The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-23
fully this document and think for them

fully this document and think for them
selves.
We might add thousands of other facts.
but this paper already grows too long;
1t is also a fact that the negroes and
their carpet-bag allies have bankrupted
the whols State.
These points we rss aEe R neT o."
What We think the facts we nave
given establish is:
First-That the negro and his pretend.
ed friends are responsible FOR the Civ'i
Second-That in order to defeat the
Civil Rights bill the people should rise
UP everwhers and defeat the Republi-
can Party, which has II In charge.
Third-That the negro 10 attempting to
usurp control of this State by remaining
banded together as a solid mass ana
that therefore 1t Is time white men
The white men OF Alabama have not
made this issue. We sought to avoid
it by every possible means. We even
But it was all in vain. The negroes con
slider II treason to their race to divide
their vote, and they almost always pre-
fer, when practicable. to cast that vote
prejudlces. Even when, as matter OF
prudence and in order to win a vic:
tory, they select good men, they compel
such men to carry GU. out ,7 their T Tisnes.
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 ms
mark to signify his ofncial acts. There
are more than a thousand men In Dallas
County qualified TO nll that office.
Then. we ask, has not the negro 100
much power In the Republican Party in
Alabama, and IL 1t not time for white
men to quit 1t.
Governor Lewis. in one of his mes
sages. recommended that the Legislature
of Alabama should establish Board OF
Equalization. 1t Ia by resort to such
board that the negroes and their white
allies have been enabled 10 rob the tax
payers OF poor. unfortunate South Caro-
lima, until the Government of that State
has become a reproach to the whole ma
ton Such board has power to raise
or lower taxes all over the State. In
South Carolina the board there Is said
to have valued a plantation at $4,000
which was worth only $4,000 on the mar
ket. This amounted to conhscation. Sup
pose the party, headed by Lewis. gets
be established in Alabama. Say Lewis
shall appoint as the three members one
white man from Huntsville. one from
Mobile and negro from Montgomery
get low, and the negroes in the Legisla-
taxpayers Of Randolph. Winston or Tai
lapoosa, where no member of the Board
naQ ever S6T q IOOL5 TcIlBu tue iueA VI iSt-
ting this boatd say how much taxes tney
must pay7
A Plea For Union.
And now, fellow citizens, let us unite
In the days that are long gone by,
some of us were secessionists and some
| were Union men, oome Wings and some
Democrats. More recently We have been
divided into Republicans and Democrats
but there 10 nothing now to prevent all
white men from uniting in sn honest eff
Co. to
| selves and our posterity.
There is nothing in the thirteenth
| fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to
prevent us from outvoting the negro,
and giving him a better government than
| he has given to US in the past or Is likely
| to give US in the future.
| we do not deny to the negro any OF
the rights secured to him under the Con-
| satution 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, IL the white men of this
state dc aSt p N0yaHpesr RSzb as they