The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1902-11-15
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Lafayette Gazette.
You are right. Every last snecure is
Pre-empted in perpetuo.-Ha
You may call IL sinecure,
brother, but it is nevertheless a
fact that no white Republican or
ganization can hope to succeed in
the South. The white people of
the Southern States will never
trust the Republican party with
their governmental affairs. They
never did. They had once to sub
NIT to force and fraud and per-
NIT their country to be despOiled
by negroes and white men who
called themselves Republicans.
" course, this is an old story
and we would not repeat it now
II the Republican party did not
stand to-day for the same prin-
clple which made reconstruction
OdlOus and intOlerable. But the Re
publican party is forever welded
to the idea of negro suffrage. It
made the negro a free man and
then it clothed him with the fran
chise. Its sole claim to immor-
tally rests upon the emancipa-
ton prOclamat of President
Lincoln and the amend ment which |
made the negro the political equal |
OF the white man. That senti-
ment-lf it can be dignified into a
sentiment-has given the Repub-
hcan party control of the Federal
government which it has kept
since the war with the COMPARE
lively short interruption of eight
years. The Republican party
would not, if it could, undo all the
mischief it has done to the South.
1t could not, if it would, take away ,
from the "colored brOther'' the
right to vote and to hold Office.
A handful of Lily Whites in the
South cannot change this time '
honored" policy of the Republi- l
can party. Their intentions NAV
be good, but their Judgment is S
sadly defective t
No Republican of prominence n
has ever subscribed to the plan t.
of the Lily Whites who would ex- c
clude the negro from their or
ganization. Gen. Clarkson, Roose- Il
velt>S own manager, has issued p
his dictum GO the Lily Whites of tt
North Carolina and has bluntly tt
told them that no self-respectinc p
Repu blican would discriminate T
the colored man. And tC
now comes the removal, by the OF
of Mr.. Bingham, Lily k1
White collector of internal rev al
enue in Alabama, merely because S.
he was one of the leaders in the &C
movement to organize a White to
republican party in that State. III
In explaining the action of Presi- m
lent Roosevelt, Postmaster Cen Sc
,ral Payne says: TT
s'Neither the administration nor the Re- no
nblican party of the North will stand for the in
xcius'"n OF any section of people by +
Jason OF their race or color, when in other
aspects such persons have complied with ii'>
re laws ana are eligible under the law to lll'
all and free participation in political action ins
I'D are of a high standard of personal char tito
;ter In other words, there are now a han ~;
red colored men in Alab ma who come ND
the requirements of the recently adopted po'
ate constitution, and are eligible for par,i- y
patton in political affairs, and the action of
e Republican convention referred to in ar
trariiy excluding them is approved, no I
ore than such action would be approved if pre-
were taken in Ohio or Indianar a c.
Without the confidence of the ant
hite people of the South and de- u,
led any recognition at tt .e hands Co,
the constitute ted authorities at tro
'ashington, the Lily White party ren
rs neither head nor tail With ol
It friends at home and sympa- c c.,
ICES at court it's position has me-
ased to be even interesting. the
We always believed that two tor
hite parties would be beneficial rap
the South. We believe it now. hot,
at one of these parties can never Ger
II itself Republican and hope in t
enjoy the support and conf IS 81 n
nee of enough Southern white vi, Mo q