Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-23
The Anti-Imperialists' Latest.

The Springfield Republican. in an article
on the subject of the present uproar In the
south on the race question, quotes as FOL
lows from the New York Evening Post:
There is only one adequate explanation.
Inspired by the example We have set OF
killing and subjugating our niggers IN the
Philippines, the lawless and ignorant ele-
ment in the south has taken fresh hope
1t would keep the negro in the status of
servile class, and too many educated men
have Joined In the new hue and cry.
And then. commenting on the comment,
the Republican says
IF there is any other explanation let us
have it. The President has confessed his
inability to give any other. Perhaps MIR.
Lodge and the other republican leaders can
do better. If so they should make them
selves heard and in default of an answer
il will have to be said that the President
owes this storm against him in the south
to his own course and that of his party In
relation to the Philippines course just
as marked for contemptuouS. cruel and re-
presSive treatment of colOred people as
any that can be charged up to the account
of the south in relation to the negro since
the civil war 1t is the power of northern
republican example which underlies this
recrudeScence of the negrO-suppreSston
spirit In the white south. There can be no
doubt about that"
The Republican assigns to Senator Lodge
a very easy task. The racket in the south
over the Indianola post Office and the ap-
pointment of DR.. Crum to be collector of
the port of Charleston Is as easily attrib-
utable to the man in the moon as to the
American occupation Of the Philippines. 1t
is VIGOROUSLY and conspicuously little
bit of cheap domestic politics. 1t Is de-
signed for next year. The south Is In
negotiations again with Tammany Hall for
control of the country, and she must bring
to the combination in order to succeed her
former strength. She must, If possible,
make herself solid" again. She must by
some means recover her former hold on
Maryland. Kentucky, West Virginia and
Delaware. where the vagaries of Organism
knocked the spots out of the democratic
party in 1896. and where on national ques-
tions things still look very unpromising
for the democracy.
Hence this outcry about social equality
and negro domination. The hope is that
sentiment in those four border states will
take fire at the bare suggestion of such
things, and make the democracy an easy
victor there in the next presidential race.
Referring to the fact that Mr.. Mckinley,
while in the White House. appointed fifty
two negroes to federal office, the Republi-
can says:
These appointments caused no uproar in
the south. They were accepted as quite a
matter of course from a republican Presi-
dent. and no such President ever obtained
such great popularity in the south as he,
particularly in the later days of his admin
istration. The extraordinarily hearty well
come given to him during his journey
through the south in the spring of 1901
will be recalled"
The Republican should refresh it's men,
Dry. Turn back and read the files of the
southern newspapers when Mr.. Mckinley
was making his appointments. He was as
fiercely denounced ever Mr. Roosevelt
has been. But he is dead, and death. of
course. softens all asperties. Mr.. Roose-
welt is the living mark, and he will con-
tinue to catch 1t while there is the promise
of a single vote.
The ant-imperialists. in this absurd as
sault have about exhausted themselves