The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-17
DEFINING ITS POSITION.


 sition. and from the tone of its issue of
 last week we are inclined to think we l were mistaken when we intimated that Il l was trying to carry water on both should
 CTS. It seems now to be fully committed
 to the white Republican movement and
 against the present administration. The
 Times declares that the negro should keep out of politics entirely because if l he does not let it alone it is only a ques- ton of time when he will be driven ou,
 of the land" is the way 1t puts it, add | ing:
 You will see that one after another of l the Northern tier of counties in Alabama | will follow in line with Culman, and 1 every negro in these counties will be told | to move on. and If he does not move on 1 he will be made to do so Land owner after land owner will be constrained to | refuse to sell land or rent land to ne- | groes and his future will be sadder by far than when he was a slave. This is really further than The Adver- tiser has ever gone, because the Demo crats have now no occasion to fear the as our party is concerned he is now an l inappreciable quantity. He can have no possible controlling power in the selec- ton or election of candidates under pres ent conditions. and we apprehend no ma terial change for the future.
 Undoubtedly conditions are different with the Republicans. Indications now are that the "black-and-tans and the lilly whites will each send a delegation to the Republican National Convention next year, and it seems hardly a matter of doubt but that the former will be seated. The administration, meaning Roosevelt and Clarkson. especially, will stand for the negro delegates and they will be recognized. It is possible that a compromise may be effected, provided the white wing favors the re-nomination of Roosevelt, but we see no reason to doubt that the negro wing of the party from this State will take its place in the con- vention.
 If the administr ation recognizes the l colored delegates 1t will be a setback to the white Republicans, and will leave them without hope of reward while the Republicans are in power. This is why The Times and its wing of the party is now so bitter against the colored brother,
 going further in this respect than the Democrats. It is literally a war of races, | politically, between them. and a struggle | for life on the part of the whites. If | they are turned down by the national | organization and in the national conven- | tion they will have no standing in Ala
 bama and will be absolutely powerless in
 Alabama politics. In this case they may
 carry their opposition to the point inti- mated in the above extract and endeavor
 to drive the negroes from the State. In such a movement the white Republi- cans need not look for assistance from l Democrats. The negro is a part of our population and an important part of our Industrial citizenship. We have no more moral or legal right to drive them out than we have to drive out the Chinese or l the Indians. As long as they show them | selves orderly and industrious they are | entitled to the protection of the white people and will receive it. If they at
 tempt to make themselves conspicuous ir
 politics they will be shown their error
 but they will not be driven out White
 Republicans may try to drive them from
 the State but Democrats will not. | -~-A-~-
 l Look here. now! You can't draw at. l tention away from your own blunder by l trying to islander this locality There is ! lfttlA that iS RlONU | ter seeing Norfolk and Portsmouth the l man who goes to Montgomery feels as ii
 he were playing chess on a freight trair l passing through Philadelphia on Sunday Norfolk Landmark.
 l Slander nothing. If we should intimate
 that Norfolk is fast we might expect 2 | libel suit, but we shall not take any sucf
 risks. We suppose our dearly beloved
 contemporary has vegetated so long in itl
 sleepy old town. listening to the yodellinl
 of the bull-frogs and the drooI of tn,
 grasshoppers that 1t really thinks 1t ha.
 a fairly good place to stay. We have nC
 wish to disturb its pleasant dreams. bu
 if the editor will get few days off ant come to Montgomery he will see a living city. It will do him good to mix witt | ANS PSSPAO ~AN BOS 0ohAC OL tic
 brushed off him, and he would go back tc
 his retirement as the bear goes into hi!
 Information, prepared for another lonJ
 and quiet snooze. Get a pass and com, l over.
 l The Butte Inter- Mountain must need put a sting in its compliments, as wher
 it remarks that MT. Cleveland can stil
 reel off words with his old-time verbos | ity, larded with more than the averag,
 amount of common sense." There may
 be some verboslty in his public talks bu
 the good, hard sense is always there. -0-@-S
 There is Political Equality Club" 1T
 Chicago which gives out the opinion tha
 when the women can vote that city will
 be made "a perfectly beautiful city, | Then why not let them have a try at f
 and see how they come out From al
 accounts they can't make matters any | worse.
 1 Will The Advertiser or Virginia Pilot 1 please inform us If the expression "ThC | nights are growing shorter" is correct
 English?-Hartford (Ala.) Times.
 It is not correct English. though in very
 common use Now listen for The V.-P