The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-21
ON TO GOLDSBOR0--P PROOF OF THE EVILS
or NEGRO RUlE--THE REMEDY.

The great mass meeting of white men
! called at Goldsboro on Thursday of next
week will mark an epoch in the history
! of the State.
The foremost issue in this campaign
| is the same that confronted Lincoln
when he said that the country could not
| exist half free and half slave. The peo-
pie must answer in November whether
| they want to continue negro supremacy
| with its high taxes, corruption and low
they wish White Supremacy with peace
full conditions.
The Fusionists have sought to deny
the existence of negro rule with nearly
100 negroes in office in Eastern North
Carolina, and with more negroes nomi-
mated in all the negro counties to be
voted for in November. They have
denied that there was any need for a
coming together of white men to protect
the homes and the virtue of the women
of the East. They have, in their despera-
the Democrats put negroes in office and
in the next breath sworn that II the
Democrats succeeded this year they
would disfranchise every negro i'll the
State Happily for the cause of truth
their charges have one by one been
shown to be false, and they have been
detected and laughed out of court by
trying to prove that the Democrats love
the negro so that he wants to put him
in office and at the same time hates him
so he wants to disfranchise every negro
in the State.
The letter of Mr.. Chadbourn gives the
lie to all the false statements and false
pretenses of Fusion orators. Coming
from close political associate of Gov
ernor Russell and an appointee of Presi-
dent Mckinley, upon the recommends
ton of Senator Pritchard, Fusionists
will be estopped from denying Mr.. Chad
bournes statement that the presence of
so many negro officials in Wilmington
is seriously objected to by the property
owners, taxpayers and business men
generally" and that there now exists
the most intense feeling against any sort
of negro domino ton" What else does
Mr.. Chadbourn say has followed as a
result of negro rule? Hear him:
"There is a greater feeling of unrest and
uncertainty about the maintenance of
order than / have ever seem" Is that
all? No. for Mr. Chadbourne goes on to
say. II am now convinced that
there seems to be settled determination
on the part of the property owners, bust
ness men and taxpayers that they will
administer city and county government.
The testimony of Mr.. Chadbourn con-
tradicts fatty his original campaign let
ter. and will convince every thoughtful
man in the centre and west that If the
resentment of the people against Negro
Rule is great enough for it to be so i'm
pressed upon the Republican postmaster,
that it is a resentment that nothing but
negro rule in it's worst shape could have
aroused. The people of Wilmington
have well known reputation for CON
servatism. They have stood Negro
Rule without resort to violence. They
have seen white women insulted, white
children rocked, and have been pillaged
and robbed until people less conserva-
tive and law-abiding would have taken
the law into their own hands. They have
wisely chosen to bear much rather
than precipitate conflict. They are
now laboring to secure "A redress OF
able methods They are working day
and night to bring out Il full vote of
the white people of their whole section.
and to arousing the white people of the
State to the conditions that make life
well nigh iItolerable. They are terribly
i'm earnest, and their appeal is TO their
white brethren to aid them right their
wrongs through the mighty arm of the
ballot.
The meeting at Goldsboro on the 18th
will be largely composed of men who see
that before them lies two alternatives,
first to secure home rule by intelligence.
or to seek homes where intelligence is
not crushed down by ignorance. The
people of Eastern North Carolina love
their homes. They are as patriotic as
any men in the State. In the face Of
brighter prospects elsewhere many of
them have chung to the old homes and
the old landmarks. All they ask is that
intelligence shall rule and give them
and their families protection. They will
meet in Goldsboro next week as a
mighty army of patriots, who will say
to the white men Of the West: Give
us Home Rule. Put our counties and
cities and towns in the government of