The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-28
STABBED BY FALSE FRIENDS.


groes, Immediately after their emanci-
patton, were given the ballot, without
preparation for its wise use. The domi-
nant party made the negro a voter for
it's own political power and not for the
good of the negro. The ballot has in
jured the ignorant negro voter.
For thirty years the Democrats nave
declared their hostility to unrestrained
negro suffrage; for thirty years, the
white Republicans have defended it; flat
tered the negro voter, given them l,Ooo
Offices in North Carolina when they were
in power, and professed to love the negro
voter above their chiefest joy.
With the loss of the negro vote, these
white Republican politicians, have shown
an ingratitude that merits the contempt
of every honorable man. They have
kicked the negroes out OF conventions
and out of office-the very negroes they
said were fit to control conventions and
hold offices. Their conduct shows their
unfitness to be trusted Men who one day
put 1000 negroes into Offices for which
they are not qualified because they want
votes and then kick them out when they
have lost their vote, are lost to all sense
of fitness to be entrusted with power, as
we'll as exhibiting the lack of the com
monest gratitude.
The Star of Zion, the leading negro
torial, severely rasping the white Re-
publicans for this conduct 1t is as fol-
lows: -
STABBED BY FALSE FRIENDS.
'Treachery creepeth like snake in the
grass and biteth the horses heels. and
treason has not died with Benedict Ar
mold or Judas Iscariot. 1ngratitude is
the blacklist passion of the human breast.
1.-THE drifting of the Republican party
from it's traditional moorings few days
ago at Greensboro, N. c.. by repudiating
the authentic credentials and refusing
seats in the convention to negro dele
gates. among them being Hon. Henry P.
Cheatham and Hon. James O'Hara, both
ex- congressman. has subjected it to a
tremendous fire of discussion, pro and
con, by the white and black newspapers
of this country regardless of political
creed or belief. The action of that con-
vention, wrong in principle and bad in
practice. was fragrant and outrageous;
and he who does not know this is an
ignoramus, and he who cannot see it is a
blind ass.
This action of the convention means
that the white Republicans of North
Carolina are willing to accept as con-
stitutional, without testing it in the
court, the infamous amendment which
DISTINGUISHES illiterate negro voters, but
not illiterate white voters, with hope
that it will draw large recruits from the
Democratic party on national issues and
build up a Republican party strong
enough to get in the saddle in this
State. The white Republicans in Ala
bama have turned down all their black
Republicans with the same insane hope
in view. The Republicans throughout
the South will follow suit.
1.-THE white Republicans of the South
fondly imagine that Lilly White Re-
publicanism be a charmer to the
Democrats, vote catcher, great name
to conjure with consequently, as an ex-
pertinent, they are willing, for season
at least, in order to tighten the ship and
keep it from laundering and humping it's
nose in the sand, to consider the negro
a Jonah and throw him overheard. One
of the leaders of that convention held at
Greensboro referred to the negro voter
party, and another leader congratulated
the white Republicans of the State that
the negro was temporarily eliminated
from politics. In denouncing the negroes,
whose votes for the last thirty-five years
have brought from the shades OF private
life scores Of white men whose reputa-
lions are national, they were as rough
as Amos and stern as Haggai. There are
thousands of white dockwallopperS and
shoestring politicians, hungry office hunt
ers, who keep up race strife in the
South for political effect and are more
hurtful to the success of the Republican
party than are the negroes and are no
more fit to be in office or power than
Sioux Indian is to go to Washington to
be President of this country.
1.-The Republican party of the South,
turning it's back upon the principles adj
vocated by Lincoln, Grant, Sumner, Reed
and others, is now guided by the foolish
theories of trmmerS and Missionaries
which create a litter of laughter in the
Democratic party, for as long as 1T is
willing to hypocritically ostracize the
loyal negro voters because it cannot now
use them as it did before the adoption
Of the DISTINGUISHING amendment, and
while it's sole and selfish object is to
gain sufficient Democratic converts to
regain Federal control of the South and
thus fasten it's fangs upon the Southern
body polite, especially the Offices the
party which is not asleep
nor hoodwinked by any means will see
to it that the Southern Republican party
shall remain a mendicant, passing around
the political hat for contributions to sus-
tain precarious existence. Let the lily
white Republicans march and strut with
blare of trumpets and a big bass drum
corps to split the Democratic party, but
they will find before they reach the end
Of their march that they will be the vic
Tins of a sawdust game. Editor Fortune
of the New York Age very truthfully
says: Southern white people are born