The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-11-27

aEenota their new southern cohNei'o'
for southern Republicans are al me-.
all %lllvwhites and have no use 1or ,ne
negro in politics. southern hePuDn
cans nave been under the pan soclS
ever since the war. ana theS ~
that it is because they are
with the negro. Captain Lowry Is
riobt when he SAYS: But for the ne
ORC in politics the Republican party
WWould have a good chance to capture
and hold the south The captain IS a
Renublican-a Tennesseean, a Oeor-
oian. a banker. and has Travelled much'
and his party up North ought to give
WEIGHT to his opinions. He IS a gentle
man. a man Of integrity, and STANDS
HIGH in financial circles all over the
country. Financially he is a success
and liberal with his money, put VIII
not take Carnegie's advice and give II
all away before he dies. Yes, the mig
ger is still in the wood pile, ana the
Joke of it is the niger don't know II.
There are not a dozen negroes IN inns
country who car a straw ABOUT Not-
ing. If the white office-seekers would
let them alone they wouldn't go about
the polls on election day. What is
wanted is to purify the candidates. IL
this can be done in Atlanta. why not
elsewhere? We all rejoiced over the
election of Major Minis, for he ran 1or
mavor as a gentleman and had no
| heelers nor would he ask any man for
his vote or allow any corrupt election
eering by his friends. He s~tubbOrniy
refused to promise anything to any
body. and, strange to say, was eject
ed. But the Republican party is grow
ing very fast in this election, and will
GROW into responsibility if they Will
Jo4 +Io o1nnn Mr. Lowry is
right. Some years ago when we had
suffered a similar defeat my friend
Newt Tumlin was greatly distressed.
and told me in a whisper that there
was only one way to get even with
them. and hat was to iine 'em. Well,
there are lots of folks jining 'em
round in these parts, and 1t IS hafd 10
tell who is a Democrat, and who IS not
| They tell me that a Democratic office
holder and two of the executive COM
mittee of this county voted for Mckln
ley and our n~eighboring county OF
Polk went for him by 500 ma Jorlty.
Maybe that is an evolution that Will
stop the threatened reduction of our
representation, for our Republican
friends don't want that to happen any
more than we do, and they will file
q protest and fight it.
What we want at the South is to
preserve our good name, our historic
| honor and our traditions. A section
that has produced Washington, JEFF
ferson. Madison. Monroe, Jackson and
POLK. as presidents, Clay and calhoun
and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and
, President Davis must old up her
| proud head and vindicatc her II
! Who are we? We import no foreign
ers to do our work. and hire no Hes
=, - l. ~,-, q +,n IJoxv. liI NV
hearts burn within us as we read the
brave words Of General Evans TO the
Confederate veterans at Augusta: DO
not let the history we have made be
prevented by partisan pens or polluted
by sectional slime. Our schools must
be cleared of northern ubbish dump
ed into the minds of our children. We
want d literature that will o on
tinue divisions. but will contain the
honest relation of facts, that will uni
fly the youth of this country i'll COM
mo- appreciation Of the truths of his
tory"
Yes, we have been shamefully care
less in the selection of our school
books. The poison has already crept
in and must be elected. There should
be a school commission in every south
crn State, for it is a well-known fact
that there are teachers who arc secret
ly paid by northern publishers to get
their books into our schools. We can-
not control their literature, but we
| can their school books. \ few weeks
ago an artful canvasser visited our
town with an attractive history of the
world in ten volumes. He was the
out-talkin2ist book agent | have ever
met, and his scheme was to give away
five or Sin sets in every town to in
t1uential men of culture. He called it
! giving away, but required the cost of
the binding, which he said was $14.OO.
The sale price was $500. [ was Sc
lected by him as one of the favored
six, and he fed me literally on flat
terry and assured me that there was
not Il line in all the volumes that any
southern man would object to nor
could any reader tell whether the au-
thors lived North or South. He had
one volume as a sample. and noted
that the authors were distinguished
professors in some northern colleges.
The volume was well written and /
was pleased with it and with the price
and the f~attery and so | put my name
down with the condition that on ex-
animation of the other volumes !
might accept o. reject. In due time
they came, and | tool in the ninth vol
ume that contained the history Of our
civil war. The book was opened AT
random and there was an engraving
OF William II. Seward and the first
paragraph read: III had hardly got
installed into office when he was con-
1roEfed by three audacious commits
sloners from the rebel States.' Auda-
clous. Just think of it. | was mad
and got up and walked about and then
played on the piano a little and then
opened the book again at Mr.. Cal
aouns plc!nre and read another para
graph, which said that there was b1t
nttle difference between Calhoun and
oohn brown, for they were both ia
hatics and would go down in history
on the same plane. Of course tho
DOCKS were rejected, but the agent has
- lhliuehce as d cultured gentleman.
-llmeo Dances f%orentes dora" RE
ware OF the Grecians when they come
with gifts" and beware of histories
published by northern. houses ,n1ecs