The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-03-09
THE WARNING ~ THE EMO
CRATIC CHAIRMAN.

The vigilant and able democratic
chairman, Hon. F. NJ. Simmons, is one
too soon in sending out his warning to
the white democrats as to the plots of
reckless, heartless, incendiary leaders
of the republican and populist parties.
These rabid and senseless agitators
and plotters are playing with fire as
they will find if they ever start their
deviltry- That fellow Blackburn's
threat of assassination in his silly raw
ings at Newton, will react powerfully,
when considered in connection with the
vile threats of Chairman Holton, and
the incendiary and bravado displays
of Butler and Linney, all following the
well known ndu of Jeter Pritchard
in trying to bring down upon the
white people of North Carolina the
blue coats of the United States army
to intimidate and if need be, control
elections with bayonets. If there were
ever headless, soulless co~nspirators
they are these low fellows of the baser
sort-men who to keep their grip upon
office would set in motion a campaign
of blood throughout a state that prob
dDty nuILlDcIS 1youOpVOV IIIAdOllohlS.
Chairman Simmons very wisely and
uroTSrly the true men of the
white race to be on their watch. The
truth is they should be on their guard,
armed for conflict il it comes, and
ready for any appeal whether for peace
or violence. He points to the many eV-
licences of a plot for violence. II the
- -.~,nl- nnI lnu- ma
lures, consumed by a lust for pelf ana
an ambition to play the role OF dlcta-
TORS. dare to start a conflict then they
will find that they will be met by vio-
Ience in turn. If the negroes do not
desire to bring upon themselves great
roubles disasters they must keep
AWAY from the vile white skins VINO
xUould allure them TO their ruin. Ii
thew allow themselves to be used as
tools tn bring on trouble with the
whites it is not hard to ascertain who
will be the chief sufferers In the emu.
Do your voting but shun as you would
the devil himself all white
traitors who are simply using you TO
keep their offices or to obtain a 1resh
grip on the great swill-tub in Wasnlng-
ton The best friends of the negro race
are now and have always peer the
white men i'm the south of
Pint these men will not tolerate n
acts of violence on the part or negroes
without suppressing them WIN lhe
strong and mailed hand OF power. Inc
white men who mean to rule are not the
men to resort to any violence unless
forced to do so in the maintenance OF
their rights, the enforcement OF law
and the repression of evil n evil
doers. =.
Mr. T.. V. Cox, referred to at length
in another editorial, is a republican,
and we are quite sure by much odds
tho ablest and wisest of his party In
North Carolina, in his very convincing
and thoughtful communication on the
amendment, has some wise words 1of
the negroes. Remember they are the
words of a republican and not OF a
democrat. We copy at much length:
.Everv intelligent negro with a single
~nark of gratitude in his heart Tor an
the benefits that have been neapeo
mon his race by the white people, Ine
for the S thirty Yeas
and this 100 VI liz
49, naaro i'm politics has stubbornly
onnosed all the time the majority OF
Whites, must see in the final settle
ment of the suffrage question rs ehe oez
1;nnine of an era Of better reiatlons
sa4Waen the two races. In the heart
os svery southern white man there es-
o ssts the most kindly feeling for the ne
gro gro race. Emerging from t h;s 9 arope May
Sastroved. his home in ashes, MS fanny
dessIoyse. he at once begins to share
IN n;s d taTes with the children of his form,
err slaves and ever since from h hri | img
hard-earned money syga, has D of the e0,leane
asy.um and io erecting schools for their
Children esss aha giving them all the ady HaSe
les of a free school education that if
you ever thought, colored men men Applied
all the money w naid b nas white men to
the schools of both races had p 9eat
1ivan fo the white children alone that