The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-04
LEADERS OF THE BLACK AND TAN

The revenue doodles who made up
the Republican convention succeeded
admirably in reducing the number of
negro delegates in the State conven-
ton. 1t cost a deal of money and
much time to induce the negro ito
get a little further from the road,
but the negro saw that it was better
to take back seat this year (espec-
tally as many of the negro bosses are
in office in order to get running
start to take charge better than ever
in 1900.
Though giving the negro back
seat. the Republican took care to
nominate ticket that would be sat
isfactory TO the negro voters, because
the solid negro vote is what the Re-
publicans know they must have in
order to have the chance of winning.
From top to bottom it is ticket that
will please the negro and at the same
time disgust white folks who believe
in white government.
The head of the ticket is properly
one Of the "non-partisan Judiciary"
the most ignorant man the Republi-
cans ever nominated for Governor of
the State. Proof: Recently in public
speech in Chatham county he declar-
ed that no man could vote in North
Carolina prior to 1868 unless he owned
property, and that it was the Republi-
can party in that year of negro dis
reimbursement that gave the ballot
flo men who did not own property.
There isn't a magistrate-even one Of
the 1895 or 1897 breed, who would
have thus exposed his ignorance. But
Mr.. Adams has a record that will
please the negroes. For a number of
years he held the position of Clerk of
the Superior court of Caswell county
"a negro county-and always advo-
Gated the nomination of negroes on
the county ticket. succeeding on more
than one occasion i'm having a negro
elected to represent that good county
in the Legislature. That record is
his chief source of availability.
But he has another strong point.
He has slandered every white man in
North Carolina who has made speech
for White Supremacy. In political
harangue. falsely called a charge,
which he made to the grand jury of
Columbus county in August 1898. he
uses these vile and slanderous words:
Nine times out of ten, if you will
chase down the fellows who are going
about trying to stir up race prejudice,
you will find them sleeping with a
negro woman" OF course he had
reference to the men who were then
on every stump urging the white peo-
pie to take off the yoke of negro rule.
and it was so understood by all who
heard the vulgarian prostitute his po-
sition on the bench to such base ends.
That's the kind of fellow the Black
and-Tan party put up for Governor
of this great commonwealth. White
men will repudiate him and the best
class of negroes would do the same
thing if they voted like men instead
of voting like sheep.
. AS the running mate of this vulgar
demagogue, the Republican conven-
ton named a Docbery. of the county
of Richmond, by name Claudius. HIS
chief claims to the honor thrust upon
him is that he was leader in the
Republican House in 1897 and was
largely responsible for the legislation
that negroized the State. One act of
the Richmond county candidate that
stands out alone all others is this,
and for it the negroes will ever love
him. He was chairman or spokesman
Of a steering committee that had in
hand the distribution of spoils. He
waited on Mr.. Swinson. the Fusion
Enrolling Clerk, and demanded that
he appoint some negro men as his
assistants. For a time Mr.. Swinson
resisted because there was nothing
for them to do. Dockery didn't care
about a little. thing like that and so
he kept on demanding that Swinson
put the negroes on the pay roll, when
work increased, Docliery made the de-