The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-06-01

the Property and Educational Oualifca-
ton IN the 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. At
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 government they
would disfranchise them. The DEM
ocrats got the State government and
did not disfranchise them. Then they
told them If the Democrats elected
President they would disfranchise
them. The Democrats elected Presi-
dent and did not disfranchlse them.
Then they told them if the Democrats
got control of Congress they would
disfrarchise them. The Democrats
got control of Congress and did not
disfranchise them. All along the
honest white men of the State laughed
at 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
be frightened by their rot any longer.
So the old Republican scare-crow had
to be hauled down and put away.
"Now these same old demagogues,
aided by a few eating and pie.
hunting Populists who used to laugh
at this fraud upon the negro,> have
again brought out the old Republi.
can scare-crow of disfranchisement
but, strange to say, they are now
using it in an attempt to try and
frighten, not the ignorant negro, bu,
the poor and uneducated white men
of the State. But these willy schem.
ers will be disappointed. They viii
find 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 hare
sense of the white race, and they
will find that they are not to be fool
ed, by a bugaboo. There is not .
white man in North Carolina WIZ
will be frightened by this old Repub
lican negro bugaboo, and they vii
by their votes teach these fellow
who are presuming upon their igno
, rance that their intelligence is not t
be thus trifleo with and insulted will
impunity They know the Democrati
party was the party that removes
: the property and educational dis
: qualifications to suffrage in Nortl
Carolina. They know that the Dem
: ocratic party has always stood 70
manhood suffrage, and they kno,
that the Democratic party will never
under any circumstances under tn
. 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 i
any way diminish or lessen that erea
privilege. They know that the DEN
: ocratic party is composed largely 9
poor and uneducated men, and this
. it looks to this honorable class of on
citizenship for its support, and tbs
1t will in turn protect them in q
their rights of cit zenship; and guar
them, their wives and their childre
in their homes, their reputation an
= their virtue.
':It must be remembered it is tE
70 Republicans who are circulating tn
y silly story about the Democrat
p p Even the Populist wing of that part
= denounced the story as absurd. 4
Is barren of truth about some thin,
y as the Hand Book recently issued /
:, DR.. Thompson and Hal Aver. 1t
20 frank enough to admit that there
no truth in the Republican clam
about the Democrats disfranchisiI
the negro, much less any white ma
Is and that the history Of the pa
Ga twenty odd years of Democratic RI
in North Carolina proves tho nit