The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-06

STATE PRESS.

1t is useless to try 10 disguise the
fact hat ii is necessary for US TO dc
heroic campaign work for the mex
thirty-ive days. Every white man
who believes in White supremacy
should bend every effort to aiding the
cause. White men this means you
Washington Messenger.
We heard it in 1898 but when the
time came to wade through blood to
the bridle-bits'' the Buffers and Black
burns were not ready to lead the ne
groes they hoped to inf1ame, and the
negroes wisely refrained from precip-
itating a race conflict in order to keep
a lot of cowardly white blusterers in
office.-Raleigh News and Observer.
This much may be said with conf
dence; that it will not do for the
friends of the amendment to risk any
thing on the chance of negro indiffer-
ence. Organized or not: holding meet
ings or not; attending public speakings
or not, they can be depended upon to
be at the polls on election day, 120, 000
of them at that. Let the democrats
remember that the republicans already
have this much the start OF them
Charlotte Observer.
The Chatham Record states a truth
in the following which may be taken
to heart by all concerned, and those
most concerned specially: The white
men of North Carolina have never be-
fore been more aroused or determined
to carry an election than they are now.
They have borne and forrorn until
fOrbearance has ceased to be a Virture
and they will not longer tolerate any
further danger of negro domination
in any portion of this state. The edict
has gone forth and will be carried out,
and that is, the ignorant negro must
be eliminated from politics and white
supremacy made certain and perma-
nent in North Carolina!
At bottom the people are asked now
to decide whether or not they will vote
in August for proper educational quail
ificationS for the voters of the state
at all future elections. That is the
naked issue. So far as was practical
BILE the question was made a broader
one than the racial one. Virtually,
We admit, the question is whether or
not the white men of the state should
now rule it. The lack of time since
h negro was emancipated coupled
with the bad influences to which not
unnaturally he has been subjected has
not fitted him for the high function Of
rule. The moral weakness of the race
is inevitably too pronounced yet for
the veal of a great state to be in his
hands.-Lumberton Robesonian.
WI are those people that are work
ing night and day for the constitution
al amendment which will insure the
permanent rule of the White man in
North Carolina? Every democratic
editor in the state is working for it;
every democratic lawyer is working
for it; almost every preacher in the
state is working for it,. every teacher
is working for it; every banker and
business man is working for II. Yea,
all these are working for the adoption
of the amendment. But they are not
all. The fair and noble women-and
there are none fairer or nObler in the
world-are working n praying that
the great measure may be ratified and
thus place the government of North
Carolina in the hands of their hus-
bands and their fathers, their brothers
and their sons, their sweethearts and
their Observation-Disclosures Herald.
The opponents of the constitutional
amendment say that the object of 1t
is to not only ~disfranchise the litter
ate negroes but also the poor n il
literate white men. This lie is told
because it is hoped that some white
men will be frightened into voting
against the amendment. Those who
make the assertion forget that ninety
per cent. of the poor n illlterate
white men in the state are democrats
and that the democratic party would
be guilty of no such foolish and sui
cidal ect as to make a law disfran-
chising it's own voters. Did the repub-
licans and fusionists believe that il
literate white men would be diSfran-
chised by the amendment they would
be in favor of it. because if such We're
the fact they could gain control OF the
aid of the votes of the negroes who
can read and write.-Lumberton KOBE
sonian.