The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-14

in the same way.
Z. To put all foreign corporations upon
the same footing with loeai corporations
and prevent the removal by foreign
corporations of suits to the Federal
courts where, by means of their intlu-
ence at Washington. the Federal bench
has been too largely packed with cor
poration agents.
8. To encourage the Investment of
capital in the State and to give it ann lie
protection.
Q. To enact fair and just election
law
TOTO do any and all other just and
honorable things that will secure and
perpetuate White Supremacy.
There is no room to doubt that these
promises will he performed. The eX-
perience of the National Democracy Ill
1892 is warning to any who might
forget the declaration that secured the
great triumph. Mr.. Cleveland went into
the White House upon tidal wave that
gave promise of Il career of twenty years
of power. In less than one year the par
ty was divided, and almost destroyed be-
cause the pledges of the party We're
wantonly broken and the attempt to car
ry out some of the pledges was de-
nounced as party perfidy and dishonor"
by the President who forgot the working
Democracy which elevated him to office.
If Mr.. Cleveland had been true to the
pledges upon which he was elected, Bry,
an would be in the White House to-day.
the trusts would not be multiplying. and
the country would not be threatened
with the annexation of millions of ne
grocs and half-breeds.
There is an object lesson nearer home.
The Fusionists were hurled from pow
er, not merely because OF the right
eousness Of our cause, but also because
they had brazenly violated their sacred
pledges The country people have M
memories. They remember the speech
of the party leader when it has passed
out of the mind of the speaker; and
while slow to wrath, let that party be-
ware of the Indignation of the masses
that it has deceived. 1t were more toll
cradle for Sodom and Gomorrah in the
day of their Judgment than for the
man or party that fails in its pledges.
In this day of reading, the people keep
posted rs to the action or their public
servants. Their every action is under the
calcium light. The men chosen to rep
resent us in the Legislature are. in a
sense, but messengers to carry to Raj
eigh the instructions which the people
have given them. No matter how wisely
they may legislate upon other matters.
their legislation will be a failure unless
it can. when the Legislature has adj
iourned. he said Every promise made
in the campaign has been fulfilled
The people were promised above all
else white Supremacy" and that it
should be perpetuated. Assured that
the pledges of the party Upon other
matters will be kept. interest now CEN.
tres in constitutional amendment that
VIII disfranchise the mass Of ignorant
negro voters They cannot be elimina.
red except by constitutional enactment.
can have little patience with those
short-sighted machine politicians who
advise a halfway keeping of the prom
Uses made by the party. There is no
halfway ground i'll a revolution such as
we have passed through. No election law
can permanently preserve White Supre>
macy. Al long as 100000 negroes stand
united, with their names on the registra-l
ton books. the sword of bad government
hangs ready to fall upon our heads,
More than that; they present constant
temptation to the demngogue to ride into
office by Il division of the white vote
added TO the solid negro vote. The womb
of politics contains more Jeter- Pritch-
ards and Marion Buffers than we buried
last November. If our promise TO elm
mate the negro is not fulfilled we invite
another cooperation between negroes
and dissatisfied white men that will
bring another era of corruption. The
only safety is in the adoption of a plan
like that of Louisiana, where the igno-
rant negro vote is legally and constitu-
tionally suppressed.
In the halls of Congress, the eccen-
trio John Randolph once rose and cried
out in his piercing voice, "Mr. Speaker,
! have found the philosophers stone. 1t
is, pay as you CO." Gentlemen, / come
tonight and say to you that in the
world of politics | have found the true
philosophers stone. 1t is, Keep your
promises" Let us stand upon the Dem
ocratic cornerstone and erect our memo
rial upon the solid foundations of party
pledges fulfilled. If we are tempted to
disregard them or any of them, let MS
turn our faces toward the Democratic
Mecca and cry out. with the supplica-
ton of the humble Christian:
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet;
Lest we forget, lest we forget"