The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-14
THE PASSING OF THE NEGRO IN POLITICS
WHITE MEN WILL RULE.

will never again submit to negro domin-
alton. nor that the negro shall rule the
white man in any part of this State.
This was the irrevocable decree of
November 8, 1885, For this reason the
Republican party can never hope to re-
gain control i'm North Carolina, so long
as it continues under present influences,
for it is manifest that so long as 1t so
continues negro domination in certain
parts of the State will inevitably fJllow
it's success, and the influence of the negro
in politics will of necessity be eXerted
and felt in every part of the State. 1t
is futile for Republicans to longer deny
that their party in North Carolina, is
controlled by the negro and that govern,
ment by it is necessarily government un.
der negro influence.
There are but few white Republicans
number of negroes that constitute the
voting strength of that party. In the
State at large for every white Republic
can voter there are -FOUR negroes who
vote the ticket for that party. In the
eastern part of the State the dispropor-
ton between white and black Republ-
can voters is infinitely greater. Ian Ora
ven county. for instance, there are con
siderably over 1900 Republican voters.
and of these not more than FIFTY are
white men.
In Halifax, in Northampton, in War
rem and ..>ew Hanover counties, and in
a great many other eastern counties
which might be named. the proportion
of black Republican to white Repnbli-
can voters is as great as it is i'll Craven
county.
If the Republicans had carried the
State in 1898 nearly every officer in Cra-
ven county. and many other counties III
the east, would today be filled by ne
groes. that is, if the white people in these
counties had not rebelled against such
insufferable degradation. 1t is, therefore,
plain that Republican success i'm North
Carolina means the government of the
whites in third of the State by the ne
grOes.
In 1895 and 1897 the Republican party.
which had not been an power in the
State in Over % years, succeeded in get
ting some white people to believe that
Republican success did not necessarily
mean negro government. 1t succeeded in
getting the Populsts to believe that fu-
sion with it did not mean political CO.
partnership with the negro, but after two
years of such rule and co-partnership
there is no sensible white man in the
State who does not know that the negro
is the dominant influence in the Republi-
can party, and that when that party is
i'm power in North Carolina his influence
is ubiquitous and irrepressible, both in
the policy and in the manner of admins
tering the government. The experience
o, these two years of Republican con-
troll in North Carolina has conclusiyely
demonstrated the fact that If you put
four negroes to one white man in control
of the State, and forty negroes to one
white man in control of "A county, that
dency, which his numerical strength
gives, but will dominate with all the IL
science and brutality with which ignor-
ance must fortify itself when it under
takes to control and dominate intelli-
gence.
Is there q white man in this State fool
enough to believe that this generation of
white people are going to forget the les
son of these two dark and forbidding
years? If there is man in the State
who thinks THAT our white peOpe are
going back to negro rule within two
years after they have thrown it off, he is
indeed the fellow that the lool-kii"r is
hunting for, and If he does not find him
and dispatch him the world will be all
the worse for his failure.
IL vas ~ SS1iS NitNi pui hioe SAPSi'
ence before we forgot, and again Blended
the neck to the ignoble yoke of negro
rule. Our last experience was even more
bitter and the yoke more CALLING than the
first, and the past sad remembrance of
our humiliation will have to fade from
the minds of the white men and women
of this generation before that party can
hope if it remains under negro control to
again rule North Carolina.
The day Of negro control III the South
has passed, and passed forever, and it
may safely be asserted that no party
controlled by the negro will ever again
carry State south of Mason and Dix
ons line; and that the white men who
hereafter attempt to manipulate the
negro vote to further their mean and
selfish ambition, and to degrade their
race, will become daily and yearly more
and more odious I'M the eyes of self-res-
pecting white men and women.
Let Senator Pritchard and his Office
hold;nu narrouhilStS mt tIig in their