The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-14

He is Republican. Tnat ought 10 De
enough.
What has the Republican party in all
its history done for North Carolina?
In State politics it has given us recon-
struction scandals and thievery; it is the
author of negro Acknowledgement and the
temporary acknowledgements of many of
the best white men, including such North
Carolinians as Vance; it gave us negro
rule in Eastern Carolina until the white
people in desperation have twice risen
and by revolutionary methods recaptured
their brthright of self government.
Those who forced these conditions and
made the revolutionary methods neces-
sary are responsible for the race troubles
for the less of time and money incident
to long and tedious campaigns, and for
the inability of the people of the State
to, consider any other problem of civili-
cation and development except as second
airy ito the negro question. Who are di-
rectly responsible for all this trouble?
white men who have led the negroes in
solid phalanx against the bulk of their
white neighbors and friends for the past
thirty, years. And who are these white
leaders? Chiefly appointees and agents
of the various Republican administrations
at Washington.
No. administration has been worse in
this regard than McKinley's. Mckinley
and Mark Hanna, or rather Mark Hanna
and Mckinley, were the real leaders
against the white people of North Caro-
lima in their recent struggle for white
supremacy. They are responsible not
only for the twenty-seven negro postmas-
tiers they appointed, and Colonel James
Young" as conspicuous boss in the
Raleigh revenue office at our capital city,
resentative CT the United States govern
ment in the metropolis of North Carolina.
They are responsible not only for these
and various other negro officials, set over
the white people of Eastern North Caro-
lima, but, what is as bad, or some say
even worse, they are respon-
appointed to Federal offices in every
county, who, by political association with
the negroes and by leading them against
their best white friends have kept the
Republican party alive to vex the best
people of the State AMI to hinder their
progress in every direction.
Let not the record of Mckinley and the
Republican party on the Force Bill be for
gotten. The adoption of this measure
would have put Federal bayonets at every
ballot box where the Republicans could
have hoped to intimidate the white Dem
ocrats of the South and thus put our
people more hopelessly in the power of
the negro than they have ever been.
And yet some of those who are open
or secret enemies of Bryan and Steven
son, and who ridicule the Democratic
platform, and who are giving to McKin-
ley all the support they dare give openly.
do not want these facts referred to. They
say that the negro is not am issue in the
National campaign. Let it be so. But
if the negro and negro office holding is
not an issue, Mckinley and the Repub-
hcan party, responsible for negro rule
and the troubles incident thereto, are is
sues, and there is no good reason why
men who fought like tigers against this
negro rule in August in two months
thereafter should give their support to
the typical candidate and representative
of that party, which whatever has been
it's virtues has never been the friend or
well wisher of the Southern people.
No, the negro is not an issue. But the
record of that small army of Federal Of
holders who led and used the negro
to humiliate the white people is an is
sue, and Mckinley, whose chosen repre-
sentatives these men we're and are, is an
issue.
The people of North Carolina are not
going to support a man who has been