The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES & sOUTt

Or. j. 3. Hawthorne Discusses the Po-
itical Side ofthe Race Question.
Editor of The Dispatch:
sir,-The social and political treatment
of the negro promises, to be the para
mount Jsslc In tho next presidential cam
paign. The conservatives are more nu-
merous than the extremists, ana the party
the conservative feeling OF the country. Is
II the Democratic party at its next Ma
tional Convention SHOULD adopt the views
Of Tillman, Of South Carolina, and Money.
and Vardeman, OF Mississippi. 1t would
render It's defeat absolutely. certain, II
the Republican party should follow Roose-
Welt lin his contention for social equality
be- be- easily ash overcome Il the opposing party
should adopt conservative platform.
There are thousands OF conservatives IN
NTH Rsp sreai PS5y ass RX fe
to the negro. Tllman. Money and Var
DOMAIN declare that the negro has made
that he IS constltutionally incapable OF
qualifying himself for citizenship. IN re-
ply to this. tho conservative Republican
impressive facts He says t::at for two
hundred and fifty years Southern negroes
were held as slaves bought and sold as
cattle are, and we're destitufe OF almost nos
moral Improvement. Since their emanc-
patton they have made great progresa
When they were SGT free they did not
own a foot Of land nor a roof to cover
i30, 600 farms, valued at $3.50, 100000 $50,
900 homes, valued at sp5ooo.ooo, and,
personal, property to the value OF $le5,-
nearly 5000 Coz. go Of property, 49, oo,or.,
T.. @SS11 vnn n.TQ
forty per cent. OF them read and write;
| fifty per cent. OF their children OF schoo!
age are attending school; there are guy
| colored physicians practiclng meaicite;
more than s0o eo9red men are praeneln rs
school teachers; in tho homes OF colo:sd
people in the South there are three hun ~
dred thousand books; they publish !, 4 I,o
published moro than, thousand BOOKS,
Their desire for knowledge is not sur
passed fy the white people. >,orth odno,t
that the majority Of Southern negroes gre
still ignorant, degraded. brutal and -
torly unfit to participate In the govern
s Sa hs peae f pnes aeprys TITS
| element of tho ballot, AS TO soclnl equal
| iy, they are as sternly and uncompro-
mislngly opposed to 1t as the Southern
Xii that these mon demand for the ne
gro is that he be, treated justly; that the
| people recognize his capacity TOT Improve"
| ment and that he be given every reasons
able opportunity to qualify himself for
success In the vocation which ne may
| choose and for the duties of citizenship
in the community In which he lives,
These are the views and sentiments OF
large clement OF Northern Republicans
and q the entire Dsmo .ad parry Of the
also the views and sentiments OF two
| thirds of the Southern people, In yifW
Of these facts 1t requires no prophetic
gift to see that there Is q great ,oQ2Sr-
| tunity for political party based upon
! these reasonable, Just, conservative and
patriotic principles,
perha ps the most eloquent and impress
ina .hat has Been hoard within the last decade
was ssa re ibs spSSs eM 4S syeeEsa 1sS viz
Hon. John Temple Graves. Of Atlanta,
Ga i has been 81 Tie eou a sH"s VII
make him one Of The mosL FAMOUS htS o men
of the Situation at the SCUM y etI rea!islle
and true. In two respects ! uItier from
gro gro Is too pesslmlstic It Is nnWarrahted
by the facts. Ills remedy tor our race
conflicts is impraot lcabie. se lIi ut e
impossible. Our government VIII not ana
cannot transport and colonies ten millions
OF negroes. r, HAWTHORNE.
| % 'cIaremont Park, Boston, MASS