The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-31

Referring to Prltchard'S charge that
the amendment would disfranchlse
Confederate Veterans he said:
when a man tells you this he is
what the Bible terms liar and the
truth is not in him. The amendment
will disfranchise 100000 negroes, but
not one single white man will lose his
vote-and Butler and Pritchard know
it.
"We want peace in North Carolina;
we are going to have peace. If nee
essary we'll do like Private John Al
len says they do in Mississippi on the
morning of election-fire q cannon to
give notice that it is to be a peacea-
BILE election. But until you settle
this race question there can be no
peace. You may expect a repetition
of the Wilmington riot. You may eX-
pect sooner or later a race war. 1t
may not come this year, or next year,
but it will come. This question will
not down. We must settle it and
there is no better time to do it than
right now"
Among the other blessings and ben
eficial effects to come from the adOp-
ton of the amendment, Mr.. Pou said:
'It will stop traffcing and trading
in politics, such as we see now in
the Fusion ticket, with two men on
it who voted for Jim Young"
He told how Mississippi, Louisiana,
Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas
and other Southern States had settled,
and were about to settle, the negro
question.
Suppose you defeat this amend
ment what have you got? The one
spot of territory between Maryland
and the Rio Grande in which negro
can vote and hold office over a white
man. Do you think negro will stay
in Virginia where he can't vote when
he can step over into Person county
and become a magistrate. Do you
think Cuff will stay in South Carolina
when by crossing the line in Rich
mond county and putting on a long
tail coat he can become a school com
mitteeman."
In conclusion the speaker made a
powerful appeal to his hearers 70 go
to the polls on Thursday and do their
full duty, and he predicted Il great
victory.
"I've been from one end of the
State to the other and | want to tell
you that we are going to win next
Thursday. Here's my prediction. I'm
willing for you to take down my tlg-
ures. I'll stand by them.
''There'll be $4,000 majority for the
amendment.
''There'I be $4,000 majority for our
candidate for Governor.
I'VE are going to elect So members
of the House, and probably more.
''We are certain of 81 Senators and
probably 42.'
Mr.. Brooks speech was short one,
but it was. like Mr.. Pou's, a good one
the straight stuff.
He began by saying that there have
been three solutions to the negro
question proposed in North Carolina.
"The Republicans say he must vote
and hold office but he must not take
part in nominating conventions. 70
this we reply that if negro hasn't
got sense enough to take part in an
ordinary Radical convention, he hasn't
got sense enough to vote in elections
at the polls.
"The Populists say he must vote but
but he must not be allowed to hold
office. That suits a Populist exactly.
He wants monopoly of the offices.
But to it we reply that the devilment
in office is done not by the voter but
by the man he puts into office.
The Democratic solution is that
the negro shall neither vote or hold
office. He is untitled for either, and
we propose to stop him from it,
Touching the poll tax provision,
Mr.. Brooks said in the course of his
speech:
"For a quarter of century we have
been paying poll tax to educate and
care for the negro, and the negro has
been paying nothing. We propose to
stop that. As Mr.. Aycock says, a
bird that can sing and won't sing
ought to be made to sing, and there
are $4,000 black birds in North Car
DINA that we propose to make twitter
just little bit
He spoke of the value of the educa-
tional qualification clause, concluding
his remarks by saying:
''When you put the education of
the children in the hands of mothers
you'll have noble, generous man
hood; and in that manhood there'll
be no such men as Butler and those
that run after him.
1.-The womanhood of North Carolina
is for this amendment, she is for elm
mating the negro vote, she is for
raising the educational standard.
Touching objections to the amend
ment offered by the Fusionists, Mr..
Brooks said:
Now the Fusionists are talking
great deal about the poor white
men," About him they are crying
tears big as your fist. What do we
find? When they came into office
and got control of the Legislature
they turned out 800 white justice of
the peace and put in their place 800
negroes. They turned out white
school committeeman and appointed
negroes. This is the kind of love the
Fusinoists have for "the poor white
man."
1--WE have no enmity toward the ne
gro. / would not hurt a kink on his
head, but this is the white mans
country and the white mans going
to rule it. The negro has been a
source of trouble and annoyance ever
since he's been in America. Before
the war he was so high that few men
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