Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
NEGRO AND POLITICS.
The White People Must Retain Control
of Legislative Affairs.
An Adjustment That Is Likely to Promote HaF-
mony and Secure Social Order and Pro
gress-An Exhaustive Paper.

The way to solve the race problem in
the South is to solve it. The negro must
be adjusted to our political system
whether he fares better or worse, and
the white people must retain control III
local, state aud national affairs, whether
they are numerically stronger or weaker
in any given locality. In this adjust
ment the negro must be given all that
can be safely conceded TO him, and no
more This is a white man S country,
and this fact must be the basis of any
adjustment that is likely to promote
harmony and secure social order and
progress. The aegro's rights must be
maintained up to the point where they
are likely TO i1Ifeere with the general
welfare, and must there be cut off with
out ceremony. We have driven the
Indian to the far west, ana set him apart
as a ward of the nation, under the
tatelage and surveillance of
THE RULING RACE.
We Danish or exclude the patient,
frugal and industrious Chinaman from
the country, and not newspaper, not
politician, not statesman, not phllan-
thTopist in all this broad land enters a
protest In both eases we have con-
suited only the welfare of the white
race, and forced what we conceived to
be the best adjustment of two non-as-
sinilable races to our social and political
system The true SoutheTner has no other
than the kindiiest feelings for the eOlored
people. They are, as General Har-
rison says; q dooile, kind-hearted race,
with fair capacity for civilization, but
make the best progress under an environ
ment Of higher social conditions-th is
to say, they prosper best in contact with
white civilization If the Southern race
problem IS ever settled permanently and
tremendously it must be on the basis
suggested. We must disabuse our minds
of the idea that our political system can
admit
ON TERMS OF ABSOLUTE EQUALITY
and full citizenship an alien race of
lower clinical type, without menace to
It's purity and preservation and without
injury 10 ourselves.
One hundred years ago the fathers of
the republic were confronted by a similar
problem, III the shape of negro slavery,
and they solved it by granting TO the
white people of the Southern states d
representation in congress ana the cleo
toral college in excess Of their numerical
strength to the extent of three-hfths of
the slave population. This departure
from pure and simple representative gov
eminent was made i'll Difference TO an
existing condition which demanded it
So are We now confronted by the grayer
problem presented in the adjustment Of
the reciprocal relations of two races who,
if not inherently antagonistic, are
at least difficult of assimilation.
The attempt to adjust the negro to our
political system by the reconstruction
measures of 1865 has proved lament
able failure, and he must now be either
readiusted on new basis or entirely
eliminated from Southern politics In
the new reconstruction
TWO CARDINAL POINTS
must be kept III view:
/. The absolute ascendancy of the
white race in local, state and national
politics for all time to come.
2. a fair and equitable minority rep
resentation in government to the celored
race.
With this dual object in view, as far as
national elections are concered, the mem
bers of congress and electors from the
fourteen negro states of the South should
be distributed as follows between the two
races: