The Canton times., 1900-12-14
SAYS ALL is NOT LOST
Arp Advises Friends to Keep in
Middle of the Road.
Thinks Ncrth VIII Not Dare to Cut
Down South's Representation
in COnEress-Thc Matter
of School Books.

the north dare to cut down our repre-
sentation in congress-such a move
would ALLEVIATE their new southern
converts, for southern republicans are
at heart all lilywhites and have no
use for the negro in politics. South
ern republicans have been under the
ban socially ever since the war; and
they realize that it is because they
are aligned with the negro. Capt.
Lowry is right when he says: But
for the negro in politics the repub-
lican party would have good chance
to capture and hold the south. The
captain is a republican, Tennessee
an, a Georgian, a banker, and has
| Travelled much, and his party up north
ought to give weight to his opinions
He is a gentleman, a man of integrity,
and stands high in financial circles
all over the country. Financially he
is a success and liberal with his mon
ey, but will not take Carnegie's ad-
vice and give it all away before he
dies. Yes, the niger is still in the
wood pile, and the joke of it is the
niger don't know it. There are not
dozen negroes in this country who
care straw about voting. If the
white Office seekers would let them
alone, they wouldn't go about the
polls on election day. What is wanted
| is to purify the candidates. If this
can be done in Atlanta, why not else
where? We all rejoiced over the cleo
tion of Maj. Minis. for he ran for
mayor as n gentleman and had no
heelers, nor would he ask any man
for his vote or allow any corrupt cleo
toneering by his friends. He stub
bornly refused 10 promise anything
TO anybody. and, strange to say, was
elected. But the republican party is
growing very fast in this section, and
will grow into responsibility if they
will let the negro alone. Mr.. Lowry
is right. Some years ago when we
had suffered similar defeat my
friend, Newt Tumblin. was greatly
distressed. and told me in whisper
that there was only one way to get
even with them. and that was to jine
'em. Well, there are lots of folks
jining 'em around in these parts, and
it is hard to tell who is democrat
and who is not. They tell me that a
democratic officeholder and two of the
executive committee of this county
voted for Mckinley. and our neigh
boring county of Polk went for him
by 500 majority. Maybe that is an
evolution that will stop the threat
ened reduction of our representation,
for our republican friends don't want
that to happen any more than we do,
and they will file a protest and fight it.
What we want at the south is to
preserve our good name. our historic
honor and our traditions. 4 section
that has produced Washington, JEFF
ferson, Madison. Monroe, Jackson and |
Polk as presidents, Clay and Calhoun
and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and |
President Davis must hold up her |
proud head and vindicate her honor.
Who are we? We import no foreign |
ers to do our work and hire no Hes
slams to do our fighting. How did I
our hearts burn within us as we read
the brave words of Gen. Evans to the
confederate veterans at Augusta: "Do
not let the history we have made be
perverted by partisan pens or polluted
by sectional slime. Our schools must
be cleared of northern rubbish
dumped into the minds of our chill
dren. We want a literature that will
not continue divisions, but will con-
tain the honest relation of facts, that
will unity the youth of this country
in common appreciation of the truths
of history"
Yes, we have been shamefully care
less in the selection of our school books.
The poison has already crept in, and
must be elected. There should be
school commission in every southern
state, for it is a well-known fact that
there are teachers who are secretly
paid by northern publishers to get
their books into our schools. We can
not control their literature, but we
can their school books. A few weeks
ago an artful canvasser visited our
town with an attractive history of the
world in ten volumes. He was the out
talkinest book agent l have ever met,
and his scheme was to give away five
or. six sets in every town to influential
men of culture. He called it giving
away. but required the cost of the
binding. which he said was S14. The
sale price was S45. I was selected by
him as one of the favored six, and he
fed me literally on fattery, and
assured me that there was not a line
in all the volumes that any southern {
man would object to nor could any !
reader tell whether the authors lived ,
north or south He had one volume as