Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-06-22
HWHITE MANS BURDEN.
HON G. B AYCOCK WRITES
OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT.
Peace. Prosperity, Freedom OF
Elections and Sancitity of
the Ballot viii Fol-
low the Adoption
OF the Amend.
ment.
The Best For All Parties

The great victory won by the
people of North Carolina last yeal
is about to cuIminate in the fna
settlement of the negro problem
as related to the politics of the
State. The Constitutional amend
ment which will be adopted in
August, 1900, will mark the be-
ginning of a new era. With the
conclusive establishment of white
supremacy on a permanent con-
st'tutional basis, larger political
freedom and greater toleratien
Of opinion will come to all Of our
people. Freedom of elections and
the sanctity of the ballot will be
secured. The Democratic party
will be set free from the trammels
of the race issue and can enter up
on a career of economic study and
legislation. The Republican party
will be freed from the stigma of
being called the "Negro Party" I"
and unfettering itself from the
rule of cliques and factions will
greatly gain in character and will
have somewhat more of influence
in making and shaping a whole
some public opinion. Discussion
of policies and principles will take
the place of heated declam alton
and par tisan abuse. In that day,
bad as the principles of the Re
publican party are, if it should
come into power in the State. one
might reasonably hope to secure
even from it a decent and econom-
lcal administration of public af-
fairs. The terrible strain of such
a campaign as that of 1898 will be
a memory of the past. Preachers
of the gospel of peace can pro-
claim the glad tidiugs of great oy
to all the people unhindered by
fear for the safety Of the State.
Property will be secure in all of
its just rights and labor shall not
be oppressed. The safety of the
white womanhood of the State
absolutely unattached anywhere
in the bl Dad borders of the State
since the 9Th of last November)
will be forever secured. Peace
will become our permanent herit-
age and prosperity, the easy
achievement of our own industry
and economy. Education will be
universally recognized as the right
of every citizen and the duty Of
the State. Power will come with
knowledge and nothing will be
''lost in the tiliage of the poor for
the lack of wisdom.' Material
and moral questions will command
the best thought Of the people and
politics will cease to be our chief
concern. In order to secure these
blessings the Democratic party
will in the coming campaign ad
vocate the constitution amendment.
Many Republicans will support ii
and Populists, who are POpulists,
will be found advocating it. At
the close of the last campaign when
Democratic success had become his
tory and while the Republican
leaders were yet dazed by the size
of the Democratic majority, many
of them rushed into print in the
shape of interviews, and many
others 10 private conversation ex-
pressed the urgent hope that the
Legislature would .disfranchise the
negro, / recall distinctly that one
of them, who had enjoyed to the
fullest the tonors. and emolumeuts
Of Office given him by the un-
divided support of the negroes, said
to me very soon after the election;
81 hope you Democrats will dis
franchise the negro we have car
led him on our shoulders long
enough-when the negro question
is settled, many white men will
vote the Republican ticket . Thai
man noNsis opposing ihe constitu.
tional amendment. Why2#He says
because be is afraid it will be held
Unconstitutional. He is<not afraic
of any such thing.
|. What he is afraid Of. AMI wl1al
| he may justly be afraid of, is thai
with the elimination of the negro
from politics, a better Rapubli.
can party viii be formed in the
State, which will, if it comes te
power, put better and more
grateful men in Office than he is