The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-04-13
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We notice in the papers of the state
evidences of some Little bitterness be
ing engendered into the contests by the
friends OF certain candidates. This
will not do. II ever il was necessary
for the democratic party in North Car
olina 20 stand as an unit ii Is supreme
Iy so in this year OF grace 1900 III ever
and concord was necessary
for glorious success. y is necessary
now. L viii never do TO allow the an
cry passions TO be by the pro
convention contests-Smithfieid her
aid.
OF course the ignorant negro. am
those no- ignorant who hanker after
office, will not support the constfiu-
tional amendment. as IL is intended TO
strike at these two classes. But w
do expect TO see a good many OF the
more intelligent negroes, who are not
prejudiced against the white people,
support the amendment. In fact We
ave heard some say that they would
support it But whether they support
IL or not the ndm Is going to
be carried. as the people of the state
who want to see a Clean and eConomi-
cal state government, are determined
in this matter, and without malace TO
any one they have gone into the fight
10 win--Salisbury Times.
Linney is trying to pose as a martyr.
He says THAI If urged on him he viii
make the race for congress, knowing
at the time that he will be sacrafcing
himself for his party He avs my
district is about 1900 republican, but 1
shall be counted out" Linney mistakes
the facts. SO as 10 pose as a martyr.
The last vote in the present Sth dis
trict, Linney's district, shows that it
is about even. n authority giving 81
democratic majority, and another Civ
ing 81 republican majority. This cleo
ton, too, was held under Linney's W
election law, under which law his par
ty imported negroes from Virginia and
South Carolina.-Wilkesboro Chroni-
Gle.
Raleigh Pos tells of a lily white re-
publican having been held
at GoldsborO Tuesday. and of Major
Grant having made a speech in which
he declared against the amendment
but against negro supremacy also. and
said that when the test of his repub-
hcaniSm was made that he should vote
for a negro or give up his republican
ism, he would give up his republican
ism" He was opposed, he said, to ne
groes holding office, and told the ne
groes that their cOlored Congressman
White was an enemy to their race. The
negro's cause must indeed be a dying
III IiC oeStIlS 1T
Observer.
The negroes are taking little inter-
est in the coming election. they have
faith in God and believe that He will
direct all things.-Raleigh Blade NE
gro Organ.) All the same it will b.
we'll for the advocates of white SUI
premacy to be early at the polls, and
to poll a full vote for the amendment.
Out. of the 1900 0 negro voters, at least
119,949 will be on hand to vote solid
as their bosses direct. Fifty may b.
sick and one may not vote at all.
Whenever the negro leaders say that
the negro is taking little interest in
the election" look out for a full solid
negro vote.-Raleigh News and Obser-
yer.
Unrestricted negro suffrage was a
gift of the then hostile North to the
PROSTATE south. 1t was not a thing
that the south desired; it is not a
thing it ever can desire while the
white man remains here and enjoys
the heritage of his fathers. An oppor
tunity is offered to the white men OF
North Carolina, by the adoption of the
pending amendment, to eliminate the
vicious and ignorant negro vote, and
make sure that our state shall forever
be in the hands of the descendants OF
the men who made it a lustrous StaI
among the immortal thirteen that
adorned the first flag, and who have
twice rescued it from peril since negr
suffrage has brought it to shame. Ii
is passing strange why any well in
formed white man without & selfish
! purpose to serve can oppose the amend.
ment. A similar provision is in effect il
three southern states already.-Clin-
tor Democrat.
Although the negroes compose only
about one-third of the population Of
this state, yet at elections they hold
the balance of power whenever there
is any serious division among the white
men. They vote in a solid a jus
as they are told, and do not divide theil
votes like the white men do. Thus, by
a division mons the whites III by
the Solidity of h negroes, the lattel
WELD a political power far created
than their numbers entitle them. AND
80 it happens that, although there ar
twice as many white voters in NORTH
Carolina as there are negro voters, tn,
latter have always been, ever since the,
were enfranchised, a disturbing anC
dangerous elemen in Jul state poll
tics. The Solidity of their votes-thei
voting as a solid m~ass-enables a small
minority of the whites to outvote an
defeat O. large majority of the whites
-Pittsboro Record.
OF all the crimes charged against tn
fusionists, their bringing the judiciar.
into contempt by making judges on
of incompetent men is One of the wors
There are now men on the bench il
this state who are not only a disgrac
to the bench but to the state; am
there are now, as The Observer says
men being named for public places II
this state who are VIGOROUSLY incom
petent and unfit. We recall that on
man is being urged for a state ofic
who, if we recolleot Alright, is know
to the public chiefly as an Alliance lee
turer in the palmy days of hat order
and as a singing school teacher. An
other named for the same office is no
toriously unfit in various ways. Blu
We are inclined to think thai the news
papers are responsible for much of thi
that is, so far as the democratic par
ty Is concerned. They either boon
through their papers or allow other
to do SO, men whom they know ar
unworthy and incompetent to fill tn
ftic they seek--Statesyille Land