Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-02
OPPOSING FORCES
Statement From Both Sides in North
Carolina Contest.
REPUBLICANS REPUDIhfE An EDITOR
InfIammatory Utterances Declared
to Be Inspired by Democrats.
THE DEMOCRATIC VIEW
| From a Staff Correspondent.

Special From Staff Correspondent.
RALEIGH, n. c., November 2.-The re-
publican state central committee of North
Carolina has issued an address to the peo-
pie of the state in explanation OF the true
cause, they claim. for the circulation
of what is considered by many persons the
most disgraceful of the many slanderous
statements that have been circulated dur
ing the present campaign. The address
states:
'One of the most aggravated and infa-
nous cases of democratic tool instigation
of mearness for political ends occurred at
Wilmington few weeks ago. a negro
named Manly conducts a paper in that city,
and has beyond doubt been made the scape-
goat of the vile meanness of some demo-
cratic tOoteT. He recently published an
impudent and villainous editorial, as fol-
lows:
Poor white men careless in the
matter OF protecting their women, eGneCial-
ly on farms. They are Careless of their
conduct toward them, and our experience
among poor white people in The country
teaches US that the women of that race
are not any more particular i'll the matter
or cIandeStlna meetings with the co.Ored
men than are the white with cOloIed
women. Meetings of this kind go on for
some time, until the wonan's infatuaton
IoT the man DOlCncSS bring attention 10
them. and the man is lynchcd for rape
Every negro lynched is called 4 big. burly
black brute. when, in fact, many OF those
who have thus been dealt with ha1 white
men for their fathers. and were not only
not black and burly, but We're sufficiently
attractive for white girls o. culture AMI
refinement to fall in love with them, as is
well known to all
An Infamous SANDER.
The infamous SANDER contained in this
utterance is sufficient 20 madden anybody
but the welI-founded suspicion of the main
cause and instigatioE of it is worse. 1t
has been reported ir some quarters that
Manly is member Of the peoples party,
but the truth is he makes no pretense of
belonging to that organization. He has
been officially repudiated and condemned
by the republican party, and the unavoid-
able conclusion is that he is . tool and
scapegOdt of the democratic machine.
And this does rot appear to be all. The
democratic machine papers. of course COB
bled UP this editorial and ere trying to
make political niger question campaign
thunder of it from one end of the state to
the other. and in addition to this it seems
that another low, vile democratic :lach:ne
tool wrote an anonymous note to the negro
stating that he must leave the town in
tWenty-fOur hours or cause :he spreading
of the report that such a note had been
written. This was for the evident purpose
of instigating a race riot, over which more
campaign tnunltr would nave been MADE,
but il failed.
The republican county committee of New
Hanover has officially reDudiatcd botn the
negro and the SANDER, declaring that the
article above referred to is base and vile
libel upon countless thousands IF good peo-
pie: that. III truth and in fact. Manly'S pa
per is not now. nor has it ever been, a re-
publican or fusion organ, and IS not even
regarded by the republican party IS
publican or fusion paper; but IS generally
classed and regarded kicking, Gisor-
ganiZing concern. being published by a few
individuals who Seem to think of nothing
but their own Importance, aggrandiZemrnt,
and is edited by an irresponsible upstart,
who represents only himself and his own
views in what he writes.
Committees Denuncintion.
THE New Hanover committee adopted
by a unanimous vote the following denun-
citation:
I'VE denOurce the article referred to as q
base libel; we repudiate and Genounce the
writer of 1t a mischievous simpleton
and declare that he represents and ex-
presses only his own views and sentiments
in said article. and we urge any and all re-
public&ns who are now taking the paper to
discontinue 1t and leave it to be supported
by the democrats. whose interests it is now
serving and advancing by it's foolish and
reprehensible conduct; that we denounce
anC condemn the course and action of the
democratic papers in trying to place the
responsibility OF the libelOuS article upon
the republican party. when they either
knew or could easily have ascertained that
our party not only did rot indorse the ar
ticle, but condemned it equally as strongly
as they did,
Democratic Statement.
The democratic side of the present bitter
controversy in North Carolina is set forth
in the following statement by the demo-
cratic state central committee in which
after declaring that there is danger of an
influx of negroes from other states which
may reverse the conditions of population
ana make negro majority in North Caro-
lima. they point to the state of affairs in
Washington, ID. c., and assert that al
mCst immediately after the passage of the
reconstruction act. under which the south
ern states We're readmitted into the Union
and by which civil and political rights were
conferred upon the negro. there was a
great influx OF negroes into Washington
clty, ana the capital of the Union is fast
becoming the negro's political heaven.
1t was about this time the committee
states, that an act was passed by Con-
Sress which gave to the citizens of the Dis
tr1ct OF Columbia the power to elect all of
the officers Of the city of Washington The
people there had local self-government and
the negro was as good the white man.
Ihey hocked to that city in great numbers
and had the influx gene on and the right of
the people to elect the local officers been