The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-01-30
THR PoPULIs ADDRESS,

Populisr 6 tate ommietee Outlines Policy
For az Members Of The Party to Pur.
sue Il
Toe address issued by the Populls
5raIe OJmmlCtee aE It's meeting last
VET K is as follows:
Toe committee of the
Peoples party If Norm Caroline, Will
holding TO tn PRINCIPLES heretofore de
be dere,icE IN it's duty If it should ia /
60 give q note of warning to the people
or the new % ues raised by the action
of Ih9 last Legislature. The eleCCIoD
law enacted by that body ig intensely
psrtisana d 70 open to fraud and o
Fuption that all homes mn Who love
| ,berty may we'll view iG with alarm
The proposed constitutional amen, -
ment, eve i the courts slould sustaI'
1t, would degrade the poor, uneducateO
WhiCe men who become Of age after
1908 below the educated negro, II
@uuId even degrade him below the un
educated free negro who should be.
come OF age prior TO 1908 But no IN
biased man who bRs education sufhT
Gent to pass his examination before
the ell Ction boards for regi-trstIon who
will take the CT, uole I o read for him
self can doubt that the firth section Of
the proposed amendment, known az
he ''grandtater" clause. ia IN direct
violation OF the fifteenth amend men
TO the constitution of the United
S5a'es.
No lawyer whose pride of reputation
as q jurist has not been BUNDLED by
bis ambition for political preferment
has ever said, or can eve say, that thIs
1fTn or grandfather clause will stsnd
the test in the courts -7
We warn the white people that this
amendment will dIsfrspchise spproxl-
m4tely as many white men as it will
negroes IN this S ate, and leave the ne
gro still a factor IN politics, with a.
much power as he n w has.
We warn the uneoucated white men
Doth old and young, that this amend
ment viii deprive them OF the right to
vote and degrade them politically be
low the educated negro.
This has al way 8 been a white mani
government, aud sIW 4ys will be, There
are two white voters TO one cOlOrtd
vo'er, hence the State is in no danger
of negro supremacy. And Elm e our
present 8 Ipreme Jourt has decided toat
the Legislature may pass SUCH la Ws for
eRch county "a m ~ be necessary for
its proper government, no eastern
county need fear negro rule
Tue real question presented in the
amendment Ia whether or not all tn
white clt'zans cha l participate in cleo
tIons, Or whether the uneducstpd
whites shall be forced to stand aside on
the dav of election along with the US
educated negroes. like convicted crini
nails, while Ihe educated negroes walk
up to the polls and vote.
This amendment, It adopted, w uld
end popular government In this State
1t would turn the hces owe to a Sc
lect few. who would not feel bound TO
respect the rights of the common peo-
pie, because the &C mmon people would
not be able 10 enforce respect at the
box It would build up a ruling
which, in time, would become
more naughty and tvrannical than the
Gear OF all the RlAsias
Since the issues in the coming State
are above all party cons'dera
tiOns, they should be considered from
the highest plane of patriotism and
self projection 1t therefore behooves
all political parties IA we'll ss indIvId
uels to lay aaide all partisan feelings
and join themselves together for the
purpose of defeating the most danger
Ous prop 0sitton ever made TO the people
Of North Carolina. /