The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-04-27

II "a- to ID eeivs-sot Col & to ID .f,an-
thi~e tn. Negro. Democrat. Removed
| tn" Property ~nd Educational un.iifie.-
| ton Ia the State.
Below We give few extracts Of
what Chairman Simmons sent on.
through the Democratic papers dur
ing the last campaign. What We do
not copy is on the same line o. what
we do copy. Read it aud decide
whether he lied or not. He said:
"F'or the past twenty years or more,
just before every election, the Re-
publican speakers, at their midnight
meetings, have been in the habit Of
telling the negro if the Democrats
came into power their right to vote
would be taken away from them. Af-
ter the Democrats came into power
ia this State, they always bad some
reason to give these credulous beings
why the Democrats had not disfran-
chssed them as they had before pre-
dicted.
First, they told them if the Dem
ocrats got the State govern N ent they
would disfranchise them. The Dem
Ocrats got the Safe government ana
did not disfranchise them. Then they
told them If the d mocrats elected a
! President they would disfranc hise
them. The Dem ocrats elected Pre- ST.
| dent and did not disfranchlse them.
Then they told them if the Dem ,cra.s
got control of Congress they would
disfranchise them. The Democrats
got control of Congress and did not
disfrauchise them. All along the
honest white men Of the State laughed
at these lies, and marveled that the
negro did not have sense enough to
see that he was being duped.
"Finally the negro himself began
TO SEQ through the trick. He had
seen the Democras. in full power in
the State for twenty-five years, and
had learned through experience tha'
that party did not propose to dlsfrau
chise him. and ne, too began to laugh
at these liars, and finally refused to
be frightened by their rot any longer
So the old Republican scare crow hao
to be hauled down and put away.
"Now these same old demagogues
aided by few pie-eatlng and pie
hunting Populists who used to laugh
at this fraud upon the negro. have
again brought out the old Republi
can scare-crow of disfranchisement
but, strange to say, they are now
using it in an attempt to try anc
frighten, not the ignorant negro, bul
the poor aud uneducated white men
Of tbs State. But these willy schem
ers will be disappointed. They viii
find that the ureducated white mer
Of this State are not so easily fooled
They will find that while they may
not have any book learning, they
have the quick intelligence and hare
sense of the white race, and they
will find that they sre not TO be fool
ed, by bugaboo. There is not s
white man in North Carolina wht
will be frightened by this old Repub
lican negro bugaboo, and they vii
by their votes teach these fellow!
who are presumiug upon their igno
rance that their intelligence is not t.
be thus trifso with and insulted will
lmpunity They know the Democratic
party was the party that removed
the property and educational dis
) qualifications to suffrage in NORTH
Carolina. They know that the Dem
ocratic party has always stood fo
manhood suffrage, and they know
thst the Democratic party will never
under any circumstances under tn
! sun, consent to the passage Of an
, law which will take from them, how
ever poor and ignorant they may be
the right 30 vote, or which will il
any way diminish or lessen that grea
| privilege. They know that the Dem
s ocratic party is composed largely o
r poor and uneduaated men, and tina
!, it looks to this honorable class Of on
citizenship for its support, and tina
1t will in turn protect them in 81
their rights of cit zonship; and guar,
them, their wives and their children
q in their homes, their reputation an
: their virtue.
J.. SIT must be remembered it is tn
n Republicans who are REGULATING thi
: silly story about the Democrats
! Even the Populist wing of that part
Il denounced the story as absurd. A
y barren Of truth about some thing
+. rs the Hand Book recently issued b
o DR.. Thompson and Ha! Aver. 1t
I frank enough to admit that there
IS 20 truth in the Republican clamc
q about the Democrats disfranchisln
u the negro, much less any white NAL
. and that the history of the pas
= twenty cdd years of Democratic rul
in North Carolina proves the utts
p falsity and absurdity Of the Repul
r. .ican rot this subject. Nor do RI
sponsible Republicans openly an
pnbl ely make this charge. AS recH
p less IS they are, they have too niue
II respect for and fear Of decent publ
IL opluion to visit upon themselves tt
scorn and contempt which an ope
>, avowal of such absurd End ridic1
ii lous charge would merit. But viii
Id these Republican traitors are sile,
themselves upon this subject, the
send out secret circulars, and ser
out sneak speakers and bush whacl
e, ers to try to frIghten and deceive Il
We people by clandestinely circuIatin
c. these fslsehoods concerning the pu
is pose of the Democratic party,
ie "These leaders and their claque
&c know, as every Intelligent man
IN the State knows, that the Democrat
ID nlan to protect the white men of tt
ne East from the horrible negro ru
tie under which that fair section of Il