The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1900-07-26


Nominees Minor Mention News
Notes.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
RALEIGH. n C., July %. 1900.
Well, the day Of grace" has passed-if
you haven't registered anew, you can't
vote.
My friend, l hope you have not made of
yourself that despised thing among
white men this year-a political eunuch.
But if you have, I'm not sorry for you,
a little bit; for it was your own fault, and
none else on earth. You are now to be
despised. rather than pitied, for you are
worse than the eunuch slaves of whom
the Good Book speaks.
CAsT-oUT AMONG MEN
wouldn't be in the shoes OF a political
eunuch to-day for a bag Of gold too heavy
to tote.
He is even worse than the white-skin
who will, or intends to, actually vote
against the amendment and White
Supremacy-for q consideration most
likely a ''job' the latter, mean and
contemplate and dishonOrable as he is,
at least possesses the merit of having the
nerve to vote one way or the other.
The political eunuch lies still while the
negro would trample upon him and his,
and the dearest rights and possessions OF
his neighbors. He hasn't even sef-respect
left-and when a fellow loses that he is a
fit subject for the manure pile.
You needn't think your whilOm neigh
bors will not know it, and will fail to re-
nounce you as neighbor or acquaintance
afterward. They'll know it, all right;
for they've had their eyes on you some
time.
ELEVENTH HOUR CONVERTS.
They re watching YOU, too-you white
skin traitor, said to be.
They can't quite make up their minds
that you are going to be as mean and dis
reputable and so lost to true manhood as
rumor makes you out to be. They recog
nize that your skin has the right com
plexion, and they can't understand how
a white man can make a nigger OF him
self. of his own free will and accord, this
year.
So, they have hopes OF you yet. God
grant that you may have at least the
common decency, if inspired by higher
motives, not to disappoint your neigh
bOrs-and vote white!
Don't ALLEVIATE yourself from your own
race, for money or a job; you'll get the
job all right if you help adopt the amend
mentor then better times will come for
EVERY WHITE WORkINGMAN.
FUTURE OF WHITE W ORKINGMEN OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
You can depend upon this, too: Ii the
amendment SHOULD be defeated Gmprob-
able and almost impossible as it seems),
then you can hunt that job in some other
place and cline.
You'll not be able to hold it long in
North Carolina, after the great horde of
negroes begin to pour in from Virginia
and South Carolina (where they can't
vote now nor next year., and dozen or
two apply for it at ''pauper wages" rep
resenting about one-half or two thirds of
the amount paid you.
1t may be in the cotton mill or other
factory; it may be at the carpenters
bench or the blacksmiths anvil; it may
be at outdoor manual labor, skilled or
unskilled; wherever it is, SAMBO WILL
COME AFTER YOUR JOB-just as GER
tain as the amendment fails.
But will he get it?'' you ask.
Certainly! Why not?
White employers shouldn't employ
him. you say.
That Is where you make your mistake;
now listen:
YOU WILL HAVE ONLY YOURSELF
TO BLAME.
To-day the white mechanics and labor
ers ought to be, and are, given the pre-
ference. But you let the amendment fail.
and there is only one way in which it can
fail, and that is through the opposition
or inactivity of the white workingmen
and illiterate rural classes (the very peo-
pie who, of all the world, should work
and vote most heartily for it).
Well, then, surely you don't think you
could ask employers THEN not to employ
negroes, under those circumstances,
WHEN YOU YOURSELF INVITED
THEM TO COME HERE AND TAKE
YOUR PLACEin the industrial and labor
world
The employers OF labor will be apt to
say something like that to you, and to
add that class of people who would not
protect themselves when they had the
chance to knock the negro out practically,
have no right to come whining around
later and ''claim protection from the
same negroes and their friends and allies
when the latter offer to do the work for
less pay, and then be able to add: Eve
are voters still in North Cardinal
FORGING CHAIRMAN SIMMONS NAME.
The desperation OF Butler and his gang
of alleged "Populist'' pie-eaters has be-
come the equal of Holton and Abe Mid
dleton-"the other twin baby's'' man.
ayers.
Among their latest acts OF infamy is the
forging (by somebody of Chairman Sim
mons name to bogus letters and docu-
ments, enclosed under same cover with
fusion literature and sent broadcast over
the State
Mr.. Simmons now offers a reward of
$25O for information that will convict
the scOundrels who have had the false fac
simile presumably a rubber stamp OF
his name made. Mr.. Simmons states that
even some OF the fusion speakers are using
these counterfeit and false letters and
signatures "kNOWING THEM TO BE
FALSE But both Butler and Holton
have demonstrated Of late that there is
nothing they will not stOop to in the at
tempt to keep themselves and their pals
in office
FINAL WORD OF CAUTION AND ADVICE.
A week hence you will be at the polls
vOting-at least you should be. for the
negro and every white-skin traitor in the
State will be there, you can depend-and
it does seem that every white man. at
heart, who is honest and uninfluenced by
the greed OF Office, and promise OF it, must
necessarily vote white ON that eventful
day, and that great victory for White
Supremacy and the Democratic ticket is
assured.
There is no question about how all
white men OF sufficient intelligence (even
though unlettered, as to book learn
ing to recognize the motives of the op-
position will vote
But, unfortunately, there have been