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Chairman F.M. Simmons

Issues a Patriotic and Able Address, Summing

Up the Issues, and Appealing Elo-

Quently to the White Voters

To Redeem the State

TO THE VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA:

The most memorable campaign ever waged in North Carolina is approaching Its end. It has been a campaign of startling and momentous developments. The issues which have overshadowed all others have been the questions of honest and economical State government, and WHITE SUPREMACY. These issues were not planned and inaugurated by parties or conventions, but they were evolved out of the extraordinary conditions of the situation. Strenuous efforts have been made by the Fusionist leaders to divert the attention of the people from these conditions, and to throw the campaign into other channels, but all their efforts in this direction have proven impotent. The people of North Carolina are sufficiently intelligent to discriminate between GOOD and BAD government. They are sufficiently virtuous to want GOOD and HONEST government. They have seen the government of the last two years, and they recognise it to be BAD and CORRUPT, and they were not to be seduced from their purpose to sharply arraign the party which has debauched the State, before the bar of public opinion. The horrible condition of affairs in the eastern counties, and the progress there of negro domination over white communities raised the question of whether in any part of North Carolina men of Anglo-Saxon blood should be subjected to the rule and mastery of the negro, and this issued burned itself into the hearts of the people and kindled a fire of indignation, which cannot be smothered by "Executive Proclamation," or by the threat of Federal bayonets.

On these two issues, therefore, the Democrats have waged an aggressive and relentless campaign. Our enemies have been on the defensive from the very start. To the charges of extravagance and corruption they at first made denial; then they attempted evasion; then they had recourse to all sorts of subterfuges, but the charges were pressed, the conclusive proofs were offered, the people sat in judgment, and when the evidence was in, rendered their verdict of "Guilty."

No one knows better than the leaders of Fusion in North Carolina that this judgment of condemnation has been rendered and that on the 8th day of November the final decree will be entered by the people at the ballot box. Here are the material specifications of the bill of indictment:

It was charged and proved that the Fusionists, coming into power under a promise to reduce expenses, had, in three years, increased the expenses of the State government more than THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

It was charged and proved that the expenses of the Legislature, under Fusion government, had increased in two sessions, FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.

It was charged and proved that in one year salaries and fees paid the officers and employees of the penitentiary were increased NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

It was charged and proved that the Fusion Legislature of 1897, coming into power, under a promise to cut down salaries and fees to the level of the price of farm products, did not decrease the salary of a single officer, did not decease the fees of a single official, did not decrease appropriations, stopped not expenditures; but multiplied offices, increased public expenses and taxation throughout the State.

To the charge of extravagance was super-added the charge of corruption.

Answer 1

Ans. 1. Simmons is not shy about using the term White Supremacy; he wanted to remove Negro Supremacy from North Carolina. The rule of Negro dominant was the rule of corruption. The Fusion government had not fulfilled their promises and the corruption against whites was on the rise. Simmons wanted the people to vote in the upcoming election for Democratic that was the true party who promises to safeguard the rights of white. He said that people are intelligent enough and they know what is bad and what is good for them. He said the Fusion administrative in a defensive mood, as they cannot face the challenges of corruption.

2. Simmons accused the Fusion government of corruption and dishonesty. They had looted the public. The administration had worked for them, they increased the salary. They had never fulfilled any of the promises made during the reign of three years. In contrast, they increased expenses of the State Government and the expenses of the Legislature by 3000 dollars and 14000 dollars respectively. He charged that the Fusion administration is alluring people of cutting down the expenses and improving the quality of life, but the corruption and dishonesty are at its peak and it has to get replaced by white people by voting for Democrats who are promised to look for the white supremacy in North Carolina.

The message is like threatening the Negros because they were unjust during their administration and they knew that their fate is clearly written on the wall and the mood of the people had shifted towards white supremacy, and white always used to think themselves superior to black.