The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-11
COCHRAN ADVOCATES REPEAL.
ASSERTS THE FIFTEENTH AMEND
MENT SHOULD Go.

ed by Hon. Alex G. King of ATTAIN
ta-WiIcox Predicts Ultimate Ex-
termination of Negro Race.
Montgomery, Ala. May 10.-Hon-
Bourke Cochran of New York tonight
scored the most brilliant success of the
race conference in the closing grafton.
He boldly advocated the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment to the federal con-
stitutlon. He argued that it was bad
limb on the tree; that IT had been nulli-
fed by the states; that il had been lynch-
co, so to speak, by the people of the
South.
He declared that the reconciliation Of
| the theoretical status of the negro under
| the constitution, should be reconciliation
with his actual status in the public opdn-
ion of the country.
He maintained that this repeal was bess
for the negro as well as for the white
man, since both races had to live togeth-
er, to prosper together or go down to-
| gether. Every source of irritation be-
tween the two should be removed, and
| the fifteenth amendment was the greats
| est.
Mr.. Cochran asserted that the path OF
| the negro to political and social rights lay
| tHiOuEn inc dtN6lOpulGDl OI tne uihl, tH0
| Individual and that the only means waa
| by Industrial education. He lauded the
| generosity of the South for spending I'M
| thirty-five years after its devastation ana
out of its poverty over 800 coo, 600 for negro
| education, and pointed out that Il was the
| duty Of the federal government to assist
| in preparing Its wards for the duties of
| citizenship He said that It would be far
| more defensible for the country to spend
| 10000,000 or $40 10000 year in helping
to uplift the black men of the South in
stead OF S100000000 in putting down the
| brown man of the East.
! His GRAFTON was received with great fa-
| vor from the immense audience
number of newspaper men who had
heard him before, pronounced this tho
| finest effort he had ever made.
The Negro and Religion.
AT the morning session of the conferences
the discussion chiefly was OF the negro In
relation to religion.
| It was opened by Prof. John Roach
| Straton OF Mercer University, Macon, Ca.
He discussed the relations of the races.
the superiority and inferiority of the
whites and blacks respectively, and dwelt
at length upon the effect OF an inferior
race on a superior race.
Rev. D. Clay Lilley of Tuscaloosa. seq
retary of the Southern Presbyterian
| Board OF Negro Evangelization, spoke
| specifically on the wiser form of religious
ing whether the white agencies or colored
| agencies are the better.
This same question was discussed by
| Rev. w. A. Guerry chaplain of the Uni
| verslty of the South, Sewanee, Tenn, who
! took the position that negro teachers
| could best dead with the negro race.
| The religious condition of the negro to-
| day, as compared with those of slavery
days. was discussed by Rev. c. @. Brown
of Clinton, S. c., and the Very Rev. j. r.
/ of Tlalfi ha a.
visibility of raising the standard OF
ordination
One Of the most sensational speeches
was made by Bishop Renhick Of Baltimore
| who declared that from five to eight ne
| groes in the North under Northern condi-
| tions committed crimes to one in the
| South.
Prof w. II. Wilcox, who is one of the
| chief statisticians of the United States
| census, a New Yorker by birth and ances-
try, made a speech declaring that the ul-
| innate determination OF the black race
was inevitable.
There will be a rapid decrease of tho
| birth rate and a slow increase OF the death
rate until the negro race win stand as the
| American Indian stands to-day" said
Prof Wilcox.
Prof Wilcox was followed by Secretary
Herbert welch OF the indian Rights Asso-
citation.
The Lynchina Question.
At the afternoon session Hon. Alexander
| G. King of Atlanta opened the discussions
Of the lynching question He spoke on
1.-THE Punishment of Crimes Against Wo-
men--Exisfing Legal Remedies and Their
| Sufiiciency." His address treated almost
exclusively of the crime of assault and OF
| lynch law.
Mr. King said It was in those communi-
ties where the dominance Of the white race
was the least secure and the menace Of the
black criminal the greatest, that lynch law
Is most likely to prevail.
He called attention to the fact that with
the passage of time since the abolition of
slavery the crime seems TO grow in i'm
portance.
Mr.. King also noted the apparently in-
herent prejudice existing between the low
er class OF white people and the negro,
who In being educated and by imitation,
was menacing the social status of this
| class of white people. He said that this
prejudice is resented by the negro and
produces strong racial animosity.
Cause of Rnce Animosity.
Mr.. King held that race anmosity was
| created by the tendency Of the negroes 90
conceal the crimes of members Of their
own race which made the question of as
sault and lynching pre-eminently an in
ter-racial one. He said that for the ques-
tion OF ynching to be fairly discussed 1t
was necessary to consider the crime and
conditions.
Mr.. KING gave Two reasons Wny extra
judicial means are resorted to, namely:
"The delay OF legal punishment and the
protection of the victim OF the assault
from the ordeal Of the witness chair"
For mob violence Mr.. King suggested
two remedies He thought that when
party begins a hunt for a fugitive each
member should be sworn In as a deputy
sheriff by the sheriff of the county, and
memorandum of his name taken. In
case violence came to the prisoner, those
committing 1t could be detected
He also sueg SEED that in a county
where a lynching occurred a tax should
be levied by the state authorities of not
less than 5000 upon the citizens and the
amount appropriated to the school fund
of the state.
Mr. King closed with a plea for the
domination of law.
He was followed by Hon. Clifton r.