The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-07-27
THE PASSING OF THE
NEGRO IN POLITICS

The white people of North Carolina
will never again submit to negro dom
ion, nor that the negro shall rule
the white man in any part of this
State.
This was the irrevocable decree OF
November s. 1898. For this reason the
Republican party can never hope to
,aeain control in North Carolina. sc
: as it continues under present IN
frences, for it is manlfesi
+hat so long as it so continues
narro domination in certain parts OF
the State will inevitably follow its
success. and the influence of the ne
GO in p-.itics will of necessity be
exertcd and felt in every part of the
State. 1t is futile for Republicans to
longer deny that their party in North
Carolina, is controlled by the negro
and that government by it is necessa-
rlv government under negro int1u-
enCe.
There are but few white Republicans
in North Carolina compared with the
number of negroes that constitute tie
voting strength of that party. In tie
State at large for every white RepuD-
lean voter there are FOUR negroes
WIN vote the ticket of that party. In
the eastern part of the State the dis
proportion between white and black
Republican voters is infinitely greater.
III Craven county, for instance, there
are considerably over 2,OUO Republican
voters, AID Of these not more than
fifty are white men.
In Halifax. in Northampton, in War
ren and New Hanover counties, and IN
a great many other eastern counties
which might be named, the proportion
Of black Republican to white Repub-
Lean voters is as great as it is in Ora
ven county.
II the Republicans had carried the
Safe in 1898 nearly every officer in
Craven county, and many other cOun-
ties in the east, would today be filed
BY negroes, that is, if the white people
il these counties had not rebelled
against such insufferable degradation.
Ii Is. therefore, plain that Republican
success in North Carolina means the
government of the whites in a third
o. the State by the negroes.
IN 1895 and 1897 the Republican par
ty. which had not been in power in the
State in over % years, succeeded in
getting some white people to believe
that Republican success did not nee
esSarily mean negro government. 1t
succeeded in getting the Populists to
believe that fusion with it did not
mean political co-partnership with the
negro, but after two years of such
rule and co-partnership there is no
sensible white man in the State. who
does not know that the negro is the
dominant influence in the Rebulican
party. ard that when that party is in
power in North Carolina his influence
ls ubiquitous and irrepressible, both in
the policy and in the manner of admin
istering the government. The expert
ence of these two years of Republican
control in North Carolina has conclu-
siyely demonstrated the fact that if
you put four negroes to one white man
IN control of the State, and forty ne
eroes to one white man in control OF
a county, that the negro will not only
claim the ascendency, which his nu-
merical strength gives, but will domin.
ate with all the insolence and brutality
with which ignorance must fortify il.
self when it Undertakes to control and
dominate intelligence.
Is there white man in this State
fool enough to believe that this genera.
ton of white people are going to forge,
the lesson Of these two dark and for
bidding years? If there is a man :,
the State who thinks that orr white
people a going back to negro rule
within two years after they have
thrown it off, he is indeed the fe,,o,.
that the eool-killer is hunting for. and
If he does not find him and disnat,.r
him the world will be all the wors.
for his failure.
1t was % years after our first expe
rience before we forgot, and aoa;,
Bonded the neck to the ignoble vol.
OF negro rule. Our last experienc.
was even more bitter. and the vok<
more CALLING than the first, and th.
last sad remembrance of our bumili.
ton will have to fade from the mind.
OF the white men and women of thi
generation before that party can hop,
II it remains under negro control t,
again rule North Carolina.
The day of negro control in tn,
South has passed, and passed forever
and it may safely be asserted that n,
party controlled by the negro will eve
again carry State south of Maso1
aud Dixon's line; and that the whit