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"Cartoons Are For All," Raleigh News and Observer, June 14, 1900
In a speech in Lexington last Saturday, so we are informed, State Chairman Holton, of the Republican committee, paid his respects to the editor of the News and Observer, and said that he had to teach his Democratic subscribers by means of cartoons…
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"Negroes Trying to Register Illegally," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900
The farce of a trial of a white registrar in Winston, inaugurated by Federal office-holders is an attempt to bulldoze with Republican methods in the South. They always rush to the Federal courts for assistance in their local affairs. The trial in…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Butler Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 17, 1900
BUTLER COLOR BLIND Laments Over a Mulatto Kid Thinking He's White The Amendment Disfranchises This Child, He Says. You Caught a Mulatto, Senator, Some One Replies. (Special to News and Observer) Morganton, N.C., June 16 - A small Republican…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Makes Them Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 19, 1900
Marion Butler in his reaching out for the sensational rather over did the thing in Morganton on Saturday. He was trying to make the white people believe that the Amendment would disfranchise them. After finishing [?] that false argument he started…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"White Men to the Rescue," Raleigh News and Observer, September 6, 1898
"White Men to the Rescue"
North Carolina
Tags: Race relations, State Politics
"The Game is Ended," Raleigh News and Observer, November 10, 1898
"The Game is Ended"
Simmons: The White Men Win.
Holton: Great Steptoe, I Thought the Black Men Would Win.
Tags: Race relations, State Politics
"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" Raleigh News and Observer, November 3, 1898
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…
Tags: State Politics
"I Make Them Dance Or I Crush Them." Raleigh News and Observer, October 12, 1898
"I Make Them Dance Or I Crush Them"
Tags: State Politics
"Amendment Good For All Parties," Raleigh News and Observer, February 2, 1900
Amendment Good For All Parties. Twelve Conclusive Reasons Why Democrats, Populists, Republicans and Negroes should Support the Amendment. Below we sum up twelve reasons why the members of every party ought to support the Constitutional…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Emancipation Day," Raleigh News and Observer, January 4, 1900
EMANCIPATION DAY Our friends, the negro chasers, opened their political campaign in behalf of their Constitutional Amendment on Emancipation Day. The selection of the day was characteristically tactful. --- Asheville Gazette (Republican organ.) No…
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
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Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902

This voter registration card was created after the Democrat-controlled North Carolina General Assembly passed a Suffrage Amendment in 1900. The…