The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1898-11-03


fourteen negro policemen; all the health
officers are negroes, seventeen of the
paid fire department are negroes. We
have forty negro Magistrates, three ne
gro Aldermen, all the employees in the
custom house are negroes, nothing but
negroes in the Registers Office, four
negro Deputy Sheriffs, two-thirds of
the street force are negroes, and num-
bers Of them employed in other posi-
tions. The picture has not been over
drawn. Anyone who will come here,
and walk the town over, and go into
the public buildings, will, without say
ing a word or asking a question, be-
come convinced that the real owners OF
property, have everything to lose, have
no voice in the management of public
affairs.
N. r. Williamson, a representative
citizen of Sanford and a Republican,
from the depth of a bitter personal ex-
perience thus writes to the local paper
over his own signature:
81 was like q great many other good
white men, honest in my belief that it
was for the best interests of our below
ed State, but seeing the persistent ten
dency of the Republican party, by flu
sion and other means, to social equali-
ty and negro domination, it has dis
gusted me to think that white men
could vote for negroes for office, who
Mr.. Russell says are sayages and in
competent to govern themselves. This
is. and of right ought to be, a white
mans government, and as / see it, the
only remedy for good government is to
vote the Democratic ticket, which | am
resolved to do. / have a family of five
boys and three daughters, and | hope
never to see one of my boys work un-
der a negro, or a license for the mar
riage of one of my daughters be issued
by a great big burly negro. Right here
in Sanford township there are two ne
gro school committeeman and one white
man to visit and control our schools.
May the good Lord deliver us from
negro rule"
From historic old Wilmington, the
very center of the State commercial in.
:. %terests, as we'll as intelligence, comes
through the voice of the public press
this sad commentary on public affairs
81 think that the representatives o.
95 per cent. of the taxes paid ought tC
be deprived of their privilege of con
trolling the administration of their at
, fairs. l want no citizen deprived O.
any Of his rights or privileges to which
he is entitled by reason of his intelli
gence and moral worth, yet am hearth
ly in favor of the control of affair b,
the intelligence, character and proper
, ty interests of any community"
+ That this condition is possible il
8 North Carolina of all other States il
this Union seems incredible, and yet j
ir has been possible of accomplishment
W and the State given almost entire
ly over to Republicanism and "nigger
ism" which in the South are terms tina
ID are synonymous and interchangeable
only on account of the apathy, indift
ii ~erence or overconfdence of the intelli
at gent and patriotic voters Of the State
le Would you avert the shame that ha
been put upon our old mother State
ID Democrats and patriots, you mus
te awake and to action.
of Apathy, indifference or overconf
dence is as dangerous here as it is il
Of North Carolina. 1t will be as blight
N ing here as it has proven to be there
y. You will vince and gall not less tina.
re they. Republicanism in Tennessee, a
!. in North Carolina, means nothing NOR
" or less than "niggerism." A Repuh
lican Governor means Republican ne
nd gro election officers throughout th
y State. Republican success means ne
gro domination.
= Do you want negro sheriffs, coDsta
9 bles, policemen, taxgatherers, schoo
go commissioners, Justices of the Peace
h. juro 8, etc?
n, This black blight will never darke.
vol the fair name Of Tennessee if you vii
- only vote.
- If you do not, may we not be over
taken by the sa fate of North Caro-
nd lima? Why not? A.
Use
no John Wanamaker is telling the trutI
he about the Quay gang in Pennsylvania