The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-31
PARTY SPLIT In THE SOUTH.
ROOSEVELT'S STAND ON NEGRO
QUESTION THE CAUSE.
white Republican Leaders OF Louisiana
Can for the Abandonment OF the Party
(which" They Say HAS Fallen Into
the Hands Of a Violent RcactlOnary."

New ORLEANS, La, July 3O.-As expected,
the attitude of President Roosevelt on the
negro question has caused n breakup Of
the white Republican party Of Louisiana.
A circular addressed to the white Repub-
licans by Republican leaders calls for an
abandonment of the party, on the ground
that under Roosevelt it is 40 identified with
negroism that white man cannot belong
to il. The objections to Roosevelt given
in the address are az follows;
'The Republican party, which, under the
late lamented and martyred Mckinley,
was making every effort to break down sec
tional prejudices and build mp a respectable
white party in Louisiana, which would have
commanded the same degree Of respect
that the Wing party did in ante bellum days
n part which would have been true to the
principles Of protection and would have
earnestly desired to protect Southern agri-
cultural interests from foreign slave. coole
and peon competition, has now fallen into
tho hands of violent reactionary. whose
idea Of craftsmanship is to subvert the policy
Of his predecessor and whose consuming
vanity and egotism will soon earn for him
the title of Party Buster as well as Bronco
Buster
1T Ia manifest TO all who are not wilfully
blind that the negrophilsm OF the Presi-
dent, whose social equality dinings with
Booker Washington, whose appointment
OF the negro Crum to the Collectorship
Of the ancient Southern port of Charleston.
where there were score of white Republic
cans who would have been acceptable to
khn h,,o b.,
was a negro, and this after partaking the
whole-souled hospitality of the leading
citizens Of Charleston; his arbitrary closure
OF the rndianola post office, where he was
trying to force a negress on the people
as postmistress, although she did not want
1t and voluntarily resigned, because. as
she said she knew she was not wanted.
and, being woman Of sense and wealth.
did not care to remain in position where
she was persona non 0rdtd: his historical
and petty malice in this affair, stamp Roose-
welt either as a negrophile fanatic whose
views are repugnant to every free born Am
erican and a deadly insult to every South
ern born man, or MS demagogic politician
playing for the negro vote that holds the
balance of power in Ohio, Indiana and
New York.
"In either case the results are the same,
and are having the effect, North and South.
of melting negroes to crime. with the con-
sequent lynchings as daily occurrences,
and leading them to aspire 10 an equality
that the Almighty never intended them to
have. and which in the end is going to re-
suit in train of evils that il will take a
generation to rectify.
.Under Mckinley there was no negro
question under Roosevelt it is n black
cloud that looms up ominously and threatens
an approaching cyclone
'No self-respecting Southern Republican
who loves his race, his home or the prin-
ciples Of his party can longer affiliate with
a party that stands for social equality with
the negroes. II matters not what his views
on economic questions may be-"