The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-10-05
Cy Watson on the Negro.
4From Monroe Sneenh !


Our victory has not been won once
Tor all. The Republican party is as I'M
it as ever. One of their nominees for
the high office of judge was taken from
the place of gauger another NOMINEES
who was put up to sit upon questions
involving the lives and property of .peo-
pie all over the State was man who
called himself lawyer, but who had
actually been in jail for Wife beating.
The leaders had to take these men
down because they feared the effect or
their records, butf their nomination
shows the character of the Republican
party; while we have taken the negro
out, the same old negro drivers rule the
party and I'd as soon trust Sambo as
Sambos driver. No man can convince
n sane man that it is best for this State.
for the Republican party to be put back
in power, and | can tell Mr. Pritchard
that no man over forty years of ace
will ever live to see his party in control
of the State unless his party changes.
and it has not done so vet. But Mr..
Pritchard says ''quit talking about the
negro, we arc as white as you are" end
they say that they are glad the amend
ment was passed j ask them who took
off the burnt cork. 1t was the soap OF
the Democratic amendment. and they
squirmed and squealed when it was being
applied. But now they say they are
glad it was done, but--did you ever
hear anything so foolish--they ask the
voters to punish the white people who
din it by turning them out of power
Two white parties nearly evenly bal
anced would be q good thing in Maine
where negro can't live, but it wouldn I
be a good thing in North Carolina, be-
cause there will be at least a small
mass of negro voters. This mass would
most certainly vote with that party
which would treat it the more nearly
equal politically and socially, and the
negro would still dominate, as ne did
when pritehard and all the white Re-
publican leaders We're compelled to In
wife the negro leaders to their private
rooms and converse and drink with
them. Judge Robinson has told me
that he could not be a delegate to a
State or district convention of his party
because the negroes outyoted him and
turned hin, down.
have asked myself at midnight upon
my bed. what of the constitutional
amendment? Does it settle it," No! The
race question is still the greatest one
in this country and it is spreading into
other States. Ohio and New York
Rave it, The negro hates the white
man and education does not take that
hatred out Of him. Teach him to conju-
gate a Greek or a Latin verb and his
hatred for the white man who denies
him social equality is augmented, and
these so educated ones become the lead
ers and organizers Of their shiftless and
Vicious brethren. The Almighty does
not intend he negro to divide the gov
eminent of this country with us. Tho
time is coming when no son of Ham
will take part in any national, State or
municipal government. There is nc
such thing as two races going into par,-
nership in government unless the two
can meet on planes of social equality.
But the burden is upon us to do all
we can for them. and l would have the
State and The Democratic party do all
they can for them in the way Of help
ing them to become better men and
women.