The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-08-30
THE NEGRO PARTY STILL.

The ring master of the Republican big
show at Greensboro on Thursday cracked
his whip and ali the little performers
danced to it's music.
The grand stand play was the exclusion
of the negro from active participation in
the convention, and its purpose is APP
parent 1t is simply to say, I'VE are
Lilly Whites. We had no negro in our
convention and we are as much white
mans party as is the Democratic party
That's the dodge which Senator Pritchard
is Up to- but the mask is too thin. Be-
hind the thin whitewash of two hundred
and forty delegates is the negro. He is
there to stay, for without him the Re-
publican party of North Carolina is
bawbee.
Senator Pritchard's convention de-
ceives no sensible man. 1t had for its
object return to power of the same old
element that at times wrecked the pros
perity of the State. The faint hope OF
it's Boss is that by some fortuitous cir
cumstanee he may be reelected to the
Senate That ambition being satisfied
he is ready to let the rest of his
hangers-on go to the demnition bow
vows unless they can provide for them
a way out of the wilderness and locate a
route for a fresh attack upon the treas
ury, the good name and the credit of the
State.
The exclusion of the negro delegates
was a farce on its face Take the negro
from the Republican party and four
fifths of it is gone. In round numbers
there have been at times voting for the
Republican candidates 100000 negroes,
while the high water mark for white
Republicans has not got far beyond
was a juggle that was presented at
Greensboro, and that by soft words and
ready assurances the ringmaster Pritch-
ard is ready to round up the negroes
when it comes time for them to vote.
Without their votes he and his party do
not stand the ghost of chance to win,
and it is to delude the unwary that the
Greensboro play was made.
The Republican party in North Carolina
is the same old negro party that it has
been. 1t depended in the past on negro
votes. 1t depends on them now. 1t can
not call itself white mans party SIM
ply because a few hundred white dele
gates met in hall and named two Re-
publicans for offices to which they have
no hope of being elected. 1t is the mass
of the party that constitutes that party.
The white men of North Carolina are
behind the Democratic party. They form
its very bone and sinew, while the negro
is the Republican party, with thin,
very thin, veneering made of white men,
who are ready and willing to sacrifice
anything and everything for power, ready
in the past and ready now, because
place at the pie trough is what they seek.
The thing is so transparent as to be
laughable. 1t is going to deceive no man
but he who desires to be deceived, and
it is a stalking horse whose entry into
the citadel of power means another
Pandora's box of evils opened in North
Carolina.
Wants the negro out of politics? Not
a bit of it, for if this had been the pur-
pose a resolution would have been adopt
ed declaring that in good faith the Re-
. ticnal Amendment and as a body stand
ing for it as part of the organic law OF
the State Did they declare for this?
Look at the record in the platform adopt
ed and in Pritchard's speech.
What do these say? Simply that the
amendment is out of the ''realm of poll
tics" Al child knows that. 1t has been
adopted at the polls, but the Republicans
are ready to attack it, and only take
this fimsy pretext of realm OF poll
tics" so that smooth tongued demagogues
might twist it this way and that to de-
lude the people.
And the continuance of the Boss plans
appears to be going as ship moves OH
the we'll creased ways Some of the ex-
cluded negroes in Greensboro met ana
passed frantic resolutions. voice from
the East says they are insulted and Will