The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-15
AaA1Nsr rHE LILY WH1rEs.
A few days before the late election The New York Age said:

A few days before the late election The New York Age said:
 Aside from the moral aspect of the case, any Republican leaders who recognize this lily white movement In the Soutn will have to choose between losing the vote of the Afro-Americans in the doubt full States in the North where every vote Is counted as it is cast, and mere prom ises of votes at the South. which nave never yet materialized. Afro-Americans at the North are going to stand by Afro Americans at the South so long as our Southern brethren are right.
 Asawe have heretofore said, opposition in Alabama to the liywhite movement, or quarrels among the Republicans of Alabama is a matter of no consequence SO far as results in connection with the national elections are concerned. for Ala bama will give no electoral votes to a Republican candidate, it matters not what may be the condition of the party in the State. It can help to nominate but that is all. Other States must do the electing
 But the movement in Alabama to form and perpetuate a white Republican party could not fail to excite unfavorable com ment and meet opposition in the North, because there it means votes. Tn many communities and districts up there the negro vote is a really important factor in the elections. In places they hold the balance of power and can, by voting sol idly or refraining from voting. elect a Democratic official or Congressman where the Republicans with their votes would have a safe majority.
 Under such circumstances 1t is not strange to find leading Northern Republi- cans opposing the white movement in Alabama, nor Is it unexpected to find this same Afro-American paper in an edito- rial two days after the election telling it's l readers that "the Republican party has not shown any love or soiicitude for the Afro-American people since 1t turned them over to the Democratic cut-throats of the Southern States in 1s76-T. and there have been intellectual efforts on the part of several Presidents-notably Pres ident Hayes, President Garfield, President Harrison ana President McKinley--to give aid and comfort to white Republican movements in the Southern States. which were frosted In the bud by the vigilance of the Afro-American voters of the Northern and Western States. The pres ent iilywhite movement in the South is nothing new under the sun; but it has proceeded to such lengths, and is so but tressed by the dlsfranchising laws of the South, that we shall have more trouble than formerly to kill It."
 How is the job of killing out this move- ment to be accomplished and why? The President has set his face against it. and is showing his opposition in a way that gets very close to a Republican office helder or aspirant. When he not only refuses to bestow pla ces on any of the lilywhites but actually turns them out of the offices they already hold he touches them in the tenderest portions of their ar atomies. He knows that in no other way can he so effectuaily light the move ment as by showing it's leaders that they will get neither sympathy nor pie while | he is in office. It is a kind of argument that can be understood without menta
 effort and that is more effective than al
 the theories from the masters of politics
 The Age, as will be seen, thinks it and it
 friends will have a hard time killing ou
 this movement, and perhaps they will
 but it's enemies have such a powerful
 coadjutor in the President that we hay
 little expectation of seeing a white Re
 publican party of any strength in Ala
 bama until there is a change of admin
 istrations.