The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-31
THE AMENDMENT SAFE
It is Best For the Negro Who it In
dustrious and Thrifty.
NOTHING LEFT FOR NEGRO IN POLITICS
The Republicans DISTINGUISHED Him in the Con-
yenton, The Populist Propose an Amend
ment to Prevent His Holding Office.
and Democrats Disfranchise Him.
Norfolk Pilot virginian.)

Norfolk Pilot irginian)
Perhaps no man in North Car
DINA is better qualified to speak
authoritatively on the subject OF
the vote on the amendment next
Thursday than Mr. Josephus Daniels, Of
Raleigh, member of the National Demo-
cratic Committee, and one of the leaders
in State affairs. Mr.. Daniels has recent
ly given the subject Of white supremacy
and the negro in politics most care
full study at New Orleans and other
points He is in the closest touch with
Democratic leaders in all parts of North
Carolina, and thus, with his finger con-
stantly on the political pulse, the fol-
lowing article written by Mr.. Daniels
for this issue of The Virginian-P Pilot, will
be read with keen interest by the people
of the entire South, for the battle in
North Carolina is not isolated fight, of
only local Importance, but an important
battle in the general conflict for white
supremacy and freedom from negro
rule:
NO DOUBT OF THE RESULT.
There is no doubt about the result
in North Carolina next Thursday. The
Republican and Populist managers have
virtually given up electing their State
ticket or defeating the amendment, and
are concentrating all their efforts to car
ry the legislature.
cit is always dangerous to make pre-
dictions, but this year in North Carolina
it is not difficult to predict with accuracy
the result of next Thursdays election.
1 have been in correspondence with the
men who understand the situation in
every county in the State, and I hazard
nothing in making this statement:
''The majority for the Constitutional
amendment and for the Democratic State
ticket will not be less than 10000. 1t may
reach O,00O
Out of fifty State Senators the Demo-
Gratis will certainly elect thirty five. /
think they will elect forty-three.
Out of one hundred and twenty mem
bers of the House of Representatives,
the Democrats will certainly eelect
eighty three. l think it will be nearer
ninety-five.
Out of ninety-six counties the Demo-
Gratis will certainly carry seventy-five,
and / would not be surprised If they car
ried eighty.
THE PEOPLE AROUSED.
1.-THE people of the State are more
aroused than any outsider can UNDER
stand, but there has been no infraction
of the peace anywhere by Democrats.
They are standing for rights strictly
within the law, though in half a dozen
counties fusion toughs have been guilty
of incendiary talk and attempted intimi-
dation.
sThe red shirt organizations are COM
posed of peaceable, aw-abiding men
will do no violence and will permit
none.
WILL ELIMINATE THE NEGRO.
North Carolina on next Thursds- will,
in a constitutional and honest way, elm
mate the negro as factor in State pol
itics. 1t means better things for the
Commonwealth.
1.-THE pending amendment virtually
puts the suffrage back to where 1t was
in 1866, with this difference: All negroes
can vote If they show themselves quail
ified Tourgee and other Northern men
who helped enfranchise the negro now
see their mistake, and say they ought
to have opened the door of suffrage to
those negroes only who educated them
selves. The North Carolina amendment,
while reserving to every white man the
right to vote, rectifies the mistake and
crime of Reconstruction.
'In some counties the negroes are
taking no interest in the election so far
though Democrats are not unmindful
that the negro as O. voter loves to play
possum.' Some negroes say that they
care nothing about the result, for there
is nothing for them any way in North
Carolina politics. The Republicans dis
franchised them by refusing to elect
them as delegates to their conventions;
the Populists propose a constitutional
amendment declaring that no negro
shall hold office and the Democrats say
no negro shall vote unless he is educat-
ed. With these three alternatives, there
is nothing left to the negro in politics
but to take to the woods
BEST FOR THE NEGRO.
''The Democrats pitched their cam
paign on a high plane and have kept it
there. 1t has not been permitted to
degenerate into a campaign of prejudice
against the negro as negro. The elm
ination of the negro as voter is essen
tial to good government, and in the long
run it is best for the negro who is honest
and Industrious, as we'll as the white man.
1t puts the negro out of politics. There
Will HOI De cuOu6H VI IHeIH lett TO make
it to the interest of demagogues to appeal
to their votes. And that is great gain.
WILL RELOCATE BUTLER.
''The amendment will do more than
that; it will eliminate from politics the
fusion politician, the most 'pestiferous
cusses who have disgraced any State
in this decade. Posing as Populists,
- Senator Butler and handful of his
henchmen in every county have been
the tools and paid agents for the Repub-
lican party. They pretended to be Pop
ulists while Mark Hanna has paid every
dollar of their campaign expenses, in
Guiding printing and postage stamps.
Up to this year, by talking for Bryan
and working on the sly for the Republic
cans, these fusion politicians have been