The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-05-25

Chise the Negro. Democrats Removed
the Property and Educatlo..sI 0ualifica-
tion In tho State.
Below We give a 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 and decide
whether he lied Or not. He said:
"For 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. AZ
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 ent they
would disfranchise them. The Dem
Gratis got the State government and
lid not disfranchise tn sm. Then they
told them If the Democrats elected a
President they would disfranchiss
hem. The Democrats elected Presi-
lent and did not disfranchlse them.
Then they told them if the Den 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
1t these lies, and marveled that the
negro did not have sense enough to
zee 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
'ad learned through experience that
hat party did not propose to dlsfran-
:hise him, and he, too began to laugh
It these liars, and finally refused to
,e frightened by their rot any longer.
So the old Republican scare-crow had
0 be hauled down and put away.
"Now these same old demagogues,
,ided by few pie-eating and pie.
uniting Populists who used to laugh
t this fraud upon the negro. have
gain brought out the old Republi
;an scare-crow of disfranchlsement
ut, strange to say, they are now
,sing it in an attempt to try and
rightep, not the ignorant negro, but
he poor aud uneducated white men
the State. But these willy schem.
rs will be disappointed. They will
lud that the uneducated white men
this State are not so easily fooled.
hey will find that while they may
,ot have any book learning, they
ave the quick intelligence and hard
ense of the white race, and they
III fl d that they are not to be fool
d, by q bugaboo. There is not a
White man in North Carolina who
Sill be frightened by this old Repub-
lean negro bugaboo, and they will
" their votes teach these fellows
vho are presuming upon their igno-
ance that their intelligence is not to
q thus trif1eo with and insulted with
npunity They know the Democratic
'arty was the party that removed
he property and educational dis.
qualifications to suffrage in North
carolins. They know that the Dem
.cratic party has always stood for
manhood suffrage, and they know
hat the Democratic party will never,
,nder any circumstances under the
,up, consent to the passage of any
aw which will take from them, how
Yer poor and ignorant they may be.
The right to vote. or which will in
my way diminish or lessen that great
privilege. They know that the Dem
ocratic party is composed largely of
poor and uneducated men, and that
t LOOKS to this honorable class of our
citjzenship for its support, and that
It will in turn protect them in all
heir rights of Cit zsnship; and guaro
them, their wives and their children
in their homes, their reputation and
heir Writ le.
sit must be remembered it is the
| Republic ms who are circulating this
silly story about the Democrats.
Even the Populist wing of that party
denounced the story as absurd. Ar
barren of truth about some things
as the Hand Book recently issued BY
DR.. Thompson and Hal Aver. It ID
frank enough to admit that there il
no truth in the Republlcan olamol
about the Democrats disfranchising
the negro, much less any white man,
and that the history Of the past