Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-03-01
POINTS pOLITIcAL
WHAT THE LEADERS ARE
DOING.
A NeWsy Letter From the State
Capital on the Trend OF
State Politics.
Especial Correspondence

out great numbers of copies of ex
tracts from Senator Moneys great
speech on the Constitutional Amend
ment, which is a reply to Senator
Pritchard. Mr.. Simmons has hac
the printing done here.
Senator Money says the Amend
ment is not unconstitutional; that
if the Fifth Section falls, the Fourth
will fall with it; that the white PEG.
pie are justified in preserving their
civilization.
He declares negro suffrage a fail
ure and cities the experiment. of ne
gre suffrage in Hayti, Jamaica and
Natal. Congressman Bellamy's
sworn statement about conditions
in Wilmington in 1897 and in 1898 is
also cited.
Pritchard's resolution is an at
tempt to int1midate. Why is the law
not tested on a case from Louisiana?
Money explains the small vote in
certain Southern States, saying that
IN 1890 Massachusetts,, with 665, 900
voters, only polled 285,OO0 votes.
Connecticut, with pa, 900 voters,
only polled 125, 900 votes. Ten thous-
and North Carolina negroes moved
to Mississippi the year after the pas
sage Of the Mississippi franchise
amendment.
Chairman Simmons is also sending
to the various County Chairmen the
Constitution and bylaws for the
White Supremacy Clubs. He says he
expects by the middle of Juneto see
at least 1000 of these clubs in exis-
tence.
In the pseface Mr.. Simmons says:
"Our State is the only community in
the world with a majority of white
voters where it is seriously proposed
to take the control of the public af-
fairs Of the State out Of the hands of
the white people and commit them
to a political combination composed
chiefly of negroes and dominated al
most entirely by negro influence.
By the united effort of the good
white people of the State, irrespec-
tive of party, in 1898, the State was
rescued from negro rule and the
Amendment of the Constitution to be
voted upon by the people in Au-
gust is submitted for tie purpose Of
forever removing the danger of re
currence of negro ascendancy in the
State.
The necessities for the continued
cooperation of the white people of
the State for self protection is shown
by the fact that the party which SO
recently negroized the State, and
which for this and it's other short
comings was hurled from power in
1898, is again seriously asking the
people to restore it to the control of
the State, and actually INDUCES the
hope that, with the aid of 10000
negro votes solidly cast for it, it may
succeed in regaining control of the
government"
AS was predicted last week, Sena
tor Butler has carried out his plan
to have the Populist National Com
mittee nominate BryanfO President
and a Populist for Vice-President
He does this to force, or rather tc
try to force. the Democratic hand
He will fail as badly as he did in
this State in 1898, when the Demo
cratic Convention turned down his
proposals for fusion.
Republicans r now giving free
rein to talk about the fusion ticket
in this State, and are saying Butler
will be the nominee for Governor
and Spencer B. Adams for Lieut..
Governor. Attorney General Wal
ser in speaking about this matter
said: "You see Butler would at one.
be made Senator and then Adams
become Governor" The Republican
can say they are taking no chances
with Butler; that they would not &C
into any deal Or combination will
him unless they knew he was Undue
ed by powerful sel1-interest to d.
what they want done; that he know
this year his supreme struggle mus
be made; that -he must co-operat
with them fully. They say he dc
ceived Pritchard in 1895 and the
they will never give him anothe
chance. In fact, in 1894 he made
sort of contract nrapared by othe