The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-03

missioners etc, in 1897, out by act of
General Assembly.
Jailer:
b. j. ASKEW, appointed in 1897, by Flu
sion sheriff, w G. Burden. Is now UNI
der Indictment for permitting Cicero Urqu-
hart, a prominent negro politician and
constable and convicted of felony to
escape jail.
AT the first meeting Of the Fusion
School Board, the following was passed.
Ordered that the board proceed to the
election of three white and two colored
men from each district as a committee
of the same"
The following negroes were elected by
districts as follows:
No. Windsor, Granville Cherry and
Primus Outlaw.
No. merry Hill, Geo. Horley and A.
T. Wilson.
No whites, John A. Horley and
Willie Cobb.
No. 4-Colerain, b. ]. Lane and p. II.
Morris.
No. 5-Mitchells, Willis Askew and
Wright Cherry
No. 6.-Roxabel, r. f. Bush and Whit
Peele.
No -Woodville, Lewis Duggan and
j. c. Williams.
No S.-Snake Bite, ]. J. Bazemore and
Dorsey Cherry.
No. 9.-Indlan Wood, Isaac Bond and
Harry Smallwood.
Postmasters:
LEWIS T. BOND, Windsor, N. c., in
office.
ED. CLARKE, Keeford, N. c., in office.
]. c. WILLIAMS, Cahaba N. c., in
office.
+. J. RYAN, Quitsna, n. c., in office.
CHERRY, Drew n. c., in office.
w. E. BENNETT, Powellsville, N. c.,
in office. He succeeded Maud Wynn.
In Vance county, there were in 1858
10 negro magistrates and % negro School
Committeeman, and the Register OF
Deeds, county commissioner and a
member of the school board were negroes
We could take up several other coun-
ties, but these will do as a sample. They
show the extent to which negro rule has
gone in the past.
THE NEGRO ON TOP.
In view of these facts, it is plain that
the negro has become much more influen
tial in dominating the Republican party
than he used TO be; and it is plain in the
Eastern counties of the State, he is al
most exclusively the Republican party.
But Notwithstanding, all this is so plain
that every one can see it and understand
it; the Republican leaders pretend not
TO see it. 1t is all right in their eyes
that the negro should crush the life blood
out of the white communities of the
Eastern counties, if thereby the negro is
kept voter to help the Republican party
in power.
WHAT SENATOR PRITCHARD PRE-
TENDS.
1t is all right in their eyes that the
influence of the negro should be potent
in the administration of public affairs
when the Republicans are in power, If
thereby. the negro voters are kept in line
and by their vote and aid the Republican
party gets control.
They, therefore. pretend that there is
nothing at which white men should COM
plain in all this. And they insist that
there is no negro denomination; that
there is no negro rule; that there has
been none and will be none. Senator
Pritchard stands UP in his place in the
| United States Senate and so asserts, and
he and his aiders and abetters so declare
, on the stump. They declare that there is
! no negro domination; that there has been
| none and will be none. If having negroes
4, to fill all those offices we have mentioned
does not make negro rule, what does it
| make? If it don't put the negro over the
| white man. who does it put over the
white man? ii it is not odious and OPP
pressive and ty-Jhnical and cruel to the
white men to place negroes over them,
and to have all the public offices filled by
negroes, what is it? Pct it is all the
same to Senator Pritchard and his po1iti-
cal clique because they think it is all
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