Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-25
Representative White Cannot Remain
in North Carolina.
WILL REMOVE TO The NORTH
He Intends to Prevail Upon Ne
groes Generally to Leave.
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the second district of North Carolina, which
he has represented in the Fffty-fifth and
Ffty-sixth congresses. The events that
have taken place in the old north state dur
ing the past two years have been respon-
sble for this determination on the part of
Mr.. White. who not only will abandon po-
litical life. but will leave his native state
and locate In some northern city, probably
New York. and resume the practice of law,
which he pursued for twenty years, and at
which he made comfortable living.
Mr. White still owns property and has
his home in North Carolina, and he will re-
tain his legal residence there until he has
settled in some northern state, and after
the constitutionaity of the North Carolina
election law has been tested in the courts
He was born in North Carolina in 1852. and
after attending the public schools at his
home he was graduated from Howard Uni
versity In this city. He has been a men,
Der of the house and senate of the legsla-
ture of his state and was delegate to the
nomination of Mr.. Mckinley. For eight
years he was solicitor and prosecuting at
torney for the second judicial district of
North Carolina and had very extensive
practice
VIII Not he n Candidate.
Although the second congressional dis
trtSt of North Carolina is in the "black
belt Mr.. White does not think any repub-
lican can get certificate Of election from
that district, regardless of the way the
ballots are cast. When the convention was
held in the second district last May for the
election Of delegates to the national repub-
lican convention which met in Philadelphia
the executive committee of the republican
committee of the district was empowered to
make nomination for Congress. That
committee will meet in about two weeks,
but, owing to the condition of affairs in
North Carolina, Mr.. White has decided that
he will not allow his name to be considered
in connection with the nomination. The
last colored man in Congress and the only
representative of his race in that body dur
Jig the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Con-
crosses was in the city today and talked
to a Star reporter about his future plans
and his view on the race question in this
country. He has had his family in New
Jersey during the past summer, his wife
being very i'll result of the excitement
that has lately attended her husbands po-
liucal life.
Mr.. White States His Reasons.
II cannot live in North Carolina and be
a man, and be treated as man." said Mr..
White. I'm my intercourse with the bar OF
North Carolina in the past l have never
been made to feel that / was on different
plane with any one else because I was a
colored man, but I know that cannot be 90
any longer. l expect to practice law In New
York and If not there, then will locate
in some state up this way. l have made UP
nv mind in the last three or four days
not to be a candidate for denomination to
Congress.
~ have three reasons for this determine
tfon," said Mr.. White. I'm the first place,
my wife's health has been wrecked on ac-
count of the maliciousness Of the political
attacks made on me, and l am sure the ex-
citement of another campaign for re-elec-
ton would kill her. Secondly. / am salts
fled I could not secure a certificate If
were elected. and thirdly, 1 must devote
myself to some employment that pays me
money. l have not sufficient means to
carry on a political fight that can only
prove expensive.
MY wife is refined and educated woman
and she has suffered terribly because Of the
attacks that have been made on me. She is
now i'll in New Jersey. and I am afraid
she will be invalid for long time. l
have been the target for those who have
been fighting against the negro race in
North Carolina and nothing has been too
hard to say of me.
Il do not care to have a contested cleo
ton case. / know what they ] will
step aside and devote my time to practicing
law and l think l get along. l am
afraid 1t VIII be long time before there Is
another colored man in Congress, and
think 1t is shameful condition that one
eighth of our population should be denied
a representation in the person of some
member of their race The colored people
have been faithful AS srvants and faithful
as citizens. There are always criminal
classes wherever you go. but take the mass
of the colored people and they will be found
to be law abiding people and true to their
friends.
Il will vote in North Carolina in Novem-
Der. l have property there, and l do not
propose to break up my home there until
the constitutionality OF the election law has
been tested In the courts. The new law
does not go into effect until 1902, but 1t is
a duplicate in most respects Of the Louis
lana law, and l have been retained as cOun-
sci to test that law, and after the coming
elections case will be made out, and II
will be carried through the courts.
VIII Encourage Immigration.
The result of the constitutional amend
ment Of North Carolina will be that the
state will lose $1,000 of its colored people
in the next eight ten years. You must
remember, this restrictive measure against
the negro is not really political. The polit-
ica1 part Of 1t is a mere subterfuge. and is
a means for the general degradation Of the
negro. My plan is to advise and encourage
the immigration of the negroes OF North
Carolina to the west and north but espe-
cally to the west. / do not want to see
them colonized anywhere, for that would
result in a repetition Of what has taken
place in North Carolina and the south gen.
orally. ] think they should lose themselves
among the people of the country. few
families should settle here and few there.
Then their children will be better educated.
But the bulk Of the colored people must Of
necessity remain in the south and l think
this plan Of immigration will not only ben
eft those who leave the south, but those
who remain there as well. This immigra-
ton should be systematic, and a home
should be provided for a colored family be-
fore they leave their old homes in the south.
There should be no wholesale removal"
Should Become Farmers.
Where do you think they should go and
what should they do?" he was asked.
''Our people are agricultural, and think
the vast west is the place for them. In
the east and north they can only be do
nestle servants, but IL they want to plant
themselves as a part of the country they
| should go on a farm and own their own
homes That is what the ambitious man
should do, but If he wants to be servant
and a dude the hotel is perhaps the best
place for him. / believe that a third or a
half of the colored population of North
Carolina will leave the state eventually
1t will take some time
How about coloniZing the colored peo-
pie in some section Of the country, as has
been proposed?'
II have no patience of talk about COL
oniztng the colOred people in some separate
state OF territory. What Is good for the
white man is good for the colored man.
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