The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-11

and Italians furnish the labor IN some
parts of the UNITED States and frequent
strikes heading to bloodshed are the re-
suit They, are malicious, revengeful
and seditious. Insult one, he never 1or-
| gives-he will have revenge At 1t takes
years. Not 50 With the negro de Us for
| giving. He sleeps and all rccollectlons
pass with his dreams-ncXt morning a
smile greets You as kindly as a sun
| beam. We want him to remain here and
| act ON the advice Of Bishop Turner and
| Booker r. Washington, the greatest
| leaders of his race-eschew politics,
| serve God. accumulate property, edn-
| cate 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 a
| friend no the whites and as sure as the
night follows the day the Writes will be
| his friends. The deplorable lynchings
| will cease when the abominable crimes
| THAT cause them stop.
| APPOINTMENT OF NEGROES TO
| OFFICE DENOUNCED.
| We of the west know little of the
| cast where the negro has the majority.
| We know that he is becoming more as
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| colored men in the past few years, as
| Won know. have attempted to nominate
members of their race on the Republlcan
! county ticket and have threatened to
| knife white Republicans unless some
| Of thcm are nominated and supported
at the pols. and this in a county with
| fonr whites to one colored voter. de-
mand was made on me when postmas-
: fer to appoint a negro clerk. They can
understand why reciprocity as not
| good thing There lis, however, reason
| in their opportunity. They furnish
| large nortion of the Republican vote
| and therefore feel that the offices
| should be divided 1t is very well to
give them place where they do not
come in contact with the whites, but IL
| is WRONG i'm the South to make single
| one of them postmaster, Policeman or
| deputy sheriff. The party is doomed
and damned that disregaTds the pro-
prieties so far as to do SO. There rs an
eternal fitness of things in this world,
and this practice is out of harmony
with Southern civiliZation-yes, with
Anglo-Saxon civilization. Would Mr.
| Mckinley not blush for his wife to be
| compelled to patronize country post
| office with colored postmaster! Con-
| gresham White; if he were smart, would
rise above the politicians and refuse TO
| appoint single negro postmaster IN
! his district. He could make himself I'M
mortal and reward such of his friends
as he desired by appointments an Wash
! ington President MCKINLEY is good
| mana great man-but he handlcaps
his party in the South. There is no use
| trying to build up a decent party If he
| oifends the white people of the State
| by appointing negro postmasters ana
| collectors of custom. Wisdom suggests
| the contrary to this policy. If he so de-
sires he should make these appoint
| ments in New England.
| WHY NEGROES ARE APPOINTED
IN THE SOUTH ONLY.
Nv eliminating the ignorant negro
| vote the race question will be no longer
paramount When this is reiegated the
people will divide ON the great eco
| nomic question of the day. Stump
speakers will then discuss protection,
| money, expansion. | believe the State
| will give its electoral vote to the Re-
| nuhlican candidate in 1908 if thls
amendment is adopted. Manufacturers,
bankers, railroad operatives, laborers,
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| in the party of protection and sound
| money. and when the negro no longer
| constitutes three-fourths of the Repub-
| lican party white men will then vote
| upon conviction and mot upon preju-
/ dice. The Republican party in North
| Carolina today holds out no induce
| ments for white recruits, nor does 1T
| command the steadfast allegiance OF
| the white men in its ranks Thousands
| voted the Democratic ticket in 1898, and
| these and other thousands will do so III
| 1900. With the negro North Carolina
| win never cast her vote for the Repub-
| Iican candidate. The whiting down
process is going ON from year to year.
| Mckinley and other shreWd Republl-
| cans North feel confident of success
| without a single Southern State. and
| as long as they can get along without
| them they prefer to do so. They use the
| South for another purpose. 1lhey APP
| point negroes to influence the colored
| vote of Indiana and New York and to
| secure delegates to the next national
convention. They do not offend the
whites of the North by appointing col
ored men there. As they do not expect
to carry single s-2ssthern State they
appoint negroes here regardless of eff
feet AND the c0i0red men OF New 1oTk
and Indiana are rewarded by. the recog-
milton of their Southern brethren. Is
there i'm the whole of New England. the
home of the abolitionists, d single negro
holding an elective office? Is there a
lone appointee, Of the President there
Is there a negro collector of customs il!
| New York or anywhere else, includns
Cuba, except in North Carolina, Louis
lana or some other Southern State? is
there one in Ohio, the home of the
President? Notice if you please no ne
groes appointed in States where the
Republicans expect electoral votes.
They are appointed in Democratic
States and the District of columbia 70
secure delegates to the national CON
vention. New York has $4,000 negro
voters. AS goes this vote SO goes the
State. Cleveland wanted it and ap-
pointed Trotter, colored man, as mar
shall of the District of Columbia, and
Mckinley will get it with Cheatham, of
this State.
| HOW no PROJECT THE NEGRO.
| Certain counties in North Carolina