The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-11-24
THE sOUTH,s vINDIcAT,oN

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pathizer, as Delegate to Congress,
and Q House Of Representatives in
which the native contingent has a
safe majority. There have been
few political events In recent years
in which the South should find
such profound satisfaction as in
this.
The curse of this section has
been IN the possibilities for a
thousand evils consequent upon
negro Acknowledgement. To rid
itself of the effects Of this dlaboli-
cal mistake has for years been one
of the chief ends of the South's ex-
istence. Only secondary in i'm
portance to this has been the effort
to force from the Republican par
ty a recognition IF the justice the
very vital necessity-of our course,
in attempting to render nugatory
the crowning folly of that party's
reconstruction viciousness. Only
through such a recognition can
the inharmonious agitations arls-
ing from the difference between
the practical treatment of the ques-
ton of the negro's so-called politi-
cal rights by Southern Democrats
and its theoretical treatment by
Northern Republicans be forever
put at a rest; a contamination
which should be hoped for by all
friends OF good politics, regardless
of section. Entertaining earnestly
this view,. the Times has been pre-
pared to regard az genuine ben
efaction whatever tended to b. ing
about an accord of ideas between
the two parties on a question OF
such moment anything calculated
to force from New England and
the North the tribute of their rec
ognition of the soundness of the
Southern contention of the negro's
incapacity for government-an ac-
acknowledgements Of the service rem
dered society and American civil
zatlon in the redemption of these
states from the consequences of
their folly. In the acquisition, un.
der a Republican administration,
Of Porto Rico with IFS negroes and
hybrids and of Hawaii with its
kanakas, and in the duty of that
party to formulate a scheme of
government for these islands, the
Times has contended that the exi-
gency which was to compel Repub-
lican legislation patterned after
the Southern plan had at last
arisen.
In the inability Of any party to
steer safely course between the
Scylla of theoretical political
equality and the Charybdis of
practical white supremacy we be-
Iieved that we could see the ulti-
mate and certain wreck of all that
the Republican party had urged
in justification of its attacks upon
the conduct of the Southern peo-
pie. Secretary Root sounded the
keynote Of the future policy of
his party when he declared in his
Canton speech, but a few days be-
fore the election, that govern
ment does not rest upon consent"
in every case, and that the Filipi-
nos ''are incapable of self-govern-
meDt.n
What is the situation today con- /
fronting the Republicans in the
case of the Hawaiian islands,
Their refusal to invest the fran
chise in those islands with suqh
stringent qualifications as to abs
Iutely shut out the native vote Mas
in harmony with their position
here. but the act was the last
exhibition of vitality in a theory
destined to q certain and a speedy
death.
In the last election racial lines
we're drawn and the Republican
candidate for Congressional Dele
gate went down before the native
sympathizer. The white people
Of the islands propose to memoir
iaIize Congress to enact such legis-
Iation as will eliminate the native
vote and thereby establish white
supremacy What a spectacle
A Republican Congress called upon l
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