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; . t ! i V, f M 1 I a I f a I I? i AS OTHERS SEE IT THE POLITICAL SITUATION INOLTl STATE An It Strike ttoc Staff CorrfuponUent of the AValiIoston Iot, Wli Ha Come Amoug I uutl View ttae Field From Within ibcTrcnebcn ' The staff correspondent of the Wash ington Post, writing from Wilmington under date of October 20th, says: The city of Wilmington and it 13 a fine, business-like city of 25,000 people has a colored voting population of 1,200 in excess of the whites, but the democrats, by gerrymandering the lo cal wards and by legislative enact ments framed for the purpose, man aged until two years ago to retain con trol. The republican-populist legislature changed this condition. Uader a most remarkable law, the right of choosing their own mayor l(as taken away from the citizens of Wilmington and that of ficial was appointed by the republican governor. In addition to this, the gov ernor was also authorized to appoint not only in Wilmington, but in New bern, as many aldermen as those cities might elect. This curious arrangement naturally made the local boards repub-lk-ar in character and many negroes found membership upon them. NKGKO HULK IN WILMINGTON. This was not all. The long-established method of appointing magis trates by the legislature, which always resulted in the selection of competent white men, was superseded by a law which elected them by popular suf frage. The result is that out of the fif ty magistrates in the county, thirty-six are negroes and most of them extreme ly ignorant, although they have, power to try all cases of misdemeanor which do not go before the criminal court. They can fine and imprison, and they have jurisdiction in property cases to an amount not exceeding $200. All this, however, was but the open ing wedge. A negro register of deeds, a negro coroner who is not a physician, negro policemen appointed by the may or and the aldermen, negro deputies who could not read the warrants given them to nerve or write their own names, and nearly everything negro followed in rapid succession, until the citizens finally found themselves under negro rule. In a community where the white peo ple pay 06 per cent, of the taxes, it is easy to understand how such a condi tion, accompanied, as it was by every form of bad government, became insuf ferable. Fortunately a board of audit, composed of intelligent white men, pre vented the aldermen from repeating the experience of official extravagance and debauchery, which once afflicted South Carolina and Louisiana, for instance, but the situation was still too serious to be tolerated. The election this year offered a favorable opportunity for a return to good government, but in view of the preponderance of the negroes, it became necessary to resort to extreme measures. This has been done, even with the assistance of the white popu lists, who are returning from their re publican affiliation, because they are sick of existing conditions. BLACKS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. There are not eno;y;h white votes in this county to overthrow the negro ma lority.Consequently the negro is not to be allowed to vote. If he stays away from the polls he will not be interfered with, otherwise his attempt to perpet uate the demoralizing rule of this negro-ridden town will be resisted by force of arms. On this point there need -be no misunderstanding whatever. Be lieving that the negro will attempt to vote, and will be prepared to fight his way to the polls, the white citizens have also armed and are ready to meet the issue. If it comes, there will be bloodshed and plenty of it. While thus rendered desperate by the farce of government administered in their city, the leaders of the anti-negro movement were, nevertheless, extreme ly anxious to avoid a race conflict. "Realizing that the only certain path to peace lay in keeping the negroes from the polls, a self-appointed committee of the business men waited upon Gov ernor rtussell and ex-Tostmaster French, the local negro leader here, and asked that no republican ticket be named. Governor Russell replied that be and Mr. French would agree to this, and would use their influence to keep the negroes away from the polls, if the democratic nominees for the legislature were withdrawn, and two candidates, selected bv the business men. named in their stead. A meeting of the busi ne; men was held today, and a consul tation held with the democratic nomi nees IYsehau and Kerr, the result of which will be their withdrawal. The republican county convention, which also met today, adjourned without making any nominations, and will not meet again unless called together by the chairman. This eases the situa tion greatly, and there is a hope ex- pressed ov me ruiiM-namr - - the city that trouble will be avoided. A BUSINESS MEN'S MOVEMENT. It will be noticed that the business men are playing a prominent and im portant part in this anti-negro move ment. As a matter of fact, the point has been reached where politics no longer cuts any figure. The democratic political leaders are simply trailing on behind, taking advantage of circum stances. Far more effective than all the campaign handbooks ever published are the resolutions adopted by the chamber of commerce.and signed by its president, who is a prominent repub lican, and by all the leading business men of the city, declaring that the po litical situation here is a menace to peace and order, and calling upon "even' good citizen to exert his utmost Influence and personal effort to effect results which will restore order, pro tect property, and give security to our lives and homes." Men who have never been in politics are at the head and front of this movement, and they are acting with deliberate determination. One of these men is James Sprunt, the practical head of the firm of Alexander Sprunt & Co., whose cotton wharves cover a large area on the river front, and who are paying $1,500 daily in wages to their negro stevedores. Mr. Sprunt is a gentlemen well advanced in years, quiet and courteous in de meanor, and deprecating the notoriety which is thrust upon him. but he has made up his mind not to suffer another two years of negro rule. "Not since the days of our civil war." he said to me today, "have I seen our people so agitated," as well as so determined, as they are at present." JdR. EMERSON'S EMPHATIC VIEWS Mr. T. M. Emerson, the general pas senger Agent of the Atlantic Coast J Line, Is another well known bucinesa and " railroad man who, while he la counted here aa among the conserva tives, talks with emphatic earnestness. "Every cent I have in the world' he said today, "is invested in and around Wilmington, but I would sacrifice all and leave the locality rather than en- j dure another two years of what we ; have patiently suffered here since 1856. j The situation has been simply terrible. We have organized now for the pro tection of the property-holding, tax paying class. There is no politics in the movement. We have long since gone beyond the question of republi canism or democracy. It is the whites against the negroes, and we do not dis guise the fact. Our city government is beyond discription. Our magistrates, who are police court judges, and have power to fine and imprison, are nearly all negroes. When my family and my self were at the beach thic summer ? the negroes broke into my house, took possession and gathered there every night, wantonly destroying my per sonal effects. No one was ever cap tured or punished. This is not an iso lated case. Do you wonder that we are determined to put an end to negro rule? The Post's splendid editorial on the North Carolina situation was a masterly review of the situation, and shows that our position is appreciated outside of the state. For myself, I can only say that we propose to put an end to the present condition, cost what it may. We are all armed and ready," j concluded Mr. EmeTson. "I an armed and I make no concealment of the fact." Columns might be filled with inter views, of this same tenor, for mer chants, bank presidents, clergymen, lawyers, and reputable citizens gener ally all talk in the same strain.Even the republican postmaster of Wilming- ton. W. H. Chadbourn. has declined 10 stand with his party. He is a northern man who never voted the democratic ticket in his life. Wilmington. N. C, October 30. To day passed quietly in Wilmington, but all possibility of trouble has. not yet been averted. In the churches and among crowds on the street corners the situation here has been the one topic. There is a hitch over the truce which it was thought yesterday had been ar ranged, whereby the democratic nomi nees for the legislature were to with draw in favor of candidates named by the business men while the republi cans were to refrain from nominating a county ticket. This arrangement is not satisfactory to the mass of white voters. The democratic candidates and the democratic campaign committee ac cepted the compromise in excellent spirit, but their followers are inclined to rebel against any scheme which looks like yielding to a suggestion of Governor Russell. It is probable that State Chairman Simmons will have to be summoned here to finally decide the matter. Every one recognizes, of course, that if the compromise is not arranged, the republicans will enter the field with a full ticket. The ne groes will attempt to vote, and in the resistance which will be offered to them at the polls a conflict will surely come. Tonight, therefore, the feeling of relief, which was so marked last night, has been succeeded by nervous apprehension. The campaign of North Carolina, of which this Wilmington situation is but a part, recalls the stormy days when the state passed through the throes of reconstruction. There has not been as much excitement in thirty years. Busi ness is practically at a standstill, and merchants, lawyers, and bankers gath er in public meetings and in their of fices to discuss the extreme measures necessary to keep the negroes from the polls. The color line is sharply drawn. It is the whites against the blacks the former determined to rule at all hazards. The negroes, on their part, are stirred to the exercise of their rights by impassioned leaders, and should they follow this advice, a con flict is inevitable. PRIVATE HOUSES WELL ARMED. Fortunately, it does not seem likely at this time that the negroes will at tempt to vote in Wilmington, and so all trouble here may be avoided. Public feeling, however, still runs very high. Many of the leading citizens have sent their families out of the state, and Postmaster Chadbourn and his family are among the absentees. The office of the Wilmington Messenger is a verita ble arsenal, a large closet being stored with revolvers and rifles. Private houses are fortified against possible at tack, and the local papers solemnlv warn housewives not to give up any rifles on orders purporting to be signed by their husbands, as this is said to be one of the schemes of the negroes to secure arms. Pistursque incidents are not lacking. One of these occurred a fewT days ago. The business men's committee, as my dispatch yesterday stated, recently purchased a Colt rapid-firing gun with which to protect the cotton wharves and other property from incendiary mobs. It was at first determined to ex hibit the gun in the public square, in order to give the negroes an idea of its destructive powers, but this plan was abandoned. The gun, instead of being fired in the city, was taken down the river, and a few negroes selected to ac company the party. It was loaded with f00 cartridges, and these were fired so quickly and with such destruction to the trees and shrubbery on shore that the negroes were frightened almost to death. When they were brought back to the city, they advertised the good marksmanship of the gunners and the death-dealing quality of the weapon among their colored brethren. The ef fect is said to have been "very satisfac tory." This incident is a counterpart of John Allen's story. "We fire a can non at Tupelo on the morning of elec tion day." that wily congressman once explained, "to let the negroes know there is going to be a fair election." BOTCOTT ALSO A WEAPON. Other means than that of powder and ball are resorted to to ke?p the colored men from voting. The latest device is "the vte man's labor bureau," organ ized he business men. This bureau is san to have already given wortc to forty white men, and the country is be ing scoured for others who will work as laborers at good wages, the tdea being to discharge negroes as fast as the-ir places can be filled. Nor is the hostility entirely of cia? against class. It concerns individuals. An Incident which relates to the wife of Governor Russell Is a case in point. The governor, as can well be under stood, is hated here with a bitter hatred for the part he has played in fastening negro rule upon these people. This is his home, and just outside of the city his wife has a large dairy farm, which she owns and manages. She sends the milk to Wilmington, where it is distri buted by a local dealer. This dealer has been waited upon by a committee and informed that he must either ally himself to the white men's party or else he can sell no milk from the Rus sell farm in Wilmington. He will vote as requested. The papers here appeal to the citizens not to buy pny of the Russell milk. It has already "been stated that a compromise between the democrats and republicans may be consummated and all trouble in this particular locality averted. If this should be the case, and If the passionate state of feeling over the race issue was confined to this one city, the story might be ended. On the contrary, the name or antagonism to the blacks is burning fiercely all over llltr siuie, ill nir a.o "vu n hcbiu districts. The mountaineers of the western portion of the state are being urged to come to the aid of negro-ridden white brethren on the seacoast by electing a democratic legislature. STIMULATED BY DEMOCRATIC PRESS. Here in Wilmington the anti-negro movement began with and was stimu lated by the business men as a matter of self-preservation. In the state, gen- erally speaking, the same movement is largely political. It is being fostered by the democratic press with per sistent vehemence. The newspapers of the state are interesting reading. All of them publish daily a long editorial which appeared in the Daily Record, a negro paper published here, and in which the editor, among other "infa mous and horrid slanders," says that "our experience among poor white peo ple in the country teaches us that the women of that race are not any more particular in the matter of clandestine meetings with colored men than are the white men with colored women." The whole editorial bristles with insinua tions and charges against the morals of white women, and naturally inflames the already incensed state of feeling against the negro race. In addition to presenting this editorial daily to their readers, the newspapers collect and print in large black type every case of attempted outrage by negro men upon white women and then appeal to white men of the state to rise in their might and vote against every candidate who consorts with a negro. Affidavits from northern republicans who have become democrats through -oo aubui ipj ojsau eto m?A jsnitnp umns. Letters are printed from farm ers' wives, who pray white voters to save them from ruin, and items con necting negroes with all manner of crimes are given daily prominence. The utterances of republican campaigners which tend to intensify the feeling an published in double column, with dis play-type headings. In one particular instance the stump speaker is credite with having told the negroes that they were the best race of people on earth, and advised them to throw their arms around white girls. According to the printed account, the orator "was met by COO of our most determined citi zens," compelled to stand up in his buggy and retract, and then driven out of town with short shrift. AN EXAMPLE OF STUMP ORATORY While the news columns of the pa pers thus bristle with this kind of mat ter the democratic spell-binders go to extreme lengths in their talks upon the stump. Here, for example, is an ex tract from the speech of ex-Congressman Waddell, deliivered in this city: "We are in the presence of a crisis before which all such questions sink into insignificance. The salvation of society depends on the outcome of this election, not the restoration of good government only, or the protection of property, or the reduction of taxation, or of the public expenditures, but all these, together with the preservation of peace and good order and prosperity for all of both races. To suppose that under such circumstances North Caro linians will fail to meet the jssue squarely and manfully is to attribute to them an imbecility and a pusilanim ity which they have never, in the 200 years of their history, exhibited, and which would make them forever con temptible in the eyes of the civilized world. Are we less intelligent or less courageous, or more degraded, than the people of the other states who have settled this question for themselves? What is the matter with us? I will tell you. We are afflicted with an ex cess of the virtue of forbearance, which, beyond a certain point, ceases to be a virtue at all, and becomes a want of self-respect." This speech was wildly applauded by the enthusiastic audience and isprais ed by the papers because "it is talk straight from the shoulder.with no fool ishness about it." Even the venerable ex-Senator and ex-Governor Jarvis, who is not given to wild exclamations, indulges upon the stump in a series of excited interrogations. "Shall North Carolina be Cubanized?" he asks. "Shall we have bayonet rule? Shall we have negro domination? Shall we have all the evils of bad government, or shall we have the rule of civil law? Shall we have white supremacy, or shall we not?" It is no wonder that, with this feeling in the air, the repub lican candidates for the legislature in this county have deemed discretion the better part of valor, and have with drawn from their ticket, hastening at the same time to assure their towns people in public announcements that they are upon the white man's side. Newspapers, campaign orators, and frenzied poets are all stimulating the feeling of antagonism to the blacks. The country citizen is doing his part. He is wearing a red shirt. Democratic meetings are now known as "red-shirt rallies." A widely distributed circular advertising a campaign meeting at Laurinburg next Tuesday is headed: "Fifty rounds of cannon and 1,000 red shirts." The local paper of the town promises that the red shirts will be in line. "Red shirts." says the editor, "mean white supremacy." Proces sions of red-shirted men are the lat est and perhaps most striking feature of this remarkable campaign. Having usea tnree Dottles of P. P. P. for impure blood and general weakness and having derived great benefit from the same, having gained 14 pounds in weight in four weeks. I take great pleasure in recommending It to all un fortunate like JOHN MOxtRIS. Office of J. N. McElroy, Druggist. Orlando, Fla., April 20, 1831. Messrs. Lippman Bros., Savannah. Ga. Dear Firs: I sold three bottles of P, P. P., large size, yesterday, and one bottle snail size today. The P. P. P. cured my wife of rheu matism winter before last. It came back on her the past winter and a half bottle, $1 size, relieved her again, and she has not had a symptom since. I sold a bottle of P. P. p. to a friend of mine, one of the turkies, a small one, took sick and his wife gave It a tea spoonful, that was in the evening, and h little fellow turned over like he wks dead, but next morning he waj bcViwing and well. Tours respeotfullv. j. n. Mcelroy. vannah. Oa., March 17. 1891. Wessr. Lippman Bros, Savannah. Ga. Dea- irs: I have suffered from rheurnatfrm for a long time and did not fnd a cure until I found P. P. p whlh completely cured ma. Tours truly, ELIZA JONES. It Ortnjf St, Savannah. Ga- T"Se JforCt Carolina Situation (Boston Herald.) North Carolina comes near being the state of the south which has most an ti-southern leanings. The southern aristocracy of the ante-war period was less dominant there than anywhere else in that section, and during the rebellion the state was the first to speak out through Its public men, as the contest drew toward its close, against its continuance. There was a considerable mountain region of North Carolina that never had heart in the rebellion, and when the war was over the republicans did not depend upon ' the suppression of the whites in poli- I tits iu carry tue elections so mucn as they did in-most quarters of the south. The state at length settled into dem ocratic hands with her sisters, as the effect of negro incapacity to govern her, but this was later forgotten. When the populist movement came a few years ago, it was found easy to take her out of them. The populists of most S of the southern states continued to be ! democrats, and they are going back into that party at present. In North : Carolina, on the contrary, they seemed naturally united with the republicans in opposing the democratic party, and ! the two in combination put that party j down, and did it by acting together on a populist basis. The democrats lost I power in North Carolina by opposing free silver and other populist heresies; j the republicans came into power by supporting them. There is no doubt that this republi- , can-populist combination appealed to the more ignorant and prejudiced por tion of the voters of North Carolina, and that the democrats , were over thrown in holding to conservatism as regards public affairs there. .Such a state of affairs was favorable to the prominence of the colored men in the j politics of the state. The republicans and their populist associates being in control, there was little opportunity for negro suppression. The negro vote was encouraged, and was used for all it was worth. The negro politicians saw their opportunity, and they made the most of it. They do not appear to have tried to be elected to congress very much, though in one or two instances they have sent men of their color to that body. They have had more, but still not very many, representatives in the state legislature, but they have turned their attention heavily to the local offices. They have taken to themselves nlnces in the nnlice have chosen a great many men of their color i to be magistrates, and have secured possession of a large share of execu tive offices. In one county that in which Wilmington is situated they have no less than thirty-six magis trates upon the bench, the register of deeds, and other county officials in pro portion. The white men, who are the property possessors and the business men of this region to the amount of fully 95 per cent the whole, are naturally much disturbed about this. They find themselves locally under ne gro rule, and a rule of necessity much inferior to what their own would be in point of intelligence. They are re monstrating, and are led to fear that, if continued, it will bring back the con ditions of affairs as it was in the south ern states thirty years ago; indeed, it is asserted to have done so to some ex- , tent already. It is pointed out that this negro rule in early reconstruction days was a dire ful failure, the recollection of which still brings a shudder in its contempla tion. But how to get rid of it in North . " t. Jr , , u i.i,r r,-; is pretty firmly fixed there already Of course the re publicans have the re - sponsibility for its existence, but they . , , , n , . , tv.0 are said to be appalled at the I-ranken- . stein they have created. They are as much concerned to be relieved of it in operation as are the democrats. The indications now are of a combination of the whole white vote against it, though it has all to be carried over to the democrats for this purpose. Presi dent McKinley's republican postmaster at Wilmington writes an open letter to Republican United States Senator Pritchard of the state to say that he is advising the giving up of the local of fices to the democrats. He evidently thinks the safety of the community demands this. But it may be easier said than done. The negroes have now the possession of these offices, and the hold ing of them is something doubtless very much to their minds. The spectre that looms up in view of the situation is that of a threatened race conflict. There is danger of it, and there ap pears to be apprehension that it may break out if there is an attempt to os tracize these men in the apportioning of the local offices. Politically speaking, the situation much favors the democrats. The white republicans are expected to vote with them to a great extent as a de fence against negro rule, and the col cred voters are not to be assumed to stands with the republicans while the latter are refusing them office. In view of this, the democrats are prophe sying that they are to carry the state f easily this year, and some of them are claiming all the members of the next national house of representatives, though they have only one of the nine members in the present house. But this is of comparative unimportance. The serious danger is in the recurrence of the race problem. It seems almost an anachronism in the form it has taken. It is a restoration of the con ditions of thirty years ago, from which all the southern states. North Carolina included, had been relieved during the most of that time. They have been restored through the republican-populist alliance, initiated and established about 1894. On a comparatively local theatre an experiment is being retried which was thought to have been settled long in the past, the experiment of the governing of the intelligence of a community by the elements in it which are not intelligent It can have but one result; there must be in the end the yielding of ignorance to intelli gence; but it is to be deplored that the unscrupulous methods of politi cians have brought this problem into practical existence at this late day in a state of the American union. POLITICAL HOROSCOPES PIIEDICTIOXS OF UESt LTS 111' TIIK PABTY CH.tia.tl EN Heavy Wfelte IlrjrUtratlon In Wake County Attorury i;cural Vler Opinion on Matter I Depositing Hal-Iot-Sendln: Out Parly Tlrkela Messenger Bureau Raleigh, N. C, October 31. The realtor of securing control of the legislature of course overshadows the congressional election, yet the latter Is of interest. Your correspondent asked the democratic state chairman his view of the congTessional vote. He said "We will elect congressmen in the First. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh, and Ninth districts, with a fighting chance in the Third, Fourth and Eighth." Secretary Aver, of the populist state committee, said: "Skinner in the First, Fowler in the Third. Jenkins in the Fourth. Adams in the Fifth, Dock ery in the Sixth. Linney in the Eighth and Pearson in the Ninth will be elect ed. I do no. know as to the Second district. As to the Sixth events which have occurred, inspired by the demo crats are already sufficient to vitiate any certificate which the democratic candidate can obtain. As to the Sev enth district there will be a hard fight." He declined to pick the winner in the latter district. Republican State Chairman Holton said: A solid anti-democratic con- gressional delegation will be elected. Thirty-four senators and seventy-seven members of the lower house of the legislature are absolutely certain to be elected, with a chance of eight more senators and twenty-four more mem bers of the lower house." very ,arge lt is perfectly safe t( bet i ne registration in mis county is that Wake will go democratic. It seems that in the Second congres sional district the democrats will not nominate a candidate for congress. It is said that Senator Butler and Con gressman White have an agreement by which James B. Lloyd remains in the field there as the populist candidate in consideration of White's working the negro vote for Fowler in the Third district. The registration generally is heavy. The democrats have done well. Here in Raleigh the registered vote is some SCO more than that by republicans. The three political parties are all sending out their tickets. The demo cratic tickets are plain, and without device. Chairman Thompson tells me the populists tickets are likewise with out device. Chairman Ilolton says the republican tickets have a device. He has filed a copy of each with the sec retary of state. The other parties have not filed. Attorney General Walser gave an opinion today that under the require- j ments of the new- election law a judge deposits the ballots, and is authorized j to examine a ballot so as to see that not more than one of each is cast by one person; but that an election offi cer has no right to examine a ballot to see for whom it is cast; in other words cannot pry into it for the pur pose of ascertaining how tiie voter is voting. The democrats say thev have the raa- jority in the lower house well assured. Interest now centres in the senate. There was inquiry as to whether the democrats are to lose the senator from New Hanover and Brunswick. Forepaugh and Sells Bros', combin ed circus was here today. It gave the finest and largest street parade ever The number cou ag , , nt . known. The attendance at the circus woo . , ,mTY1Q CIO OUUIJ A. A-l A-li V A J OV, 1 liv iUl IU1 HI- ance was what might have been ex pected of two such great circuses thus I. thrown together. The popular com- ment is that last week there was the best state fair and this week the best circus. t The state charters the American Furniture Company, of Iexington, capital $10,000, J. N. Mendenhall and others owners. The secretary of state today received the application of the Royal Assurance Company, of Ixindon. The supreme court is this week at work on appeals from the Sixth dis trict. The state superintendent of public ! in&truction has received annual re ports from all the county supervisors save the one from Mitchell county. The number of visitors to th? state museum last week was 3.51C. Ieafne Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deaf ness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is caused hv an j Jnnamea condition of the mucous Hn ing of the Eustachian Tube. 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