The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-30

members OF Ille Il Iiiducc So'AAh'i''ON'
of Wilmington, is a negro, appointed
by the Republican party?
22nd. Do you deny that there are
negro policemen and negro aldermen III
the city of Newbern, all elected by the
Republican party?
23rd Do you deny that under the ger
rvmander of the Fusion Legislature of
1895. although there is white MAORI
tv in the town of Greenville, your party
so divided up the wards in that town
that the negro minority have -FOUR
members of the board of aldermen,
while the white majority have only
TWO members of the board of alder
men?
9th. Do you deny that there are
THREE negroes running for the Legis-
lature in Edgecombe county, all OF whom
were nominated by the Republican par
tv. and have been endorsed by the fu-
sion Populists?
25th. Do you deny that there are TWO
negroes running for the Legislature Ill
Halifax county, both of whom We're
nominated by the Republican party, and
have been endorsed by the Fusion Popu-
lists?
26th. Do you deny that there are two
negroes running for the Legislature IN
Granville county, and that both were
nominated by the Republican party!
9th. Do you deny that there is
negro running for the Legislature III
Vance county, one in Craven county, one
in Pasquotank county. one Ill Northamp
ton county, one in Warren county. and
all of
whom were nominated by the Republi-
can party?
2Sth. Do you deny that the Republi-
can party has this year nominated in
various counties in the East negroes for
registers of deeds, treasurers. coroners.
constahles, county commissioners, and
magistra tes?
Goth. Do you deny that there are upon
the Republican ticket in the county of
Craven, a negro for the Legislature. a
negro for register of deeds, negro for
treasurer. n negro for coroner, negro
for county commissioner and a negro for
standard keeper, all of whom were nomi-
mated by the Republican party. and are
its regular candidates, and that the
white Republican candidates for sheriff
and clerk in that county have promised
the negroes, if elected, they will APP
point negro deputies?
Both. Do you deny that there are sew
eral hundred school committeeman in
North Carolina, appointed by the Re
publican party and having authority
over white as well as colored schools?
Now what constitutes negro domina-
ton or negro rule may be question of
opinion or taste. What the people want
to know is not what constitutes negro
Il linn IN, N,p.n l,,f
unequivocal statement of the facts with
reference to negro office-holding in the
East and negro candidates on the part
of your party, so that they, as intelligent
beings. may decide for themselves
whether there is negro rule in Eastern
Carolina.
The Democratic people living,
and the Democratic newspapers
published, in the localities where
these Offices are held and can
didates are running, have asserted
and published and /, as chairman Of
the Democratic party, have asserted and
caused to be published, and do now as
sert, (either from personal knowledge,
or from information obtained from
thoroughly trustworthy and reliable
sources, duly verified, that negroes APP
pointed or elected by the Republican
party, now hold the Offices these ques-
tions represent them as holding and
that negroes regularly nominated by the
Republican party, are now candidates for
the offices these questions represent
them as being candidates to fill, and IN
view of the alleged statements, made as
aforesaid by you, denying in general
terms the fact of negro domination and
Officeholding in Eastern North Carolina,
/ call upon you to specifically answer,
under your own signature, without eva
sion or equivocation, and upon your re-
sponsibility as a man and representative
of the people in the United States Sen
ate. the questions above propounded.
Not one Of them, but all of them.
If you make denial of these questions.
or any one of them, / ask that you will
give the authority upon which you base
that denial. and if you are not suffi-
ciently informed as to the facts to en-
able you to answer categorically, l ask
that you will inform yourself.
Now / desire that you will answer me
few other question, to-wit:
First. If there were in Madison coun-
ty, where you reside as there is now
in New Hanover county-40 negro mag
istrates, IA negro policemen, a score of
negro constables, n negro register of
deeds, with negro deputies. a negro col
lector of customs, with negro deputies:
negro deputy sheriffs. negro aldermen
and negro finance committeeman. would
you say. rs a man of honor, that Madi-
son county was not negroZed?
Second. If the Republican party in
Madison county had nominated a ne
gro for the Legislature, n negro for reg
lister of deeds, a negro for county treas
| urer, negro for standard keeper, a ne
| gro for constable, white man for
sheriff, who had promised to appoint