Arizona republican., 1903-11-01
seu.to- Germans Color Issue.


paign in Maryland Friday night. was
marked by an outburst from Senator
German against President Roosevelt.
The senator's speech was chiefly sig
nificant as revealing the issue upon
which he hopes to win the democratic
nomination for the presidency next
year. and upon which he personally
will stand if nominated. This issue
is negro domination" The Maryland
senator dashed himself into fine fury
while criticising Mr.. Roosevelt. and in
these words described to the open
mouthed Maryland democrats the hOr-
ribIe state of affairs that he has dis
covered:
In his anxiety for the success of his
party he (Mr. RoosevelD is liable to
make mistakes, and in my judgment
he has committed a most grievous err
ror in forcing to the front an issue
which must be deplored by all conser-
vative men in the country.
I'm a country where the race issue
has risen il has always carried in its
wake lamentable results and it has
been attended by evil consequences. 1
trust that his earnestncss and impetu-
osity may be restricted and that he
may be prevailed upon to accept wiser
counsel in his treatment of the negro
problem. The Anglo-SaXon has never,
and never will tolerate social equality
or political domination by the negro
race
Mr.. Roosevelt, in his anxiety to be
constantly doing something. has made
q mistake. l believe of him as 1 have
believed OF all presidents that he is
sincere and patriotic. but every man in
a public position is liable to make mis-
takes. None could be more serious
that to attempt to force again to the
front the question of the equality, So
Cial and political of the negro race"
Senator German is a man of few
ideas and words, but Of ponderous
gravity. He long ago learned the
trick of talking nonsense in a sepul-
chral and mysterious manner, ami
thereby, upon very shallow founda-
ton has won the reputa ton of being
the most profound democrat in the
country. He impresses his fellow
democrats. in fact, by being so mys-
ferrous that a diagram is needed to ex-
plain his utterances. Stripped of all
It's mysterious fapdoodle. Mr.. Cor
mans warning means, if it means any
thing:
l. That the white people of Mary
land and of the south generally are in
imminent danger of having political
control wrested from them and placed
in the hands of the southern negroes;
this can be the only definition of me
gro domination
2. That president Roosevelt is de-
termined to force the southern people
to accept the negro as a social equal
Like most men who succeed in hum
buggng their fellows by carrying
around at all times an impressive air
of depth and gravity, Senator German
is wholly devoid of the sense of hy-
NOR. Otherwise, he would not be able
to talk in funereal, dirge-like tones OF
the dangers of negro domination and
negro equality TO a people who have
succeeded within a few years in divest-
ing the negro of about every right that
has been guaranteed to him by the
constitution OF the United States. The
very suggestion will cause the country
to smile. One after another the
southern states have surrounded negro
suffrage with so many barriers that
the hand of the colored man no longer
reaches the ballot box. AS a political
factor in the old slave states the negro
now exists only at the will Of the
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vote. he votes, but not otherwise.
Senator German knows this. He
knows. moreover. that public senti-
ment in the north has undergone such
a change that there is no longer any
aggressive demand for the protection
Of the negro in his political rights.
The Maryland senator knows that the
people Of the north, noting with pain
the readiness of the average southern
negro to sell his vote, and his unreadi-
ness to perform the duties of an Amer
lean citizen, have reluctantly reached
the conclusion that the negro enfran-
chisement in the absence of an educa-
tiOnal qualification was conferred at
least half a century too soon. Candidate
German knows also, that in view of
existing conditions, the necessity Of a
white mans government" in the
south is generally recognized, and that
the only phase OF the negro question
upon which the north is disposed to be
aroused is the suicidal policy of de-
priving the negro of a chance to get
an education. Mr. German knows, in
short, that it would be as difficult now
to make the negro political issue in
the north as it would be to get up a