The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-09
ABOUT TAR HEELDOM
What Mr.. JosephuS Daniels
Says of the Outlook.
The State viii Be Democratic For All Time
The Senatorship Contest
This Fall.
washington Starr

Mr. Josephus Daniels member Of the
Democratic National Committee for the
State of North Carolina, and one Of the
best known Southern politicians, is in the
city today.
1.-THE political situation in North Caro-
lima is all that the Democrats can de-
SIRE" said Mr. Daniels THE reports that
have been sent out of large OBJECTIONS to
Mckinley have little foundation. l have
made careful investigation throughout
the State and have found but five men
among the manufacturers and business
element who voted for Bryan in 1896 who
will not vote for him this year. On the
other hand, l personally know hundred
influential bankers and manufacturers and
business men who voted against Bryan in
1896 who are now giving him their en-
| thusiastic support
MANUFACTURERS ARE DIVIDED.
"Since Harrisons candidacy there have
been a small number of prosperous manu-
facturers who are protectionists and who
vote the Republican National ticket. This
number was increased in 1896, but the re-
suits show that in that year Bryan car
State, with one exception. He will do
better this year than he did then. Since
1896 the Popullst party has almost disap-
peared in the State. In 1898 most of them
who had originally been Democrats re-
turned to that party, and this year most
CT the remainder supported the Demo-
cratic State ticket and the Constitutional
Amendment. Senator Buffers position in
| the State, which is MUTUALLY advocating
that the Populists stay at home on cleo
ton day, will have no influence on the
| result. AS a political factor he has been
| completely eliminated. The few remain
ing Populsts who are not really Repub-
licans will vote for Bryan and Stevenson.
zone Mckinley Populist club has been
| organized in the State with forty mem
| bers. The members of that club are not
| Populists, but are Republicans, and mere
| ly call themselves Populists because they
| hope thereby to help the Republicans bet
ter than if they sailed under their true
colors.'
ELIMINATION OF THE NEGRO VOTE.
"How will the elimination of the negro
vote affect the Republican party?" Mr..
Daniels wcs asked.
North Carolina will be q Democratic
State for all time. Out of every ten white
men in the State, nine of them are Dem
ocrats. and seven Of them are Democrats
because they believe in Democratic prin-
ciples, and the race issue has nothing to
do with their political convictions. North
Carolina is perhaps the most Democratic
State in the Union, and the elimination
of the negro vote will result in the virtual
wiping out of the Republican party as an
influential political organization, except in
the two mountain districts, where both
parties are nearly evenly divided, and
even in those districts, when the ignorant
negro vote is eliminated, the Democrats
will have a safe majority.
1.-The experience of every other South
ern State will be duplicated in North
Carolina"
The elimination of the negro in South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana
meant the elimination of the Republican
party as an influential factor in the poll
ties Of those States. 1t will not result in
the upbuilding Of strong Republican
party. On the contrary in each of those
States the Republican party has gone
into innocuous desuetude."
THE SENATORSHIP CONTEST.
"Who will get the United States Sen
atorship?"
1.-The last State convention submitted
the question of the selection of United
States Senator to succeed Butler to
primary of the Democratic voters. to be
held on the same day as the Presidential
election. There are four candidates. eX-
Senator Jarvis, Representative Wad-
dell, State Chairman Simmons and Cen
eral Julian S. Carr. 1t will be a very
interesting and holly contested race, and
it is yet too early to pick the winner"