Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-03-01
POLITICAL EVENTS.
The Amendment the Great Issue With
All People.
Especial Raleigh Correspondence ]

tSpocial RaleIgn Correspondence
Mr. Bryan visit TO the State was
The political event Of the week. He
discussed only national issues and
made no allusion to State politics,
which naturally absorb practically the
entire attention of the public in this
State and will continue to do SO until
he August election is over and that
most vital Of issues, the constitutional
amendment, decided by the people at
the polls.
There IS d reSolute putting behind Of
r,ace hunting, office seeking of every
Kind, until the amendment is out Of
he way. A Democra. who travels
much and who always observes says
hat no matter where he goes the peo-
pie never speak of candidates, but al
ways Of the amendment; that all per
scnal matters are put aside.
E.y-G0yerr~ Tn,-;c uas, here ilain
week ana said that he did not see how
The amendment could possibly be de-
feated. The Republicans are working
Doth openly and secretly. They will
spend money like water to defeat K.
II the spent, as they did, 100000, 20
AIRY North Carolina in 1896, they will
spend even more now, for they know
hat with the negro out of the way
hey are nothing. He is their life and
soul. They seek to put him il the
Jack ground now, but if they win he
will bye and bye be more prominent
han ever, and this the Democrats
inOW very we'll.
A Second district Democrat, who
lives in the heart Of that black belt.
says the people in the eastern part Of
the State must know that the amend
nent simply must be carried. 1t will
relieve what has been an ever present
menace Of 80 years and more.
George n. White, the negro Con-
5ressman from the Second district.
whose speeches in which he attacked
he character Of white women, have
made him the most hated negro in all
he State, went to GOldsbOro a few
lays ago, intending 10 stop there; he
vas told to move on, that ne was not
wanted. He moved.
At New Bern. there are yet negro
magistrates, relics of the fusion rule.
whose terms have not expired. Last
week a couple Of negroes who were
lOng work under contract and who
tailed TO keep their contract, secured
warrants for the white man for whom
hey were working. charging him with
keeping money belonging to them, and
hey had those warrants returnabe be
fore negro magistrate for the avowed
purpose of humiiating the white man.
\ committee called on the magistrate
and gave him notice in a quiet but
firm way that he must not hear tte
case; that If he did it would be at MS
own peril. He did not hear it. nor id
the negroes who brought the suit make
/; their appearance.
Wilmington led IN white supremacy
work in 1895 and in most practical
Hay. The white men of that city have
sent State Chairman Simmons 1922,
raised in three hours by two gentle
men. He is delighted to receive this
contribution for the campaign funG.
It shows the intense interest OF the
Wilmington people in the amendment
issue 1t is we'll known that the Dem
ocratic campaign expenses this year
will be heavy. and the chairman must
depend upon the contributions from
the people in exactly this way, TO meet
. he requirements The Repu blican,
VIII gel money II all SOItS OA N6a =
they have an army Of Office holders.
all working like beavers and ali ready
TO contribute. and besides this mone5-
will roll in from the national commit
sc. as they intend 70 make North Ca--
0lina a battle ground
Some time ago your corres ponden-
vas assured by J c. L. Harris. one of
Governor Russell's most trusted al
y!sers. taat the governor did not BE-
leve the amendment would De defeat
Cd. The governor now goes bowsno-
further and says and political par.E
, which set, itsel on record as against
the amendment make 4 mistake. The
governor is therefore out OF Inc with
Senator Pritchard Chairman Holt and
the other lighrS Of his party He Is
also out Of line with Senator Butler,
wlo has been III the pas; Ills most
trusted adviser TIE governor know
better than ..ther Of me Senator's ;La
temper Of the people as 20 the matter.