The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-16
J. T. HARRIS.

We have space only for samples. These l show the character of the political allies McKinstry' . the Republican Rrsoi an candidate for Governor, lives in Jere Haralson's District, and will vote for him. So would Governor Lewis. if he
 Bingham. Republican candidate for State Treasurer, lives in Rapier's dis | trict, and will vote for him. So would aey if han he .sa shers county government in South Alabama | of which they have had control. This paper is not intended so much to plainly stated. The white men of Ala bama, when facts are before them, can do their own thinking, and we well know | that many or our best citizens have here tofore been acting with the Republican | Party. Such men we invite to read care fully this document and think for them-
 We might add thousands of other facts. but this paper already grows too long It is also fact that the negroes and their carpet-bag allies have bankrupted l These points we have not dwelt on be. cause they are already we'll known. | What we think the facts we have given establish Is:
 | First-That the negro and his pretend Cd friends are responsible for the Civil
 secOndIThat in order to defeat the l up everywhere and defeat the Republi- can Party, which has it in charge. l Third-That the negro is attempting to | uslrp control of this State by remaining banded together as solid mass, and 1 that therefore 1t is time white men should act in concert.
 The white men of Alabama have not made this issue. We sought to avoid 1t by every possible means. We even l took Greeley as our candidate in order to break the charm of the carpet-bagger. sider 1t treason to their race to divide l their vote, and they almost always pre- fer, when practicable. to cast that vote solidly for bad men who will cater to | their preJudices. Even when, as matter of prudence and in order to win a vic- | tory. they select good men, they compel such men to carry out their wishes. Governor Lewis on the 17th of Decem- | Der, 1874. appointed a negro, Oscar Hun | ter. as one of the Judges of the Court of County Commissioners of Dallas County. This negro cannot write. but makes his | mark to signify his official acts. There are more than thousand men in Dallas County qualified to fill that office. Then, we ask, has not the negro too much power in the Republican Party in Alabama, and is it not time for white men to quit 1t
 Governor Lewis, in one of his mes | sages, recommended that the Legislature l or Alabama should establish a Board of Equalization. It is by resort to such q | board that the negroes and their white | allies have been enabled to rob the tax payers of poor unfortunate South Caro- l lima, until the Government of that State has become a reproach to the whole na- ton: Such board has power to raise | or lower taxes all over the State. In South Carolina the board there is said l to have valued a plantation at $50, 900 which was worth only $l5,000 on the mar ket. This amounted to confiscation. Sup pose the party, headed by Lewis. gets into power. and that such board shall be established in Alabama. Say Lewis shall appoint as the three members one white man from Huntsville. one from | Mobile and negro from Montgomery. Then say that the funds in the treasury get low, and the negroes in the Legisla- ture want their pay. How would the taxpayers of Randolph, Winston or Tal- | lapoosa. where no member Of the Board had ever set a foot, relish the idea of let ting this board say how much taxes they
 A Plea For Union.
 And now. fellow-citizens, let us unite. | In the days that are long gone by some oT us were secessionfsts and some were Union men, some Whigs and some Democrats. More recently we have been divided into Republicans and Democrats but there is nothing now to prevent all white men from uniting in an honest ef- Iort to secure good government to our selves and our posterity.
 There is nothing in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to prevent us from outvoting the negro, q he has given to us in the past or is likely to give us in the future. l We do not deny to the negro any of the rights secured to him under the Con- stitution and laws of the land. We in tend when we get the power to protect him in all these. But we most solemnly believe, that, if the white men of this State do not fin November next, as they have the power to do by their ballots, take possession of this State and place it in the safe and peaceful condition of ARoIn fhn lz1Nw obtain control and degrade us to the condition of South Carolina.
 Let no friend of Governor Lewis im- agine that he can stay the tide that will ready shown how he has yielded to the demands of the negro Remember. too, that Fred Douglas, the leading negro In the United States. has advised his race to leave those States. like Tennessee and Georgia. in which he las no political mower. and come into States which he In Alabama if the Republican ticket is elected. We have now reliable informa- tion that in the counties along the bor- ders of Georgia and Tennessee our oppo- rents are registering many negroes who have recently been imported from those States. We warn our friends in those counties to be on the alert. Guard well the purity of the ballot box. Watch the polls and the registration lists, and de- tect and prevent all frauds.
 These tmportations. are but the ad- | vance guard or the nOrdeS that VIII shall go abroad after November thai Alabama is Radical State.
 | The issue is grave one. We feel il | to he our duty to he candid. The fl- ture prosperity of our State depends upon the result. We would have every white man iE Alabama work from this until the election is over as if the re- suit depended upor him. Rut. while we are determined. let us be calm, and put away all passion. Let us
 Observe the Laws
 in letter and spirit, and above all, keep the peace at the polls.
 Read the election laws. Allow no ex citement to prevail and no conflicts to occur. Conflicts at the polls would fur nish our opponets grounds of contest ing the election, and that is now their hope.
 We charge every Democratic and corl- TeTVative voter not to allow our oppo- nents to provoke us into giving them any excuse whatever to contest this cleo tiUn But be sure to have the officers Of the law on hand to arrest illegal vot- CTS and protect the purity of the ballot box.
 We are seekig in this contest, fellow citizens, to seal up forever all the bitter fountains of the past. and to unite aU the good people of the State as band of personal and political friends. We present a peoples ticket: Geo. $. Hous- ton, Douglass Democrat and old Union man, for Governor; Robert s. LiGon, an old line Whig and Union man, for Lieu- tenant Governor Our whole ticket is carefully made up of good and true men from all the different sections of the State, and reflects all shades Of past opinion.
 But notwithstanding this, our oppo. nents charge us with being