The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-10-11
STILL AN issue,
The Co1ored Man a Factor Zst,
WHO FORCED THE ISSUE?

days when men do but little in the
cause OF campaign and are then ready
to dictate the policy of the party just
so soon as victory has been made safe
1t would seem that the party should
seek advice from other sources.
No sooner had the amendment been
carried than upstairs over the countr y
were ready to tell the Democratic party
what should be the lines upon which
the future issues of the campaign
should be made, the style of the can
yass and how the election itself should
, 90 managed.
They" tell US that the negro is out
Of politics In North Carolina and the
| word "nigger" must not be mentioned
on stump from one end OF the State
to the other. Why? Because the ne
gro is out OF politics, they answer.
Nothing would please the Democratic
party more than that, in our state, but
1t does seem that the Democratic party
would find it out about as soon as
"they" would. Of course the negro
likes to be let alone and haye his own
shiitless way and never be called down
by the white people of North Carolina
that would suit him, I say,
and it also suits those who
wish to use the negro. Eyen
during the last campaign the oppos,-
ton denied in the face OF facts that
the negro was an issue in the cam
palgn. It was denied then and Of
course so soon as the election was oyer,
they pleaded "not to have any more
negro in it," Would that it we're true
out facts are stubborn things and are
unwieldy when endeavorlng to be bent
the wrong way.
'Oh well" they tell us, "the COM
ing campaign is national campaign
and of course no negroes are In that
campai6a." Let's see-Whn is the
nominee of the Radical party in the
Second District for congress? Who
nominated him? To the first question
-. ]. Martin-to the second-the
negroes nominated him. Then how
fnnocently "they" tell us that Mr..
Martin is a white man and not negro.
Their game is pla1n-in nominating
Mr.. Martin, they attempted what the
lawyers would call "shifting the burden
of proof" But who did the nomina-
ting? Why the negroes, and boss ne
groes at that.
Who is Mr.. Claude Kitchin and who
nominated him? First, Mr.. Kitchin ia
a white man and white people nomin-
ated him.
So the negroes have candidate and
the white people have a candidate for
Congress. The white people run their
convention and the negroes run theirs.
And still "they" tell us there must be
"no niger in it." Who forced tho Is
sue? The same old party. We have
to fight the same old party. A leper
cannot change his spots and the Repub-
lican party in North Carolina cannot,
it seems, get the negro out of it.
It is the same Republican cry, which
is but hollow mockery, that there is no
negro, that is as significant as when
Mark Hanna, the national chief, grew
90 careless as to face the people and
assert that "there are no trusts in the
United States" The same wanton
character, when it comes to handling
facts seems to run along the line. Mr..
Hanna when talking national politics
SAYS "there is not a trust in the United
States," and in North Carolina the Re
publicans and their well-wlshers assert
that there are no negroes with which
to make an issue in this State. A total
disregard for truth will not avail much
and such attempts usually act as a
boomerang flying back and wounding
him who throws it. When Mr.. Hanna
said "there are no trusts" 1t did not
alter the condition of things nor did 1t
make a sstrust" less. Neither when
the puppets say that "there Is no ne
gro issue" does 1t alter the condition
of things nor take the negro out OF
politics in North Carolina.
"They" have forced the issue In this
campaign just as they did in the last
and the races will continue to be an
issue so long as the negro holds Office
here among us. When the national
Republican party prefers negroes to
hold the post offices to the best white
people, it is the Republicans who force
the issue and not the white people.
The authorities in Washington know
that they have incompent negroes
who seek the appointment to Offices
and il they really had the best interest
of the country at heart, they would
not make a change because it isalways
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