The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-31
MR.. GORMAN ALARMED
FEARS THE RACE QUESTION WILL
CAUSE SERIOUS TROUBLE.
Scores President RooseveIf for Al
legged Interference i'm the Politics
of Maryland.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct S9--At a Demo-
cratic mass meeting held tonight at the
close OF the campaign speeches were made
by Edwin Warfield, the candidate for Gov
nernor, and a number of leading Democrats,
including United States Senator a. Z. Cor
man. An immense crowd was present and
the speaking was preceded by stereopticon
views illustrating the association of white
and negro delegates at the late Republican
convention. The most important address
OF the evening was that of Senator Cor
man who, in addition TO his excoriation
of the Republicans, referred TO President
Roosevelt and the race issue, as follows:
The extraordinary, unusual, and,
think you Will agree with me, unfortunate
activity and interest displayed by the
President of the United States in partici-
pating in his party's councils by calling to
Washington the prominent Republicans OF
this State. is such uncalled-for inter-
ference in our domestic affairs that 1t
must be met with no uncertain protest by
our people. / have a great respect for the
President. he ought not to be lightly or un-
justly criticised. But lovers of liberty must
enter their earnest protest whenever high
officers of the government exercise powers
or commit acts which tend to restrict the
rights of the people or unduly interfere in
matters of State concern.
president Roosevelt is man of fine at
tainments and of honest convictions. He Is
young in years, impulsive, ambitious, is
n partisan and believes in his party. in
his anxiety for its success he is liable 10
make mistakes and, in my judgment. he
has committed most grievous error in
forcing to the front an issue which must be
deplored by all the conservative men OF the
country.
I'm every country where the race issue
has arisen 1t has always carried in its wake
lamentable results, 1t has been attended by
evil consequences. / trust his earnestness
and impetuosity may be restrained and that
he may be prevailed upon to accept wiser
counsel i'm his treatment of the negro prob
lem. 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. II was
one of the causes which led to n most gi-
gantic war which drenched the country in
blood, destroying fair homes and impover-
ishing a gallant people. Immediately after
the close OF the war came the adoption of
the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.
which enfranchised the blacks for party
purposes alone, and thus injected into the
body polite a people unprepared and un-
fitted for self-government.
1.-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 turbu-
lence and disorder, rape and riot BY amend
ments to State constitutions and by legisla-
t;on the whites have secured for the time
being of their own local government and
the colored race is no longer a political fac
tor in any State south of the Potomac.
Thoughtful citizens both North and South
regret such an issue. They dread and will
evade il IL possible. But IL the President
and his party drive the, issue il must be
met and the responsibility must rest upon
them. Unless / mistake the temper of the
people Of this country there will be the same
revolution i'm public sentiment and the same
protest that was accorded i'm 1892 by the
white people of the entire Union against
the administration of President Harrison for
his attempt TO force negro domination upon
the South and thus destroy that section and
paralyze the industries of the whole United
States"