Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1900-02-22
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
Proposition to Amend the Amend.
ment Favorabiy Rec ivsd.
fc-1.,I Iul-L
Especial Raleigh Correspond,

The decision Of the Democrats N
amend the constitutional amendme1 :
by providing that il Shall stand DR.
fall as a whole. has struck q popular
chord. The Progressive Farmer has
TO say of it editoriallv: 1T noNseeuls
certain that the legislature at It's Jur1e
session Will pass an amendment to tire
proposed Constitutional amendment.
providing that in case one section is
declared unconstitutional tn entire
amendment snail become imperative.
This in response to d JUS and rapidly
growing popular demand"
A. S. Peace Of the Populist State
Committee. or rather of that part IF
it (the 81 which met here and de
nounced the amendment. and who in
fact himself prepared the address to
the people containing the denunc!ation.
said all the Popuiists, no matter how
they voted IN 1898. were now solidly
against the amendment. The wish
was falter 10 the words. When the
Populist convention meets committee
man Peace will discover his error. \
result IS brewing now against tle ring
rule Of the nine."
I~osephers Daniels. Democratic ma
t<NAidi tiIiiIlItl'EiiIdU lOI tuIS SLdIt.
was asked LIS .yiet Of the stat,A
of affairs and replied, The trend to-
ward the amendment increase daily.
Three-fourths Of the POpu'ists, 10, GGe
Republicans and All thu Democrats
will support it."
DR.. Charles II. Mealnt. the SAFE
Superintendent Of public instruction.
who - one OF the a1leat and most zeal
oIs Of all the fusion Officials, viii not
antagonize INC amendment. He will
nV go on record against il. He is NOT
in politics, rOr has he been since his
incuInbency. but he knows the amend
ment is something really above mere
politics. Or. Mebane's influence ir
this matter. as in educational matters.
is Tor good. There arc other Popu-
lists who viii make their influence felt
ami on the right side also.
The Republicans are new trying a
new tack in regard to George Fl.
White. the negro Congressman WAC IS
denouncing white women in speeches
made in Congress. They are saving
that White Is hired by Democrats % do
his dirty work. This charge is in
ab.urdity and faiaity equal 70 that the
Republicans made in 1898 as to the ne
gro Manly: that Democrats paid him
TO defAne waite women Desperate in
Iced Is The plight Of a parry Which Will
make s'ch statements. The white Re
publicane have brought White up.
they have patteI him on the back: now
they curse him and can him a
h.reling.
The Republicans as 10 Ills negro
IyIAt n nt1 1i}r, ,.&;l, ~,..
keeper. who sweeps Il lot Of trash I'M
der a lounge or table and because she
thinks i, hidden affects to believe that
X IS not there. But il is there all the
same. Just 80 thi> year the white Re-
pltbllcaLs seek to put White and the
other negroes aside. but al the world
Knows the negroes are not on,
merely half-hidden. The white Re-
pubii>ans TIL. year fear the negro in
a double sense. They have raised :
devil and nov seek to exercise it. but
cannot
The Republicans Will have what may
he termed a dcu~bIe-barreled head
quarters this year-Grcensboro one
barrel, Raleigh the other. Their
chairman, \. +. Holtc1. has all along
wanted Greensboro 10 be the head
quarters. lie ha, never regarded Raj
Ugh - ~canGenial.
The regular Democratic h~eadQuar-
tiers here NH rot be opened until
after the State convention. April II.
Meanwhile, however. the Democratic
missionary work gua steadily on. The
people in the country are being reach
cd i'll all possible way.
In about a fortnight the fusion daily
here. with Republican money back OF
il. vii begin operations here. Nomi-
naily. it will be Senator Buffers paper;
really it Will be Collector Duncans.
The latter is the Boss Plat Of EaS;
North Caroline and il the envoy ex-
~traordinary of Senator Pritchard TO the
machine Populis1s. He in poets all the
news before they are made and tn.
PCpulist machine moves only after he
has said 20. X"
The Republican, hero two or three
weeks ago began to offer 10 bet ina
Richmond Pearson would be seated i.
Cong fess. and Crawford un-eated. 81
sure We're they of their game tina
they offered odds. They knew wha'
was going 70 Hl4pIen. aud Tuesia.
the telegraph told the ~etory-that b,
a strict party vote the committee ha'
decided IN P~earson'S favoH. And nov
he Republicans are Offering to bet tina
Heli3nN VII Dc unseatetl II The SIM
District.