Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-09-15
ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL.
Hon. C. n. Brogden Writes R~epudiating
RepubIicanism.


We publish below a letter from
Hon. G. Fl. Brogden, a lifestime
Republican, who has filed the
position of Governor of the State
and represented his party in
Congress, but who now sees the
all absorbing question as it is
and comes out boldly for white
supremacy, of which the Demo-
cratic party alone is the cham
pion:
Goldsboro, N. c., Sept. - '98.
EDITOR ARGUS: In reference
to the current history Of political
events in our day, it seems to be
true that wonders will never
cease. I am reminded of this
trite old adage by the n~on-action
of the Democratic Congressional
District convention for the Sec
ond District that met at Wilson
on the 31st of August and failed
to nominate a candidate for Con-
gress.
| have understood there are
some Populists who will not vote
for Lloyd, the Populist nominee,
it is said they will vote for White,
the negro. Now, how any respect
able white Populist or Democrat
can vote for White, with his
we'll known and abominable
black record, passeth all
my understanding, I thought
that Populists as well as Demo-
Gratis were for white supremacy,
for white rule and white metal,
and White is opposed to both. I
thought they were opposed to
monopolies, trusts and combines.
to all unjust and ruinous taxation
az to all reckless and profigate
appropriations, and White is in
favor of these. When he is in
Congress he votes invariably
with Dingley and Grosvenor for
every thing they are for or
against, and he obeys their sug~
gestionsa as implicitly and prompt
ly as he ever did the orders of
his master when he was a slave
under him. White is decidedly
the most Objectionable negro in
the State as a politician. Look at
his speech in the Republican
State convention at Raleigh, on
the 2Otb of July last. While des
nouncing the Democratic party
he took occasion to announce his
opposition to the free coinage Of
silver, spoke of himself and 9th
er negroes holding Office, and
said there are plenty more being
made to order to hold Offices. He
got down to the lowest plane
upon which any man, white or
black, ever spoke in a State con-
vention.
Such reprehensible rant may
do for such occasions as that to
please the thoughtless and igno-
rant. but it imparts no useful
knowledge or information to the
people. He was SO disgusting, &C.
cording to the report, that one
negro said: 81 was ashamed of
my race, that when it has q
chance to put a man in high po-
sition selects a man who will
make SO mean a speech" Geo.
FL. White Is not a suitable man to
represent the Second District.
He has done nothing but draw
his salary and never will, but
vote to create debt and tax the
people. And what good can one
negro member like White do in a
House composed of 355 white
members. 1t is a farce to talk
about his doing anything for the
Taxpayers but vote to increase
their taxes, which are already
too oppressive. White is in favor
of paying all Government bonds
in gold, although it is declared
expressly on the face of each
bond that it is payable in coin,
which means silver as well as
gold. And after the Senate had
passed the Matthew'S Teller res
olutions by a large majority, the
resolutions went to the House,
asserting that fact in plain and
unequivocal terms. White would
not vote for the resolutions and
would not vote to assert that
which the law and the bond both
declared to be true. He is ever
ready to vote to impose taxes or
the people, when he knows they
have got no gold to pay taxes
with. Who wants such a man to
represent them in Congress!
Does any respectable tax-pay-
inu Whitn man mant to nan thu