The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-10-13

principles Of government, we have
come to proclaim their total in
SEPARATION and universal application.
In the fact that Tillman, of all
men on earth, was the lay member
selected to first read this new Cos
pei OF Democracy, we found cause
TO hope that the whole thing was
| b ing done merely in Pickwick-
ian snse. Bnt even this is now de-
MED u. by the seriousness with
which tLst worthy has taken him
self.
From holding that the enfran-
chising amendment did violence to
every conception of the fathers OF
the republic, as to what this gov
eminent was to be, and that the
negro should never be called up
on to SIT IN judgment upon the
fitness of white man for Office, we
have come down to bidding for his
vote in a national campaign, and
using questionable means to obtain
it.
That Mr.. Bryan should think
and speak as he does. is, perhaps,
natural. Born in a Northern
state. he was reared amidst sur
roundings well calculated to make
him feel that the negro should have
identical political and social rights
with the white man. We see no
good reason why he should be
blamed for inspiring the ardent
affection and support of his friend,
Bishop Turner. 1t is all due to en-
vironment. But how a man like
Senator Jones can play the part
he has apparently assigned him
self in the disgusting game, passes
our comprehension. tits given out
that "reports are already reaching
Democratic national headquarters
that the address issued by ex-Gov.
Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,, VIM.
Lloyd Garrison and Col. Higgin-
son is having powerful influence
among the colored voters"
"No men In the United States"
said Chairman Jones, ''have
worked more earnestly for the
cause of the colored people than
these three men. All have been
Republicans, and their declaration
that the negro should support
Bryan cannot be traced to any I'M
proper motive
1t is perfectly natural that this
trio of South-bating, negrophilistic
theorists should urge the negro to
support Bryan, and Senator Jones
need not fear that such advice will
be ascribed to any Improper mo-
tive" To any one at all familiar
with the record of these gentlemen,
their actuating sentiment, which SO
evokes the Senator's generous ap-
plause, is easily understood. We
could quote dozens of extracts
from public utterances of theirs,
but this one will serve to show
their general point of view. In at
lacking Bourke Cocklan for in
in advocating the lit
eral application of the Declaration
of Independence to the Fllipinos,
while justifying the disfran-
chisement of the negroes in
William Lloyd Garrison
IA name to be henceforth held in
sacred reverence in the South, in
Donahoe's for July, said Of the
Amendment: " By this
Just and memorable enactment the
political disability Of color was
removed from a long-suffering
and oppressed race. Its members
had never betrayed the Union nor
raised violent hands for its de-
To have denied
them the suffrage while bestowing
1t on the men who fought for years
to destroy the government and
perpetuate human slavery, would
have revealed the monumental
lngratitude of a people toward
their savlors. tits the fashion
OF those who have lost faith in De-
to assume that a mistake
was made IN giving the franchise
to the freeman. The true Demo
crat knows that suffrage is the
most necessary school for the poor
and the ignorant. Better that the
door Of every schoolhouse in the
South were closed, than that the
ballot were wrested from black
hands," Mr.. Garrison's views
are shared by Mr.. B. R. Wilson, !