The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-31
RACE ISSUE AGAIN
SUPPLIES A TEXT FOR GoRMAN TO
SCORE ROOSEVELT.
QUESTION TOO DANGEROUS
FOR ANY COUNTRY TO SEEK TO
RAISE, SENATOR THINKS.

sufOF German Dealt WIN
Roosevelt and the Race Issue.
baltimore, Oct 90.-At a Democratic
mass meeting held tonight at the close
of she campaign, speeches were made
NV Edwin Warfeld, the candidate for
Governor, and a number of leading
Democrats, including United States
Senator A. P. German.
An immense crowd was present and
the speaking was preceded by stere-
opticon views illustrating the asso-
citation of white and negro delegates
at the late Republican state conven-
ton.
The important address of the even
ing was that of Senator German, who
in addition to his advocacy of the
state ticket and his excoriation of the
Republicans, referred to President
Roosevelt and the race issue as fol-
lows:
Senator Germans Speech
L have a great respect for the Presi-
dent. He ought not to be lightly or
unjustly criticised. But lovers of lib
erty must enter their earnest protest
whenever high officers of the govern
ment exercise powers or commit acts
which tend to restrict the rights of
the people or unduly interfere in mat
tiers of state concern.
President Roosevelt is a man of fine
attainments and of honest convictions.
He is young, impulsive, ambitious, is
partisan and believes in his party.
In his anxiety for its success, he is LA
BILE to make mistakes, and, in my
Judgment, he has committed a most
grievous error in forcing to the front
an issue which must be deplored by all
the conservative men of the country.
In every country where the race
issue has arisen it has always car
red in it's make lamentable results
and has been attended by evil conse-
uuences. l trust his earnestness and
impetuosity may be restrained, and
that he may be prevailed upon to ac-
cept wiser counsel in his treatment of
the negro problem.
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 his
tory.
1T was one of the causes which led
TO a most gigantic war, which drencned
the country in blood, destroying fair
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pla.
Then Came acknowledgements.
Immediately after the close of the
war came the adoption of the Four
tenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
which enfranchised the blacks for party
purposes alone, and thus injected into
the body polite a people unprepared
and untitled for self-government.
The Anglo-Saxon has never, and Will
~ ffxy NTsf Ia
political domination Of the negro race.
The South has passed through scenes
of turbulence and disorder and rape
and riot By amendments to state
constitutions and by legislation the
whites have secured control. for the
time being, of their own local govern
ments, and the colored race is no long
er a political factor in any state south
of the Potomac.
For more than thirty years this
question has aroused sectional feeling
and divided parties. 1t has threatened
the peace of the states, put in Jeop-
ardy homes and paralyzed industrial
efforts. All thoughtful men realize tnat
this canker upon the body polite must
be eliminated. and the supremacy Oh
white government assured.
I'm 1896, Mckinley was elected Pres
ident of the United States. During his
most drastic legislation proposed by
his party in their efforts to enforce the
constitutional provisions. AS Presl-
dent of the United States, he reallzeo
the responsibilities of his exalted POSI-
ton. He began his term when thS
country was emerging from the throes
Of a great commercial panic. All uhe
business interests of the North Were
depressed--the wheels of INDUSTRY
voxrnl1rinu The South was
struggling with it's negro problem; lts
fields but half cultivated: its manu-
features at the lowest ebb: its mines
and forests undeVeloped. These CON
ditions were principally due to the gre9l
pail that hung over that section anc
made development and progress llhpos
sible.
South Took on New Life
While President Mckinley kept his
party obligations as fully as any man
ne ceased making partisan war upoi
the people of the South. But that PEG
PIE removed, at least temporarily th'
incubus that oppressed them. The ac'
ton of the states was sustained p9
the courts and confidence was restored
The old and young men of the Sour
took on new life. Development anC
progress resulted both North and Soutf
until the stream of prosperity ana en-
Ic' Prise was moving ITOIIl one SAu -
The land to the other.
In the interest of humanity, the gov
eminent of the United States deter
mined to free Cuba. War was declared
and in response to the Presidents cal
the men of the South and of the Nortf
and of the East and the West volun
teered. Sectionalism and party were
ooliterated. Our army was organized
and Gen. Miles of Massachusetts, Gen
Lee of Virginia, Gems. Shafter ant
Joe Wheeler were given important com
mands. Every section of the countr!
was brought together in the interes
OF the Union-nc North, no South, NJ
East, no West.
little more than two years hay'
elapsed since that deplorable TRACED!
az Buffalo, which deprived the natioi
OIL great President. Mr.. Roosevelt
succeeded to the presidency. In hi
anxiety to be constantly doing some
snlng he made mistakes. I believe o
Illll' as I have believed of all Presi
gpents that he is sincere and patriotic
iut every man in public position i
naDle to mistakes. None could be NOR
serious than the one made by him II
us attempt to force again to the from
me me question of equality, social and pc
''cal, Of the negro race.
Not as When Mckinley Lived.
ThouRhtflil cftizans both North AND