The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-10-12
.REPT PARTY VEL
CONES YOUNG MEN,

CONES YOUNG MEN,
Under the shove caption the Daily
industrial News ef Sunday contained
quite an interesting article written
by Mr.. Il. ii. MeNeill. We are
sorry that we haven't the space to
publish the article In full. How
ever. we print here the latter part Of
mis- article giving the party's history
and also showing that there IL no
negro question In North Carolina:
TOWARD THE NEGRO"
.Ia 1t worth while to say aught
about the negro question In order to
re move the scales from some young
mans iaundiced vision? Isn't even
an admission that there is such
problem in North Carolina or the
South offensive to the intelligence
of the inquiring mind? According
to the most conservative estimates
the negro vote in North Carolina in
the last election did not reach 1000
out of q total vote of over 200, 900,
or not one to the hundred white
votes cast, and .his ratio was dis
tributed over the whole State. There
was no Wilmington crying out TO
an Asheville: Come over and help
u.s.
The danger Of negro domination,
if it ever existed, is banished from
North Carolina. and this banishm ent
is written into the States Constitu-
ton. In the interest, then, Of ra.
cial, Industrial and political peace,
let US have no more Of this ancient
enemy to them all. Because it has
been decreed as part Of our States
law that the colored
man must leave the ballot to the
Anglo Saxon, let the Anglo Saxon
be at least brave enough 10 let the
disfranchised colored man seek the
peace he couldn't find at the polls,
in the white cotton fields and in the
other feds of labor, where he has
gone without complaining; gone
with the same love of the white
people which prompted his unfail-
ing devotion to their interests from
'6l to '65, while his master was in
the fighting line of the Confederacy,
struggling to perpetuste his slavery.
The white man Of North Carolina
who revives the old racial bitterness
again must De proclaimed an enemy
to the States peace.
While I have the profoundest re-
spect for a democrat who votes his
party ticket from conviction, I do
not hesitate to say that | think the
young man who fails TO do the duty
his conscience points out to him
because of this alleged negro prob.
lem, this ignus fatus, this delusion
and snare, is a moral coward and
himself unworthy of the high privi
leges inherited by every son Of our
good State.
"PARTY HISTORY SUFFICIENT"
Let the young man consider the
history of this party he is asked to
join; let him be reminded that
from Lincoln to Roosevelt it has
gone on blessing the world with
peace and progress; planting its vir-
tues in foreign climes and carrying
under the folds of it's country's flag
the blessings Of ''liberty under the
law" and the prosperity through en-
deavor. From its first trial, in a
sea of fire and blood in the days of
Lincoln, it has progressed until the
days of Roosevelt, when it has its
proudest triumph in being the final
arbiter of the worlds peace. From
its birth to this good day the Re-
publican party has been party for
work, for bringing things to pass.
Against the furious onslaughts of
opponents and in spite of foes within
and without, it has gone on glorify
ing itself and the country by doing
deeds of virtue for the present and
future good In the words of John
Hay, that great man who followed
cur party's fortunes during its sor-
rows Of martyrdom and honors of
noble service; who grieved over the
graves Of Lincoln, Garfield aud Nc
Kinley, the saints Of our faith; who,
before following his loved leaders,
carved his own name in the hearts
Of hi. countrymen, let me ask South
ern young men this parting question:
"What young man would not
rather belong to the parry that does
things, instead of one that opposes
them to the party that looks up
rather than down to the party OF
the dawn, rather than of the sun
set?"