The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-01-14

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he only had the South to con-
tend with he could, and no doubt
would, ignore negro applications;
in the South the negro vote
counts for naught, except in
National conventions, but IN the
North and West, the negro vote
cannot be ignored as it is a de
termining factor in Neonyeutlons
and at the ballot box, and IN
those sections the Democratlc
party is as anxious to secure the
negro vote, as is the Republican
party is to hold it, therefore it
will be seen, that occupying the
position he does, President
Roosevelt must, in order to be
loyal to his party, look to its
interests, and it needs little wis
dom to understand that if he Of
fends the negro vote by ignoring
their rights as citizens, the Dem
ocratic party will take advantage
Of it to depose the Republican
party. The whole scheme is a
game OF politics, and We see no
need to go into Mysteries over
the appointment Of Crum.
I9-sSIleKinley's time, there was
a disposition to give US good
white men for the federal offices
in the South, without regard to
politics, and under the clrcum-
Stances these importantpositions
would have been filled by Dem
ocrats, there being but few white
Republicans; as soon as McKin-
ley's policy began to develope,
our politicians raised storm OF
abuse over the head of the pres
ident, and charged him with try
ing to seduce our people, to build
up a white Republican party,
they made it so hot that many
good men who saw the wisdom
of President McKinley's policy
were actually afraid to express
themselves lest they might be
the victims of the poisonous
wrath of a class of politicians
who thrive upon the politicaligno-
rance of the people. A man who
would dare speak favorably to,
wards McKinley's policy of fill,
ing all of the federal Offices with
good white men, whether they
be Democrats or Republicans,
was Immediately charged with
Republicanism and most absurd
pictures to misrepresent him tc
the people, would be drawn tc
arouse prejudice against him,
and to make the hold Of the pol.
iticians more secure, While this
condition existed the northern
negroes were threatening to Sc
cede from the Republican party,
and delegation after delegation
called on the president to change
his policy of burying sectional
lines, which was bound to result
in the political determination OF
the negro as a political factor.
The assassin's bullet took Nc
Kinley from the field of action,
and upon Roosevelt's assuming
the reins of leadership he ex-
pressed his desire to carry out
his lamented predecessors South
ern policy. Has our people per-
mitted him to do it? In every in
stance where a Democrat has
been suggested for an appoint
ment our own press and politi-
clans would pull out the cry of
trying to Republicanize the
South, and when a negro has
been suggested it brought on a
bad case of wild hysteria, and all
mssnuer of threats and other rot
was INDUCED in. In our opinion
it is Just this sort of short-sight-
edness on the. part of our own
people which has caused the ne
gro to assert himself and to force
from the leaders of his party
some practical demonstration Of
his recognition and which would
not have been the case if our
people, through some mullet-
headed leaders, had not made. the
appointment Of Crum a National
issue.