The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-09-20
HOW IT LOOKS TO TINE unpRsJuo,cro

I0oNo W iHk uNPkEJuUlcE0
ne fdh"r OF , New York R.ispio.,
weekly Writes Of tn. North 1.roI,o,
Erection.
ln7 New York Independent, i'm.
nediately after the election. wrote
10 the Rev. Mr.. McElwsy Of Char
lotte for an article from the Dsmo
cratic standpoint with reference ,e
the campaign and election IN NORTH
Carolina; At the same time they wrot.
70 Senator Butler for an article CIV
ing the other side Both these srti
cies were published in the same issue
OF that j)urnal. Mr.. McElway SET IN
cd TO think the campaign of fore.
aud Intimidation was perfectly pro
p'r and laughed at the intimat,on py
redshirts as a great Joke. With tn.
two articles before him, the Edl,o,
OF the Independent in an editorial
writes as follows:
Two men report to US this week
the conditions OF the late vote in
North Carolina on the constitution
al amendment to disfranchise ne
groes. One OF them is a politician
the other a clergyman. The politi
clan Is indignant at the suppress
Ion by viol, nee of the vote against
the amendment. With him 1t II
not question Of color, for the ter
rorism was exerted against both
whites and blacks; and whit.
speakers, belonging to parties which
control the section Of the State In
which there are 10 negroes, wer.
not allowed to enter the towns
where the redshirts ran the cam
paign, or were hustled out II they
came Senator Butler gees and de
clares that government by the free
vote OF the people has failed in
North Carolina, and that a Senator
will be elected and will 20 to Wash
ington, not tecause the people
wanted him, but because those who
wanted his opponent elected were
not allowed to cast their votes. Ii
is no longer, he says, question
whether negroes shall be allowed
to vote, but whether those born free
shall have the rights of freemen
"The OF her writer is a clergyman,
b 1t We must say that it seems t. Us
that the gospel OF Righteousness is
all with the polite an Mr.. Nc
kelway ass Imes and asserts tn at
the 5 ate, with it's One.third negro
voters, had come under negro dom
inatioD, such that drastic measures
were needed to end il. This Is pure
nonsense. Not a negro candidate
was in the field The Republican
and Popullst leaders who were no,
allowed to speak We're all whit
The number Of negcO policemen
and jus ices Of the peace In North
Carolina two years ago, before the
Wilmington riot, was very small
1t was white men that this revolu.
ton Is directed against, and agains,
negroes because they belong to th
party predominant in the western
part Of the State.
Mr.. McKelway thinks the red
shirt campaign a jaunty kind Of a
farce, An amazing joke on the co :
ored people, a funny way of keep -
ing certain colOred people in n
cealment. The red shirts would
call at a negro house at night and
ask for a man who they knew was
not there, aud the word would go
round that he was wanted, :. nd be
would keep in hiding. Well, is
that funnyi Was 1t funny wnen
as negroes have written us, their
women folk were whipped fol
screaming in their fright? Is il
funny Wien In whole county with
a large negro population, only two
men a cd cast their votes agains,
the amendment? This was no fur
or farce; it was dead earnest, anC
r. sist. This kind Of visits to white
mems homes would have been re
sisted, and we do not believe that
the white mountain men Of North
| Carolina, any more than OF Ken
lucky, mean to submit tamelv t.
the robbery Of their poll ical rights
IAN old G,eek philosopher, wnil'
walking abroad looking at the stars
fell into q ditch and WAS pulled on
by woman, who told him that on
should not have his head in th'
heavens while his feet are on th,
earth and people said that she wa
the better philosopher of the two
When one who might be supposed t
draw his ethics from heaven dafend!
disfranchis. m ent by terrorism, tina
good may come, the politician may
be the better moral teacher"
at is evident that in some parts o
the country. where education is no
we'll d. vslop.d, where a habit o
rule has prevailed, the people do no
understand the rights of liberty o
hought and EXPIRE ssiOn, and the &C
companyIng liberty of the franchise
Strange ideas some people have o
re speech and free suffrage. Bu
wrong will right itself at last. Il
the words Of a country philosophe
sho was no pessimist, The Lor'
reigns, and the Devil has not all tn
um brellas."
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