The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27

Not that It makes any special diff
ference. bat as matter o. curiosity
40 would like 70 know what Issue the
Democratic leaders all try 10 para
mount IA the State next year.
For several years they ran their
+ campaigns on the false issue Of ne
gro domination" and even tried TO
inject the issue into the last cam
paign But their main err In the
last campaign vas Doodle. Booze
and Bonds"
But since the campaign they have
taken every one Of these Issues into
their oxn ranks and they are now f.
nally saddled On the Democratic par
~.
The Democratic papers have them
selves made the charge that the cam
palgns In Charlotte and Aghey!lle. as
sell as in some other towns lin
which campaigns only Democrats
participated were run by booze and
Doodle" and what votes they could
not secure in that way, that they
stuffed the balIOt-boxes TO make up
the deficiency. The Charlotte OBJ
server in commenting on the use OF
money and liquor in their recent city
primary said the condition was de-
plorable. In the city election in Will
mington last week the liquor ques-
ton was the main issue.
And as to bonds, the last Legisla-
ture issued all the bonds that they
thought it possible to float and gave
about every town and county the au-
thority to do the same thing. The
bond deal which they made with the
American Tobacco Company is mat
ter of history.
Now as to the negro issue. Dur
ing the session Of the last Legisla-
, ture a bill was introduced to pro-
hibit concubinage and intimate, i'm
moral relation between the two races
This would have helped to settle the
race problem and would have helped
to keep both races purer. But what
did We witness? The Democratic
politicians promptly killed the bill
But that isn't all. In the Demo-
cratic primaries in Raleigh last week,
when only Democratic candidates
were in the field, charges were made
by both factions that they had reg
istered every negro possible on the
Democratic registration books The
! News and Observer says there were
! about two hundred registered in two
wards alone, and when the News OBJ
! server found out that the majority of
! the negroes would vote against it's
| ticket, then that paper put up howl
/ to take the negroes names off the
registration books, and said that
many of the good negroes" while
they were Democrats, had taken their
names Off the books in order to set
an example for others. (Now notice
the word good negroes") Wheth-
er those negroes were registered for
the purpose of voting for Josephus
Daniels ticket, or whether they were
registered by the other Democratic
faction, the fact remains that they
were asked to register by Democrats,
and were registered as Democrats
and if the white Democrats had let
them alone their names would not
have been on the registration books
at all. The News and Observer de-
MES that any of the candidates ap-
pealed to the negro vote, but it is
generally known in Raleigh that one
of the candidates for alderman wrote
personal letters to negroes in Raleigh
begging them to vote for him. One
negro barber even stopped shaving
, man to read the endearing epistle
when he received it from this candi-
date of the good government
, forces.
!, During the prohibition campaign
the Democrats got a number of ne
, groes to register, even after the
Grandfather Clause act han gone III
, to effect.
Over in Franklin County there is
notorious case where a negro has
no right to vote under the law. He
: can't read and write; in fact, he
couldn't read his own name if it was
! written in letters as big as box-cars