The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-19
Committee.

MAIN OAM EhON,
+. l.. BUNDY,
Committee.
The Fusion bosses and negroes have
persuaded Henry w. Norris to stay on
the ticket as candidate for State Sen
ator in Wake, but he has issued a
card saving that he cannot now en-
ter the active campaign with the other
nominees on the ticket"
Here is an interesting piece of his
tory that comes in timely. A gentle
man in Robson county writes:
Il see that our registrars are being
arrested. 1t is the same game that
they played in 1875 when they arrested
our registrars, carried them to
Wilmington and the United States
Commissioners bound them over to
appear before Judge Bond in the Fed
eral court in Raleigh, under heavy
bonds. Then they got mandamnus
against them, and carried them before
Judge Settle, at Greensboro, and they
also arrested our editor here for libel,
Col. w. F. French, who appeared in
all these cases, says: We whipped
them in every case and we made the
convention Democratic and not Re
publican
A private letter from Davidson coun-
ty says: Negro and white Repubi-
cans are making threats and occa-
sionally they take one man off the
ticket and put up another. They
swear they will carry the county and
are denouncing the Democratic judges
of election as being thieves and
scoundrels," advising negroes to go to
the polls with guns and knives to see
their votes counted, ETC.
When Cyrus Thompson spoke at
Shelby, several ladies, wives of Popu-
lists went to town to hear him speak.
When they started into the court
house to hear the speaking, they no.
ticed that they were preceded. by sew
eral negro women with their kids.
This exhibition of Fusionism was too
much for the wives of the Populists
and they remained in the court house
yard, never hearing a word of the
speech of the brag Fusion spell-bin-
der
1t was pointed out in these columns
many days back that the last hope
of the Fusionists was to capture the
Legislature, and that TO this end they
would as the campaign drew to close,
bend every energy and power they
possessed. Already that effort has
been commenced and in the close or
doubtful counties they are pouring
all their available speakers. From
now on the fight in such counties will
be determined and bitter and the adj
vocates of White Supremacy must be
prepared to meet all sorts of fraud
trickery and trading, for SO desperate
are their opponents that they will
stop at nothing.
Now as never before it behooves
every white man to be on guard and
do his best.
The people of North Carolina must
not forget that Judge Fred. Moore S
name will again appear on the Judicial
ticket this year. This, they under
stand is made necessary by the pecu-
liar situation brought on by Judge
Norwood's designations; but there
seem to be many people overlooking
the fact of Judge Moores candidacy.
All Democratic papers of the State
should therefore call attention to it
by printing Judge Moore's name along
with the names of other candidates;
and, on election day, every voter
should see that Judge Moore's name
is on the ballot he casts.
The Fusionists are now thoroughly
sick of the Winston registrar boomer
ang. They say there'll be no more
arrests until after the election.
"And then-then," they declare with
great emphasis, "there'll be wholesale
arrests of registrars all over the
State"
To which the Democrats, smiling
pleasantly, reply:
''We'll be looking at you when you
do it,
Capt. Charles Price, chief counsel
of the Southern Railway in this State,
is advertised to make speech against
the amendment at Fuquay Springs in
Wake county soon. The centre-piece of
his oratorical effort is said to be a
dark and bloody picture of the awful
things that are going to happen here
''when the poor negro is deprived OF
his right to vote"
The Fusionists are using the name
of "CycIone" Davis to work a nice
little deception on their voters. They
are advertising that he will speak at
various places, when they know posi-
lively that he will not come to this
State at all, but the advertisement,
they argue, will draw crowd for
some little nobody TO harangue. The
Cyclone" Davis business Isl a fake
pure and simple.
Ex-senator Ransom passed through