The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-14
Views and Interviews.

Views and Interviews.
Il think from my correspondence that
there will be from 800 to 400 portraits
OF Confederate soldiers in their uni
forms in the Sketches of North Caro-
lima Regiments which will be issued this
year" said Judge Clark yesterday,
The publication of these sketches, il
lustrated will be a very valuable contri-
button to State history l. only wish it
had been undertaken earlier. Many OF
the bravest men have passed away and
we have not yet been able 10 secure
| their pictures"
The people Of New Hanover do no,
have any fears Of the passage If the
amendment" said Mr.. Iredel Meares.
who has returned home after his long
fight in the Federal court as attorney
for Marshall. The Revolution OF 1893
will net have COMPLETED its full mission
until the mass Of ignorant negro votes
are eliminated. The people Of Whining
ton are as determined today as in 1898
never again to submit TO the sort or
government that disgraeed their city in
1S97'9S."
Col. w. Ii. S. Burgwyn. of IIender-
son, was in the city yesterday, This
weeks Gold Leaf is out for Col. Bur
gwyn for State Treasurer Col. Bur
gwyn has made no announcement as
| to candidacy, though he has warm
friends who urge him to run. BY the
way, Col Burgwyn had picture OF
himself tit is to go in the Sketches of
Regiments edited by Judge Clark in his
uniform taken in 1862. AS | was leay-
ing Richmond" said Col. Burgwyn, my
father had me to stop and have my pic
ture taken. / never saw the picture UNI
til after the war The State owes Col
Rurgwyn a debt of gratitude for having
the pictures of three cOlonels of the
famous 26th Regiment painted by Ram
dali and put in the Library. Vance,
Burgwyn and Lame We're a. trio Of great
soldiers. Only Col. Lane-as retiring
and modest as he was braye-slrvives.
II am out of politics." said ex-State
Senator A. c. Green, who was talking
to some friends last week, but if the
National Democratic party would adopt
platform by which the bulk of the
negroes could be settled in some country
suitable to them, / would be interested
again History teaches that no two
races have ever lived in a country en-
joying political equality without ANAL
gGmation. That will never come be-
tween the whites and the negroes, and
the conclusion is irresistible that the
negroes must be coloniZed somewhere. /
see that Senator Morgan suggests that
their colonization in the Philippine Is
lands may be the solution both of the
negro and the Philippine questions ana
| hope he is right. Why wouldn't it
he a ten-strke for the Democratic party
in its next national conventions to de-
clare in favor of sending all the negroes
to the Philippine Islands and giving them
tools and farm implements and years
rations? Unless the negroes are settled
somewhere, a race conflict is inevitable"
| Il have seen only one Democrat Who
! is opposed to the Constitutional amend
ment, and he does not live in Haywood
county, said Mr.. w. T. Lee, leading
business man of Waynesville. who WAS
in Raleigh last week. Mr.. Lee is well
posted and knows the sentiment of
| Western North Carolina as we'll as any
man in the State. He was a member
of the House in 1895. one of the safest
of that body of fighting Democrats who
helped the issues ON which we won in
| 1898. Haywood is the most reliable
Democratic county in the State" he
| continued Nothing shakes its allie
| glance. Floods may come and sweep
away Democratic majorities but they
! do no damage in Haywood. | ran for
the House in 1894. the year the cyclone
struck us in the State and rock-ribbed
counties were carried by the Fusionists
for the first time Instead of following
other counties to do evil Haywood
nerved itself for the struggle and gave
me sixty more majority than it had Civ
en- in 1892" Mr.. Lee says the West is
united in support of Mr.. r. ID. Gilmer
for Attorney General and expects to see
him nominated.
II know WHO that distinguished Demo
| crat' is who is expected to be the Fusion
candidate for Governor" said a gentle
! man yesterday, but | cannot give it
away now / can tell you one thing.
though. He was once distinguished
Democrat, but has long been has been
and did not vote the Democratic ticket
in 1896 if he did in 1898. On the stump
he has no power and nobody would be
afraid of him if he gives in to the over
lures OF the Republicans. He will,
predict. listen to Them and be tempted
| strongly but when tine time comes
think he will decline to lead the fight. .
'"rhc people of Rockingham have not
been talking much politics, but from now
on they will be getting ready for the
conventions, said Mr.. C. o. McMichael
of Madison. one of Rockingham's lead
ing attorneys who was here last week
Our opponents are becoming active II
their opposition to the amendment, ant
/ are seeking to make the uneducatec
white voter think he will be disfranchis
ed. They will not succeed in Rocking
ham. Our people will see that the trutI
is known to every white voter in tht
county long before August. Who ARK
we in favor of for State officers? W.
are just beginning to talk about it. w
want the strongest men and will thinl
moro ahOut who can serve the party beSf