Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1903-11-05
GORMANS ADDRESS.
President Roosevelt Criticised for
Forcing the Race Issue.
ALWAYS attended By EVIIRESULIS
The AnGlo-ssxon, tho Maryland Senator
Says, WIN Never Tolerate tho Social
Equality or Political Domins-
tion Of the Negro. ft

Baltimore, MO-, Oct cl.-At demo
cratic mass meeting held last nigh
at the close Of the campaign speeche
were made by Edwin Warheld. tn
candidate for governor, and numbe
Of leading democrats, including Unitet
States Senator German. The most I'm
portant address OF the evening wal
that Of Senator German, who. In addi'
ton to his advocacy Of the state ticket
and his excoriation Of the republicans
referred to President Roosevelt and the
race issue as follows:
1.-THE extraordinary, unusual and
think you will agree with me unfor-
tunate activity and interest displayed
by the president Of the United States
In participating In his partys councils
by calling to Washington the prorni-
nent republicans Of this state Is such
an uncalled for interference In our do
nestle affairs that 1t must be met with
no uncertain protest by our people. !
have q great respect for the president.
He is young In years, impulsive, ambi-
tious; 10 q partisan and believes In
his party. In his anxiety for Its sue
cess he is liable to make mistakes and
In my Judgment he has committed
most grievous error In forcing to the
front an issue which must be deplored
by all the conservative men Of the
country.
I'm every country where the race
issue has arisen 1t has always carried
In Its wake lamentable result; 1t has
been attended by evil consequences.
trust his earnestness and impetuosity
may be restrained and that he may be
prevailed upon to accept wiser counsel
in his treatment Of the negro problem.
From the day cargo Of Africans
was landed and sold as slaves until
this hour the burden Of the white men
Of this country has been greater than
that borne by any people known to
history. It was one Of the causes
which led to a most gigantic war
which drenched the country In blood,
destroying fair homes and impoverish-
ing gallant people. Immediately aft
er the close of the war came the adop-
ton of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments, which enfranchised the
blacks for party purposes alone and
thus injected into the body polite q
people unprepared and untitled for self
government. The Anglo-Saxon has
never and will never tolerate the So
clal equality or the political domina-
tion Of the negro race.
"Mr. Roosevelt In his anxiety to be
constantly doing something has made
mistakes. None could be more serious
than the one made by him In his at
tempt TO- force again to the front the
question Of equality. social and politi-
cal, Of the negro race. Thoughtful
both north and south. regret
such an issue. They dread and will
evade 1t, If possible. But II the presl
dent and his party drive the issue, It
must be met and the responsibility
must rest upon them.
1.-THE president Is the leader Of his |
party now and will be next year. The
politicians Of his party may advise him
that the solid negro vote flor In voting |
they are indivisible) holds the balance
Of power in the great central states of |
The union and that In the states Of
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 1t Is essen
Iial to his party's success. In Mary
and, where the negro vote constitutes
two-thirds of the republican, party, 1t
he state is hopelessly lost to the re-
publicans.
Unless mistake the temper Of the
,eople Of this country there will be the
'ame revolution In public sentiment
md the same protest that was accorded
n 1892 by the white people Of the en-
ire union against the administration
II President Harrison for his attempt
o force negro domination upon the
outh and thus destroy that section and
,aralyze the industries OF the whole
United States.
: "our opponents in this state tell US
We are in no danger Of being doml-
lated by negroes; that the whites out
lumber the blacks. In one sense this
5 true. but in another It Is q mere
lodge"