The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-09-28
nicxoRys NEGRO pol,cesam

| "ree"vn'e, Newbern and Wumtn~.
ton We're List Fall
we cito the following from q Demo
;Iat'c paper published IN Charlotte:
Ia Is said that Hickory has had ,
negro policeman, though the negro.
coh1tithte only one-fOurth the voting
| popuiatiuu. This 10 one OF the olnc..
That the Democrats boast OF hsytns
carried IN the last election. What q.
you ,Y"k Of il white men?"-Cauca.
| sian.
| The white man" il he il Caucasian
with the facts IN the case, think. tina,
The Caucasian has slanuered Hickor,
ana attempted To practice ba,. de.
ception npon the public
IN the frst place part san politics
cu' no figure in the municipal elect ion
Of this town.
Inc Issue has been, tor the last sew
en- years, license or no license. The
| peinocr@tic party has nothing what
Yer to do with the town government
Ahn II there had been a negro police
man on every street corner, no sensi-
Ole man would think of Blaming the
| De'n"craic party for such a condition
~ affairs 1t would be about as reason
| able 20 place the responsibility on the
| Jewish Sanhedrim.
In the next place it comes with poor
grace from the { aucasian to criticize
any town for having negro. officials.
mat paper was the ally and assOci-
ate OF he men who turned over Green
vile, Newberne and Wilmington to u
horde of negroes. L. was the defender
OF fusion, after fusion had done it's
perfect work and brought forth har-
vest Of corruption and death
Furthermore the charges as insinua-
ted by the Caucas' an is meanly false.
The impression sought to be created
Is that N negro officer had authority
over wbl'e men. The facts are as fol
lows: Twice during the small p0x
scare the board Of aldermen and the
mayor chose Leonard Crockett, a high
ly respectable coiOred man, as u spe-
ciai health officer to look after his own
race. He received strict instructions
not tn modest, nor interfere, in any
way with white persOns-aD instruct
ion which he faithfully carried out.
His work and bis authority were con-
lined entirely to the negroes.
This malicious misrepresentation of
Hickory is part of the vile campaign
now being carried on by the discredi-
ted and repudiated fusion politicians
who were last year scOurged from
power by the lash of public lndigna-
ton and who have been pilloried wit b
scalawags like Holden and raffians
like Kirk as a reprOach and disgrace
to the State.
The writer of the above kicks hard.
The CAUCASIAN must have spurred
him in tender spot. Yes, for seven
years except the last, even before the
supposed writer of the above was cit
izen of Hickory, the issue has been
"wet" or"dry." Generally the negroes
voted "wet.'. In the last two election
a larger number found out that, in the
language of prominent member of
the Democratic machine which con-
trolls Hickory.if they got anything they
would hav- TO "get in the ring" and
they voted "dry.' AS result of that
or something else, each year, Mr., Leon
ard Crockett, "highly respectable
cO.Ored man." has been chosen as a
Isl eCial health officer" SO far as We
know there was no special health Off
Ger for the whites.
The apOlOgist for HickOry's negro
policeman claims that BIPARTISAN poll
tics cut no figure in the municipal
elections of the town." that 'the Dem
Ocratic party has nothing whatever to
do with the town government" Is this
true? When the sO-called dry nom
partisan TIL et was nominated last
April, although they invited dry men
Of all parties to participate in it, and
although one Populist and two Prohi-
bitiOnists were placed In. nomination
as city aldermen, they we're defeated
and a straight Democratic ticket was
nominated, consisting of mayor and
three aldermen. Do you deny this?
Does this look like 1.-THE Democratic
party has nothing whatever to do with
the town government" After the
May elections it was published by the
Democratic papers that ''every town
in the State except Marshall went
Democratic" Not only this, has it not
been reported that citizens of Hickory
boosted that they elected "straight
Democratic ticket" On May 9Th the
Charlotte Observer contained the fol-
lowing:
"A gentleman from Hickory said yes
terday: I'VE had hard fig hit in Kick
DRY over the may Or's election. 1t was
a d z hit to finish. The wet faction of
the town Joined hands with the POpu-
lists, led by j. F. Click and the Repub-
licans and fought the regular Demo.
cratic ticket. A. A. Whitner was the
mopgrel candidate, Mr.. o. M, Register
standard bearer for the DemOcrats,and
won by 20 vOtes.'"
Why did not this brilliant apOlogist
for Hickory's negro politician deny
this; why did he not write to the OBJ
server and say that the good dry Pro-
hibItionists of Hickory of all parties
had been "slandered?"
The above from the Observer was
branded as false by two Democrats OF
Hickory. but they we're not in the town
ring, like Mr.. Leonard Crockett, the
"highly respectable cOlOred" gentle
man and, perhaps, his uncolored apol-
Ogist.
The issue this year was not "license
| or no license" as Mr.. CrOckett's apollo
gist states. There was not license
ticket in the field. The issue was plain
ly ring rule or anti-ring rule, whether
| the people or the town ring should
| control the city. The Peoples ticket
I was the onlp non partisan "dry" TICK
ct, being composer vi DeWoCia0o, L Wy
| ulists and Prohibitionists. every one Of
whom has always voted against par
rooms and was SO pledged this time
Every man on the ring ticket, wnl u
was successful, was Democrat. Al
the three aldermen holding over are
ali Democrats except one, giving the
new board Democrat mayor and i've
Democratic aldermen out of six, whl
but our negro apologist will have the
audacity to say that Hickory is not
controlled by Dem ocrats, and that they
are not responsible for the elevation O
Mr.. Leonard Crockett. "highly re
spectsble cOlored" gentleman to place
on the police force in the city OF Hick
Our negro policeman's apologist'
greatest objection to what The CAU
CAs1AN says is that it's purpose was 9.