The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-30

/ political speaking at Lucama. Wilson
county, Friday, October 1th. lie advised
| the negroes to register and go to the polls
with pistols and rocks in their pockets.
| He advised all negroes to stop working
| for the whites, and said as long as ne
groes brushed up stores and waited on
the whites, that the whites would think
| themselves above them, etc. This is only
sample of the three hours speech made
by this negro bully, a candidate for the
Senate rom the good old county of Edge
combe. Now, my dear friend, don't
charge the Democrats with the respon-
shility of Lee Persons bad conduct, for
it is bad enough for the Democrats to
have to endure his insolence, not to be
charged with his vicious, bad conduct.
Let me tell you something, which per-
haps you have not heard. The second
| judicial district is composed of the coun-
ties of Craven, BERTHE, Halifax. Warren,
Northampton and Edgecombe, known rs
negro counties--that is to say, the negro
predominates in these counties-the Ju-
dicial convention for the purpose of
nomna ting n candidate for Judge.
assembled some weeks ago: there
! was not white delegate i'll the whole
convention. not one A negro convention
to nominate a judge to try your causes
and mine. judge perhaps to sit upon
| the lives of your friends and neighbors
| and my friends and neighbors. Great
| God, is the Anglo-Saxon race of North
! Carolina prepared for such a thing? No
| where else but in North Carolina could
! such thing be possible. But shame
| to say. here in the land where Vance
was born. reared and died. here in North
| carolina where the first Declaration of
| Independence was written, declaring that
| we were freemen, and were not to be
dominated by British tyranny, and our
fore fathers sealed this declaration with
their blood; here. oh. blush to own it,
we find men with white skins apologizing
for negro rule.
You are prepared to say I am an enc
my to the negro; but in this you are
mistaken. | am the negro's friend, in the
| negroes place. / claim that there is
line by us unseen, that crosses every
path" and the negro must not, no shall
not, if / can prevent it, cross that path.
j am the negros friend in his place,
and l have proven that. | have stood
by his sick bedside; l have followed his
body stiff in death to its last resting
place; | have fostered and encouraged
their industrial enterprise; | have aided
them in building their churches and
school house; | have assisted 100, | sup
pose. in buying little homes; | have
given them houses rent free for years;
/ have paid their grocery bills, their coal
and wood bills more than 100 times. Be
side paying heavy taxes. one-haf of
which goes to educate the children of
negroes, / have given time and again
money to buy their books, and / have
sent negro children to school and paid
their board and tuition out of my own
pocket The truth is, / have done so
much to elevate the negro. and in trying
TO help him to help himself. that / have
oftentimes been criticised for it. and only
this week some Populists
have been criticising me very severely
for doing so much for the negroes. So,
repeat, ] am a friend of the negro III
| his place, but mind you, HE MUST
BE IN HIS PLACE. | am very far
from being like the Durham Republican
Populist who criticiseS Julie Carr" for
befriending the negro, and then marches
mp and votes the negro ticket. J. am
| for my color. first, last, and all the time
and it is best for the negro that | should
| be so, because it is an admitted fact
| that the negro is not capable or compe-
| tent for self-government. / have
never imposed upon the negro, nor per-
mitted it to be done when in my power to
prevent it. The negro understands that
in his place, he always finds in me
friend, and hundreds of them bring their
troubles to me for advice, except about
election times: then, they never consult
nor advise with me- Yet they understand
very thoroughly, that while | am at all
times ready to befriend and do often aid
them in their troubles that it is always
as a white man and a negro. And while
| enjoy their respect and confidence not
one of them for his right arm would pre-
sumo to forget a negro's place in my
presence.
| have perhaps consumed too much of
your time .'crying negro" rs the OPPOSE
ton is pleased to term the position of
the Democratic party touching the ques-
ton of white supremacy, and yet | can
offer no apology, because the situation as
| see it, plainly indicates that the negro
question is the burning question of the
hour, and means more to you and to
me and to ours than all the other ques
tons combined. AS much as l have said
concerning the negro question l have
scarcely entered into it, for the reason
! that there is so much to be said in oppG-
| ition to negro domination. have omitted
| to say anything of the insolence and in
| tolerance that the negro is guilty of,
and the alarming growth of this DISPOSE
| ton in the section of the State domino
| ted by negroes. | have omitted to tell you
| that chambers of commerce composed of
Republicans and Democrats in some of
our negro-ridden cities, have passed
strong resolutions, calling upon their
white brethren in other parts of the
State, to come to their aid and relief.
have omitted to tell you that in some
portions of North Carolina notably Will
mington, the negroes are armlng, and
the lives and property of many of the|
best white people are in peril | have
omitted to direct your attention to the in
creased number of occurrences in North
Carolina, where the black brute lays his
lustful hands, upon some pure, innocent
white girl, and debauches her and there
by blights her young life. and breaks
the hearts of doting parents. My dear