The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-23

enough to divide out we should have no
lack of converts. But don't let them
stay in office until they get rich; II you
do. they will retrograde. Feed the new
converts CO well; If YOU don't they Will
20 back. We can starve the Dem
ocrats out If two hundred and fifty
years of slavery did not destroy US, ten
years of persecution cannot. ,,
The negroes here then favored the civil
Rights bill. They adopted an address in
dorsing it.
With these facts in view. it is readily
seen why the Republican State Conven-
ton, met to nominate candidates, would
not accept Judge Rices platform de-
nouncing the Civil Rights Dill: ana We
have no difficulty in understa 1ding, also,
why that convent!ol reaominated White
and Sheets who are on the record as III
favor of the bill.
Miscegenation.
The influence the negro wieids over
those who are elected by his sunrages
il painfully illustrated by decislon
rendered by Judges Peters and Safold,
who are now candidates for reelection
The Supreme Court Of Alabama al the
Tune term, 1872. had before 1t the ques-
Sroes and whites to intermarry. The
SS sssti0ni in was Aa pSI nes i Aa p
There, Judges Walker, Byrd and Judge,
the latter now a candidate tor re-ele sl,n
on our state ticket. decided that there
was no conflict between the Civh RlghtS
hilI of 1856 and tho Code of Alabama, and
that, consequently, this seldom OF our
Code torbidding in int ,Sn ia OF whites
and blacks was sun the law
Against this array of authority. these
Republican candidates override Ellis v.
The state. and IN their opinion now pc
fore US do not cite single authority to
sustain them. We ask the people whv
n is that Judges Peters and Saffold have
made that lawful in Alabama which was
kha GNNW mi
Court of Pennsylvania declares is
against the laws of God and man? And has
the seventy-five thousand negro voters
who claim the right to control the Re-
nublican Party in Alabama any control
over this decision? II so, is II not time
the white people should elect different
Judges, and, indeed, different ticket
from that supportsd by the negroes
clearly the power the negro Yields in the
Republican PARTY in Alabama, the ques-
ton may 90 asked why the negroes did
not insist on having representative on
the State ticket?
on the ticket four years ago and were
defeated. The white Republicans are
giving the negroes the fat offices In
is candidate for Congress in
the Dallas district. where the negroes
have a majority. and white Republicans
support him. Rapier, a negro, is the
candidates CoH6 tsS III tNc 4AOhh6OAA-
e~v district, and white Republicans sup
mort him. And so of members of the
Legislature from the negro counties.
TO give the white men the offices de-
rendent in part upon the white men OF
North Alabama. and The, the negroes RaYt the the
.ijHred nv Lewis, White, Sheets, etc. a
fair trade VIII the white men of North
Alabama ratify LIls nargain by beqom'
ing parties to 1t?
sn old negro preacher, Caver, from
Jackson County. Ala, said in the equa
tshts convention that he wanted to bt
I..SreTnl TO hold on to the White Republi'
ans Of North Alabama until their stom'
a"hs grew strong enough to take Civil
Rights straight"
Is not the mixture little too strong
NJ" Radicals as Traders.
So great a hero is the negro Congress
an RaDier, in mis- district, that all tbs
sactfons into which his party splits vi
- the!r Wild h"~' for spoils bid for hi:
support