The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-02
IN MARYLAND.
Senator German Says Negro Is the
Issue.

In a speech at Baltimore Friday
night Senator German outlined his idea
of the national issue in politics. bear
! ing on the state elections tomorrow.
The senator declared that the presi-
dent had deliberately forced the negro
question upon the country as the ma
tionaI political issue, and that the Dem
ocrats were ready to accept the chal-
lenge and fight the battle for White
supremacy in the approaching presi-
Dental campaign.
Senator German insisted that Presi-
dent Roosevelt was trying to force to
social and political of the negro race.
He declared. in reply. that the Anglo
Saxon had never and will never toler-
ate the social equality or the political
domination of the negro race. He said
in mart:
II have a great respect for the presi-
dent. He ought not to be lightly or
unjustly criticised. But lovers of lib
erty must enter their earnest protest
when over high officers of the govern
ment exercise powers or commit acts
which tend to restrict the rights of the
people or undu1y interfere in matters
of state concern.
President Roosevelt is a man of fine
attachments and of honest convictions.
He is young in years. impulsive, amb1-
tious; is partisan and believes in his
party. In his anxiety for it's success he
is liable to make mistakes, and, in my
judgment, he has committed q most
grievous error in forcing to the front an
issue which must be deplored by all the
conservative men of the country.
From the day a 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
1t was one of the causes which leo to
most gigantic war which drenched the
country 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 en-
franchised the blacks for party purposes
alone, and thus injected into the body
polite a people unprepared and untitled
for Self-gOvernment
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 of
turbulence and disorder, rapine and riot
By amendments to state constitutions
and by legislation the whites have Sc
cured control, for the time being, of
their own local governments. and the
cOlored race is no longer political fac
tor in any state south of the Potomac.
For more than 80 years this question
has aroused sectional feeling and divid
ed parties. 1t has threatened the peace
of the state put in jeopardy homes, and
paralyzed industrial efforts. All thought
full men realize that this canker upon
the body polite must be eliminated and
the supremacy of white government as
sured
"A little more than two years have
elapsed since that deplorable tragedy at
Buffalo which deprived the nation of
great president. Mr.. Roosevelt succeed
ed to the presidency. In his anxiety to
be constantly doing something he has
made mistakes. I believe of him, as I
have believed of all presidents, that he
is sincere and patriotic. But every man
in public position is liable to mistakes.
None could be more serious than the Gle
made by him in his attempt to force
again to the front the question of equal
ity, social and political, of the negro
race.
THE president is the leader of his