The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-02
An Effort to Hold the Demo
Gratis While the RepubIi-
: cans Keep Fighting.
McKlNLEY'S BLACK RECORD IN CONGRESS
He Has Never Neglected an Oppor.
tunity of Insulting and Humiliat-
ing the White People of the
South by Exalting the
Black Man.

To the Editor: The campaign for the
adoption Of the Amendment is finished but
not forgotten. The victory is won. To
secure it's fruits is the present task; for
without them, the people did 4 vain thing
on the End day of August and their last
state will be worse than the first. What
will 1T profit them to gain the State and
lose The ration? How will they be bene-
fitted by transferring the contest Cor
White Supremacy from the Governors S
Mansion and the Legislature in Raleigh
to the halls OF Congress and the White
House in Washington? For several weeks
the Democratic party mas been the recip-
lent CT an abundance of that rarest of
all commodites-advice. They have been
treated to a small symposium on the ques-
tion of how TO conduct national cam
paign. Though few in number, those con-
tributing to this symposium, represent
heterogeneous elements, ranging from
leading ministers of the Gospel and reli-
gious organs to Democratic boilers and
Republican politicians.
The Democratic party has been admon-
ished that they must not make the negro
an issue in this campaign. High words
those-'tmust not!
The political advisers have gone even
further and declared that the Democrats
must not even mention the negro in public
discussion.
They have set bounds for Democratic
stump speakers who erstwhile discourse1
of White Supremacy and said to them
with the voice of authority: Here shall
thy proud waves of oratory be staid."
These ministers Of the Gospel and reli-
gious teachers are entitled to respect for
the goodness of their intentions and the
purity of their motives. We admit shat
nearly all of them have no other purpose
in view than to secure surcease from the
tumult and strife and bitterness. which
unfortunately mark every campaign in
which the slumbering fires of racial AMI
mostly are famed into fury by fierce
voices from the press and the hustings
Their object is praiseworthy. But ao-
interests they have failed to discern the
face of the political sky. Otherwise they
would have observed an omlnous cloud
lowering above the horizon. that BODIES
no good to North Carolina.
ENEMIES OF DEMOCRACY
Joined with the religionists is ANOTH-
Err ELEMENT who were with us in the
fight for the Amendment, but whose views
upon national questions are as far from
the doctrines and principles CT the Demo-
cratic party as the east is from the west.
They are Democrats in all respects except
that they do not believe in a single prin-
ciple of the Democratic platform, ard
either openly or secretly oppose the great
leader Of Democracy. William J. Bryan.
They wish to see him defeated that HIS
teachings may perish with him, and the
Democratic party return to the position
which it occupied six years ago. Fo" the
accomplishment of that purpose they are
willing for the solid black vote OF the
State to combine with a small minority
of the white vote and control North Caro-
lima in the national election. Their in-
consistency requires brief comment. They
objected to Governor of the negro 5
choosing Why do they not also object to
President of the negros choosing?
If it was wrong for the negroes II ex-
ercise a controlling voice in determining
what the policy of the State should be,
why Is it not also wrong for taom to ex-
erclse a controlling voice in determining
what the policy of the nation shalt be !?
So long as the negroes voted against the
interests and inclinations Of these men