The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-14
"COL0RED MOSES
Of THE SOUTH"
The Hon. Isaac Smith So
Styles Himself.
CALLS BUTlER 10 TASK
Replies to tie RectLt Speech CT
Fortune.
RAIDS lECTufE TO A kEGEo EDITOR
Craven's Colon d Represe iaive Gives The Leg
isIaiure .Tkree-Fy Que stion Of
Privilege" in Which re
Makes Fur FIy.'

MAKES fur fiy.
In the House yesterday morning,
the Hon. Isaac Smith, Craven county's
Colored Representative, rose to a ques-
ton of personal privilege and said:
Mr.. Speaker / arise to three questions
of personal privileges:
The Caucasian, a Third party paper,
charges now that Senator James H. Bry-
an, one of North Cardinals best and
purest public men, offered me $500 to re-
main on the Republican ticket during the
last campaign and that it nfers l took
the bride.
1t also boasts that circular to this
effect has been distributed and that
neither Senator Bryan nor myself has de-
MED the charge.
Mr.. Speaker / wrote sometime ago a
printed denial, and asked the Caucasian
TO publish it, but instead of it being in
favor of fair play, it declined to publish
my denial, but continues to publish the
false charge as stated. The Third party,
to say the least must be a queer, lilo
gical and unreasonable in it's hearts core
When it undertakes to down falsely
with accusuation the only Southern Moses
within the colored race, then and there
it proves itself the enemy of the colored
race.
I desire to ask the Caucasian the fol-
lowing questions:
Take my races vote away, and would
the Third party ever land one OF its
number in the United States Senate?
Would it ever have amounted to smoke?
1t is not true that many a big fat office,
held by Populists, were made possible by
the votes of my race?
Now for you to undertake to put the
races Southern Redeemer in bad light,
makes the Third party guilty of that In
famous and blacklist OF crime ingratitude.
From paper published in Washington
City:
what would 100000 of white
people do were they prosecuted, out
ragged and Disseminated against as
Negroes are? Only the ashes of great
cities would be left to reply
Now the question may be asked when
will the two races OF our beloved South
land be one in heart of friendship, one
in reciprocal racial interest, and each feel
to the other a brothers care?
Answer-When coored people shall re-
ceive their advice from the white and
colored people livic~ in the South.
When Congress snail take the matter
in hand makiie t crime to write in
famed fire heated pieces and the COM
munications by certain editors who have
little or no interest in the colored race
and niger people and much more than
they can get out of them by exciting their
passion by prcjudicing them against
their best and only true friend, the
Southern white man. The advice given
by this editor amounts to treason.
To say the least he advises the colored
people in the South to burn to ashes the
cities of the white people and their
homes. My advice is so different. My
advice to the coored people of the South
land is to get on good terms with the
white people of the South and then cult
vate their friendship.
To be plain, you can't overpower them;
you can't outnumber them; you can't out
brain nor out think them, and if you
could would it be right for you to do so?
To illustrate if B owned seventy-seven
per cent interest in banking house.
who would question his right to be presi-
dent and to say who should hold the other
offices.
Then again, would it not be in bad
taste Tor ID, VINO mas no lHleTSSI III lHc
banking house to advise c, who has three
per cent interest that he should hold
important offices in said bank, and that
his interest is best served by keeping B
the enemy of c.?
Why not be honest and advise G that
his interest is best served in conducting
his own affairs politically and in every
way, so as to retain the true and unadul-
terated friendship of b. who has the
controlling interest in the power that be.
PART III.
The following is some of the utterances
of a speech delivered in Brooklyn, n. y,
by editor r. Thomas Fortune, an old race
leader as all the niger press OF his
kind say and approve.
ut cost tons of blood to put the
Fifteenth Amendment into the Con-
stituton, and it will cost tens of tons
to put it out. You must organize
and keep your powder dry in order to
demand an eye for an eye and tooth
for tooth in the great crisis when
will soon be upon the negro, in which
much blood may be spilled. The first
gun Of the fight was fired at the
Montgomery conference.
III the negro wants his rights in the
South. he must fight for them, or he