The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-31
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,
THE NEGRO QUESTION.

Oxford Public Ledger.
The State press is just now worked up
over the question of whether the fall
campaign shall eliminate the negro issue
or not Such men as our esteemed
friends, Joe Caldwell, Robt Furman, and
others, who represent goldbug papers,
and announce that they cannot support
Bryan, say that the Democrats prom
ised to eliminate the negro question
when the amendment was settled. We'll
so it did and so it will. But they well
know that the purposes for which the
amendment was proposed and enacted
will not be accomplished until the
amendment goes into effect, and that
will be in July, 1902. They are trying
to befog the question. If the amendment
went into effect before the coming ma
tional election, there would be no need
for it, But every one knows, CT should
know, that all these us 900 ignorant ne
groes can vote in November just as if
no amendment had been passed. If we
object to the negro in State and county
and municipal affairs, we object just
as strongly to have him in Federal af-
fairs. We have a negro customs officer
in the metropolis of the State; a negro
present Congress) to abuse and Witty
the white people of his State; we have
negroes employed in various places, and
the negro postmasters put in office by
Mckinley have been sore affiction and
disgrace to both the State and National
Government; that is if they can disgrace
a government by Hanna, of Hanna, and
for Hanna. Mckinley has seen fit to
bo NJ
white manhood He is the one who is
now raising the negro issue. They are
making great talk, and will put forward
a great effort to wheel North Carolina
into the Mckinley column They know
well they cannot do it without the ne
groes' vote. And yet these Republican
henchmen and Mckinley Supporters say
we should not now raise the negro uues-
ton. Some of them are not Democrats,
nor are they in sympathy with Demo
cratic principles. No doubt they visa ITO
keep it out because they know how
overwhelmingly the white man defeated
this issue in the recent campaign. No
wonder they want to keep it out, for by
so doing they can best serve their mas
tiers. But the Democrats who are true
blue will keep it up until the last one
not fitted by nature, and we trust that
the protests and advice of such papers
as our esteemed contemporaries, the
Charlotte Observer, the Raleigh Post, and
others Of that way of thinking will not
be Needed but that the white manhood
of North Carolina, as in August last,
WILL in November, march in solid phalanx
to the polls and record the vote in such
unmistakable majority, that she, with
enough of her sister States will have a
majority so decided as to hurl the en-
thrOned trusts from power and relegate
to deserved oblivion him who now sits
in the Presidential chair, and has been
such subservient tool to their behests.
Yes, use the negro question: Use it
early and often! Keep it before the peo-
pie all the time! Let them know that
the national is as bad as the State par
ty, and continue to use it till November
when we hope and believe that the YER
dict of the people will be of such a nature
that it can then be buried forever.