The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-31
.CORMAN
ON RACE
ISSUE
Makes a Striking Speech
in the Campaign.
MISTAKES MADE
BY PRESIDENT
This Might Well Have Been
Tlt.e Of Address.
WHITE MANS BURDEN
SHOULD BE LlGHTENED
Mr.. German Thinks Roosevelt Has
Made Grievous Error in Bring
in. QUESTION Of Socia' and Po-
Iitical Equality OF the Faces
to ,he Fore &C Candidate
for Gov.rn.r Spoke.
WHITE MANS BURDEN
SHOULD BE LlCHTENED
Try Associated Press.l

BALTIMORE, Oct 3O.--At a Democratic
mass meeting held tonight at the close
OF the campaign. speeches were made by
Edwin Warficld. tlIe candidate for Gov
ernor and number of Leading Demo-
crats, including United States Senator
A. p German. An lmnensoi crowd was
present, and the speaking was preceded
by steroopticon views. illustrating the as
ISOLATION Of the white and negro delegates
at the late Republican State Convention.
The important address Of the evening
was that of Senator German. who. n
addition to his advocacy of the. State
ticket and his excoration of the Repub-
Leans, referred to President Roosevelt
and the race Issue as follows:
MR.. GORAlAN S SPEECH.
Senator German spoke in part az fol-
lows:
dent He ought not to be lightly or IN
justly criticised. But lovers OF Liberty
must enter their earnest protest when
ercise powers or commit acts which, tend
to restrict the rshts of the people or
sunduly interefere In matters Oh Sta'e
concern. <.na
attainments and OF honest convictions. He
IS young in years. inpulsive. amolt .ous'
is a partisan and believes in his party.
In his anxiety for It's success. he il is
able to make mistakes. and, In my Jucs-
ment. he has committed most sricyous
error in forcing to the front an an issue saue
servative men of the country.
I'm every country. where the race issue
has arisen it. has always 9aTriha has N heen n
attended by evil consequences. trust
his carnestness and impetuosity may pc
restrained and that he may be prevailed
upon to accept wiser counsel in his treat
ment of the negro p.oblem.
From the day a cargo OF Africans was
landed and sold as slaves until this hour.
the burden OF the White men ot bat ,hs
by any people known to history. 1t was
gigantic war. which drencied the coun,
try In blood. destroying fair homes ana
impoverishipg a gallant people.
Immediately after the close Of the war
came the adoption Of the fourteenth ana
the blacks for, party purposes alone, n ana
thus Injected into the body pol tic q peo-
Die unprepared and untitled for self-gov-
- WHITE SUPREMACY. !.
"The Anglo-Saxon has never. and WI
never tolerate the social equality or the
political domination Of the negro race the the
bulence and disorder and rape and riot.
BY amendments to State Const tutions
and by legislation the whites have. Sc
cured control. for the time being, OF their
own local governments. and the colored
race Is no longer a political factor III
any State south of the Potomac. &. u
For more than thirty years this ques-
tion has aroused sect onai feeling. and di-
vded parties. 1t has threatened the peao g
of the States. put In Jeopardy homes and
paralyzed industrial efforts. All thought
body polite must be eliminated and the
supremacy OF white government assured.
lin 1896. W liam Mckinley was elected
President Of the United States During
most drastic legislation proposed by his
party in their efforts to enforce the con-
stitut, onal provisions. AS President of
sponsbilities of his exalted position He
began his term when the country was
emerging f,om the throes of great