black voters reporting in office but he gave the order that day, the day of the coup, the two white supremacists alisha to go out into the streets start putting down the rights and that was a pivotal moment. i think he was completely intimidated and he was related to a lot of them, they knew him, they threatened his life and threatened to impeach him so i think he was so intimidated he did whatever they wanted but he stood by and did nothing as black citizens were murdered in the streets. indirectly, his orders, the two militias to put down this report black right. >> in north carolina, had that republicans and democrats but this other more fluid fusion, tell us about the fusion. >> the fusion is what about, i guess you could call them the regressive's of the day to take over the city government in 1897. the people's party, which was mainly poor white farmers had become disenchanted with the democratic leadership, they had voted democratic but they felt they were being ignored by the bankers, railroads and lawyers and these were poor white farmers who had more basic issues like education for their chil