The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
NEGRO RULE is
STILL AN ISSUE
Continued from First Page.)

there; Ransom was there; Arthur Pue
Gonman was there. the peerless leader of
the hour. One Democratic statesman de-
clared that he would willingly die to save
his people from the effects of that bill.
Senator Teller, then a Republican, de-
clared that, in his deliberate opinion,
more infamous measure never crossed the
threshold of the Senate. Yet Infamous or
otherwise, it was the measure for which
William Mckinley gave his voice, his in
fluence and his vote. The New York Sun,
now bitter Republican mouthpiece, said
two years later Better vote for liber-
ty and white supremacy in the Southern
States, even If the candidate were the
devil himself, than to vote for respectable
Ben Harrison with a force bill in his
pocket" According to his own organ,
William Mckinley did vote against liberty
and white supremacy in the Southern
States. At last by the help of Teller and
other Republican Senators and Northern
men, who though they were Republican
Senators, and Northern men, loved their
country and the whole country, the bill
was defeated and the Southern States
escaped the dire calamity that threatened
them. Since then some North Carolinians
have been beard to sheer at Teller and
praise McKinley-the more shame to
them The force bill was killed; but kill
ed without the consent and against the
will OF Mckinley. And we have always
understood that men are responsible not
only for the evil that they did, but also
fer the evil that they meant to do. Per-
haps it may be best from a standpoint OF
policy to curry favor with the Mighty One
AT no rI1roc O11r n
his wrath, and that some crumbs of Fed
eral patronage may fall to North Carolina
from the great mans table. However,
the dwellers in this State have never been
a timid people, bowling before the storm.
They have never learned to-
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
That thrift may follow fawning.''
PUT NEGROES IN OFFICE.
The charge is that William Mckinley
has been friend to the Southern black
man and the enemy of the Southern white
man. Does the allegation fit the proof?
The Democratic party of North Carolina
opposes William Mckinley because in the
South he has PUT NEGROES IN OF
FICE.
They have right to oppose him for
reason why they do oppose him. On The
other hand they accord the Mckinley
sympathizers and the Mckinley supporters
the sane liberty The latter have right
to SUPPORT him because he did put ne
groes in office in the South and to assign
that as the reason why they do support
him.
He made John Dancy collector of the
port of Wilmington.
In North Carolina. he appointed in all
twenty-seven negro postmasters.
The white people of North Carolina do
not like to see their post Offices filled by
negroes. Call it prejudice if you will
Nevertheless it is a fact. The post Office
plays an Important part in every town,
village and community. Nearly every cltl-
zen must visit it,
Frequently ladies must go there. Whlte
people are averse to transacting their
business with negro officials. Mckinley
showed his contempt for public sentiment
among the white men of the South by
forcing them to do so. Had he appointed
twenty-seven negro Dostmasters in the
State of Ohio the negro wculd have been
an issue in that State in this campaign,
and that too, with vengeance. If he had
at Akron, Judging by recent developments,
Garth would soon have counted one post
master less.
AN INSULT TO THE SOUTH.
The President offered to the white men
and women of North Carolina an insult
which he would not have dared to offer
the white men and women OF OHIO. FCrth-
ermore, quite a number of those Africans
who entered the service of their country
here, in the capacity before mentioned,
were thieves. Several of them are now
enjoying the hospitality of the jails and
penftentiaries The inhabitants of those
places where roguish colored officials
were in charge Of the post office had
new element of excitement added to their
lives.
They never knew VIXEN they mailed n
check or registered valuable package
whether or not the contents would reach
their destination.
They also faced the pleasant probability
that their private and confidential CORE
spondence would be cDened ana read by
some son of Ham, who cwed his appoint
ment to William Mckinley. Strangely
enough those inhabitants objected to he
ing robbed; and they Amurmured against
the "full dinner pail" They had not
heard from the Mckinley supporters and
the Mckinley sympathizers, nor from
those gentlemen who in the interest of
peace and harmony have announced per-
emptorily that the negro must not be an
issue in this campaign. Would it not be
an absurdity for the Democratic party to
make fight in August against negro Of
flee holding and remain silent upon the
subject Immediately thereafter when the
Republicans are running for President a
candidate who filed the South with ne
gro office holders? The Democratic party
of North Carolina condemns William Nc
Kinley because he placed in high positions
of trust negro thieves. And they have a
right to condemn him on that ground, and
to say to all the world that 1T is on that
ground that they do condemn him. If the
time ever comes VIXEN they are ashamed
or afraid to raise their voices against the
employment of dishonest and incompetent
men in the public service, their organiza-
ton deserves to die On the other hand,
all who will may take the opposite view.
They can support Mckinley because he
placed negro thieves in office. and they