The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-25

Raleigh. IN wilmington ana twenty
seven other towns in North Carolina
We can see nothing wrong i'm that
statement. Nobody can deny it or
has attempted to deny it. 1t was no,
made to raise any race trouble. It
implies no persecution of the negro.
1t is a criticism of Mckinley and the
Republican party, we admit, and was
intended as such. The ink upon that
statement was hardly dry before four
or five Mckinley organs, posing as
Democratic, were in commissions and
spasms such as ordinarily call for
straight jackets. To hear their raw
ings one would think that all their
lives they had been the warmest po-
litical friends of the negroes instead
of having just voted TO disfranchise
them. They actually said any man
who spoke of negro postmasters ought
to be ''tarred and feathered.' 1t was
another case of ''save that red-head-
ed man." They wanted to be per-
mitted quietly to secure division of
the white vote and then to organize
the solid negro vote and thereby carry
the State for Mckinley. Unconscious
" we had inflicted what the hunters
call a gut shot" and hence the howl
ing.
Now, these organs having disposed
of all these issues in the campaign,
will they pray tell us what the Demo-
Gratis may be permitted to talk about.
1t cannot be the constitution because
the Democrats maintain that the con-
stitution follows he flag, and that
contention has been called rot by
those North Carolinians who openly
proclaim they will vote against Bryan
and vet demand to have voice in for
mulating Democratic issues. They
have decided every issue raised against
| the Democrats and sent ont their de-
cree that every issue raised by the
Democratic national convention is
| rot ''sOcialistic," "anarchistic," and
that the party is composed of towards
and skulllers and was always an enc
my to what is right.
In view of the arrogance of those
wolves in sheep clothing, who, while
! fighting every Democratic policy and
| the Democratic candidates, assume to
have voice in shaping the Demo
cratic campaign, it must be plain to
every Democrat that the sooner the
party refuses to listen to enemies
| within as well as without, the better
| it will be. The Democrats ought in
this campaign TO put special empha-
sis on Imperialism, expose trusts and
the new national banking act, defend
every plank in the Kansas City plat
form, and hold up to view every act
of the Mckinley administration, not
emitting it's re-adoption Of slavery in
| Zulu, the maintenance of harem
| for the Sultan of Zulu, the rascality
by colonial officers already exposed in
Cuba, the appointment OF incompetent
and unworthy negro officials in South
ern communities. and the hundred
other blunders. crimes and mistakes
of the administration. If they do this
they will carry the State by tremen-
dous majority. If they permit men
who will vote against the ticket to for
mulate the issues, if they listen to the
organs of anti-Democratic corpora
tons, if they are ''mealy-mouthed' i'll
their criticisms of any policy of the
| administration because 1t will CRATE on
| the nerves of a McKinleyite or rouse
some dreamers-by such unworthy
and silly policy only will they lose
the prestige of the August victory.
The McKinleyites wish the Demo
Gratis to wage the campaign on issues
that will assure Democratic defeat.
| If the Democrats are wise they will
use every issue, laying stress on these
issues from which the Republican
party is trying to run away.