The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-10

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| constant ana widespread discussion of the
amendment TO the State constitution dis
| franchising the ignorant portion OF the coll
| ored population. Th>re are many pe ople " q
| do not belisye the Supreme Court will ever
| pass upon the constitutioually OF the fran
| chise amendment ratified by this State
| August >.
! Those Democrats who do not believe it
| will get before that court do not care what
| the decision may be, for it is openly said
| that il the Republicans should carry the
| amendment to the United States Supreme
| Court. and it should be overthrow. the
! Democratic party would instantly submit
| the Mississippi plan. and in this way eIimi-
nate the negro vote.
The negroes have very Iittel to say about
! their Acknowledgement Quite number
of these who can read and write voted for
ii. The oStracisn of negroes by negroes
in past years il they voted anything eX-
cept the straight Republican ticket has al
ways been complete. Not / per cent CT
the negroes voted the Democratic ticket
UP 10 this year. Perhaps this year ttat
| figure was reached,
There will be an additional registrat on
| for the national election in November. aad
] one of the questions of interest is whether
many negroes not now registered will de-
| sire TO register for that election, and
| whether they Will generally be permitted
/ to do so; in other words, whether there
! Will be rigid observance of all the qu9lifi-
| cations required for the vote in August.
The negroes appear TO be hanging tack.
waiting for the whites to settle their
status in November as they settled il in
August.
The Democrats viii not only work to car
~ the State, but all the districts, and Will
give very particular attention TO the
Eighth and Ninth both of which now have
Republican representation. Congressman
Pearson CT the Ninth seeks denomination,
on the ground that it would be an endorse
ment of his course in contestiug the seat Of
Crawford, Democrat The Democrats are
especially bitter toward Pearson. and if he
gets the denomination will move heaven
and earth tc defeat him crushingly. There
is no sort of doubt about the Democrats
carrying the other seven districts. Spen-
Ger Blackburn, the Republican nominee in
the Eighth. declares he viii win, but
against him a great fight is sure to be
made. He says his district gave large
majority against the franchise amendment
The Ninth district gave about 500 MAORI
~ against it.
The Populist party's strength in this
State IS completely broken and its 80 eco
membership in 1894 has dwndled away to
less than 10000. The Farmers Alliance,
which really created the party in North
Carolina IS almost defunct. and its only
hope of rehabilitation is in q regid letting
alone OF politics. All of the Populist lead
ers save Senator Butler sided with the
Democrats in the fight for white suprema-
cy, This Included their nominee for Gov
ernor and several of the ex-Congressmen.
Il is. not regarded that the party cuts any
further figure in North Carolina politics.
The Republicans will get and practically
have what remains of it. Many Populists
have said for months past that they did not
propose to support Bryan. All Senator But
IeT's following are very Iukewarpl toward
Bryan, and the latter's supporters in this
State say Butter is traitor TO their can
didate
Senator Buffers paper last night an
uoUnCcd cditOTiaiIy that while Towne has
withdrawn as nominee fer Vice President
&c cannot tell Populists how they shall
vote One OF the foremost POpulists in the
State said today. when his attention was
called 10 this statement. that he did not
'hink North Carolina Popuiists would vOts
for Bryan and Stevenson. The Democratic
State Chairman said: 4 think that as a
rule North Carolina Populists viii vote Tor
Mckinley. I do not think there were over
6GaG Popuiist voters al last Thursdays
State election
Chairman Simmons was assured by
Democrat today that Cyrus Thompson, who
was the Populist Dominee for Governor,
had said openly he proposed TO vote for
Mckinley. This afternoon Chairman Sim
mons was asked whether the negro ques-
ton, regarded by the rank and file OF yot-
ers as settled by the State election last
week on the franchise amendment. was to
be an issue in the November election. He
replied that the national campaign in
North Carolina will be made on issues for
mulated by The Kansas City platform.
The Democratic Convention of the
Fourth Congressional district will be held
here either August so OF September 6. The
majority for the constitutional amendment
in the district was about 5000. There are
not few aspiTants for the nomination.
Directly upon the nominetin of Mr.. Bry-
an FOR President the Charlotte Observer"
enc of the most influential Democratic
papers in North Carolina announced that
it would not support him because it op-
posed his platform and views on several
matters It said, further. that il could not
support Mr.. Mckinley, and that, therefore.
it would not support either party in the
national election II was said within for
ty-eight hours that another Democratic
papers editor mad said he intended, as
soon as the State election was over. to
drive the Charlotte Observer out CT the
Democratic party. Sona of the Democratic
leaders fastened to see the Democratic
papers which might be inclined to criticise
or denounce and urged them to keep quiet
1t was the policy TO keep national politics
entirely in the background, and TO make
The franchise amendment 10 the constitu-
ton the supreme issue.
Tho Raleigh News Il I'd Observer
whose editor is the Democratic National
committeeman for North Carolina, made
the declaration editorially August that "a
vote for Mckinley is a vote for negro Off
Gals III North Carolina" 1t was expected
that this would arouse a great many peo-
pie in the State. II has had precisely that !
effect.
The Greensboro Telegram says: The !
attempt to draw the color line in the ma /!
tional election in North Carolina appears !
to us to be mighty small business We do |
aot think Mr.. Bryan would like to have /
this held up to North Carolinians as the |
chief reason why they should vote for him. |
White supremacy was a real and serious |
issue, and the only one in the State cleo
ton. Don't make II a farce in the coming I
The 'Newbern Journal" says: This |
declaration by the News and Observer is |
made before the vote is fully known which !
was supposed to enfranchise the white
men of North Carolina and when the !
pledge of the Democratic Barty in this
State has been that the carrying of the |
meant the political freedom of |
every white man in the State