The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-02-03

w. c. Stronach yesterday. He lowed
to me that it's got so cold it's no use ter
preach nell to er niger; dat wild de pres
emu endurance er de temperachure he'd
neap ruther warm his toes at Satan's
hre than shfyer in his caibain. No, sir,
sa1d The Rev. johnson, faint worth moth
ing to preach he'll dis weather."
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'"The Southern mountaineer. WHOSE am
pearance at Kentucky's capital is inst
now attracting attention, needs a friend
| ly interpreter" writes Mr. VIM. Good
ell Frost to the New York Evening Post
I'VE seldom hear of him except in COM
mection with moonshine stills or Shooting
| and the general public is far from un-
derlng This most remarkable condition
and character. ........ The people of
| this region are today more destitute of
the means Of education than any other
people of our race in the world. And
this condition has come about through
natural causes, so that we cannot blame
the people as negligent or despise them
as inferior. Their status is due to
geological accident-so vast q territory
without coast, or inland lake, or navi-
gable stream. The mountaineers are
| largely descended from Revolutionary sol
diers, of English and Scotcil-Irish stock,
who settled LID the richer valleys at the
end of the last century. They brought
with them the civilization OF the colonial
period, and their posterity have not kept
pace with the progress of the world
There was a social repulsion between
them and the shareholders OF the Low
lands which intensified their ISOLATION
and the hard conditions Of their lives
caused n gradual loss Of most OF the
I mea que book learning which the first set
tiers brought inL The mountains are full
| Of strange Saxon NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
rian words long obsolete among u.s. the
tireside industries of the loom and dye
| kettle, and old English ballads handed
down by oral tradition from the times
of the crusades. In word these people
are our contemporary ancestors. All
this should be made account of in Judging
| their character and actions. They have
no more regard for the sanctity of hu-
man life than the average Briton OF the
| time of Henry VIII. But they are al
honest, patriotic, religious, hospitable
people, with abundant native capacity.
| In the present contest in Kentucky. the
mountain counties, rs always, went Re
| publican by overwhelming majorities.
| The attempt to throw out the total vote
| Of some of these counties under the
technicalities ingeniously devised by Mr.
Goebel naturally arouses their intense
resentment. However unjustifable their
conduct may be, it will be in their view
conscientious and dictated by a strong
| sense of justice"
1.-THE News and Observers enterprise
| in securing Senator Buffers speech be-
fore the Populist State committee has
been worth 10000 votes for the Demo-
cratic party in the coming campaign"
said Mr.. Walter II. Neal yesterday. ''I'he
gang that Mr.. Butler wants to rum out
of the State will not allow Mr.. Butler
to come to Scotland county to preach
such doctrine
| North Carolina is not the only place in
which there is some little feeling against
| the negro Here the feeling is entirely
political and social. In some other States
land they are North of us and of the
more+holy- kind the negro is
not tolerated in any way.
| Take Indiana. for instance. Some six
weeks ago negro named George Mason
moved, with his wife ard six children.
| from Kentucky to Washington county,
| Indiana No one would give him employ
ment ON account of his color. and he was
soon compelled to part with his little
property to keep body and soul together.
! Reports of the prevalence of small pox
began spreading about, and the people ac-
cused Mason of coming from Uniontown,
Ky, and bringing the disease with him.
Then he began finding notes of warming
addressed to THE Niggers from Union
town." Last Friday morning he found
a note attached TO his front door, togetn-
er with box of matches, warming him
that he must move out before nightfall,
as the cabin would be burned. Crossed
tirebrands took the place of the usual
skull and cross bones, and the note was
signed Radiance Committee" That night
the cabin was burned, and Mason and
his family escaped barely in time to pre-
vent cremation. They saved but little
household effects, and with mule AND
wagon still remaining they took UP the
overland journey back to Kentucky.
n. 3. This did not occur in a Southern
State.
Pat Massey, the king bee Republican
of Johnston county, was in the city yes
l6Iudy. i'll We ttII JtlSL KEEP the utSlo
out of the campaign" he sail. "We'll
beat the amendment. The Democrats
are going to try to force the colored man
into the fight. but they'll not succeed,
except with a few of the sshool teachers
that they already control. They know
it'll help them for the negro to be active
Why IN the hast campaign the negro
Congressman White did them more good
than any dozen men they had
"Are the Populsts in your section solid
against the amendments"
Yes, pretty solid. They are pretty
well satisfied with the action of the conn
mittee. Buffers speech was a mistake
that is with the construction that has
been put on it. What we want to do IS
to make it "a white mans fight on both
sides: keep the negro out of the thing
and we can win
'gThe oyster industry in my section rs
more profitable than it has ever before
BEEN" said Mr.. Chas. f. Warren, yes
terday at the Marlborough. Dredging IS
| allowed and those who once opposed IT
now favor it. Not only does it make II
possible to take oysters from beds that