Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-10-23
THE NEGRO IN OFFICE.
Prominent Georgian Talks Sense to
a New York Newspapers.

Prominent Georgian Talks Sense to
New York Newspapers.
New York Evening Post.
Colonel ]. H. Estill. Of Savannah
prominently mentioned in the Demo-
cratic party as the next candidate for
governor Of Georgia, In conversation
with an Evening Post reporter today
gave It as his belief that President
lRoosevelt's appointment Of Southern
white men to office would not have the
effect of building up the Republican
party in the South, but would, he was
sure. result in better social and politi-
cal conditions.
ut is not agreeable, to put 1t mild
w." he said, Ito associate with those
who think 1t right to put colored men
in office. Straight Democrats will not
seek office at the hands Of Republican
presidents, though some have accepted
office when offered to them. The ap-
pointment Of colored men to Federal
offices in the South when there are
white Republicans ready and anxious
to hold them is an insult to our peo-
ple. This policy does the Negro race
much harm, and is Of no good to the
country.
Colonel Roosevelt, from his past
record, appears to have mind OF his
own. He has certainly shown In every
nosition in which he has been placed
that he believed in putting the best
qualified man in Office. Heretofore, we
have had, excepting Mr.. Cleveland,
presidents of the Republican party and
not of the United States.
"As regards the action OF certain
states in trying to lessen the danger
from the colored vote by enacting what
have been called disfranchising laws, L
would say these measures are not in
tended to injure the colored man; out
rather to protect him from himself.
He has been, and is, the blindest OF a
blind follower of the worst members or
his race and the meanest white men.
AS a voter he is danger to the state
for with his many good qualities as a
citizen he is far behind the poor speci-
mems Of the whites. Possibly In years
TO come, he may make a good citizen,
hut at this period in his history 1t Is
best for him and the republic that he
should be kept from doing himself and
others political injury. In Georgia we
have a system of Democratic primaries
at which only white men vote, and as
that party has a large majority In the
state, the primary election decides the
result.
"There Is no hostility to the Negro in
Georgia. AS an individual we like him.
He is our trusted servant and we his
trusted friends. He Is represented IN
every profession and trade, and in the
course of time he will have his opportu-
nifty. We are educating the colored
people by the thousand, and as they
become self-helpful many Of them come
to you and remain with you. But
many Of them return to us. When
misfortune befalls them they say there
Is no one to befriend them. The whites
in the South are always ready to be-
friend the Negro in his time Of need.
But Notwithstanding this, the colored
brother votes against us. because he
says he must stand by his color.
THE Southern states in amending
the franchise laws are doing not half as
bad, If bad it is, as the Republicans
outside of this great city, aided by so
called reformers, to eliminate its DEM
ocratic majority. The Republican par
ty should not hold up it's hands In hor-
ror at the Southern states when they