The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-05-04
The Wrssengm.
now TO CARRY NORTH CAROLINA

It has been plain to the Messenger
for months h a the battle in North
Carolina was to be contested. With
b white radicals and the Butler
remains it Is a simple fight for politi-
cal life and the feed-trough. If the
negroes, or a part of them. are disfran-
chised. ii is goodbye to their grub and
occupation. They would all have to
scufie for a living Just as better men
by far more have to scuffie. So when
the talk began that there would be no
NO fusion between the Pritchard and
Butler gangs, the Messenger secuted
the idea from the first. You could not
keep them apart. The Butler fellows
those who follow him so willingly at
ter his duplicity Is completely
ed-are at heart radicals or populists
according to the way the political winds
set. They are really for a swap or
trade. the best that can be made, and
SO far as they really care for the well
fare of the state or what befalls the
white people in the negro counties, the
state may go to the devil n the
whites may grind to the end of life in
h mills of the negro Philistines.
There will be an amalgamation, a
fusion,a conspiracy, and it behooves the
white men of North Carolina to get to-
gether and fight the campaign with a
Vigor and determination and pertinac-
ity that will lay in the shade all other
campaigns known in NorthCa carolina.
Victory must be won and the state
must be ave from the constituencies
vandals who prowl and prey for selfish
ends solely.
1t is reported by our Raleigh corre-
spondent that there is danger of over
confidence on the part of the demo-
Gratis. OF course there is danger just
here. 1t is stated that the organization
OF the opposition is simply remarkable
more thorough even than in 1896.
Democrats ought to heed this warming"
If that is so then The Messenger will
take hope that what it has urged in
several campaigns will be perfected in
this campaign of 1900. 1t las exhaust
ed paper and patience in trying to have
all the counties for one time really,
systematically, thoroughly organized.
H LILO hCfCI DCCh III I dlS " say
and 1t is a wonder that the state has
moi remained all the time under the
heels Of it's robbers and oppressors.
Organization of the right kind can
carry the amendment and by a good
majority. Let us see first, what
the chances are, n second what Or
ganization really means. In 1896, the
vote for judges was-democrat, III, 449;
fusion 159, 511. The congressional vote
was democrat, 17O, $40; rep and pop 16O.-
ia There were in 1890, 342, 653 voters.
After eight years of growth, the vote
I'M 1888, was 329, $50 including all the
fraudulent voting one by the gang.
1t is probable, that there were over 49,
600 ~stay-aways in 1898. There were H.
'.6S less votes than the voting popula-
ton of 1890. If the probable increase
i'm the dictatorship is made, we think it
not extravagant to put it at 92,3O7-
enough to make the total 40, 0O0. So it
is not e-xtravagant we believe, to say
that there are now fully 10000 non
voters to work upon. The probability
d. Is that the republicans and allies polled
f. their strength, but leaving 10000 for
them to capture if they cam, We have
10000 who nay be added to the regular
democratic vote if proper efforts are
made to induce them to vote. Here is
Il great and profitable field to work in.
As to what is organization we have
so often stated it, that it is not neces-
-Sary we hope, to repeat in full. The
real aim and purpose Should be to
bring out every voter in sympathy with
II democratic party or with the white
mans party. To do this every town.
ship must be thoroughly organized,
with a chairman and working commit
tee of three others-four in all. These
should be active, discreet men who will
give time to make systematic household
visits, having free talks with voters,
and then to give the entire election
day to seeing that all their voters shall
vote. If we shall think it necessary
we will reState the best of all plans,
that of Thomas j. Jarvis in Pitt coun-
ty. 1t is sure to carry the state If
worked as he and his committee work.
ed it in their county. What was done
so we'll, SO thoroughly in one county
may be done in all the ninety-seven
counties.
White men this year can afford to
give any amount of time and service
to the cause of good n honest and
safe government for North Carolina.
The amendment must be carried. To
do so beyond all peradventure is to or
game To organize is to copy the
system put in motion in Pitt county
that was so positively effective and de-
vised by ex-senator Jarvis, the chair
man of the county democratic COM
.mittee-