The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-23
"All THE NIGerRs IN OFFICE WE WANT

| announced that before another election
he would put Republican uniforms on
nil the populists. He has kept his word
| SO far ms such Populists ms Harry Skin
ner, Cyrus Thompson, Hal Aver, Jen'
| kins, Garrett, Wilson and the others Of
that ilk are concerned. They are going
about the State in Republican uniforms,
| gold standard braid, negro rule belts,
trust canteens, and the full, Republican
equipment. The brass buttons and the
| gold dollars have induced them to Detray
| the men who trusted them to their own
undoing.
The United States District Attorney
of Eastern North Carolina, little three
! for nickle lawyer. who resides in Pitt
county, has envied the Western District
Attorney, and has been ambitious to
equal him in bright sayings. Some of
the negroes in the Eastern counties
have been kicking because so many
places are given TO the Populists in the
deals engineered 10y the firm of George
White. Claude Bernard and Lee Person.
This kicking even reached Pitt county
and Claudius had to meet it. He was
never known to oppose anything the ne
groes want, and does their bidding when
ever he cannot get them to follow him.
Claude and Cutie are two of a kind.
When the negroes in Pitt county began
to kick. Claudius saw that he had to do
something to satisfy them. What was it?
At the Pitt county Republican con-
vention he urged them to vote for Popu-
lists one more time, saying: 1--WE will
fuse with the populists until we get an
election law like we want engrafted in
the Constitution, and then the Popu-
lists be d." And that captured the
negroes for fusion in Pitt county. The
kind of election law that Bernard and
his gang wants is the kind that the
Progressive Farmer and the Caucasian
last year called infamous" and said it
can do little stealing on their own ac-
count" 1t is to secure such an election
law, one that will swindle the Populists
and Democrats alike that the Populists
are asked to vote the fusion ticket this
year. Will they vote to disfranchise the
white men and give the negro and his
agents full and complete control?
There is another eminent Republican,
a member of Holton's executive com
mittee, who has been telling the ne
groes what will happen when the Re
publican election law goes into effect.
Middleton is the negro politician, elected
by the Republicans door-keeper over a
one-armed Confederate soldier, who is
sent around the State to dictate fusion
between the negroes and the pie-eating
Popuists. He was sent to Wayne to
run the Convention. A preacher by the
name of Rev. G. billiard was advocating
more offices for negroes, and Abe, who
holds the offices for the negroes of his
district squelched him, and in the course
of his speech was quoted by the Argus,
as saying:
"Why, I does the debating in my
county, and when i does the debating
we always wins"
I'VE don't want any more negroes in
office right now, cause we want to stop
this Democratic cry of Niger and get
the white POpulists to vote with us one
more time and carry the next Legisla-
ture; then well have all the niggers in
office we wants for all the time: just
see if we don't"
In Duplin county, Mr.. Maury Ward,
a Popuist who did not sneeze every
time Abe takes snuff, was a member of
the last House. The real Populists
wanted to re-nominate him because he
had opposed Pritchard and advocated
Populist principles. But Abe dictated to.
the pie-eaters, and Ward was left ut
home He now publicly announces his
programme to ''get the white Populists
to VOTE WITH US one more time and
carry the Legislature; then well have
ALL THE NIGGERS IN OFFICE
WE WANT FOR ALL TUE TIME
And if the Republicans pass the Sin
famous" election law they want, Abe
is right in it, saying: WELL HAVE
ALL THE NIGGERS IN OFFICE
WE WANT FOR ALL THE TIME"
The Populists who want negro supre
macy and the gold standard 'for all the
time" will vote the Fusion ticket, and
thereafter will find themselves virtually
DISTINGUISHED while Sambo will have
the reins of government everywhere as
fully as he has it now in Craven county.
Do not these utterances from three
leading Republicans show to every white
man what is in store for his race if the
ends in view are carried out?
The hour has come for white men to
forget past differences and unite to CON
troll the State against the Abe Middle
tons, Holton's, Bernard, Cy Thompson,
Ohio Wilson's and Hal Aver.