The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-06
SATURDAY. OCTOBER G, 1900.
rHEsUN PRACTICALLY GIVES Up
The CASE

some days back we printed an article
dealing Wit, a letter from Mr.. Lawto1,
of savannah. Ga, to the New York Sun.
in (which Mr. Iawton commented upon
the discussion going en- between 1he LINES
ana the sun in regard to conditions N the
South, and dealing also with the sun
comment on Mr. dsawton's letter. The
Suns comm have caused Mr.. LaWt2n
to address to it another letter. TO which
the sun also replies. In answer TO the
Suns ejaculation,
..Bryanite domination an escape from
negro domination. Mr.. d4awton, is not
that nuniiliagtng alternative for men
and descendants of men who Won the adj
an:ration Of the world by their splendid
7Ealor and endurance in a gigantic war;?
Mr.. u4awton makes the same reply that
The Times made. that the South viii en-
dure a.Bryanite domination or anything
else, whatever. before it VIII submit TO
negro rule in .ts local affairs. Mr. Law
ton says. ana we'll says, that the white
men of Georgia believe their State will be
more prosperous with Alleged and Tiliman
in the Cabinet than with negro domination.
Commenting upon Mr.. Lawton's letter, the
Suns says editorialy:
I'VE are not surprised at the urrchange-
able opposition To negro domination eN-
pressed by Mr.. Law-ton, of Savannah. in q
letter ariated in another coiunn. Neither
do We rtI,robate him for it. White people
in every par, OF the Union would feel n
the same way If they saw or imagined they
saw tbs possibility OF such a domina-
ton.
1t seems to The Tines that the Sun
ends the discussion with this. Ii con-
ceats that the people of New York ana
Mas<p chaseits would do just as the South
ern people are doing if they We're cirrun-
stanced as the Southern people are cir
ctr.1staneed The case is really ended, by
this admission OF Iiie Sun, and there is
no further room for discussion
We make the following extract from the
Suns article. Ii says:
The Southern States, with sane
national policy. are now On the eve OF a
srea; development which will brig tc
them an unprecedented addition TO their
wealth sna Incidentally 10 Their white
population. 1t will also demand of them
the capital essential TO it, something
larger and broader than Chauyenistic paii-
tics. Such politics Will come as a coase-
qaisnce of the expansion. Other questions
than negro domination will force Them
selves TO she front-jndnst,zal questions.
for instance-aad as they assume Their
rightfsli place CT supremacy the century
old question of the political status of the
negro viii fail into the background.
How long the acknowledgement Of the
negro Is 10 be persisted n may be doubt
fta, bu. II is not at all doubtful that
necessarily II is q temporary eXpeiient.
Ten millions or the inhabitants OF this re-
piiblsc-nearay one-seventh of the whole
.l.lrnbsr-cannot be deprived OF The suf-
trage finally without changing its whole
system, without changing human nature.
In The competitions OF parties and politics
their votes will be too valuable TO be
thrown away. As Governor aicGorkle. OF
West Virginia. has sad, The time viii
come when the Southern people viii be
as essrr 10 give hack the suffrage TO the
negroes as they are now TO take it from
them
We have no doubt. whatever, that If the
Fifteenth Amendment had never been
adopted. whereby the solid mass Of igno-
rant negroes vas injected into our polls
teal system az q part of the voting poou-
aa,.on. The tine would have already arr
rived when the Southern people would be
qualifying many of them to take part II,
5 politics, and that in the course OF lime
they wuns1 iiate demanded ,hN all OF
them should vote and have The right 10
representation. That would have been
~ Il :
and through the processes of evolution
that would have fitted suffrage 70 comb
tons as conditions arose. n that mias, tae
South wauld have got tf1s fni! benefit of It's
negro population In national affairs AID
the negro would have ,,re. given his poll
ficai rights as he qualified himself to exer-
else thaln reeliisensiS. NC soa,ld have
mad a condition OF things brought about
- aataral laws instead Of one w.saich