Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1908-03-19
.POSTMASTERS'
CONVENTION.
This is not a Democratic
Lie But a Stalking
Truth.
/ Fhe Negroes CamOred for Recognition
and Being Ignored Walked out,
Crying "We'II be Heard From
at Chicago"
From Thursdays Daily.

The so-calIed Republican County
Convention met in the court house in
this city, today, in struggling attend
ance and with uncertain manner as to
what was going to be what. There
were not enough white men to go
around-not enough to represent the
Of the city and townships of the county
so that when the roll was called there
were a number Of these precincts that
were mot represented.
AS the de1egates-the white dele
gates-came in and huddled over in one
corner Of the court house bar, num-
ber Of negroes came in and gathered
quietly on the Jim Grow" side, and
then Postmaster Dobson, of this city,
acting secretary of the executive COM
mittee, came in and beckoned out Post
master Pate, of Fremont, chairman of
| the executive committee, and POstmas-
ter Ezzeu, of Pikev1lIe, delegate, and
| Assistant Postmaster Simpkins, of this
city, also a delegate, and Postmaster
Flowers, OF Mt. Olive, and gradually
all the other white delegates slinked
out to a room down stairs, where they,
os tensibly, caueussea as to what they
sh ould do with "them nigger dele
gates" that were herded by the original
George H. White, colored, formerly OF
this con ngressional district, but now a
resident of Philadelphia, who arrived
in the city last night and was present
to see the goods delivered. It was evil
IDENTIFY the concensus of that caucus
that "Mr. Nigger'' be ignored, and the
slated" postmaster chairman was SO
instructed, as this was the course pur-
sued by him when the convention was
finally called to order.
Postmaster Pate called the conven-
ton to order, asked Assistant, ,Postmas-
ter Simpkins to act as temporary chair
man, and he on taking the chair asked
2 Postmaster Dobson to act as secretary,
but the latter declined, as he had to
run the convention, which he pro-
ceeded to do, although not even a dele
gate.
disgraceful scenes were enacted, with
out the negro being even in it or a
party to it. Finally, when the tempo
rary chairman, after desperately rap
ping and calling upon the deputy
sheriff to estab blish order, succeeded in
being heard, he appointed a ''slated"
committee on credentials, and to this
III
and although there was not single
white delegate present from those pre-
cincts from which negro delegates pre-
sented their credentials-and, there
fore, no cOntests---yet the chairman
decided that the negroes were "con-
testing delegates, and forced them to
submit their credential to the commit
tee, and the committee promptly re-
ported that they We're not entitled to
affiliate with the convention. Immedi-
ately these colored brethren became
'protesting' delegates, and, headed
by the aforesaid Geo. White, and en-
couraged by none other than Abe Mid
dleton, of Duplin, withdrew orderly
and respectfully from the hall, and
organized convention i'll the
grand jury room down stairs, While the
white contingent OF the g. 0. p. pro-
ceeded to appoint delegates up stairs
and pass resolutions endorsing Roose-
velt-Adams and Taft.
And there you are.
It is wholesome to reflect that as
people we are safe from the rule ofsuch
an aggregation-Really if the doctrine
of ''pernicious activity" were enforced,
the Republican party IN this neck of
the woods could not hold a convention,
for outside the federal office holders
there ''ain't no party"