The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-23
A DASH THROUGH
WEST VIRGINIA.
-77s1l E2Gas
Old Dominion's Daughter
Gives Bryan Big Crowds.
THE NEGRO'S DEBT PAID
He Owes the Republican Party Moth
ing, Declares Bryan.
TEDDY ON GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION
Bryan Quotes an Article Of His Which De-
clares that Those Who Oppose it Are
on a Level With Prehis-
tore Savapes.
THE NEGRO'S DEBT PAID
he Owes the Republican Party Moth.
ing, Declares Bryan.
TEDDY ON GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION
tore Savages.
(By the Associated Press.) }


Hinton, w. Va, Oct. 22.-The line of
the Chesapeake Railroad traversing the
picturesque valleys of the Big Kanawha
and New rivers was the scene of Mr.
Bryan's campaign today. Speeches were
made at Huntington, Hurricane, st. AL
bans, Charleston, Brownstown, East
Bank, Montgomery, Sewell, Thurmond and
Hinton. The size of the audiences varied,
but all of them were large in proportion
to the population of the towns and of
the surrounding country There were es-
pecially fine crowds at Huntington, Char
lesion and Hinton, people coming into
those towns from all adjacent regions.
THE BLACK MAN AND THE BROWN
The one notable feature of the day
was Mr.. Bryans repeated reference to
the race question. His line of travel to-
day was further South than he has gone
before and farther than he will again
co. and there were quite number of
colored people scattered through the
crowds at all the stopping places Mr.
Bryan evidently noted their presence and
took occasion to address portions of his
speeches, especially to- them, appealing
to them to do justice by the Filipinos as
they would have justice done by them
selves The first point at which he
touched upon this question was at st.
Albans. There he said:
When we complain that the Republi
cans are applying in the Philippine Is
lands doctrine that deprive people of the
right to govern themselves the argu
ic hat
some of the Southern States have adopted
amendments requiring an educational
qualification for voting. l wish to submit
this question to Republicans. Do they ap-
prove of what is being done in the So':-
or do they oppose it? If they oppose it,
why do they propose worse things in
Porto Rico and in the Philippine Islands
than have been proposed in the South?
Read the qualifications adopted by your
own administration for voting in Porto
Rico and you will find that they have an
educational qualification there that de-
prives S3 per cent of the black men of
voting age of the right to vote; not only
this, but they deprive them of the pro-
lection of the Constitution of the United
States. In the Philippine Islands they
are going on the theory that the brown
people there have no right to a voice
in their Government, and when a Repub-
lican tells a black man in this country
that he ought to vote the Republican
ticket, / want the black man to ask him
this question: If a brown man in the
Philippine Islands has no right to a
voice in his Government, what about the
black man.
THE NEGROS DEBT PAID.
'And I want to ask what black man
can stand on his own right to q voice in
his own government if he votes the Re-
publican ticket, and denies to the people
in other lands a right to a voice in their
government? And if the Republicans tell
the colored man that he is under obliga-
tions to the Republican party, let the
colored man reply that he has paid his
debt of gratitude. If Lincoln were here
the colored man might vote for him, but
the modern leaders of the Republican
party have had more from the colored
man than they have given to him. The
colored man has bestowed presidencies
upon the Republican party and received
partnerships in return. / want the color
ed men before they vote the Republican
ticket to know that the policy of the Re-
publican party is to send few white men
to the Philippine Islands and hold those
white men in authority over ninety nine
per cent. of the population, which will be
brown, and this is to be done by a stand
ing army. Instead of using the race ques-
tion as a reason why we should annex
the Philippine Islands, let the race ques-
tion be warning to us not to bring into
this country class of people who are to
share in the full destiny of our nations.
want the Filipino to have his own flag and
his own government, and to wor out his
own destiny. and l want this nation to
stand by him and say to the world: Hands
of; let this republic live
Mr.. Bryan reverted to the race question
in his speech at Charleston. There he
said:
Forty years ago the Republicans said
that a black man should not sell for a
thousand dollars, but now they will buy
brown men by the job lot for two dollars
and half apiece. They said generation
ago that the Declaration of independence
applied to a black man. Now they say il
does not apply to brown man. 1t cost
us hundreds of thousands of lives and
hundreds of millions of money to take ou
OF the Declaration of independence the eS-
ception clause that excluded the blacl
man. Now shall we wage a war of con