The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02

DloW. EVERY known fact AMI circurr
men, who though they were Republican
ganization has not abandoned the struggh
for negro suffrage, but that they ar
ready to renew it on national lines at th
earliest possible moment. If it is not 81
why is the Prtchard resolution aimed a
the Amendment new pending in the Sen
ate. Why is the Crumpacker bill nendinr
in the House?
WOULD WORK OUR UNDoING.
Why does the platform of the nationa
Republican party condemn the disfran-
chisement of the negroes? Why do the
opponents of Democracy say that the Au-
gust election was OF no effect? Suppose
that the State should be carried for Nc.
Kinley by the negro vote and Mckinley
is elected, does any sane man believe that
the Republican party will not attempt to
destroy law which disfranchises the
bulk of the voters by whose support they
carried the State? Do we want an enemy
of the Amendment in the White House? {?
The religious editors and ministers, who
demand that the race conflict shall cease
-let them turn their attention to the Re-
publican party. Let them admonish our
opponents to defeat the Crumpacker bill
and the Pritchard resolution, and strike
from their platform the declaration that
breathes forth the Republican partys an
cient ard rancorous hatred OF the South.
Let them pluck the ballots from the
hands of one hundred and twenty thou
sand negroes.
Let them require some assurance that
the warfare for negro suffrage is ended
for good and all, and that no measure OF
revenge upon the South will be undertake
en-. Their idea of stopping the contest is
to hold the Democrats while the Repub-
licans keep on fighting. They have woe-
fully misunderstood the spirit and pur-
poses of the Republican party. The inof-
fensive Republicans offer the Democrats
the pipe of peace, while they themselves
bury the tomahawk-in the Democratic
PARTY. Is the Republican candidate for
President one who would lead an ANTI
SOUTHERN CRUSADE?
MsKINLEY'S POSITION EXAMINED.
We make the charge that he has in the
past taken sides with the Southern black
man against the Southern white man
Our opponents tell us the negro is not an
issue and must not be mentioned. We an
swer that the people of North Carolina
have a right to know what manner OF
man the Republican party asks them to
support for the highest office in the gift
of the nation. Why do the open and Sc
cret sympathizers OF William Mckinley
insist so vehemently that his attitude
towards the South and his conduct toward
the negro must not be examined and
dragged to the light? If there Is nothing
Objectionable in his public acts, an inves-
tigation will help, not hurt him. Are they
carrying on a political campaign by try
ing to prevent the public from finding cut
what a great statesman he really is, and
what great benefits he has conferred upon
the Southern States? Here is indeed
scriptural charity-concealing from the
right hand what the left hand did. What
harm can come from revealing the facts
since they are facts? Happen what may,
the Democratic party of North Carolina
will be faithful to their State.
THE REAL FRIEND OF THE STATE.
They stand ready to defend it's honor
against all corners. Unless they quail
now and finch as they have never done
in all their glorious past, they will be
as harsh as truth. They will be as un-
as justice. They are in
earnest, and they shall be heard" And
those gentlemen of the religious press,
and those leaders OF religious thought
who, with the rurest motives and the best
intentions, labor under philanthropie
hallucination when they imagine that the
venomous hatred OF the Republican party
q
supplanted by the milk OF human kind
ness, or that in their hearts they do not
cherish the purpose of renewing the
struggle for negro suffrage and it's
blight and curse-those ministers and
those leaders may as well understa that
they are not over-lords to issue perempto-
ry commands to the Democratic party
They and the Mckinley sympathizers and
supporters, if needs be, can join
the enemies of Democracy.
McKINLEY's BLACK RECORD.
But should defeat come out OF it. and
another era Of South batting and South
the people of North Carolina
will know whom to hold responsible The
charge is that William Mckinley has been
the friend of the Southern black man, and
the enemy OF the Southern white man.
What is there to sustain the charge? lie
was a soldier and fought for the Union
Let that go 1t is to his credit He was
not one OF those who ceased to fight
when the battle was over and the sword
was sEeathed" His record in Congress
proves =. He was SUPPORTER OF
THE FORCE BILL that outrageous and
measure which was designed to
place the negro's heel upon the neck of
the Southern people, and restore the hor-
rcrs and infamies of reconstruction. It
to hedge about the polls in the
Southern States with bristling lines of
Federal bayonets under which the white
men Of the South were to march up to
the ballot box, as the conquered enemies
OF victorious Rome passed under the yoke
OF upright spears in token of their defeat
and shame. Had it been passed. elections
in the South would have been farce and
Was the force bill real danger. or only
a feigned issue upon which the 1.-TWO old
parties" fought "sham battle?" Many
of the Mckinley supporters and the Nc
Kinley sympathizers thought the peril
deadly and imminent. They said So Have
the scenes and incidents of that memor-
able struggle faded from the public mind?