The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-09

- wa u" - es'se-Not sof x Tn D'sf'au
Csiss tn" gr". D~moera'. Removed
the Property and Edae.ti.-.I pu.IifeA-
ton In the state.
Below We gi"e few extracts OF
Shat Cbaiim+n Simmons sent on,
through the ID mocratic papers dur
'rg The LAST campaign. What We do
q IT copy is on the same line Of WIS:
re do copy. r sad il and eide
whether he lied or no.. He sale:
IF ~ the pas tw nty years or more.
Just b-t"re every election, the r.
publican spec kers. a. their midnight
meetings, have been in the hab bit %
telling the negro if the Democrats
anne INTO power their right to vote
would be taken away from them. AZ
'er the Dim ,erats came into power
III this State, they always bad some
reason to give these crednlous beings
why the Democrats had not disfran-
chssed them as they had before pre-
dictsd.
FIRST, they told them if the Dem
ocrats got the State government they
would disfranchise them. The Dem
ocra's got the State government ano
did not disfranchise them. Then they
told them If the Democrats elected
President they would disfranchise
them. Tue De mocrats elected Presi-
dent and did not disfranchlse them
Then they told them if the Dem 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 laughe d
ut 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. 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 dlsfran-
chise him. and he, too began to laugh
at these liars, and finally refused to
he frightened by their rot any longer.
50 the old Republican scare crow mad
to be- hauled down and put away.
"Now these same old demagogues,
aided by a few pie-eating and pie.
hunting Popullsts who used to laugh
at this fraud upon the negro, have
again brought cut 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 aud uneducated white mon
of the State. But these willy schem-
ers will be disappointed. They will
fud 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 ind 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 te
be thus trifeo with and insulted with
IMMUNITY 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 stood fo1
manhood suffrage, and they know
that the Democratic party will never
under any circumstances under thu
sun, consent to the passage of an,
law which will take from them, how
ever poor and ignorant they may be
the right to vote, or which will il
any way diminish or lessen that grea
privilege. They know that the Dem
ocratic party is composed largely 0
D poor and uneo ted men, and tina
, it looks to this nvlorable class of on
. citizenship for its support, and tina
1t will in turn protect them in a.
, their rights of cit z.nship; and guar
. them, their wives and their chlldre
in their homes, their reputation an
y their virtue.
':Lt must be remembered it is tn
!, Republicans who are circulating thi
- silly story about the Democrat:
9 Even the Populst wing of that part
= denounced the story as absurd. A
barren of truth about some thing
- as the Hand Book recently issued b
q DR.. Thompson and Hal Aver. 1t
q frank enough to admit that there
:. no truth in the Republican clamt
n about the Democrats disfranchisln
10 the negro, much less any white NAL
8 and that the history of the pa
>. twenty odd years of Democratic ru
~ in North Carolina proves the utt'
n. falsity and absurdity of the Repu
A. lican rot this subject. Nor do r
# sponsible Republicans openly ar
- publ ely make this charge. AS reel
a. less as they are, they have too mu,
20 respect for and fear of decent publ
40 opinion to visit upon themselves Il
.r scorn and contempt which an OPP
20 avowal of such absurd end ride
- lous charge would merit. But viii
these Republican traitors are sile
themselves upon this subject, tn
send out secret circulars, and sci
ont crooL cnoakarc and huShwh ar