The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-04-20


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Below We give q few extracts Of
what Chairman Simmons sent out
through the Democratic papers dur
ing the last campaign. What We do
not copy is on the same line OF what
We do copy. Read it Snd decide
whether he lied or not. he said:
IF u 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. At
ter the DIM ocrats came into power
in this State. they always bad some
reason to give these credul,us 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 m ant 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 a Presi-
dent and did not disfranch,se them.
Then they told them if the De IN ocrats
got control of Congress they would
disfrauchise 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 to
see that he was being duped.
FINALLY the negro himself began
to see through the trick. H. 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 dlsfran-
chlse him. and he, too began to laugh
at these liars, and fiaally refused to
he frightened by their rot any long-r.
So the old r -publican scare crow mad
to b. haul.d down and put away.
"Now these sa ae old demagogues,
aided by 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 disfranchlsemsnt
but, strange to say, they are now
using it in an attempt to try and
brighten, not the ignorant negro, but
the poor aud uneducated white men
If tn. State. But these Willy schem-
ers will be disappointed. They will
find that the uueducated white men
# 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 Fl I'D that they are not to be fool
ed, by bugaboo. There is not q
white man in Nnrth Carolina who
will be frightened by this old Repub-
lican negro bugaboo, and they will
by their votes teach these fellows
who are presumiug upon their iguo-
rance that their Intelligence is not TO
be thus tritl a with and ipsulred with
'mpuuIty They know the Democratic
party WAS the party that removed
the property and educational dis
affiliations to suffrage il North
Carolina. They know that the Dem.
ocratic party has always stood for
manhood suffrage, and they know
that the Democratic party will never,
under any circumstances under the
sun, consent to the passage of any
Jaw 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 Den
ocratic party is COMPOSED largely Of
poor and unedu .ated men, and that
it looks to this honorable class of our
citiz 'nship for its support, aud tha,
!; 1t will in turn protect them in all
their rights of cit zsnship; and guard
, them, their wives and their children
IN their homes, thei1 reputation and
their virtue.
sit must be remembered it is the
Republicans who are circulating this
lilly story about the D mocrats.
Even the Popul'st wing Of that party
| denounced the storv as absurd. As
barren OF truth about some thing.
AS the Hand Book recently issued by
Dr.. Thong son and Hal Aver. 1t is
frank enough to admit that there is
no truth in the REPUBLICAN clamol
| about the Democrats DISTINGUISHING
I the negro, much less any white man
and that the history of the pa>
twenty odd years of Democratic rul
in North Carolina proves the ute
falsity and absurdity of the Rspuh
,ican rot this suhj Let. Nor do r.
sponsibIe Republicans openly ane
publ ely make this charge. AS reck
less as they are, they have too muci
! respect for and fear of decent publ.
opinion to visit upon the mseIves til
scorn and contempt which an ope
nvowal Of such absurd and ridicr
lous charge would merit. But wh l.
these Republican traitors are silen
themselves upon this subject, the
send out secret circulars, and sen
out sneak speakers and bush wba ct
ers to try to fr,ghten and deceive tn
people by clandestinelY circulatin.
these falseho GODS concerning the pur
pose Of the Democratic party
"These leaders and their G aquer
know, as every intelligent man il
the State knows, that the Democra' i
plan to protect the white men of tb
East from the horrible negro rul
under which that fair section of tn
State now srffers and lang ni<aes !
to take advantage of the recent DE-