The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-18
Charles B. Aycock, the Nominee for
Governor
AN AUDIENCE.
The Campaign Open in North Caro-
lima and Nine Speakers OH Tour
of the s1a,c-Whiie Supremacy
the Slogan The Ground
on Which the Appeal
is NJ ade.

WINSTON. N. C., April 17.-Special.-
The state Democratic candidates who ar
rived here last night on their tour of the
state were given royal and enthusiastic
reception here to-day. The speaking
opened at II o'clock and closed at 2:So.
Judge Stevens adjourned the Criminal
Court so the candidates could speak in
the large courtroom, which was packed.
MIME SPEAKERS.
There were nine speakers, and they
were all given close attention, even by the
Republicans. Very few negroes were pres
ent.
Editor ]. 3. Whitaker of the Sentinel.
presided, and introduced all of the candi-
dates.
w D. Turner. for Lieutenant-Governor,
made the opening speech, which was very
fine.
Hon. C. 3D. Aycock. nominee for Cover
nor, closed. and he electrified his audi
ence. Everybody who heard him regards
his speech one of the strongest ever heard
in Winston. Many auditors termed him
the second Zeb Vance of North Carolina.
All of the candidates made fine inn
preston, and their speeches, which were
devoted principally to the proposed
amendment TO the Constitution, made
votes for the Democratic party.
The candidates left at $40 for Green's
boro, where they spoke tonight.
QUESTION OF THE CAMPAIGN.
On the question of negro suffrage Mr.
Aycock said: THE question for settle
ment is of the utmost Importance For
thirty years our political battles have been
fought from time to time along race lines,
while we have sought In vain to make
the theory Of universal suffrage work out
good government and private virtue.
I'VE have found by actual trial THAT it
cannot be done. When we say that the
negro is unfit to rule, we carry it one
step further and convey the correct idea
when we declare he is unfit to vote. We
have taught the Republicans much in the
past two years in the university of white
supremacy. We will graduate them in.
August next with diploma that will en-
title them to form genuine white mans
party.
DlSFRANCH1SE THE NEGRO.
''Then we shall have no more revolu-3
ton in Wilmington; we shall have no
more dead and wounded negroes on the
streets, because we shall have good gov
ernment in the State and peace every
where. The Governor of the State and the
Senators will not be afraid to speak any.
where, for freedom of speech will become
the common possession of the humblest
Of US. Life, and property, and liberty
from the mountains to the sea shall rest
secure in the guardianship Of the law.
but to do this we must disfranchse
the negro. This movement comes from the
people. Politicians nave been afraid of it
and have hesitated, but the great mass of
white msn in the State are now demand-
ing and have demanded that the matter
be settled once and for all.
SET THE WHITE MAN FREE.
'.To do SO is both desirable and necces-
sary-desirable because it sets the white
man free to move along faster than he can
go when retarded by the slower move
ment of the negro-necessary because we
must have good order and peace while
we work out the industrial, commercial,
intellectual and moral development of the
State. The amendment to the constitu-
ton is presented in solution to the prob
lem It is plain and simple It proceeds
along wise lines tt is carefully and
thoughtfuly drawn. 1t stays inside the
fifteenth amendment and, nevertheless,
accomplishes its purpose.
SENATOR CULLONTS PLAN.
SIT adopts the suggestion of Senator
Cullom, and demands the existence of
sufficient Intelligence, either by inheritance
or education, as q necessary qualiiica-
ton for voting-it requires of the negro
the qualification by education because he
has It not by Inheritance, and demands OF
the white man only that he possess 1t BY
inheritance-it does not sweep the field of
expedients to disfranchise the negro which
is held constitutional in the Mississippi
case, but seizes upon his educational un-
ftress and saves the whites from par
tic,pa,tion therein by boldly recognizing
the claim of their hereditary fitness.
THE WHITE MAN AND THE NEGRO.
..I,he amendment makes distinction
90 an the ground that the white man has
a Knowledge by Inheritance. which the
nesro has not. May the era Of good feel
ing among US be the outcome of this
contest. Then we shall learn, If we do
not already know, that while universal
s1,ffrage is a failure. universal justice
is .he perpetual decree of Almighty God,
nnd.that we are entrusted with power not
for for, our good alone, but for the negro as
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