Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-05-22

MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT OF
HIS CANDIDACY FOR CON
GRESS IN THE FIRST
DISTRICT.
Gatesville, n. c., May 13.

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To nv Democratic felloW-citizens of
the First Congressional District
of North Carolina:
At the convention to be held in
the district during the summer or
early fall to nominate candidate to
represent the district in the next
Congress my name will be presented
for nomination for that position
In making this announcement it
is due to you to say, that stand
firmly and immovable on the time
honored principles ofthe Democratic
party as announced from time to
time in its national platforms, and it
will be my purpose to secure such
legislation as will promote the best
interest Of the people on questions OF
tariff reform, improvement OF rivers
and harbors in our State, secure in
land navigation, reduce the burdens
upon labor and agriculture, foster
manufacturing and mechanic arts
and the expansion of commerce.
In regard to State policies; candor
compels me to say that I am. unal-
terably opposed to theposition taken
.bv some prominent members Of the
Democratic party in the State on
some questions which VitaLy con-
<cern our people. 1t seems to me that
some of our friends have gone wild
or become mad on the subject of uI-
iversal education. / am forever and
eternally in favor of white suprem-
acy in the State, and to that end
favor the education of the white race
to the full extent of every resource
and all the means at our command
But reason, common sense, expert
ence, justice and our economic and
industrial conditions constrain me
to take the position that it is folly
and madness, insanity and suicide
to extend the same equal privileges
of education to the negro race by
taxation. In the first place, the ne
gro is not like the white race, and
the reason is, because God has not
made them alike. 1t is not the fault
of the negro. The leopard cannot
change his spots nor the Ethiopian
his skin. Secondly, only two years
ago, in order to free ourselves from
certain intolerable and unbearable
evils, destructive alike to the best
interests Of both races, brought about
in the counties with large negro pop
ulations by the unfortunate enfran-
chisement Of the negro, we were
forced to make an effort to amend
the State Constitution. The main
provision incorporated in theamend-
ment, to remedy the evils we Were
suffering was, the educational quail
ification, in order to eliminate the
great mass of negroes from the cleo
torate. Now by this howl for uni
versaI education it is proposed to
destroy the only provision in the
amended Constitution which gives
any protection to decent government
in the negro ridden counties, and
thus place them in the same position
they were before the Constitution
was amended. 1t is idiotic to sup
pose that the negro educated will
not continue to vote against every
interest of the white and against his
own interests in these negro counties,
and every other county, just as he
has done for more than third of a
century. The negro is by nature and
instinct opposed to the white race.
He thinks he must hold the offices
and govern.
In corroboration of my position, I
have only to refer to the fact that
only few days ago, a delegation of
the best educated negroes of the
South waited upon President Roose-
yelt to solicit his aid in behalf of the
measures pending Congress to defeat
the purposes of the amended Consti-
tuition of several of the Southern
States, which restrict the suffrage of
the negro. This negro committee al
so went before the committee ofCon-
gress which has these measures in