The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-02

not copy is on the same line Of what
We do copy. Read it and decide
whether be lied or not. He said:
"For the past twenty years or more,
just before every election, the Re-
publican speakers, at their midnigh,
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. At
ter the Democrats came into power
in this State, they always had 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 governm emit they
would disfranchise them. The Dem
ocrats got the State government AND
did not disfranchise them. Then they
told them If the Democrats elected q
President they would disfranchise
them. The Democrats elected Presi-
dent and did not disfran chlse them.
Then they told them if the De m ocrats
got control of Congress they would
disfranchise them. The Democrats
got control of Congress and did not
disfranchise them. All along the
honest white men of the State laughed
at these lies, and marveled that the
negro did not have sense enough 70
see that he was being duped.
"Finally the negro himself began
to see through the trick. He had
seen the Democrats in full power in
the State for twenty-five years, and
had learned through experience that
that party did not propose to dlsfrau-
chise him, and he, too began to laugh
at these liars, and finally refused to
be frightened by their rot any longer.
So the old Republican scare crow had
to be hauled down and put away.
''Now these same old demagogues,
aided by a few pie-eating 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 disfranchlsement
but, strange to say, they are now
using it in an attempt to try and
frighten, not the ignorant negro, but
the poor and uneducated white men
of the State. But these willy schem-
ers will be disappointed. They will
find that the uneducated white men
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 hard
sense of the white race, and they
will find that they are not to be fool
ed, by a bugaboo. There is not a
white man in North Carolina who
will be frightened by this old Repub-
lican negro bugaboo, and they will
by their votes teach these fellows
Who are presuming upon their igno
rance that their intelligence is not to
be thus triflea with and insulted with
impunity 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 st~od for
manhood suffrage, and they know
that the Democratic party will never,
under any circumstances under the
sun, consent to the passage of any
law which will take from them, how
ever poor and ignorant they may be.
the right to vote, or which will in
any way diminish or lessen that great
privilege. They know that the Dem
ocratic party is composed largely Of
poor and uneducated men, and that
it looks to this honorable class of our
citizenship for its support, aud that
1t will in turn protect them in all
their rights of cit. zenship; and guard
, them, their wives and their children
in their homes, their reputation and
their virtue.
cit must be remembered it is the
Republicans who are circulating this
silly story about the Democrats.
Even the Populist wing of that party
denounced the story as absurd. As
barren of truth about some things
as the Hand Book recently issued by
DR.. Thompson and Hal Aver. 1t is
frank enough to admit that there is
no truth in the Republican clamol
about the Democrats DISTINGUISHING
{ the negro, much less any white man
and that the history of the past
twenty odd years of Democratic rule
1 w hn NJ
falsity and absurdity of the Repub
lican rot this subject. Nor do re-
sponsible Republicans openly ani
publicly make this charge. AS reck-
less as they are, they have too mucl
respect for and fear of decent public
opinion to visit upon themselves tn
scorn and contempt which an opel
avowal of such absurd and ridicu
lous charge would merit. But Will
these Republican traitors are silen
/ themselves upon this subject, the,
send out secret circulars, and sem
out sneak speakers and bushwhack
ers to try to frlghten and deceive tn
people by clandestinely circulating
these falsehoods concerning the pur
pose of the Democratic party.
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beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Catha
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stirring up the lazy liver and driving all in
purities from the body. Begin to-day I
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackhead
and that sickly bilious complexion by takin
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