Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-07-05
MAKES THEM COLOR BLIND.
Senator Butler FOndles n Mulatto X Id
at NOrunntOn

Marion Butler, in his reaching out
for the sensational, rather overdd the
thing in Morganton on Saturday. He
was trying TO make the white people
believe that the Amendment would dis
franchise them. After finishing that
false argument he started out to tell
them it would disfranchise their chill
dren, and as an object lesson called by
boy about ten years old and sat him
on table and began to mourn that the
wicked Democrats were going to deny
the ballot to such white boys. And
his object lesson sitting on the table
was mulattO,
When some one in the crowd pro-
claimed that it was child with negro
blood that Butler was lamenting about,
it broke up all the willy Senator's sane
timoniOus love for the poor, barefoot
ed white boy" and he had unconscious
~ exposed the truth that he is going
about the State as an evangel Of the
negro and mulattO. AS the truth
dawned upon him Butler doubtless
thought concerning himself:
He digged a pit.
He digged it deep,
He digged it for his brother,
To punish his sin
He did fall in
The pit he digged for t'othcr''
When the Populist party was first
organized it was a white mans party,
and so proclaimed itself. As such it
grew to number $4,000 voters Then
it fused with the negro party and its
membership began to fall off. 1t
joined with the Republicans in putting
one thousand negroes IN office, ar.
lost more than half it's members. 1t
then fought the elimination of the ne
gro from politics in order to retain his
vote, and lost the confidence of the re-
mainder of it's voters. When its lead
crs carry the remainder up to the polls
10 vote against the amendment the
last vestige of the Populist party viii!
have been swallowed up by the Repub
lican party.
"COming events cast their shadows
before Already having SO long fused
and co-operated with negroes and help
ed to put them in office, the Populist
leader becomes color blind and has set
up a mulatto child as the type of the
individual for which he is battling in
North Carolina. If his policy succeeds
We Will have nothing but mulattO pol
itics in North Carolina as we had from
1898 until the White Supremacy revo-
luton in 1899. II was to put an end to
such political miscegenation that the
people rose up in their might two years
ago and declared they would have gov
| ernment by Anglo-Saxons without the
intermiXture of any other race and
without the aid or consent of the Al
/ riCan race.
The white man who votes with the
negro is sure 10 become color blind,
politically. sooner or later. When But
] Ter returned from college 10 the White
/ Supremacy county of Sampson in 1885
and purchased the Caucasian, a Demo
cratic paper. ne could tell the differ
! ence between a white child and a mu-
| latto as far as mis- eye could reach
When he began to trade and dlcker
with negroes for Office. his political eye
sight began 70 fail. and so rapidly has
/ il failed that politically he can not tell
| the difference between white man and
a mu1atto and his color blindness
reached the climax when he used mu-
latto child to illustrate his undyine
love for the "bare-footed white boy
/ BY mistake. he stumbled into a true
! declaration Of what he stands for in
politics-a mixed government by somc
whites and some negroes, a mulattl
government-Caro