The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-03
BUT THEY ARE ORGANIZED
Holton Is Collecting a Dollar From
Each One.
COLLECTIONS TAKEN IN THE LODGES
Negroes Drilled for Registration and Taught
Tricks That They Think May Succeed
in Getting Their Names on
The Books.


tional facts about the effort OF Hoi-
ton to raise campaign fund by as
sessing each colored voter one doiiar'
1.-THE money" my negro Informant
saws. sis raised through the lodge OF
club. AS I understand it from wna'
has been given out in the lodges here'
no wants as to give one dollar each TO
helm defeat the Amendment by when
it is proposed to take away our rlght
n, vote: but. that. part about it's belng
TO buy a white mans vote. I've unaer-
stood all along that that was put III
bv the man in the lodge who makes
the announcement, and not written
in q letter by Holton. ~
"Of course" he added, 1 doh
know. but that has been my IDEA
about it all along.
When asked what he meant by say
ing that the money was collected at
lodge or club meetings, the negro
went on to say
"Yeu white people seem to be under
the impression that the negro, be
cause he is keeping quiet, is dong
nothing in this campaign. Now JUST
let me tell YOU, you never made q big
ger mistake in your life. The negro
was never. unless it was Just after the
war in Union League. days, so well
organized as now. Lodge or cluo
meetings are held almost every night.
/. They are in a measure secret. Inc
members are told how to register
They are trained and drilled just as
If thew were in school. And at the
head of them here in Raleigh is jim
Young and others of the better edu-
Gated negroes.
ITO insure registration in doubtful
cases the negro is instructed In these
meetings to become loud-mollthed
advocate for some local candidate,
preferably one or two of the county
officers. He is to go around declar-
ing his intention to vote for these
candidates, and saying hard things
about negroes who are not going 10
do likewise They hope bv this
method to insure their registration.
Congressman John f. Kelley. of
South Dakota. was in the city vester-
day He arrived Sunday. coming at
the solicitation of the Populist Chair
man Butler. to stump the State for
the Populist ticket and against the
Constitutional Amendment. His It'll
nerary begun Yesterday and continues
two weeks. He am Senator Butler
speak together at a number Of places.
On being asked about Kellv's mis-
sion. Hal Aver said yesterday:
HE is a fine fellow. so / hear. end
IS a fine Constitutional expounder.
r l. oh hi az
cent what has been published"
Mr.. Aver could not say when CIV
clone Davis, of Texas, would reach
the State. or whether he would at all
or not. He will know about rfis to-.
day, he saws: IT Cyclone comes it will
be as a visiting statesman. and he
will work for the Populist party and
against the Amendment as the Others
have done whom the Populist have
sent into the State to tell North Caro-
linians how to vote.
Mr.. r. L. Alternately, of Beaufort,
was in the city Sunday. IS.
"We'll carrv Carteret county by
hard work. he said. ut ic Collector
Duncan's home county. you know
and he's doing all in his power to win
there-but he'll never do it. Cv
Thomson spoke at Beaufort Saturday
at the Populist county convention
and tried TO get them to fuse with
the Republicans, but thew declined
to do SO, putting out a full ticket.
The Western Vindicator saws Capt.
w. T. r, Bell, of Rutherfordton will
this week begin the canvass of Jones.
Carteret. Pamlico and Onslow coun- |
ties in behalf of White Supremacy.
The Vindicator adds:
with his coat off he will make it
hot for the advoeates of negro rule
in that section. He carries with him
greetings from the white men of the
West and the promise of redemption
for the negro-ridden counties i'm the
East. when the ballots are counted
in North Carolina"