The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-19

say that a Mckinley negro pos tmaSIer is
as good ais a Butler negro State official,
! and says he may vote for Mckinley as
protest if the negro ques ~ is thus in
jected into the national - 6JxS:. a
! matter of fact, however, 60On
uously opposed to introducing ~
question into the State campaign as ~
now is to having it raised in the national
! campaign. On Wednesday, April 25th,
! 19OO he said
THE campaign has scarcely begun, and
| this much of gall and of hate has frothed
| to the surface. There is no room in North
| Carolina for such feeling as this. We
! have issues, let us discuss them. We
: have sowed dragons teeth of hatred
! enough for a hundred years of reaping.
The people want not good haters, not
loud takers, not wild fighters, but men
CT common sense and honesty. They long
to hear men discuss principles not per-
SONS, for men who Will offer them hope
of betterment, nobler laws, more econo-
mic government, a more righteous public
life. The campaign is young; it is not too
late for right minded, high minded men
IL
and moral grounds"
He also virtually says that the negro
question will not he eliminated until the
amendment goes into effect thus an
swering his present contention that the
election of August 2nd, ended the negro
question. On October Goth, 1899, he said
80 long as the negro is a citizen,
North Carolina will not make much prog
ress. North Carolina can never be as
sured of making political progress until
the milestone of 1OO,O 900 negro voters is
loosed from her neck
The negro will be citizen and voter
until 1902, and according to editor Bailey
the "mill-stone" cannot be 'loosed from
her neck till then. And yet he intimates
that he will vote for Mckinley "as pro-
test" against the negro question in 1900
when he said it could not be ended until
the 100, 900 negroes were denied the right
to vote. Is it because of raising the ne
gro question or because he advocates i'm
perialsm, trusts, the gold standard and
money rule that he threatens to vote for
Mckinley?
On the 23rd of November, 1898 he said:
mo. the race problem is not disposed OF.
1t will bring applause to say SO in a
speech, if you say it right; but two un-
assimilable races are still trying to oc-
cupy one land. AND so LONG AS THEY
SHALL, so LONG SHALL THE PROB
LEM LOOM UP HIDEOUS." Bailey. crit
cizes the News and Observer for saying
negro postmaster two years before the
amendment goes into effect, and yet he
declares that so long as both races live
here so long shall the problem loom up
hideous." We had hoped to be relieved
of the most aggravated form of it after
1902. but Mr.. Bailey threatens us with
it as a live question as long as both
races live here!
REPUBLICAN TEACHINGS.
We could fill a whole page with ex-
tracts from the Biblical Recorder show
ing that Bailey has used the columns of
that paper to INCULCATE THE PRIN-
CIPLES OF THE NATIONAL REPUB-
| LICAN PARTY. In addition to the eX-
! tracts establishing our four specific
charges, we will make few other ex-
| tracts.
In the issue of October 26th, writing of
what would follow the disfranchisement
of the negro Git does not go into effect
until 1902 he clearly shows his Republi
can predictions:
THE Democrats could once more ad-
dress themselves to the principles of their
great ideal; the Populists could agitate
| the reform measures for which their
party was called into being, without be-
ing reproached with driving the white
people to the advancement of negroes;
the Republicans could uphold The princi-
pies which have given their party great
glory in all our land except the South,
| principles which many men in North
| Carolina would be glad to uphold if to
| do so did not require them to align
themselves with the negroes"
Mark You! The Republicans could cup
hold their principles which have given
their party GREAT GLORY" Not glory
but GREAT GLORY" In what does that
glory consist? From the days of Grant
until today the Republican policy has
been devoted to making the few rich at
the expense of the many, and its record
has been marked by disregard of the Con-
stitution, scandals, sectionalism and ha-
tired of the South. Many good men have
belonged to that party, but it has been
chiefly dominated by men who have used
it as Rathbone and Neeley. Huntington
and Hanna, Dorsey and Steve Elkins
have employed it, to-wit, to improve
their private fortunes. Note also the
prediction-the wish is father to the
thought"-that there are many men in
North Carolina who would be glad to joir
the party" that has shed glory every
where except in the South There are men
in the South who believe with the Repub-
licans on economic questions, but until
those fatal words EXCEPT THE
! SOUTH" are blotted out of the record o.
the Republican party, they will not dis