The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-03
No NEGRO RULE
FOR WHITE MEN
The Republican, Party is -Four
Fifths Negro.
AND The NEGRO Is ON TOP
Negro Domination Follows Success Of
the Republican Party.
OLD TIME REPUBLICAN, LEADERS GONE
Twenty One Negro Justices in Warren County.
There Are Negro Postmaslers, Negro
Cons 'abIes, and Negro School
Committeeman.

SOi'"''tSS''S"'
Whether those men who hold to the
theory that all races are sprung from n
common origin are correct or not, it is
certain that there are racial differences
and antipathes based on the differences
between races. The Mongolian, the Indian
and the Negro are different in their
characteristics from the white man.
The negro has been the same that he is
now from the earliest period Of history.
| The Ethiopian has not changed his skin;
neither has he changed his characteris-
ties. He is on a different plane and level
intellectually and morally, from the white
man. Nature has taken account of the
fact, and by nature The lower organism
is repulsive to the higher. The negro is
repulsive to the white man. 1t is there
fore not a mere matter of prejudice when
the white man declares that negro domi-
nation is repulsive to him; but rather it
is an expression of antipathy fixed in the
heart of the white man by his very ma
ture itself
NEGRO RULE ODIOUS TO WHITE MEN.
To the white man negro rule is not
merely repulsve, but it is odious and OPP
prcssve. and cannot be borne.
1t is the domination of the superior
| race by an inferior race, and it is against
nature. White men cannot stand it,
| The Republican party is composed Of
| two distinct elemeuts--30. .068 white men
and 120 600 negroes. AS might be sup
posed the strongest and most numerous
element controls the weaker. The ne
groes control the Republican party, and
whenever that party rules the State, the
negro becomes the ruler. 1t is because
of these truths that the Republican party
in the Eastern counties has degenerated
merely into mass of negroes.
THE NEGRO HAS DRIVEN OUT WHITE
REPUBLICANS.
Formerly there were a considerable
number of white men in the Eastern
counties VINO affiliated with the Republi-
can party But they could not stand the
rule of their negro political associates,
and so they have, for the most part.
dropped away from the party, leaving it
composed almost exclusively Of negroes.
With but few exceptions, the white men
who continue to offliate with the ne
groes in the East, belong to the office
holding class, and remain with the ne
groes in order to obtain office.
Mr.. E. V. Cox, who is a Republican,
living in Pitt county, in an open letter
has recently said:
THE Republican party so far as North
Carolina is concerned is divided into two
distinct and separate parts: West and
East and Black belts. The average
Western North Carolina Republican. and
in this respect | am sorry to say Senator
Pritchard seems but little better inform
ed than the average, but lily and incom-
pletely comprehends the situation in
Eastern North Carolina. where the ne
groes, ignorant and insolent, are entirely
in control of all Republican conventions
and where every effort to better the con-
dition of affairs is counteracted by the
| opposition of some black-hearted white
| man with corrupt practices who sees in
| added intelligence and reputable work q
diminution Of his own unscrupulously ac-
| quired power. Although the Republican
party has an excellent plan of organiza-
| tion it is scarcely ever followed on ac-
| count OF the ignorance and corruption of
| the negro politicians, who being numeri
| cally stronger, preside over white men,
| call them to order at will and occasionally
| consent for them to be elected delegates
| 10 SIale ftepuDllcdu CONVENTION. ne
white Republican if honest, is entirely
| at the mercy and under their control; if
| corrupt he must purchase their votes and
influence. This is not an overdrawn pic
| ture.
In concluding this part of my paper,
| let me say last word as to the situa-
tion in Eastern North Carolina. If the
Amendment is defeated by the people at
| the polls in August, in the future there
| will or may be white Republicans in
| Western North Carolina and negro Re-
| publicans alone in Eastern North Caro-
| lima The carpet-bagger. the kuklux
abuse persecution. all these could not
drive the white Republicans in Eeastern
| North Carolina from his party. Many
| chose death instead. But what the ku-
| kluX and the carpet Dagger could not DO,
| the logic and force of events is doing
| l will give one example which do not
doubt may be paraleled in majority OF
| the counties in North Carolina east of
| Raleigh In this county, Pitt, in the
| SOS there were several hundred white
| Republicans. There cannot be twenty
| five counted now No party can hope
to succeed for any length of time under
| these conditinons.
What Mr. Cox says of Pitt. he AYERS
to be true of other Eastern counties, and
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