The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
THE PASSING or THE NEGRO IN POLITICS.
WHITE MEN WILL RULE.


white man In any part Of this state.
Iris was the rreyotabe decree Of
November 8, 1898. For this reason the
Republican party can never hope 10 re-
gain control in North Carolina 50 long
d. 1t continues under present Influences,
FOR 1t Is manifest that SO long as it So
continues negro domination III certain
parts OF tile State win inevitably fjiloW
its success, and the influence Of the negro
ia politics will 0f necessity be exerted
and felt in every part Of the State. ~
is futile for Republicans to longer deny
that their party IN North Carolina, -
controlled by the negro and that govern
ment by 1t is necessarily government uh-
der negro influence.
There are but few white HepubheaIs
in North Carolina compared WIN inc
number Of negroes tliat constitute Ihe
voting strength of that party. IN the
state at large for every white HepuDll-
can voter there are -FOUR negroes who
vote the ticket for that party In the
eastern part of the state the dlspr0poF-
ton between white and black Hep1bii-
can voters is infinitely greater. IN IRA
ven county for instance, there are con
sidprably over 1000 Republican voters,
and of these not more than FIFTY are
white men.
In Haifux. in Northampton, IN War
rem and new Hanover counties, AMI III
a great many other eustern counties
which might be named, tie proportion
III black Republican 10 white Kepubli-
can voters IL Us great as it is in Craven
county.
In 1895 aud 1897 the Republican party,
which had not been i'm 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 Populists to believe that Iu-
sion with it nd 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 -
i'm power in North Carolina his influence
is ubiquitous and irTepressible, both N
the policy and in the manner of admins
tering the government. The experience
On these two years of Republican con-
trol 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 nan in control of county, that
the negro viii not only claim the ascen-
dency, which his numerical strength
gives, but will dominate with all the NJ
science and brutality with which ignor-
ance must fortify itself when it under
takes to control and dominate ntelli-
gence.
is there a 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 pc0pe are
going back to negro rule within two
years after they have thrown it off, he is
indeed the fellow that the fool kii"r Is
hunting for. and il he does not find him
and dispatch him the world will be all
the worse for his failure
1T was % years after our first expert
cnce 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 ills generation before that party can
hope if it remains under negro control to
again rule North Carolina.
The day of negro control in 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
on's 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 aud yearly more
and more odious i'm the eyes of self-res-
pecting white men and women.
Let Senator Pritchard and his Office
holding negrophilists put this in their
pipes and smoke it.
The white people of the State are
seeking and honestly seeking by the pro-
posed amendment to settle this irritating
and troublesome race question: and re-
move this ever recurring and fostering
sore from the body polite.
Senator Pritchard and his office
holding crowd say we shall not so set
tie IT, because, forsooth, they want the
negro vote to keep them in office, and
to give them influence in the national
conventions of their party. Well, we
are going to settle it and in this way
whether the white Republican office
holders give their consent or not. This
is the best way, for all concerned, to
settle it, and settled it must be one
way or another. If we can't settle it
this way. we viii have to settle it in n
way. perhaps, worse for the negro, for
we repeat that settled, and SETTLED
FOREVER it MUST be. This is the
decree not only of the white people of
the State, hut of the whole South, and it
is decree as memorable as fate itself.
A vote cast against the amendment
will be VOTE CAST TO CONTINUE
THE NEGRO AS A VOTER and if
that vote be cast by a WHITE MAN.
TT WILL BE THE MOST DISTINCT
WE VOTE ANY WHITE MAN IN
NORTH CAROLINA HAS EVER
CAST AGAINST HIS RACE: it will
be distinctive vote for THE NEGRO,
,stinctive vote against the WHITE
MAN; it will be declaration ON his part
that he thinks the negro is as good as
the white man; it will be a protest on his
part against the white mans having
anything that the negro does not have;
it will be vote for the continuance Of
race trouble and conflict and clash. and
finally it will be vote which cannot nos