The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-07-12
WHITE OR BLACK?
A Republican Paper That Advocates
White Supremacy.
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Estate Journal, Republican,
The amendment gives the unedu-
Gated white male under 13 years of
age eight years to learn to read and
write, and all born after 1908 will
have 81 years, and the Legislature has
made ample appropriations for school
purposes and can continue to do SO.
Is there anything in this that cuts off
the poor white man.
TO endorse the election of George
White, the negro Congressman, from
the Second district, or continuing
system that makes his election pos
sible with his train of negro post
masters, is more than we can swal-
low. The men who grease their
throats with big salaries by catering
to this digrace, may relish the taste,
we do not. There is not white man
in the State who will endorse it over
his own signature. We say if there
is man in the State who will show
us how this can be prevented with
present conditions and honest cleo
tions, we will not write another line
in favor of the amendment.
The Republican party, adopting a
Democratic paper at Asheville as its
Western organ and Populist paper
at Raleigh for its Eastern organ, is
very inspiring for Repub1icanism.
To appoint negroes to important
and responsible positions and then
not allow them to be delegates to a
convention, is strange idea to US.
If it is not the negro that has de-
feated the Republican party in this
State for the last twenty-five years,
will not some solon rise up and tell us
what has done it?
The Democratic party set the trap
and the State Republican convention
stepped into 1.-THE negro trap.
Our leaders by their actions said
the negro is not qualified to partici-
pate in convention; we have the
same opinion of him at the ballot
box.
We are told that our course will
help Democracy. If shouldering the
negro and advocating his cause hasn't
made Democracy in North Carolina,
what on earth gives it life and exist
ence?
The negro is to be pitied, his life is
a hard one, his inferiority, color and
ignorance stand in his way, his recent
slavery and sudden acquiring citizen
ship creates a prejudice against him,
and this is continually famed by
political hatred. He has been led
into the political pitfalls by one
party and then trampled on and
abused by the other. Out of all this,
what has he received? Nothing but
Jimcrow car bills and Wilmington
massacre. We speak of the race and
not the fellow in office. We say to
the negro, you had better heed the
advice of your able educational lead
ers, s,'eschew politics. By this you will
make a good citizen, respected and
honored by the white man.
According to Senator Pritchard's
statement, there are twelve counties
with negro ma orities: With honest
elections the negro can and will
dominate in these twelve counties.
TO vote for the amendment relieves
these twelve counties from negro rule,
to vote against it continues them
under negro control. Is there white
man in North Carolina who believes
this state of affairs ought to exist?
To be plain, we believe it is NOR
ally, religiously, socially, financially
and politically right to disfranchise
the ignorant negro vote, if the ignor-
ant vote stands in a position to gov
ern white people.