The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-10-31
GORMAN NATTACKSROOSEYELF
THE PRESIDENTS ATTITUDE ON
 RAGE QUESTION.

Maryland Senator Arrsigns Him for
 Forcing the Negro Problem to the
 Front--Denounces it as . Political
 Dodge = Makes Comparison Win
 McFxinIoy-Issue Must be Met if Driven
 Baltimore, Oct. SO.-At a democratic mass meeting held tonight at the close of the campaign speeches were made by Edwin Warfield, the candidate for governor, and number of leading democrats, including United States Senator A. F. German. An immense crowd was present and the speaking was preceded by stereoptfcon views il- lustrating the association of white and negro delegates at the late republican state convention. The important ad- dress of the evening was that of Sena- tor German, who in addition to his ad- vocacy of the state ticket and his ex- coriation of the republicans referred to President Roosevelt and the race issue as follows:
 'In every country where the race is sue has arisen it has always carried in it's wake lamentable results, and has been attended by evil consequences. I trust his (the president's) earnestness and impetuosity may be restrained and that he may be prevailed upon to use wiser counsel in his treatment of the negro problem.
 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. It was one of the causes which led to a most gigantic war, which drenched the country in blood, destroying fair homes and impoverishing a gallant peo- ple
 Immediately after the close of the war came the adoption of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. which en- franchised the blacks for party pur-7 poses alone, and thus injected into the body polite people unprepared and un- fitted for self-goyernment.
 The Ang1o-Saxon has never, and will never, tolerate the social quality or the political domination ofthe negro race. The south has passed through scenes of turbulence and disorder and rape and riot. By amendments to state con- stitutions and by legislation the whites have secured control, for the time be- ing, of their own local governments, and the colored race is no longer a political faction in any state south of Potomac.
 For more than thirty years this
 
 and divided parties. It has threatened the peace of the states, put in jeopardy homes and paralyzed industrial efforts. All thoughtful men realize that this canker on the body polite must be eliminated and the supremacy of white. government assured.
 E in 1896, William Mckinley was elected president of the United States. During his service in congress he had favored the most drastic legislation pro-z posed by his party in their efforts to enforce the constitutional provisions. As president of the United States he realized the responsibilities of his ex- alted position. He began his term when the country was emerging from the throes of a great commercial panic. All the business interests of the north were depressed wheels of industry scarcely revolving. The south was struggling with it's negro problem, it's fields but half cultivated; it's manufac- lures at the lowest ebb; it's mines and forests undeveloped. These conditions were principally due to the great pail that hung over that section and made development and progress impossible.
 While President Mckinley kept his party obligations as fully as any man. he ceased making partisan war upon the people of the south. But that peo- pie removed, at least temporarily at the incubus that depressed them. The action of the states was sustained by the courts and confidence was restored. The old and young men Of the south 1 took on new life. Development and progress resulted btoh north and south, until the sream of prosperity and en- terprise was flowing from one end of the land to the other. l Tn the interest of humanity, the gov- ernment of the United States determin-5 ed to free Cuba. War was declared, and in response to the presidents call, l the men of the south and north, the east an dthe west, volunteered. Sec. tionalism and party were obliterated.. Our army was organized, and General Miles of Massachusetts, General Lee of, Virginia, General Shafter and Joe ! Wheeler were given important com- mands. Every section of the country was brought together in the interest of the union--no north, no south, no east. no west. 7 # Ky %
 Success greeted our arms at every point. The navy under Dewey at Man. 1 fla and under Schley at Santiago added new laurels to American valor. The army in Cuba under Shafter, with Col onel Roosevelt holding an important command, and the army in Porto Rico under Miles won new glory for the na- tion. With returning peace, commerce and trade furnished as never before in i the history of any people.
 "A little more than two years have elapsed since that deplorable tragedy at Buffalo, which deprived the nation of great president. MT. Roosevelt suc- ceeded to the presidency. In his anxi- ety. to be constantly doing something, he has made mistakes. I believe of him, as have believed of all presi- dents, that he is sincere and patriotic. But every man in public position is lia- ble to mistakes. None could be more