The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-09


 sENSAT1oMAL 1LATHERSKITE.
 Amsas ths tyytsAl prsducss ef flsinais ws csn ssteiy place Albert J. Hopkins. who is now . 6ehasar from that state. We don't remember just what eombina. tion of circuinstaucss ssspised in his sd- vancemsnt. though we believe he defeat a William B. Mssun, That isn't mueh h hts favor, but we can't say that the country has lest ssueh sy the swap. how ever little we may think Of Hopkins.
 But that ia neither here nor there, as we are aniy Interested in some remarks recently maas by this b,atant biatherskits sn the sii-aheorbins race question. He has been in Congress eighteen years. and tells us that during that time t has bees his pleasure 'te remark the shility." ss he puts It, of the colored Congressmsn from aGississippi, Alabama aad Louisiana. Of course he has done nothing of the kind. because there has been no cnlored ccngyessman from Alabama in more than quarter ef . century. but little thing Ike that Asesn't set Hopkins back any. His object was to boost the negro and the question ef trath or falsshood was not up to him, evidently. Among ether characteristic remarks In his speech was this; &
 Tt is a shame and disgrace to these eSssr s in s"ss sSeir % %consrsssiSnsi Allegations. M s .eos seos 2 S s R. sassa that as those stat9s are not represented by men of their own color. asa until ssntiment mssroes e oes to consssss t wiii continue to bs q aisgracs 70 ths peepis of the United
 Now. if ws wished to argue the matter by assing questions. we might demand to know why the negross of illinois have not now, nor have ever had. a negro Con- gressman? There are about 5000 coiored voters in that State. and at almost any election. fl they should all vote the Dern- ocratic ticket, they would make the State Democratic. If they virtually save the State to the Republican party. why not elect one to Congress occasionally? The true and only answer to that question Is that electine . negro would cut out some white Republican, and that isn't the Re- publican Idea of politics. And that re- minds us that writer in The Chicago chronicie. who, signs himself Friend of the Negro" speaks of Hopkins in this wise:
 | In these days of yellow Journalism and sards, their eyes always open for oppor- tunities to play on the sympathtes of any set of people from whom in the future they may need support.
 And then this appreciative writer de- clarss that it would be an honor to the great state of Illinois to be represented in Congress by a negro, If we could find one with skin as dark ns the heart of this scheming politician We suspect that "Friend' would find this difficult job. though we don't know how black the ne- groes set in Illinois. The fact that the failure to send Southern negroes to Con- gress is a disgrace to the people of the United States. in the estimation of this blathering negro lover. will have to be borne. The people who feel themselves dtsgrsced are aii h the North and they have the remedy in their own hands. They must set the example by sending coiored men from their own States, as an object lesson. When they do this, and when all of the Northern and Western States which have any considerable col cred voters send one of them to Con- sress. perhaps--only perhaps, remember we of the South may send a few to keer them company and teach them manners And we hope one of the first innovations will be to send son of Ham in place oi Hopkins.