The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-08
RADICAL SOLICITUDE FOR THE
UNEDUCATED WHITE
MEN.

POpullSt county convention was MS
solicitude for the uneducated white
man. In fact this has been a charac-
teristic of the anti-Amendment or
Negro Rule campaign all along. But
Ter and Holton and Abe Middleton
and the rest of their ill assume to be
the special guardian of 1.-The pore
white man." to protect him from the
great white Democratic party of the
State. Before doing this, however,
would it not have been well for them
to take the trouble to obtain letters
of guardianship? Having failed to do
this they are in the position of some
officious fellow who undertakes the
guardianship of some child in his
community in utter disregard OF the
law, which requires that he shall have
some legal sanction for his action.
They ought at least to have consulted
the friends and relatives of the UNI
educated white man before assuming
his guardianship.
If they had made due inquiry they
would have found that.the uncducat
ed white man who has been voting
the Democratic ticket, constitutes part
ard parcel of the people who have
been maintaining good government III
North Carolina for the last thirty-tive
years or more, and that they have d.
rect and positive interest in the well
fare of every white man In North
Carolina. and that they have always
protected and defended the interest
of the white man. 1t is positively lu-
dicrous that Holton, Butler and
their associates, dependent as they
have always been upon the $4,000 ne
gro voters of the State, whom they
have humored and caressed in order
that they might govern North Caro-
lima, to the extent of giving the negro
official position and placing him over
white men. should now assume to
speak for and protect any portion OF
the white people of North Carolina.
The proposition needs only to be
stated to provoke the laughter of peo-
pie of sense. What interest has these
demagogues and their associates in the
white people of North Carolina, eX-
cept to endeavor to mislead them ID
order that we may have recurrence
of the horrors of Republican rule
which have marked every period of our
States history in which the Republic
cans have been in power? The croco-
die tears they are now shedding over
the itliterate white man assume
rather a strange appearance when
contrasted with the absolute failure of
the Republican party when 1T was IN
power i'm 1S6S-69, to educate the white
children of North Carolina. 1t is
piece of history which they would do
well to remember just now, that in
stead of doing something to educate
this lliterate white voter they took
the school fund and paid themselves
81 day for their valuable services
as legislators, while they were pass
ing legislation which plunged the
State SO deeply in debt that its pay
ment would have taxed the resources
of our people for generations to come.
How solicitous they were of the
rights of the white man and of his
sense of propriety when they elevated
George White to be Congressman and
to represent all the good people of the
Second district, educated and ~unedu-
Gated, How tender they were of the
illiterate white man in Eastern North
Carolina when they elected negro con-
stables and policemen to arrest him,
and negro magistrates to try him, and
when they placed on boards of educa-
ton negro school commissioners to
participate in the management of
those schools in which the illiterate
white man must educate his children!
We suggest that Mr.. Butler and his
negro allies who are cooperating with
him, to try another dodge, as this Is too
transparency humorous to impose on
even the most ignorant of his hear
ers yesterday.