The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-08-14
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Decent Reoubl,oan party III soitH
smaaheti t0 smithereens.


A New Orleans dispatch to The
York Sun says: AS expected, the
attitude OF President Roosevelt on the
negro question has caused q break up
of the white Republican party OF
Louisiana. A circular addressed to
the white Republicans by Republican
leaders calls for an abandonment of
the party, on the ground that under
Roosevelt it is SO identified with ne
gr0Ism that q white man can not be-
long to it. The objection to Roose-
velt given IN the address are as fol-
lows:
''tThc Republican party, which un-
der the late .lamented and martyred
Mckinley, was making every effort to
break down sectional prejudices and
build up respectable white party in
Louisiana, which would have COM
mand the same degree of respect that
tue Wing parey did in ante-bellum
days, u party which would have been
true to the principles OF protection
and would have earnestly desired
to protect Southern agricultural in
forests from foreign slave, codlc and
peon competition, has now fallen into
the hands OF a violent reactIonary,
whose Idea OF craftsmanship Is to sub
vert the policy OF his predecessor and
whose consuming vanity and egotism
will soon earn for him the title OF
Party Buster as we'll as ''Broucho
| Buster
1T is manifest to all who are not
wilfully blind that the ncgrophilism
Of the President, whose social equality
dinings with Booker Washington,
whose appointment Of the negro 0rum
to the cOllectUrship or the ancient
Southern port Of Charleston, where
there were q score Of white Republi-
cans who would have Occn acceptable
to the business element, simply be-
cause he was IL negro and after this,
after partaking OF the whole soulcd
hospitality Of leading citizens OF
Charleston; his arbitrary closure OF
the lndianola postoflicc, where he
was trying to force negresS on the
people as postmlstress, although she
did not want 1t and voluntarily resign
ed, because, as she said, she knew she
was not wanted, and being u woman
OF sense and wealth did not care to
remain In position where she was
personal non grata; his hystcrical and
petty malice In this affair, stamp
Roosevelt either as a ncgrophile fana-
TIC whose views are rcpuGnant tu
every free horn American and dead
ly insult to ever Southern born man,
or as demagogic politician playing
for the negro vote that holds the
balance Of power in Ohio, Indiana and
New York.
In either case the results arc the
same, and are having the effect, North
and South, Of melting negroes to
crime, with the consequent lynchings
rs daily occurrences, and leading them
to aspire to All equality that the AL
mighty never intended them to have,
and which In the end is going to re-
suit In train Of evils that it will
take generation to rectiry.
Under Mckinley there was no
negro question; under Roosevelt it is
a black cloud that looms up ominuus.
ly and threatens an approaching cy-
clone.
| No self respecting Southern Re-
publican who loves his race, his home
or the principles Of his party can Ion
ger affiliate with party that stands
for social equality with the negroes.
1t matters not what his views on
economic questions may be-"