New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-06
IN ENNECESSARY SCARE.

Colonel Bryans tricky bid for negro support
at st. Paul the other day, taken in conjunction
with this recent curious declaration OF CHAIR
man James X. Jones-"I think ii almost an in
suit to them to consider the citizenship of
"colOred men a thing apart from the body
politicians set numerous Southern Demo
Gratis TO wondering whether the new born zeal
of these two statesmen for government with
the consent of the governed" is or is not meant
to outlast Election Day. The South has never
taken seriously the empty and fictitious issue
which the fusion managers sought to make
paramount in this campaign. 1t has viewed
with easy and contemptuous tolerance the decoy
uses TO which that humbug issue has been put.
1t has seen great harm in Colonel Bryans
champoning the natural rights of the ''brown
man in the Philippines so long as he was
prepared to disregard and ignore the legalized
rights Of the "black man. in the United States.
The enigmatical Jones interview and Colonel
Bryans speciOuS profession of interest in the
fortunes of the colored voter seem, however to
have kindled in the minds of some earnest
Southern Democrats a certain suspicion and
alarm. Insincere as they doubtless suspect both
Chairman Jones and Colonel Bryan to be- the
discovery that either is willing to admit that
the consent Of the governed" theory might
find a suitable application nearer home than
leaders, whose radical views on the race ques-
ton are not to be suppressed or dissembled for
the sake of catching a few colOred votes in
Northern and Western States.
This shock is accurately reflected in the
columns of two leading Southern newspapers
''The Macon Telegraph" and "The Memphis
Scimitar." Discussing Chairman Jones's oracu-
lar deliverance 1.-The Macon Telegraph" said
the other day with some show of irritation:
Chairman Jones of the National Democratic
Committee makes us tired" 1t added:
What he says can have but one meaning
There is no explaining it away except to declare
that he did not say it. We all know where Mr.
Bryan stands the r-rrrency question and on
the question of impei ialism, far as the latter
relates to distant island acquisitions but this
leaves US in some doubt to where he stands in
regard to the determination of the white South to
ton of the black South AS the result
of its great fall in the sixties the South has en-
dured much and will endure more. but there
is one thing it will not endure-any further
paltering compromising with a mass of
ignorant aliens. Jones should recall his error
deny It, No Democratic candidate for Presi-
dent since the war has yet failed to take a
stand for government of the whites, for the
whites, by the whites
This significant utterance antedated the news
Of Colonel Bryan's st. Paul speech 1.-THE
Scimtars' comments are inspired by the
Democratic candidates rejoinder to the presi-
in which he made this promise IF by the
suffrage of my countrymen I become Presi-
dent of the United States, you may rest as
"sured that the rights of a citizen Of this coun-
''try. regardless of color. creed or condition
will be protected far as the Executive has
power to protect them" Says '"The Scimitar":
Among the rights guaranteed to the negro
by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton is the right to vote and hold office equally
with the white man. In case Of his election
therefore, Mr.. Bryan will stand pledged to pro-
tect this right to the utmost of the power vested
in him President. From his own words
which are too plain to be miscOnstrued, II fol-
lows, as the night the day, that he condemns
the measures taken in the South to annul or
minimize the results of negro Acknowledgement
of Southern white people which they esteem as
a God given inspiration for tkeir own protection
and the maintenance of civilization in half a
dozen sovereign States.
We fear that these two vigilant and cour-
ageOus organs of Southern opinion eXaggerate
the value and Importance of Colonel Bryans
st. Paul pledge" If elected the Nebraska
statesman will quickly discover that the Execu-
tive's power to protect the negros political
rights is conveniently and unexpectedly limited.
Against the pressure of Southern opinion he
could not venture to appoint colored men to
office to interfere in any way to check the
purpose of the Southern Democracy to strip
the negro by force or trickery of all his CON
stitutional and statute rights. Nervous South
ern leaders should not be too greatly disturbed
by Colonel Bryans st. Paul outbreak So far
it points to any actual intention to apply
the theories of the Kansas City platform at
home it means nothing. and can mean nothing
1t is but another piece Of cheap deception in a
campaign of charlatanry and false pretence
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