The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-28
LILLY WHITES" Y.
NEGRO RADICALS
Negro Republicans Will
Demand Full Repre-
sentatiOn.
NEGROES WANT JOBS
And They Believe They Can Get Them
Only by Showing Some Power
in State and National
Convention.
There is blood on the moon among

There is blood on the moon among
Republican leaders.
1t seems that Chairman Rollins
wishes to exclude negro delegates
from the Republican State Convention
as was done two years ago. His fac
ton wants a Lily white convention
and demands Of the "colored man
and brother" that he get a little
further from the road" at convention
times, but be on hand early to vote
de Publikin'' ticket on election day.
The negro leaders and some white
Republicans. too. demand that the
negroes be given representation in the
State and National conventions. One
of these leaders is ey-State Senator
Lee Person, who represented Edge
cOmbe in the State Senate in 1897.
He says that but for his vote Pritch-
ard would have failed Of reelection
to the Senate i'm 1897. It is certain
that. without the vote of the negro
legislators, Pritchard could not have
been chosen. Now Person and his as
sociates demand recognition. Some
days ago Person wrote to Rollins and
asked him whether he would recog~
niZe the county chairman chosen by
the people or the defacto chairman
appointed by Pritchard. 10 that let
ter, Rollins sent an ambiguous an
swer. Among other things Rollins
wrote: Our prospects were never
brighter and, if we get hearty CO.
operation and get anything like an
honest election and q fair count the
result is going to be most gratifyin g
to our party
Ex-senator Person has sent out a
letter to leading Republicans in all
I
which the following extracts are
taken:
Doubtless you are aware of the
treatment accorded the negroes at the
last Republican State convention held
in Greensboro, Y. c.. in 1902, and
their actions. 1 mean the Lilly
Whites or Pritch2rd Republican,
ism, was condemned by men closely
identified with the president OF the
United States. Now then, be it
known, that every Southern State that
has held its convention, has repudiated
this Lilly White" policy. And the
otnceholders in this state are still at
the same old tricks, trying to control
all conventions. so as to still further
dictate all the Offices.
There are some officeholders,
doubtless, who desire a party victory,
but lots who are blending every eff
fort to control the machine, to die
tate the patronage. Now these same
Lilly Whites are charging every COM
petent negro with party disloyalty
while they vote for Democrats at
every election with impunity. But
their object is solely to kill off every
negro who might contest with them
for an office under the general gov
eminent. We have been DISTINGUISHED
by the Democrats from voting, and
by a set of men just out of the Dem
ocratic party for the sake of office
from participation in a Republican
convention Senator Prtchard said
in a speech in Rocky Mount, n. c..
curing the campaign OF 1902, that
the Constitutional amendment was an
accomplished fact, he had accepted ii
in good faith, and it was Il matter for
the courts, and that these whom it
affected might take it there.
with these words fresh in your
minds, can you believe the party tO
be in the hands of your friends? The
president says the negroes must not
be shut out of the party's conventions
These same Lilly Whites are in the
saddle. will you let them remain
If so, you are less than men. | want
a strong delegation OF the leading
colored men from every county tc
appear as delegates ct Greensboro. or
the 18th of May. Elect some white
men and some colored men. The ne
~~oes are being maligned at the
North, to those who gave them the
IIgnt of the election franchise; that
you have become Indifferent to your
party's success. Let us stamp this as
a lie out of the whole cloth. See your
neighborS go into the primaries as
orderly citizens. and como 10 this
convention. Send men there who