Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1898-09-02
4 CRUSADE Is. On
To Restore Anglc-SaXon
Supremacy and Decent
Government in North
Carolina.
Degradation of the State Under
Fusion Rule Uuparalled>
Populists Everywhere
Breaking Away.

a correspondent wrltin!
from Raleigh on the 5th lust
20 the Atlanta Constitution laid
Public sentiment in thi
State is deeply inhamed. Th,
respectable white people ar,
getting together, irrespective 0
party lines and a crusade is OF
to restore Anglo Saxon suprem
acy and decent government.
So denoralizing has beer
the regime of the fusionists
that a horrible condition of af,
fairs has resulted.
Negro leaders on the plat
form and in their newspaper:
are daring the whites to make
the race issue and encouraging
their men to commit atrociou>
crimes. This week has seen
the pent-up Indignation of al
outraged people burst into q
flame which IS sweeping the
State With the fury Of forest
fire.
The issue of white suprema
cy and protection for the family
has been made up, and OH that
line the decent while people de-
clare that they will rescue their
fair State from the fusion politi-
clans.
Four years ago the Republi~
cans and Populists captured the
Legislature, and from that day
to this life has been a burden to
the whites throughout a large
part OF the State. Ignorant, ins
competent, vicious and corrupt
men of both races obtained pubs
lie office, and their scandalous
conduct has had no parallel in
any State since the days Of car
pet baggery. Unmentionable
crimes have been perpetrated by
officials in high places. Politi~
cal power has been freely pros
tituted TO prosecute personal
enemies. The domination OF
the black race over the white
has been as complete as it was
in the dark days of the early
seventies.
The rank and file Of the Pop
ulists are breaking away from
the unnatural alliance which
they made in 1894 with the Re-
publicans. For the past year
they have been realizing more
and more forcioly every day
that fusion with the Republi~
cans had restored radical rule
and was operating to defeat the
bed rock principles upon which
populism was founded. Popu-
lisn in the South drew its
strength from the Democrat
party. Thousands of sincere
men left the old organization
in 1892 and the two succeeding
years because they believed it
could not redress the evils
which afflicted the country.
In North Carolina the Populists
were strictly a third party in
1892 but in 1894, under the
leadership Of Marion Butler,
they fused with the Republi-
cans and gained control of the
State Legislature. The fusion~
lists had great victory at every
point and i'll 1896 they repeated
their success and elected their
candidate for Governor. For
the past two years they have
been in full control of all the
departments of the State ad
minista lion
This should have special in
terest to Georgia Democrats
and Populists for the reason
that a similar fusion scheme
has been arranged by the Re
publican and Populist politicians
in the Eleventh Congressional
district.
Thousands of North Carolina
Populists, sending greeting to
their brothers in Georgia, warn
them to "beware the Greeks
bearing gifts"
Thousand OF the honest, con-
scion ious Third party men are
coming straight back into the
Democratic party just as their
brothers are doing in Georgia
aud Tennessee. White supre-
macy as the campaign issue vii
finish the business for the fusion
regime.
The Democrats are fighting
for principles, honor and gooc
government, while their oppon
ents are confessedly after The
Offices. Hal Aver, State Audito
and one of the leading Populis
politicians, admitted this in ;
conversation I had with him /;
day or so ago.
"The only principle involved