The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-20
FOR WHITE MANS RULE
Prominent Lifelong Republicans An.
nOunce Their Allegiance TO the DEM
Ocratic Party-They CannO stand
Negro Rule.
(GoldsbOrO August

Ocratic f~arty-lhey cannot stand
Negro Rule.
(Goldsboro Argus.)
We publish below a letter from Hon.
c. H. BrOgden, a lifetime republican,
who has filled 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 democratic party alone is
the champion.
Goldsboro, n. c., September II.
Editor Argus: In reference to the
current history of political events in
our day, it seems to be true that Won
ders will never cease. l am reminded
of this trite old adage by the MONACO
ton Of the democratic congressional
district convention for the Second dis
trict that met at Wilson on the 31st
of August and failed % nominate a
candidate for congress.
| nave understood there are some
pOpulists who will not vote for Lloyd,
h pOpuliSt nominee. 1t is said they
will vote for white, the negro. Now
how any respectable white populist or
democrat can vote for White, with his
well known and abominable black rec
erd, paSseth all my understanding. |
thought that pOpulists as we'll as DEM
ocrats were for white supremacy, for
white rule and white metal, and White
is opposed to both. | thought they were
opposed to monOpOlies, trusts and COM
bines, to all unjust and %ruinOus taxa
ton and to all reckless and p~rofigate
appropriations, and White is in favor
of these. When he is congress he
votes invariably with Dingley and
Grosvenor for everything they are for
Or against, and he obeys their sugges-
tions as implicitly and promptly 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 g, politician. Look at
his speech in the republican state con
ventiOn at Raleigh, on the goth of July
last. While denOuncing the democratic
party he o occasion to announce his
opposition to the free coinage of sill
yer, spoke of himself and other negroes
holding office, and said there are plen-
ty more being made to order to hold Of
fees. He got down to the lowest plane
upon which any man, white or black
ever spoke in a state convention.
Such rep~rehensible rant may do for
such. occasions as that to please the
thoughtless and ignorant, but it i'm
parts no useful knowledge or informa-
ton to the people. He was so disgust
ing, according to the report, that one
negro said: Il was ashamed of my
race, that when it was a chance to put
a man in high position selects a man
who will make so mean a speech" Geo.
H. White is not a suitable man to rep
resent 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 ne
gro member like White do in a house
composed of 355 white members. 1t is
a farce to talk about his doing any
thing for the tax payers but vote to
increase taxes already too oppressive.
White is in favor Of paying all govern
ment bonds in gold, although it is de-
clared expressly on the fact of each
bond that it is payable in coin, which
means silver as we'll as gold. And after
the senate had passed the Matthew'S
Teller resolutions by a large majority,
the resolutions went to the house, as
sorting that fact in plain and unequiv-
ocal 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 on the
people, when he knows they have got
no gold to pay taxes with. Who wants
such a man to represent them in con-
gress?
Does any respectable tax paying
white man want to pay the bond hold
ers in better money than he has to use
himself? l think not, and yet White
says he must. l thought hat the nom
est and intelligent tax paying people
wanted an honest, decent and respecta-
BILE man to represent their interests in
congress, and not an unprincipled,
staggering demagogue of much vanity
and low instincts, who delights in all
his political speeches to harp on the
negro, negro, negro, while at the same
time intending an insidious and invid-
iOus disparagement of the white race.
The honest and discreet people do
not want a braggart or a bogus states
man to represent them, whose main
hobby is t deal in the filth and slime
of low debauch and disgusting char
latanry.
CURTIS H. BROGDEN.