The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-26
Aycock for ViCe=President
Charlotte News.


ing. The exceptions, in which Mr. Bryan
made personal canvass, were followed by
defeat The pople have an idea as to the
dignity of the office that is entirely cor
rect But every one recalls the work done
for the Cleveland ticket by Stevenson and
for the Mckinley tickets by Hobart and
Roosevelt. If we are not mistaken, Roose-
Welt did the Mckinley ticket more good
by his canvass than he has done himself
good by his recent swing around the
circle.
AS q canvasser in a political campaign
we doubt that Mr.. Aycock has an equal
in public life today. He has natural
eloquence that thrills while it charms the
people. His sincerity and manliness APP
peal to his auditors and he is most effec-
tive as an advocate of justice.
Our timid Southern editors who think
the time has not come yet for putting a
Southern man on the national ticket. even
in the second place. have not accurately
gagged the change in Northern sentiment
towards Southern problems There have
always been intelligent and sincere North
erners who were willing to listen to the
voice of reason and truth, witness the well
come that Henry Grady made for himself.
And just now the North is in a most re-
ceptive mood for information ON the great
est Southern problem. the negro question.
For instance: The Indianapolis Sentinel
speaking of the fact that twelve are dead
and tweny-four seriously injured in the
Evansville riots, says:
Behind all these manifestations OF
lawlessness are conditions which may
well give pause to thoughtful men.
The fact is that the community has
been debauched and corrupted by poll
ticians who have imported hordes of
the most ignorant, most worthless and
vllest negroes. causing an enormous
increase in paperism, vice and crime,
and reducing materially the average
intelligence and Vlrtue>of the people,"
While the Evansville Courier bears the
same testimony:
THE cause of the present reign of
terror in this city can be directly
traced to the vitiation of the negro for
political purposes. Before election
time the advertisements are sent up
and down the river among the shift
less negroes, stating that they can get
money for their votes at Evansville.
The idle, ignorant and vicious negroes
flock here; they are coloniZed IN
saloons; they are gathered in herds
the night before election, even in the
custom house and the temple of JUS
tice, debauched with free beer and cor
rupted with free dollars, when they
are properly ready to be used on cleo
ton day"
And here are some striking expressions
from Northern Republican papers that
have just got their eyes open:
st. Paul Pioneer-Press (Rep):
1--WE are tired of negroes and the
negro problem, and we are outraged
with negro preachers denouncing
lynchings without a word of con-
demnation for the. negro brutes that
cause them
Kansas City Journal (Rep):
THE negro race is but one genera
ton out of slavery, and but few
generations out of barbarism. When
he reverts to barbarism and commits
crime against womankind the
punishment will be fully as swift and
horrible in the North as in the South"
Minneapolis Tribune (Rep):
THE wave of black horror that is
creeping over the country will soon or
late be met and stopped and over
whelmed by a wave of horror that will
leave the superior race rid of every
thing of the inferior but the brutal
barbarous passions and habit the con-
flct has bred. The dark horror that
hangs over the South is creeping across
the Potomac, the Ohio, the Mississippi
ard menacing the North as we'll"
And here is Harper's Weekly after
speaking of the fact that there was not
a recorded example of a white man haV-
ing been assaulted by negro man, North
or South. before the Civil War, and that
it is a new crime, answering its question
as to the cause by saying:
1--WE, ourselves, are inclined to think
it directly traceable to the notions of
equality implanted in ignorant and
brutal negroes by the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments of the Federal
Constitution, and by the practical APP
plcations thereof in the carpet-bag
governments of the reconstruction
period. and in the Difference paid in
many Northern States to the negro
vote. A telling piece of evidence in
favor of this theory is the fact, if it be
one-it is reported on good authority
that in Mississippi, since the blacks
were practically disfranchised in that
State, there has not been a single in
stance Of the crime against white
women"
Note also that the challenge against all
this sentiment at the North has been di-
rectly made by the next Republican can
didate in his social equality dinners to ne
groes and by the Ohio Convention and
Crumpacker resolutions which aim at
Furnishing the South for DISTINGUISHING the
negroes by cutting down it's representa-
ton. Let Aycock take up that challenge
and make his manly appeal to the Anglo
Saxons of the North. Blood is thicker
than water. And the white men who be-
lieve in a white mans government would
outnumber the negro vote to which ode.
ference has been paid in many Northern
States"
Mad-Dog Scare in Yadkin.
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