The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-31
The Whites Will Rebukt
Roosevelt as They Did
Harrison.
THEY WOULD EVADE THIS
But Confronted With TIE Threat Of Negro
Domination Swsep'ng Protest Would
Arise from the Masses Of the
Entire Union.
(By the Associated Press.) }

(By the Associated Press.)
Baltimore. Oct. 30.-At a Democrats
mass meeting held tonight at the close
of the campaign, speeches were made by
Edwin Warfield, the candidate for COVER
nor and number of leading Democrats,
including United States Senator A. P.
German. An immense crowd was present
and the speaking was preceded by stere-
opticon views illustrating the association
of the white and negro delegates at the
late Republican State Convention.
The important address of the evening
was that of Senator German, who, in ad-
dition to his advocacy of the State ticket
and his excoration of the Republicans,
referred to President Roosevelt and the
race issue as follows:
Il have great respect for the Presi-
dent He ought not to be lightly or un-
justly criticised. But lovers of liberty
must enter their earnest protest whenever
high officers of the government exercise
powers or commit acts which tend to re-
strict the rights of the people or unduly
interfere in matters of state concern.
President Roosevelt is man of fine
attainments and of honest convictions
He is young in years, impulsive, ambti
Gus, is partisan and believes in his
party. In his anxiety for its success. he
Is liable to make mistakes. and, in my
judgment, he has committed most griev-
Gus error in forcing to the front an issue
which must be deplored by all the con-
servative men of the country.
In every country where the race issue
has arisen it has always carried in its
wake lamentable results, and has been
attended by evil consequences. 1 trust
his earnestness and impetuosity may be
restrained and that he may be prevailed
upon to accept wiser counsel in his treat
ment 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 gnown to history. 1t was
one of the causes which led to a most
gigantic war, which drenched the coun-
try in blood destroying fair homes and
impoverishing gallant people.
Immediately after the close of the war
came the adoption of the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, which enfranchised
the blacks for party purposes alone, and
thus injected into the body polite a people
unprepared and untitled for seif-govern-
ment.
"The Anglo-Saxon has never, and will
never tolerate the social equality or the
political domination of the negro race
The South has passed through scenes or
turbulence and disorder and rape and
riot. By amendments to State constitu,
tions and by legislation the whites have
secured control, for the time being, OF
their own local governments and the
colored race is no longer political fac
to, in any State south of the Potomac
For more than thirty years this ques-
ton has aroused sectional feeling and div,-
ded parties. 1t has threatened the peace
OF the States, put in jeopardy homes and
paralyZed industrial efforts. All thought
ful men realize that this canker upon the
body polite must be eliminated and the
supremacy of white government assured.
I'm 1896 William Mckinley was elect.
ed President of the United States. During
his service in Congress he had favored the
most drastic legislation proposed by his
party in their efforts to enforce the con-
stitutional provisions. As President OF
the United States, he REALIZED the respon-
sibilities of his exalted position. He &c
gan his term when the country was
emerging from the throes of a great coz.
mercial panic. All the business inter-
ests of the North were depressed-the
wheels of industry scarcely revolving. The
South was struggling with its negro pro
biem: its fields but hall cultivated; its
manufactures at the lowest ebb; its mines
end forests undeveloped. These conditions
were principally due to the great pall
that hung over that section and made
development and progress impossible.
while president Mckinley kept his
party obligations as fully as any man, ne
ceased making partisan war upon the peo
Pic of the South. But that people re-
moved, at least temorsrily, the incubus
that oppressed them. The action OF the
States was sustained by the courts ana
confidence was restored The old ana
ycung men of the South took on new
Efe Development and progress resulted
berth North and South, until the stream
OF prosperity and enterprise was flowing
from one end of the land to the other.
IN the interest of humanity the gov.
erIment OF the United States determined
to tree Cuba. War was declared, and
In response to the Presidents call th5
men OF the South and the North aud TIE
East and the West volunteered. Section
alism and party were obliteratcd
Our army was organized and General
Miles, ot Massachusetts,, General Lee. of
Virginia; Generals Shafter and Joe Wheel