, Gov
ernor Russell. Senator Pritchard's gov
ernor. has himself declared in the most
emphatic terms that these people are un-
fit to govern. Pritchard and Russell
have therefore forced the issue upon the
white people of the East of submitting
to negro domination or of appealing to
their white brethren of the West to vote
with them for restoration of white SUI
premacy in North Carolina. They have
adopted the latter course and for -four
months on the stump and in the press
this appeal has been ringing in the ears
of the people and the patriotic, law
abiding. honest white men OF the State
without regard to past party affiliations
are getting together upon this great all
absorbing all-peryading issue.
There is an uprising of the people in tn
sections where Pritchard and Russell
and the Republican party have set TIT
negro up to rule over white men ant
women that strikes terror into theil
guilty souls and they tremble on accoun
of the storm of Indignation they have
nut in motion. The indignant protest o.
these outraged people against the Negro
domination which Pritchard and Russei
have tried to force upon them has beer
heard in every section of the State, an
good men everywhere are coming to thei
rescue. There is n revolt going on il
the Republican ranks and the great bod!
of the Populist are coming back home
Certain defeat awaits the Pritchard
Russell Republican combine unless some
thing is done. Pritchard has tried thu
Bull Yearling-Mica Mckinley pros
perity dodge, and it has utterly failed
Something else must be tried, or thu
white men will again take control o.
North Carolina and fill its Legislative
halls and make it's laws. The last resor
is an appeal to the President OF tn
United States for troops and that ha
been made, but even that shall not say
them from the consuming wrath of al
indignant people. We contemplate no vic
lence. no wrong. no lawleSSnesS of an.
kind. We propose to right our wrong
at the ballot box and it is to the ballo
alone we appeal.
While we protest against this effor
of Pritchard and Russell to Cubaniz
North Carolina still if the President sha
send troops to the State there shall b
no conflict between them and us. Ill
NAV garrison every town in the Stat
and still we will go to the ballot boz
as we have a right to do, and vote fo
white men and restoration of goo
government in every county and tow
and hamlet.
Pritchard and Russell appeal to tn
bayonet. We appeal to the ballot The
appeal to the President and the bayone
TO maintain bad government In Mort
Carolina. We appeal to the people an
the ballot to re-establish good govern
ment. Our faith is in the people an
the ballot and we believe they will TT
umph. The contest is on. Shall Mort
Carolina be Cubanized? Shall we hay
bayonet rule? Shall We have negro don
nation? Shall we have all the evil
of bad government? Or shall we have tn
rule of the civil law? Shall we hav
White Supremacy and all the blessing
of good government?
We repeat the conflict is on. Pritchar
and Russell have forced it upon us. w