In 1898 and 1900 , Aycock was prominent in the Democratic Party 's " white supremacy " Solid South campaigns . Aycock 's involvement with the Wilmington insurrection of 1898 is chronicled in official state commission report . " Planned violence to suppress the African American and Republican communities grew into unplanned bloodshed . The frenzy over white supremacy victory , incessantly repeated by orators such as Alfred Moore Waddell and Charles Aycock simply could not be quieted after an overwhelming and somewhat anticlimactic election victory . " Aycock was reportedly not present in Wilmington the day of the insurrection
Wilmington insurrection of 1898
Wilmington insurrection of 1898
Charles Brantley Aycock