Save the county from negro rule.

In the 1890s, the Wilson Times resorted unabashedly to racist tropes and appeals to white supremacy to exhort white men to vote the Democratic ticket.

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Wilson Times, 18 September 1896.

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Wilson Daily Times, 16 October 1896.

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Wilson Times, 16 October 1896.

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Wilson Advance, 3 November 1898.

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