The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-12
RUNNING UNDER AN ASSUMED
NAME.

it's unpopularity does not dare to go be-
fore the people under its own name.
Whenever a man commits crime or
does something dishonorable he takes a
new name. If finally captured, the no
tice of his capture reads: THE police
have finally arrested John Smith, alias
Bill Jones, alias Peter Brown, alias Joe
Thompson" The number of times the
word "aiias" occurs is governed by the
number of different crimes the criminal
has committed and the number of places
in which he has carried on his unlawful
operations.
The Republican party, a confessed
criminal in the matter of State govern
ment, knows it cannot hope to appeal
successfully to the voters in its own
name, with it's own candidates, and upon
its own record. In 1882 it went before
the people under the alias of 1.-THE Lib
eral party" and in that year put forward
such former Democrats as Charles Price
and William H. Day as decoy ducks to
catch Democrats. In several elections it
posed as supporting Independent candi
dates. In 1894 and 1896 it was 1.-The Fusion
party" In 1900 it was the 'Anti-Con-
1902 it is "the Commercial Party" and
it puts forward in State politics such
so-called spurious Democrats as Thomas
N. Hill and George B. Hiss as decoy
ducks to get Democratic votes. But,
while holding out itself under this and
that alias, the Republican party in North
Carolina has always been the same old
gang that stole thirty million dollars
when they were in power in 1868 and put
1000 negroes in public office when they
were in power in 1S95-1S97. The figure
heads they calls Liberals, Fusionists or
Independents are the mere puppets of the
old 1868 messy back or the 1896 negro
loving Radicals. Mr.. Hill, of Halifax, is
as much the candidate of the revenue
doodles and negroes as Furches or Jim
was nominated instead of a mossy-back
because Jeter Pritchard and jim Young
thought they could fool more white
voters by a new name from Halifax
than an old he Radical from Iredell.
AS at the State Convention an attempt
was made to fool voters by the grand
stand play of kicking out the negroes,
so in the various counties, except in the
few where the Radicals have majority,
the Radical pap suckers are working
under ground to bring out so-called en-
dependent" tickets, and some former
Democrats are being used as decoy ducks
by these revenue doodlers and other Rad
ical leaders. An Independent ticket,
brought out by Radical wet-nurses, is,
to quote Vance, THE same old coon with
one more ring around his tail" Just as
Price Day and Skinner went from Lib
eralism and Fusion into the Radical
party, just so Hill and Hiss are being
put on the ticket in 1902 History will
repeat itself. In the Liberal movement
the people saw the ASS ears under the
lions skin, and repudiated that Radical
subterfuge In 1902 they see the same
old Radical party doing the Punch and
Judy act. Radical revenuers and doodlers
pull the string behind the curtain that
makes the so-called Independents dance.
Many times the Radical party has tried
to fool the voters of North Carolina with
an alias. They succeeded only in 1894
and in 1896, and then only because they
had the assistance of the leaders of
secret organization-of leaders ready to
betray their followers by the promise of
personal reward Such conditions will
not again exist. The people have not
forgotten the scandals that attended the
Republican administration between 1895
and 1899. 1t was called 1.-The Fusion
party" but the Radical leaders and the
Radical spirit dominated it as is shown
in the presence of 900 negro officials in
office and the rottenness or ineffciency
that marked every department of govern
ment The people have learned a lesson
that will last them a quarter of a CEN
tury. and they will not again trust
Radicals or so-called Independents
backed by Radicals or any party of any
name dependent upon Radical votes.
The Radicals never cast their votes for
any man for any office except for two
purposes To give them offices or injure
the Democratic party.
The North Carolina Radical party can
not get rid of the stencil of their rotten