The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-19
AN ISSUE AS TO THE RACE ISSUE.

AN ISSUE AS TO THE RACE ISSUE.
The Anglo Saxon.
There has developed somewhat of con-
troversy among our own forces IS to
whether the negro will be an isue in the
November election. If our friends will
just wait till about the time the registra-
ton books open we have no doubt that
the Republicans will settle this controv
ersy for US. If they make any serious
effort to carry the State for Mckinley
they will surely bring the negro into
it. Otherwise they will not get $4,000
votes in the State, and there need be
nothing said about the negro, except to-
commend him for his wisdom. Yes, we
are sick and tired of hearing about negro
domination. But there is something worse
than hearing about it, and that is for it
to exist in fact. For one fourth of the
white people of the State to league with
the negroes to defeat the wishes Of three
fourths of the white people of the State
and cast our electoral vote for Mckin-
ley is the same kind of negro domino
ton which we have all denounced so
earnestly, and which the voters of the
State so recently decided must stop.
Let's be at least fairly sensible. No one
was foolish enough to promise that the
amendment would settle the race ques-
tion before it went into effect, and if
some one had, we suppose the people had
more sense than to pay any attention to
so self evident an absurdity. But if
Pritchards crowd will behave themselves
and make no effort to get the negroes
to register and vote by promising them
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tell those now holding postmasterships
that they will be taken from them, we
believe the negroes will have nothing
to do with it, and We'll have no use for
a race issue except as it may be forced
on US by the national Republican party
in it's effort to punish us for having set
tied st.
Since the above was put in type the
Biblical Recorder reads the riot act to
the Democratic party and says that
never again shall an honest issue be
confused with the race question. Politi-
clans and parties unwilling to stand or
fall on their platforms must accept the
consequences Of their cowardliness."
We would like to ask the Recorder why
it is not just as honest and legitimate
for the Democratic party to defend itself
against the attack made upon it by the
Republican party in it's national platform
for cuntailing the ignorant negro vote
as it is against any other issue which
the Republicans raise against it. Why
it is not just as honest and proper to
make the Republicans bear the odium
of appointing negro rogues in the POSTAL
service in North Carolina, where they
come into obnoxious connection with the
whites, as for the appointment of white
rogues in the postal service in Cuba.
Why, when McKinley's and intimate
party associates are advocating the most
rigid measures to restore the old oruer
Of hell on earth, from which we have freed
ourselves if they do but let us alone, 1T
is not entirely proper and patrlotlc 1haC
we should point out these things 10 the
people and say these are mighty good
reasons why you should vote against
Republican President and Republican
congressman?
Just as long as the Republican party
fights for the enforcement OF the flt-
teenth amendment in its lnfernal SPIRIT
the Democratic party must meet IL ana
contest it, The Democratic party Is not
and never has been responsible lot me
race issue. but it's position on that issue
is everIastingly right, and it will contend
for it as long as there IS contention
against it, 1t will never surrender now
ever. much it might be to the adVantaSe
of Mckinley to do so.
EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN THE SHIP.
Statesville Mascot.
The great Democratic party CT North
Carolina, which has so recently won suca
,.oouirac of members low