The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-08-10
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESID~
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
ADIAI E. STEVE NSON


from Boston 10 ST. Louis are OF the
same tone and ~color-brassy and black.
They neither represent facts o draw
right conclusions. The republican
party long ago showed it's hand in re-
gard to the disqualification of the ne
gro as a voter. LOO at the District OF
Columbia in which the federal capital
is situate-WashingtOn City. The re-
publicans tried negro suffrage in the
District for some years in local and mu-
nicipal affairs. The result was that the
congress took from the negroes this
privilege and because of their ignor-
ance, i~ncapacity and corruption. In
Hawaii the natives were deprived or
the ballot when that country was re-
-ceived into the American union. Some
five or six thousand whites do the vot-
ing for perhaps 100000 yellows and
blacks. The republicans in the north
did it. Then on the other hand see Nc
Kinley's administration making a
deal with a Malay so-calleG emperor,
paying him a salary as 4 United States
official, and he a regular polygamlst
of the worst kind with perhaps an hum
dred wives in his harem. Then these
dirty editors and demagogues have the
unmitigated ~i1npudence to howl because
North Carolina adopts an amendment
tina temporarily DISTINGUISHES $4,000 ne
gro voters, who can qualify themselves
to vote in two years if they have a
mind to do this.
North Carolina has adopted just such
tests as northern states have adopted.
The New York World with aptness
says:
eff North Cardinals Rec Shirt cam
paign succeeds the suffrage in that
state will be restricted by an education
al test and a poll tax qualification.
And tina will put democratic North
Carolina on exactly the same footing as
republican Massachusetts,"
The World should understand that
the Red Shirt display was limited to
a small section of the state. We doubt
if there were really 5000 in all the 3d.
600 voters. What there was of them
served an excellent p 1t made
turbulent fusion fellows behave them
selves. They served as a good police
for they did not fire a gun or begin any
disturbance, but awed into decent be-
havior some of Buffers threatening
and violent mobs.
in the north neither
study geography nor try to compre-
bend local situations in the south They
mass all of their supposed figures
facts, and then making a man of straw
proceed to knock him into a k
hat" One of the most respectable of
these unfair gan said there was no
excuse for the movement against the
negroes in North Carolina because the
whites were two to one. If the Evening
Post had informed itself as was its duty
to do before beginning its attack upon
the North Carolina democrats, 1T would
have known that in some twenty or
more counties in this state the negroes
were either numerically stronger than
the whites, or uniting with riff-raff rad
ical whites could control matters polit-
ically, etc. Chairman Simmons says
there are fifteen counties in which the
negroes outnumber the whites. The
Evening Post is both ignorant of facts
and unfair in comment. 1t was the fu-
sion of $4,000 or more white radicals
with 40, 900 populist and controlling 1OO.-
900 or more negro voters that put North
Carolina PROSTATE under the iron heels
of the tramplers and victors.
The Evening Post should study North
Carolina politics for the last six years
before it attempts to d%enOunce the An
glo-Saxons for combining to preserve
civilization, insure good government,
restore the reign of law, protect the
tax-payers and burden-bearers from
the rdvages and expressions OF ignor-
ance. folly and greed. Let it under
stand that the white men pay SO 2-5ths
of the taxes while the negroes pay but
3 5-5ths. In its eyes it may be right
eous and wise for the handful to heep
curses and ruin upon the nation build
ers. As a result OF the election in 1896,
n of the appointments to office by
the legislature and the republican ex-
ecutive and federal government, Chair
man Simmons states, a thousand ne
groes became office holders in the state,
three hundred neg magistrates were
elected, and twenty-seven negro post
masters were appointed. A negro was
made collector Of customs at Whining
ton. and many counties elected negro
officers. In the eastern cities there
Were negro aldermen, policemen. health
officers, constables. deputy sheriffs. and
negro school commissioners in charge
of white as well Is negro school teach
-ers- An obnoxious negro became the
ruling member OF the board OF trustees
of the blind institution for whites
There is a class OF newspapers, some
of which like the able and reputable
baltimore Sun, vigorously opposed MI.