The Washington bee., 1898-12-10
ANSWERS SENATOR M'LAURIN.
REPRESENTATIVE WHITE, OF NORTH
CAROLINA, ON THE RACE TROUBLES

REPRESENTATIVE WHITE, OF MORT
CAROLINA, ON THE RACE TROUBLES.
Hon. George H. White, the pres er
member and Congressman elect fror
the Second District of North Caroline
arrived in this city on Monday. H,
gave the following statement regarc
ing the race troubles South:
was very much astoDished," sal
he, when | read the article i'm Th
Sunday Post over the signature of Sen
ator Mcl.aurin, of South Carolina
especially that portion of his lette
which refers to the State of Norti
Carolina
Il was born and reared in NortI
: carolina, except the short time | wa
away completing my education, anC
believe that | know the situation O
affairs there as well as any man in the
State. state without hesitation tha
the cry of negro domination in thai
State is myth and wholly without
foundation. In fact, there are in the
State nlnty-six counties, only eight OF
which have negro majority in popu-
lation. They are Berthe, Craven,
Edgecombe, Halifax, New Hanover,
Northampton, Warren, and Vance.
and In these counties there never has
been time in the history of the State
when everything like majority of the
Offices were held by colored men. AT
present we have four Registers of
Deeds out of ninty-six. Every Sheriff,
Clerk OF the Superior, Criminal, and
United States Court, and all of their
deputies, their Treasurer, in fact.
every office in the State amounting to
ANYTHING, is held by white man. Not
less than o5 per cent. of all the offices
In the State, and Federal, are held
by white men. The two places in
the State where the great excuse
TOR the recent disturbances and muir.
derS were committed, New Han
over and Craven Counties, are the
ones about which most has been said
during the political contest. In New
Hanover, where the city of Whining
ton is located, the scene of the rec ent
bloody conflict, the Sheriff and all his
deputies, except some of his subordin-
ate runners, are white men; the
Clerk OF the Superior, Criminal, and
United States Court and their deputies
are white men; seven out of ten Alder
men are white men; the Board of Audit
ana Finance is composed entirely of |
white men; the Board of Health is |
composed entirely of white men; the |
Mayor is white mar; the Chief of i
'olIce and majority of his suhordin.
ties are white men; the Deputy United |
states Marshal and the bailiffs of the
ourt are white men; yet this, is pos
IDLY, OF all others. the county in the
'tate that has been pronounced as
nder negro regime. State and county
ttorneyS there are also white. In the
lty OF Newbern the Sheriff and his
rlnclpal deputies, the Clerk of the
Iperlor Court and his assistants, the
Jerk of the United States Court, Col.
,ctor OF Customs of the United States.
he Mayor of the the city, Chief of Po-
ce, with the maj ority Of his subor-
mates; four out cf FIVE of the County
commissioners; eight of ten CITY
ouncllmen; City Treasurer; County
reaSurer; City Surveyor, are ali
hlte men, and this is the second
'unty that furnishes an excuse for the
Owl OF negro domination in the State.
egro rule is more pronounced in
eSe two counties than anywhere else
the State of North Carolina, with the /
Dove results. Under the twenty
ears regime of the Democratic rule
had ABOUT the same ratio of negro
hcerS, II not more, than we have had
lder the four years rule of fusion of
opulist and Republicans. In fact,
e number OF negroes in the General
SSemDly was far greater under the
administration than it has
zen In later years. In the city of
eWbern, as well as in most of the
'untIeS of Eastern North Carolina,
le out of three school committeeman
the school district was a colored
an chosen by Democrats The
untles OF Craven, Wilson, and War
u each has on its Board of Education
negro. placed there by two Demo-,
ats and one Republican vote. This :
cltal OF facts might be extended to
ply throughout the entire State, but i
nave chosen the localities most
nsely populated by the blacks to G
ow the falsity of the statements
lde against us.
Il might say in conclusion, that up
the last campaign the most cordial +
L
e blacks in my State, and possibly,
ore than to any other cause the re- =
Mt troubles may be attributed to the
1ammatory speeches of Senators .,
llman and McLaurin, and the intro Y
ction of the red-shirt desperadoes Y
South carolina and their shotgun
llcy along the borders of our State.
1rth Carolinians, black and white,
t to themselves, have ALWAYS had
reputation of being patriotic, law
ldlng citizens. Ii is very painful to
to see SO many misrepresentation
lde against this class of people of
e United States who were faithful as {
ives, patriotic as citizens, law-abid- \
z in the main, under all circumstan-
5, who have committed no other
me than that of exercising the right
franchise guaranteed 10 them by
Constitution of the United States Y
whose flag and honor they have .
ed their blood in every way from o
: days of the revolution to the pres