The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-06-28

that the Democrats are a more honest
set than We took them for.
The News and Observer is in receipt of
the following invitation:
My Dear Sir: On the 4th day Of July
next, at Laurel Hill church, Scotland
county, there will be a grand picnic, din
ner and gathering of the white people
of this county.
Those will be present who are in ia
vor of the rule of white men and the
preservation OF our homes and firesides.
You and your family, sons and daugh-
tiers, are cordially invited to attend.
Good speakers, fine music, fair women
and brave men will be the order of the
day. God save the State.
FRANK B. GIBSON, Chairman.
R. d. PHILLIPS, Chief Marshal.
Mr.. Walter Fl. Neal, who was is the
city yesterday, says over 1000 of these
invitations have been sent out in Scot
land county alone. Others have been sent
in the adjoining counties and the pros
poets are for an immense gathering on
the Fourth.
Mr.. Samuel L. Rogers, Corporation
Commissioner, arrived in the city yester-
day from the West.
1.-The political condition in my section
he said. sis improving. When the peo-
pie understand the Amendment they do
not hesitate to come out boldly for it.
The Republicans, however, are not idle,
but they are doing their work quietly
discriminating.
Mr. Rogers will be in the city several
days attending the annual June meeting
of the Corporation Commission for the
purpose of fixing the tax valuation of
railroad property in North Carolina. Mr..
Mcneil, the chairman of the Commission,
arrived Tuesday.
Mr.. ]. Bryan Grimes is in the city. He
has been at home for week harvesting
his potato crop, but will now resume his
canvass of the State. Mr.. Grimes will
ask Chairman Simmons to allow him to
spend the month before election in the
Eastern counties near his home.
Jim Terrell, who is a census taker in
Marks Greek, is reported to be devot-
ing most of his time to canvassng against
the amendment. gentleman who was
in that section a few days ago said yes
terday that Terrell would send word
ahead that he would be around to take
the census on a certain day, and that
when he arrived he would devote much
of his time to talking politics. This is
the kind of business many other census
enumerators are engaged in, and it shows
that the Fusionists are using Federal
office holders as their house toulouse
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them plainly that Hanna's pap-suckers
cannot dictate to North Carolina white
folks how they shall vote.
The Hendersonville Hustler, after re-
porting an able and convincing speech
by Hon. Theo. f. Davidson in Hender-
sonvlle, says that when he closed one
Republican said:
1.-THE Republican party will never be
decent party until it gets rid of the ne
gro. For my part | shall vote for the
amendment"
The Hustler says there are many such
in Henderson county.
Mr.. e. w. Pou was here yesterday on
his way home from Chatham county where
he spoke on Tuesday. He thinks there
has decently been much Improvement in
the political condition of that section.
A letter from Lincoln county informs
Mr.. Francis d. Winston, who is here
organizing White Supremacy Clubs, that
in the township in which State Senator
Lowe lives a club has been organized
with a membership of 6S, though there has
never at any time in this township been
more than % Democratic votes cast This
means that 40 white Republicans in the
township will vote for the Amendment.