The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-08
Dr.. Thompson's Speech


FRIEND Until II vas shown ,h., h.
vas the attorney Of the Atlantic Ca.s,
Lane. Jarvis 10 ore who has boxI.a
against and denounced The RenuhiI.
can administration Ut 1865 GO Who
10 1t that does rot denouEce H.. Ever,
Republican tat Was prominent, in
bs-6S has gone out Of polite. in
North Carolina. What about the Dam.
ocfats OF that time! What ahout L.
Wis in that legisiature!. have never
heard Of bis denying that he voted for
the Infamous special tax bonds Tbs
record binds him. II il the truth that
every Democrat who was prominent
around that legislature of 'ss-s has
been exalted and promoted, while IN.
Republicans were justly prosecuted
ana driven out. You have heard Of
Swepson and LittlefieId, you have
heard Of Mat Ransom, Mr.. simmons,
friend; do you know that General
Ransom was 90 near to Swepson in
those days that he actually named
one Of bis boys George Swepson. WHY
s. Med. Tate, Who was afterwards
made Treasurer of North Carolina w.s
one OF the men Of IS o. Read the re-
port Of the Fraud Commission. Itel,
you l 90 not believe that there was a
great crime in the legislature of'ss-9
to which the leading Democrats then,
and the Older controlling element of
the Democrats to-day, were not the
god-iathers; and yet they are the
men VINO say, come back, 20 with us,
put us in again. Why, my fellow cit
liens, the very men who hung around
that legislature OF SO 8 ard shade
campaign upon it's infamies when they
got control of North Carolina. went
on to issue county and township
bonds In the interest of corporations
to burden the people of the State. And
yet they come up and get control of
the Democratic party, and Buck Kitch-
en- says: "Oh, it Is regenerated, and
back l CO."
A. B.Andrews voted for Mckinley:
B. Andrews named Mr.. Simmons AZ
the Chairman of the Democratic state
Executive Committee, and manipuIs-
ted and controlled the Democratic
white Shirt Brigade" Convention of
the 26th OF last May. How do you like
1t! liz 1t not the truth? DENY it if
you can.
And that is not all. Let's look a lit.
tie further. You have heard Demo
Gratis talk about the town of GreenvilIe
having negro policeman. Well, let's
see. There is one there. How did he
get therey The town has four colored
and two white cOuncilmen. Two of
the colored councilmen proposed to
elect Mr.. Cherry, white Republican
policeman, If Mr.. Blow, the DemocratIc
County Chairman, Nj. Jarvis law
partner, and Mr.. Brown. the other
whlte councilman would vote with them.
BLOW and Brown refused to do il. so
the Tour negroes voted together and
elected q negro. Who is responsihle
for the Negroes election !? Blow conld
have prevented it. They could have
prevented it if they had wanted to. but
they did not want to prevent it. They
wantedsit for campaign thunder. Well.
was that anything out of the way for
them to have negro policeman in the
town OF Greenville? As far back as
1878, when the town was Democratic
they always elected William Hamaban
negro, for one policeman, an d white
man for the other, and in the case of
Dig crowds, when they had to appOint
special policemen, they always appoin-
Ted as many negroes as whites.
have have heard Democrats talk
about Newborn. am going to read
you letter about the affairs of New
bern. Now pay attention:
"What information have been able
10 acquire tends to show beyond the
shadow of doubt that the Democrats
y leaders are not now nor never have
been in earnest about this matter. In
1eed they have so manipulated the of.
ices over which they have had contro,
,naC tney might have something to
'slk ABOUT 10 this campaign, and might
'n!oW upon the Republicans end Pop
lIists responsibility which is really
nell own. Every cOlOred school COM
niCteemah IN this county secured his
appointment directly through the dem
'cratic party. The Democratic com.
nlssloners OF this county united on
'hree men who were to select the school
committeeman. These three, who were
nominated by the Democrats and elec-
eo through their votes, were Mr.. E. H.
y eadows and Mr.. Sam Latham. and
amer, colored man-two Democrats
ND one Republican. These three Sc
ected every school committeeman in
ne county, including Lawrence, COL
req, and. Williams, colored, of New
FERN. ANY Democrat who does not
'elieve this can easily find out the
ruin Dy reference tothe record of the
county Commissioners meetings,
In the city administration, SO much
condemned by our Democratic friends
BECAUSE 1t has col0red policeman aud
coiOreo attorney and a c0lored csun-
1t is we'll known fact and can
'e proven by witnesses, that the Dem.
cratic leaders when they found that
ney were not going to win their case
vent 10 one OF the cOl0red councilmen
no MADE him the following offer;
ihat they would give the colored
nen one-half of the city Offices and
'atr0nage, including the city ATTORNEY.
nip, provided the cOlored councilmen
you'd vote for Ellis for mayor. Thev
Vlshed to saddle As many colored men
s possible on the city government IN
rder that such state of affairs conld
9 used IS pretext for their own No.
list vote. w
Yet when l was in Goldsboro yester- |
az, my friend Joe Robinson. of ~
Argus, said to me 81 would like to
Axe you down to Newberu and lot
on see some Of the c0ons down there !"
SAID: Il have got this to say to you.
9e; there are not dozes uppish and
aenslve negroes in North Carolina,
no gave the Democratic party cause
, howl niger in this campaign. that
t 8 NOT backed by Democrats or bought
ith Democratic money" and he turn"
on and laughed, looking back and
!ognlng. He knew that / had told
lm the truth. Joe is a clever man: he
.ys mat he is . Democrat; he never
Is denied that he is q gold Democrat
. knows that be cannot go before the
INK and lille of the Democratic Marty
10 win power by preaching his fnan,
!, =, DeileI; wherefore he bowls Niger.
10 wants to "show Us the coons. !"
More than that, "even ~ ate as last
onth when the Board of CITY Conn.
linen voted to dispense with the
rv!ces OF three policemen, the Dem
'fatlc aldermen voted to dismiss
20 white and one colored police
an, instead of three colored or two
llOfe0 and one white Thoea ;n.t