The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-06-28

caption. suggests the best reply | have
Yet heard to one of the pet queries of
some OF the anti-amendment howlers
Unable to mislead even the most ignor-
ant white man longer, by 'insnuating'
that he light lose his vote along with
that OF the negro he disfranchises. some
OF them have been exclaiming with much
gusto:
But how about your boy?"
OF course. everybody knows that every
boy will have eight long years after the
amendment is adopted to learn to read
and write; that good schools are to be
provided, better than We have ever had.
and that the white boys will learn to
read and write by the time they become
twenty one-and you know YOUR boy
Will. But as the Netcs and Observer sug-
gests:
How about your little grl?
Aye, that is the question. Win she be
safe from the attacks OF the devilish black
brutes who now make the country girls
and women OF large and numerous sec
lions OF our State afraid to walk half
mile to 81 neighbours house along the pub
lie road?
Depends largely, gentlemen, whether
you vote for and adopt this proposed
amendment.
Defeat it. and the negroes OF Virginia.
South Carolina and Georgia. and the other
Southern States. where they have been
or this year will be eliminated as political
factors. will flock to North Carolina in
great numbers, and the danger of negro
domination and insolence and rapine has
never been SO great here as it would,
under these circumstances. become in a
very few years.
And don't be content to think YOUR
vote will not be needed; it will, and you
will not have done your duty by that
little girl and her mother until You see
your ballot dropped into the ballot-boN.
MINOR MENTION
W. W. Hyams. who has been appoint
ed. 10y senator Pritchard, cadet at
West Point Military Academy from the
State-at-large, is understood to be a
nephew of the Senator.
The delegates from North Carolina to
the Democratic National Convention will
go in a special through buffet car, which
will leave Raleigh next Sunday at $50
p. H., via the Southern Railway, thence
to Greensboro, Salisbury and Asheville to
Memphis to Kansas City, reaching the
latter city early Tuesday morning, where
quarters have been secured at the Coates
House
Leading Democrats here are now say
ing (since the nomination of ROosevelD
that David B. Hill is the man to name
for Vice President. 1t is more than prob
able that as New York goes so will the
country. Hill may be able to save the
country to the Democrats.
Commissioner Patterson states that
the increase i'll cotton acreage in North
Carolina this year will not be Is per
cent, as published, but only 10 per cent.
The Populist campaign opens next
Wednesday with Cy. Thompson at Con
cord.
President Alderman will not leave
North Carolina for Tulane University,
New Orleans, until October, he states.
He is now in Wilmington.
1t is stated that the New York ''teXtile
workers. organization has demanded a
1O-hour. day everywhere. But as the
''union,' has not been very successful in
''organizing' mill hands in North Caro-
lima this demand or order will not cut
much OF figure in this State The ope-
ratives themselves generally prefer to
work longer hours for more pay, | hear.
Work on the new hospital building at
the Soldiers Home here has begun at
last.
President Winston last week went to
Washington and Philadelphia where he
hopes to secure two new instructors.
viz, one Oo be detailed by the govern
menD in Military Tactics, and one for the
Textile Department.
1t is said there will be three aspirants
for National Committeeman: Major f.
J. Hale. Josephus Daniels, John ID. Bel
lamy.
The registration books open next
Thursday. June 2Sth, remember, and
close at sunset July Dist. and everybody
must register anew. ILFW NAM