The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-10
PRITCHARD's PLANS OF a WHITE
HOLOCAUST.

The republican wire-pullers and ira
ders are making a bold, bad fight for
office and filings. They know if they
go under this year that their reign Of
wickedness in North Carolina ends
forever. We give them all due credit
for energy, resource. and determina-
ton. Their rotten ship is storm-tossed.
and there is many a rent in their
dilapidated sails, but they stick to theI
deck, and while Haunting skull and
crossbones to denote the piratical char
acter of their craft, they are pouringI
forth a heavy fire upon the grand old
ship Constitution, manned by brave
and worthy democrats.
The democrats are united and reso-l
lutte and active and vigilant. They are
standing out for honest government
under strictly white rule. So united
are they, and so noble and command
ing their cause is, they are drawing toI
their help hundreds of the most intel
ligent, most observant, most worthy Of
the republicans, while thousands Of
populists, who are too honest and self
respecting to follow any more the IN
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treacherous fellow as Butler, are align
ing themselves with their old demo-
cratic friends to try to save the state.
White Supremacy is the ringing call
to action, to service. No more negro
rule of Anglo-Saxons and men of other
lands who are of the ancient Aryan|
race.
The action of the legislature last
year in behalf of White Supremacy
gave great satisfaction to the men who
believe in the rule of intelligence and
virtue. The movement was very pop
ular, very catching. As has been stat
ed. the white - le of the state were
nearer of one MINI than they had ever
been before. Populists and republicans
signifed their approval generally.
Many leaders among them announced
their support. Others declared their
acquiescence. 1t looked TX all the
white people were going to join forces
to carry the amendment through at the
polls. Indeed. it was said that Senator
Butler was going to advocate 1t, and
l many republicans of influence asserted
that it was the very best thing for the
interests of their party that the ignor-
ant negro should be eliminated from
politics. Among them we will mention
here only Hon. Thomas Settle, E. V.
Cox, D. G. W.. Reynolds, Thomas
!, Argo, Thomas Devereux, Colonel A.
w. Shaffer, Major Joshua Hill, Valley
Pace, - Mason, Joseph Perry, of
u Moore, etc.
] If Jeter Pritchard, late of Tennessee,
had not lived, or had not been in the
U. S. senate, it is very doubtful If the
black radicals in North Carolina would
have attempted much of a figure in
opposition to the reign of law and the
supremacy Of the white race. Butler
had to do something to save his ba-
CON-" and so he began his schemings,
which have grown with the passing
!, lays. He is a cunning fellow, evidently
of low instincts, or he would not be
practicing the game that now gag
him n his li~eutenants. He talked
with republican senators ever hostile
to the south and North Carolina and
there were considerations outside of
4 North Carolina. The republican party
j had need Of the negro voter in Ohio,
in Indiana and elsewhere at the north,
and it was feared that il the republic
cans in North Carolina did not make
a great show of helping the negroes in
North Carolina, the negroes in those
states would not help them. In those
e states the negro vote is important to
the republican party, and if McKinley's
! administration should lose their favor
he could not expect to carry those
states. And out of that las grown the
y trouble now menacing the white race
in North Carolina. To elect that arch
enemy and Force bill advocate, Nc
i Kinley, North Carolina must be kept
under negro control and have the necks
heel Of black bosses. North Carolina
must be Inundated. trodden under the
feet of the African, despised, hurt in
all Of its greatest interests, but what
care the nefarious radical rough riders
so they are in the saddle. They will
laugh at the whites in the lust as the
ride by when their calamity
4 It was because of little McKinley's
political necessities that the Tennessee
!. boss began to stir up the negro ques-
ton in the U. S. senate, and soon a
foul coalition was formed. As hereto
fore said. Pcitchard broke ground with
a resolution that the proposed amend
ment was contradictory to the federal
!, constitution. He and Senator Butler
work in couples. They fused and got
j the two -senatorships between them.
d and they have been fusing ever since
SenatorBut Ter getting a portion of the
y postmasters and deputy collectors for
his populist followers from the Nc
n Kinley administration.
! Whatever of bad and tricky and