The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-10-07
Gke @essenger.
Late PHASES OF DEMAGOGY

There was a populist convention
EateIy held at Whiteville that has
one or two points, that may be no
ieed- Mr.. ]. B. Schulken tried to show
what a great friend the democrats had
been all along in giving so many Of
fees to Sambo and Josh. But the
trouble is that the negro allies will not
believe the statement, and they will
want to know "whar day is" and who
dat got 'em" and so on. You cannot
gull the negro's wool over his eyes.
He knows when he is fed, and when he
Is standing UP to the pie-counter.
There is really nothing in the recent
populist clamor that the democrats
gave the negroes offices by the scores
or hundreds. If they had done this
there would be thousands among
them today who would. be standing up
with the democratic allies, as they are
unitedly standing up instead with
their brothers Of the pale face" with
whom they hope yet to be OF terms of
general Open-house visiting, hob-nOb-
Ding, and hugging. No, you can not
bamboozle Sambo with that sort of
~foolishness." If the radicals dare to
refuse to give the niger a good chance
at the flesh-pots hereafter the said
radicals will be left in the rear of the
procession and can never again climb
into the band-wagon.
Another dodge is the depriving of
Sambo of the right to vote. But that
deception is really too thin" to need
Il pin to prick it. The Whiteville
News tells Mr.. Schulken this:
HE was sure, he said, they wouldn't
let him vote. Mr.. Schulken is a law
yer and of course he doesn't know that
b constitution of North Carolina pro-
hibits the limitation of suffrage by any
such test as an educational or proper
" qualification. And of course he
doesn't know hat hat constitution
a only be changed by a two-thirds
vote of the Legislature and then be rat
fed by a majority of all the voters in
the state"
We believe that if the franchise
could be taken from the negroes that
h radicals and populists would de-
prive them Of it as quickly as the
democrats would-that is if Sambo
and John voted with the latter.
The great soldier Of the war,
Kurne1" Oh. Dockery was on hand
full-fedged in war-plumes and paint
and ready for the fray. He INDUCED
IN a pleasantly at the start-that he
had not Topped in the least. You see
Hopping is his normal condition, and
When he turns a somersault he thinks
ne is standing still, perhaps on his
s.aad. He is an immense demagogue
With cheek" enough to supply a
state. The News puts it at him we'll
Just here. We copy:
1.-TWO years ago he was abusing re-
publicanism in general and Dan Rus
sell in particular. Now he endorses
h entire administration from Rus
sell DOWN to Jim Young's dictatorship,
and then goes so far as to compliment
John Are Smith. But with all his
sOmersaults he says he's struck back
in the same place. In one respect he
has-he's the same old Office Hunter
Dockery."
What a figure that old demagogue
and acrobat cuts in politics. But life
lis too short to use much of it in con
sidering this ancient" hoary with
political transgressions enough to
damn a troop Of radicals. This is the
old blow-hard who voted for a Niger
in preference to a confederate and he
says he is proud of it. No doubt. He
knows what company suits him best.