The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-12

the Republican party of the North will
stand for the exclusion of any section of
our people by reason of their race or
color, no more than such action would
be approved if it were taken in Ohio
or Indiana" In naming these last two
in the cocoanut" He shows that he is
after the negro vote lin Ohio and In
diana" and that no policy will be per-
mitted in the South, though desired by
the best class of Republicans, that would
not meet with approval lin Ohio and
Indiana" The Republicans would lose
both those States as we'll as Illinois,
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Delaware if they did not control the ne
gro vote. It is to keep the solid negro
vote in those States for the Republican
party that the Republicans of Alabama
and North Carolina are rebuked for eX-
Guiding negro delegates. To be sure no
negroes are given office or positions of
prominence in those States. That would
offend the white Republicans in the
North And so both the negroes and the
white Republicans in Ohio and in In
diana" are placated by forcing equal ne
gro participation in Republican conven-
lions in North Carolina and in Alabama.
Mr. Clarkson has made something of
study of Southern politics and the
manipulation of delegates to the Ma
tional Convention. He knows that while
Pritchard in North Carolina and Bing-
ham in Alabama may control a State
convention, that the delegates to the Ma
tionaI Convention are elected by dis
tricts. Mr.. Clarkson knows that if they try,
the negroes could elect over half Of these
in North Carolina and Alabama. He has
no faith in Southern Republicanism help
ing to elect a President He wishes to
make sure that the negroes do not turn
the Southern States against the Presi
dent in the next National Convention,
and he has taken the best course to
insure Southern delegates in the National
Convention by catering to the negro vote
done that in a spectacular way by kicking
out of a big office the Collector of Gus
toms in Alabama, who, as member of the
National Republican Executive Commit
tee, holds commanding position in the
Republican party in Alabama. Mr.. Clark
son says the removal of the Alabama
Lily Whites from office "in no wise
reflects upon the integrity of Mr..
Bingham, the incumbent Of the office"
He is made a martyr to the cause of try
ing to establish the long talked Of re-
spectacle Republican party in the South"
His removal is notice to white Republi-
cans: 'If you want Federal office you
must associate with the negro upon terms
of perfect equality in all political con-
ventions." BY that token the Republi
can party is as dead and damned in the
South as if the fear of negro rule were
as imminent as when all the negroes
voted.
This sudden change, or sudden clear
declaration from the White House that
the negro must have equal rights and
privileges and honors in Southern Re-
publican State Conventions is another
proof that there is no Southern Republi-
can party of independence and decency. It
will today bow down to the Roosevelt
Clarkson decree. 1t will kick out the
negro or embrace him just as the dis
penser of Federal patronage directs. No
party that is controlled and dominated
by it's appetite for Federal offices
can have any hold in the South. The
people of this section are not in the
habit of taking orders as to their State
conventions and local questions. No par
ty having self-respect will receive such
orders as Roosevelt and Clarkson have
promulgated.