The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-19
NOT ALL OF US.

why should he run for office? He Is 2
 candidate because he believes he will be elected.
 And 1t is the same feeling that enables
 some men to always predict the success
 of the ticket in which they are interest
 cd. That was what ailed Senator Car
 mack when he predicted a Democratic
 victory in Maine. and the same kind of
 weakness. If it may be called that. has
 affected our James K. Jones on more
 than one occasion, and we are not quite
 sure that he has entirely cured himself
 of it.
 The Kansas City Journal has an acute attack of optimism lately. and is seeing
 many things which are not apparent to
 the ordinary editorial intelligence. The
 elimination of negro suffrage. although
 that paper denounced 1t at first. it now
 considers good thing for the Republican
 Party. and thus felicitates itself on the
 prospects:
 To put it briefly. the elimination of the negro vote will remove the prop and mainstay of Southern political prejudice. When freed from Its prejudices. the South will have no further reason to remain Democratic and will logically and patri- otically take up ith the Republican Party.
 The Journals optimism. it will be t'noted, is rot doing business oh the retail plan, but goes into it by wholesale. Read ing its lines we are led plainly to infer that, the negro being out of the way, there will be no further excuse for Dem- | ocrats in the South, but that the entire | layout. horse. foot and dragons, will | soo1 go tumbling pellmell into the Re publican Pa -ty. To put 1t in it's owl l language. 'the South will have no fu:- I ther reason to remain Democratic. " That may be complimentary to this sec- | tion but we fail to see 1t. It is saying in effect that If there had never been any negroes in the South to vote there
 would have been no Democrats, and as the negroes are out of it the Democratic
 Party has no further excuse for exis:- ing.
 That nay be a compliment to us, but
 we'll be hanged if we catch op to it..
 It is quite true that the Democratic
 Party has heretofore been the white
 mans party, but there were Democrats in the South before there were any ne- gro voters, and there will be Democrats here if no other colored voter ever ap- breaches the polls. If The Journal had not been so unanimous, as it were, 1t hod said that with all danger of negro dom- ination removed by the practical aboli ton of colored voting. the Republican ticket would get many more votes in the South than it had heretofore received, we should not have felt called on to take issue with it. We know full well that tn gre are mlny good men in Alabama.
 for example, who are Republicans in prflfciple, Jat who have voted the Dem- ocratic ticket solely because of the ne- gro. These men, and there are many
 of them in Alabama. saw that the only certainty of maintaining white supremacy was by keeping Democrats in power, and they freely lent their assistance to the furtherance of that object. Many of them always voted the Republican Ma tionll ticket, but voted with the Demo- crats in State and local affairs. All these are Republicans and we shall feel no surprise if they vote that ticket
 in futp.e And it is but fair to add that there are in Alabama a considerable num- Der of good citizens who are in accord AAa vii financial issues. and perhaps on the ques- ton of imperialism" as 1t is termed. These. also, may vote with the Repub- licans in future, unless there shall be | such a change in parties as we see no
 prospect of at present.
 But with all these going over solidly and permanently to the opposition, the Democracy of Alabama will not go out
 of business by any means. There will
 be enough of them left to keep up the
 unless we are badly fooled. Alabama. at
 laast, is Democratic, and will remain
 so negro or no negro, but we are not denying that the Republicans will re- ceivc mat ,rial accessons, and we really hope that the movement for a white Republican Party will be successful. and that it will be led and dominated by the very best men they have. We Demo- crats will enjoy the scraps much better if we have a pretty strong and reputable enemy in front of us. All the same we must assure The Jo Irnal that not all of us have any intertion to 'patriotcally take Up with the Republican Party" We don't take to that brand of patriotism.