Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-10-05

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It Is therefore for the people as a
whole to say by their vote on the 9th
Of November next II the negro is to
become the disintegra+ing element in
the body polite or IL the murderous
methods Of men like Senator Ben Till.
man are to be condemned by the cleo
ton Of William Mckinley and Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
FROM rIlLNAN's SPEECH. FROM KANSAS CITY PLAT
We took tie govern. FORM.
ment away. We stuffed We declare again that
the ballot boxes. We all governments insti.
shot them. We are not tuted among men derive
ashamed OF 1t. With their powers from the
that syster-forcc, lis. consent Of the govern
sue ballots, etc.-we got ed; that any govern.
tired ourselves So we ment not based upon
called a constitutional tho consent OF the gov.
convention. and we erned Is tyranny and
eliminated, as ! have that to impose upon any
said. all Of the colored people a government Of
people whom we could force Is to substitute
under the fourteenth the methods OF impe-
and fifteenth amend. ralism for those Of =
ments. republic
II our determination to uphold the
party of Abraham Lincoln and to sup.
port the Republican platform we are
inspired by no craven fear for the fu-
tire Of the negro, who as long as the
republic lasts will find place in it,
but we ar" solicitous for the good
name Of the nation end the peace and
prosperity Of the whole people, which
would be put in jeopardy by the sur
render of Republican institutions to
the forces Of anarchy, population and
notification as represented by Colonel
William Jennings Bryan. We realize
the reincarnation Of the spirit which
preceded secession. with all of its bnne-
full consequences. Had the results Of
the civil war been accepted in good
faith by the south and had not the
neoDle Of that section been encouraged
by the Democratic party Of the uortE
to expect assistance in the reversal Of
the settlement. there would now be no
negro question. 1t Is futile, however,
to evade the fact that nothing less is
demanded by the Democratic south
than the reduction Of the negro in that
locality to state Of peonage, without
voice in its government, protection ir
its courts or security for life or prop
erty. It. Is equally certain that federal
legislation, having as its object the ut
ter degradation of the race, is the price
which the Democratic party Of the
north is pledged to guarantee to the
south in exchange for power.
This insolert conspiracy is unrelev-
ed by n single re1ceming featurc:' t'iis
towards blow is aimed at the people
upon whom the south is dependent for
the development Of its soil and the
conduct Of its industrial system. Nor
is it pretended by the party Of Pryan,
Ben Tillman and Bourke Cochran that
the negro is to be SUPERSEDED by @
more efficient laborer. Their plan is
that he should tell in freedom as he
did in bondage. with little pay and
without master to defend him from
the abuse of the IRRESPONSIBLE and
worthless whose lot under the old dis
pensatjcn was worse than that Of tho
slave. 1t is to deliver the southern
black man from this living death as
well IS to protect tho northern negro
from tho dehasinC influences Of the
Democratic machine that we desire
Repuhl!cno success. We have no dis
position to Ge+ach the colored citizen
from Ire whole Republican platform
ard TO create rev issues for his hene-
fit, bnt the negro's paramount issue is
now, and must forever remain until
settled, his full citizenship as guaran.
tced By Tho fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the federal constitu-
tor.
If these amendments that wore writ
ten .nto .he constitution with tho best
blood cf the people are to be set at
raugtt throughout an important and
wide area Of the country, inhabited by
millions Of negroes then It were Of
little consequence to the race whether
the finances Of the country were on q
stable foundation or otherwise, wheth-
err Republican protection had filed the
Golfers CT The nation or Democratic
free trade had depleted them, whether