The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1899-06-22

ton during the period of 1861 and
1865.
THE SOUTH WANTS THE NEGRO TO RE-
The negro remained ioyally to his
post, titled the farm. garnered the
crops, fed the soldiers fighting
against his freedom, and protected
with his strong arm the loved ones
of the soldiers at the front, in the
castle Of the rich and the cottage OF
the poor. The people of the South
desire him to remain here and let
politics alone. His interest demands
it. his best friends advise it, The
Republican party in North Carolina
will never have the courage of its con-
viction as long as the negro furnishes
two-thirds of its votes Thousands
Of old Wings would affiliate with it
to-day were it not for the company
they were invited to keep. The col
ored man is docile. kind-hearted,
absolutely devoid Of malice as rule.
We know each other in the South and
he is the best laborer for us of all
races. Poles and Italians furnish the
labor in some parts of the United
States and frequent strikes leading
to biooIshcd are the result. They
are malicious, revengeful and Sedi-
tl'iS. Insult one, he never forgives
lie will have revenge if it takes
years. Not so with the negro. He
is forgiving. He sleeps and all re-
collections pass with his dreams
next morning smile .greets you as
kindly as a sunbeam. We want him
to remain here and act on the advice
Of Bishop Turner and Booker L.
Washington, the greatest leaders of
their race-eschew politics, serve
God, accumulate property. educate
his children, frOwn on the negro who
commits crime, stop harboring the
criminal of his color as he now does
to his shame and danger, and be
friend to the whites and as sure as
sure as the night follows the day the
whites will be his friends The de-
plorable lynchings will cease when
the abominakle crimes that cause
them stop.
APPOINTMENT OF NEGROES TO OFFICE
DENOUNCED.
We of the West know little Of the
East where the negro has the ma or
ity. We know that he is becoming
more assertive in politics. Here in
lredell the colored men in the past
few years, as you know, have at
tempted to nominate members Of
their own race on the Republican
county ticket and have threatened to
knife white Republicans unless some
of them are nominated and supported
at the polls, and this in county
with four whites to one colored voter.
A demand was made on me when
postmaster 10 appoint negro clerk.
They cannot understand why recip-
rocity is not a good thing. There
is, however, reason in their impor-
tunity. They furnish q large portion
of the Republican vote and therefore
feel that the offices should be divided.
1t is very we'll to give them a place
where they do not come in contact
with the whites, but it is wrong in
the South to make single one of
them postmaster, policeman or
deputy sheriff. The party is DOOM
ed and damned that disregards the
proprieties so far as to do so. There
is an eternal fitness of things in the
world, and this practice is out Of har-
mony with Southern civilization
yes, with Anglo-Saxon civilization.
Would Mr.. Mckinley not blush for
his wife to be compelled to patronize
country postotfice with negro post
master? Congressman White, if he
was smart, would rise above the poll
ticians and refuse to appoint single
could make himself immortal and re-
ward such of his friends as he desired
by appointments in Washington.
President Mckinley is good man
great man-but he handicaps his
party in the South. There is no use
trying to build up decent party if
he otfends the white people of the
State by appointing negro post
masters and collectors of customs.
Wisdom suggests the contrary to this
policy. If he so desires he should
make these appointments in New
England.
| WHY NEGROES ARE APPOINTED IN THE
! SOUTH ONLY.
BY eliminating the ignorant negro
| vote the race question will be no
/ longer paramount. When this is
relegated the people will divide on
the great economic questions of the
| day, Stump speakers will then dis
ouss protection, money, expansion.
| believe the State will give its elec-
toral vote to the Republican candi-
date in 1908 if this amendment is
adopted. Manufacturers, bankers,
railroad operatives. laborers, farmers
and professional men believe in the
party of protection and sound money,
and when the negro no longer con-
stitutes three-fourths of the Repub-
lican party white men will then vote
upon conviction and not upon pre-
judice. The Republican party il
North Carolina to-day holds out no
inducements for white recruits, mol
does it command the steadfast allie
giance of the white men in it's ranks
| Thousands voted the Democratic
ticket in 1898. and these and Other
thousands will do so in 1900. Will
the negro North Carolina will never
cast her vote for the Republican can
didate. The whiting down process:
is going on from year to year Mckin
ley and other shrewd Republican:
North feel confident of success with
out single Southern State, and a:
long as they can get along wlthou
them they prefer to do so. They us
the South for another purpose. The.
appoint negroes to influence the col
ored vote Of Indiana and New Yorl
and to secure delegates to the mex
national convention. They do no
offend the whites of the North by ap
pointing colored men there. As the.
do not expect to carry single South
ern State they appoint negroes her