The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-08-12
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A New Orleans dispatch to The
York Sun says: As expected; the
attitude OF President Roosevelt or the
negro question has caused a 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
groism that white man can not be-
long to it. The objection to Roose-
welt given in the address are as fol-
lows:
1.-The 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
the Whig parey did in ante-bellum
days, party which would have been
true to the principles Of protection
and would have earnestly desired
to protect Southern agricultural in-
terests from foreign slave, codle and
peon competition, has now fallen inio
the hands Of a violent reactionary,
whose idea of statemanship 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 well as "Broncho
Buster
1t is manifest to all who are not
wilfully blind that the negrophilism
Of the President, whose social equality
dinings with Booker Washington,
whose appointment Of the negro Crum
to the collectorship OF the ancient
Southern port of Charleston, where
there were a score Of white Republi-
cans who would have been acceptable
to the business element, simply be-
cause he was a negro and after this.
after partaking Of the whole souled
hospitality of leading citizens OF
Charleston; his arbitrary closure OF
the Indianola postoftice, where he
was trying to force a negreSs on the
people as postmistress, although she
did not want it and voluntarily resign
ed, because, as she said, she knew she
was not wanted, and being a woman
| of sense and wealth did not care tc
remain in a position where she was
personal non grata; his hysterical and
petty malice in this affair, stamp
Roosevelt either as negrophile fana.
tic whose views are repugnant tc
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 ant
New York.
I'm either case the results are the
same, and are having the effect, NORTH
and South, Of melting negroes tt
crime, with the consequent lynching:
as daily occurrences, and leading then
to aspire to an 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 vii
take generation to rectify.
Under Mckinley there was NJ
negro question; under Roosevelt it l:
a black cloud that looms up ominous
ly and threatens an approaching cy
clone.
mo self respecting Southern Re
publican who loves his race, his homt
or the principles Of his party can lon
ger affiliate with a party that STANDS
for social equality with the negroes
It matters not what his views OF
economic questions may be-"