The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-31
AGAINST NEGRO
DOMINATION
Senator Germans Scathing Crit
icism Of Roosevelt.
UNcAlLED-FOR ACTIVITY
PRESIDENT HAS RAISED THE
RACE ISSUE AGAIN.

ID ALTIMORE. nd, oct. ao.-At
Democrat tic mass meeting held to-
night at the close of the campaign.
speeches we're made by Edwin War
Held the candidate for governor. and
number OF leading Democrats. iuclud-
4ig United States Senator Arthur p.
oorman. An immense crowd was pres
eut and the speaking was preceded by
9teteopilcon views Illustrating the as
E"ciauon of whites and negroes at the
iite Republican state conversion The
moss important address Of the evening
"4s tnat or Senator German who in
addiuon 10 his advocacy of the state
uckct and his eXcoriatiou of the Re
puDncans. referred 10 President ROOse-
welt and the race issue as follows:
ordinarily the result Of the state
election concerns the people Of the state
alone. Its only bearing upon national
politics is the fact that the legislature
60 be elected win elect a senator TO rep
resent this state i'm the senate OF the
emitted States. But circumstances and
occurrences which have been forced
upon as make the result this year Of
more than local import
Protest Of Maryland.
The extraordinary unusual and
think you Will agree with me. mfortu-
nate activity and interest displayed by
the president of the United States I'm par-
ucipatug I'm his party-s councils by call
ing 60 Washington the prominent Repub-
lcans of this state rs such an uncalled
Tor interf rencs in our domestic affairs
that it must be met with no uncertain
protest by our people.
u have great respect for the presi-
dent lie ought not 90 be lightly or UNI
Justly criticized. But lovers of liberty
must enter their earnest protest when
ever high officers of the government eX-
ercise powers or cousnit acts which tend
70 restrict the rights of the people or
unduly Interfere nm matters OF state con-
Germ.
president Roosevelt is a man Of fine
attainmerts and OF honest convictions.
lie ~ young I'm years. imDulsive. ambl-
tloVs. is partisan and believes in his
7rty. I'm his anxiety for its success ne
liable 20 make mistakes. and In my
Judgment he has committed most griev-
Gus error la forcing TO the front an IS
sue which must be deplOred by all the
conservative men Of the country
White Mans Burden.
'In every country where the race is
sue has arisen 10 has always carried IN
Its wake lamentable results; IL has been
attended by evil consequences. / trust
his earnestuess and impetuOsity may be
restrained and that he may be prevailed
upon % accept wiser council I'm his treat
ment Of the negro problem.
From the day cargo of Africans was
landed and sold as slaves until this hour,
the burden or the white man of this coun-
try has been more than that borne by
amy people known 10 history IL WAS
one of the causes which led 90 a most gl-
ganuc war, which drenched the country
ln blood. destroying many homes end inn
poverishing a gallant people.
Immediately after the close of the war
came tne aoopuon OF the fourteenth ana
fifteenth amendments which enfrancniseo
-ihe blacks for party purposes alone, and
thus injected into the body polite a. peO-
lIie unprepared and untitled for self-so1-
eminent.
The AnglO-saxon hay never and viii
never tolerate the social equality or TIE
political don nation OF the negro race.
Roosevelt's Mistake
Mn Roosevelt I'm his anxiety 10 be
Constantly doing something has made q
mistake. ] believe of him. as I have be-
heved of an presidents, that he is sin
cere ana patriotic But every man n
public position is Liable TO mistakes. None
could be more serious than the one madt
by him I'm his attempt Go force again q
the front the question of equality. social
and political, Of the negro race
Thoughtful citizens, both north ans
south. regret such an issue. They dread
and viii evade 10 if possible. But II th,
president and his party drive the issue
it must be met and the -respOnsibilitl
must rest upon them
+The president is the leader of his party
now and will be next year. The pOliu
clans of his party may advise him that the
solid negro vote ltOr in voting they ar'
individually holds the balance Of power u
the great central states OF the union. anC
tnat in the states Of New Jersey, New
York C0nneC lieut. Ohio and Illinois. &c Il
essential 10 his party's success. In Mary
land where the negro vote constitute
two thirds of the Republican party. It. Il
absolute necessity FOR without it, TIN
state IS hopelessly lost TO the Repub
Icaus.
No Negro Domination.
"Tnless L mistake The temper of tn
UlotIe or This country there viii be tn
same revolution IN public sentiment anC
the same protest that was accorded I
1902 by the white people OF the entir,
union against the administration of Pres
tlent Harrison fOr his attempt 20 fore
negro domination upon the south AND
thus destroy that section and paralyz
the industries OF the whole United States
This issue IS forced upon us by tn
president He has made the gage o
bl1tle and we must meet it as becC-ac
MARY Tar ders.'