The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-29

gerous Amendment, but Also to the De.
ceptive::Methods which Were Practicsd
by the Machine to Get Into Power and
Betray Their Pledges.
For the Caucasian
EDWARDS, n. c., March Is, 1900.
1t is singular how 40 many errone-
Gus statements find their way INTO the
press. The local papers here have just
given out that q certain gentleman.
now of Washington City, recently Wis
tied this section of the State, and ny
on his return said that the white pe0
pie here were almost unit for the
the Constitutional Amendment. Sure
ly he could not have made a greater
mistake. Let me relate an instance
that is a straw. showing which way
the wind blows. A jury of IL white mt
chosen from venire from all psrts of
the county, sat in the murder trial OF
State VS.. Green in the February term.
1900, Of Beaufort county Supreme
Court, this Jury was composed of ten
Democrats, one Populist ard one Re.
publican; during one of their reces.es
they without their knowing, each 9TH
er's politics, polled the amendment
sentiment among themselves with
this resul5. Ten were unf1inchingly
opposed and Two in favor of the scheme.
The two favOring were, one Democrat
and one Republican. The opponents
not only declared against il, but also
against those who promised TO dis
franchise no one and who are now ad-
vOcating it's adoption. 1t may be safe
ly said, that this jury stood eleven 50
one, for doubtless the Republicans ad-
vcoacy was prompted by his desire to
see about fifty thousand ~Democrat
disfranchised, land was OF course will
ling to swap one negro for one white
man, victims Of their own folly-this
is the only amendment Republican
heard from in this county. The POpu-
lists are not organizing as a party
against the trick, but we have yeC to
see one not opposed to it, and if this
locality is any criterion by which to
Judge of the rank and file Democrat
the Simmons machine had as well,
first as last, in counting noses, deduct
25 per cent of their hard listed follow.
ers whom they fooled in the campaign
of '9S. AS fast as Tire people become
acquainted with the suffrage scheme
they conclude that section 5 will be re-
jected by the courts, and section 4 left
black man, nor does Judge Browns
rescue section, although endorsed by
Simmons, impress them otherwise than
another dodge to catcn the unsuspect-
ing iliiterate white. The people are
reading and thinking for themselves
and apart from the opinions of great
Constitutional lawyers, they are form
ing their own opinions. which, any
man that can construe an English sen.
tence may corr city do, in this amend
ment matter. There are in our State
about sixty thousand plain common
sense voters, who occasionally shoulder
their hips and turn down the politi-
clans of any party, and it seems that
these are objects Of Mr.. simmons am.
bitioD, as we'll as the unlettered negro
whose domination no sensible man
|, fears. The people know that white su-
premacy Is, and has always been estab.
lished and forever will be, and that
this cry of negro ascendancy is false
and specious, the real object being t.
reach the pie counter.
As coming events cast their shadow;
before them, so does danger Turk be-
hind the proposed educational amend
August next, the people believe viii
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tion, just so sure as night follows day
, indeed this future intention of tn,
Simmons machine is they say, already
/ secretly and confidently whispered
: This additional qualification woulc
: about clean up the negro and take an
other fifty thousand of whites leaving
, the State forever under the control o
political aristocracy. The denunci
atoms of the Goebel-Simmons election
: law are hereabOut bitter in tue ex
. treme and common to all classes aU'
parties-if not amended at the ad
journed session of the legislature il
June next, SO as to insure the people
r free ballot and fair CO INT, there viii
, | be a net time in the old State about IA
: gust, and some one will feel called up
, on to explain how it all happened. Tn
: oosOm of the native Tarheel still glow
. with the fires of '76, he still loves tn
5 old Mecklenburg cradle in which hi
J father was rocked. The great plaiI
: people, as Lincoln was p ,ased to cal
, them, will some time suffer themselve
, to DO driven to the wall, but when o. c,
, there they never fail to turn and crust
, the foe that Expresses them.
: BEAUFORT COUNTY.