The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-09-29
PARKER EXC0RIATED
THOMAS e. WATSON'S RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS
Raising of the Negro Question bys
Democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy
Roosevelt Preferred to Hifl's Cand4--
date Who Is Bossed by Wall Street.

Thomas E. Watson, Populist candi-
date for the Presidency, in a speech at
Atlanta. Ga. on Sept l, declared that
the Democratic attack on President;
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
illness to the negro was piece of Dem
ocratic hypocrisy and he Challenged
Parker to indicate his own position on
the race issue. On this point Mr.. W
son said
The South should demand to knew the
| facts about Parker How does he stand
upon this alleged question? Is his position.
at all different from that OF RsoseYeiti
| II so, in what respect: The South shoad
demand explicit reply to the following
| questions before ii votes for him upon
the assumption that he differs from RoOse-
| welt on the negro question:
l. Would you refuse to eat at the same
table with Becker Washington
Would You refuse TO appoint negroes
| TO office in the South:
). II elected viii you refuse to receive
on terms of equality at the White House
! such negroes as Bishop Turner. Booker
| Washington and T Thomas Fortune?
4 DO you approve the mixed schools Of
! New York, inaugurated under Grover CleTe-
| land-in which social equality is practical
ly made a matter Of conipulsion?
3 II such schools-wherein black ehi2-r
| dren and white children are educated To-
| gethcr-are good thing for your native
! State of New York would they be a sond /.
! thing for Georgia and South CaroliEas II
! not, why not:
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion of the negro.
question. as far as its bearing On the
present national campaign is concerned,
! Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
national leaders have prostitutei The
name of Democrat and are demanding
that they shall be followed blindly IN
| spite of the fact that they have re-
nounced every principle of Democracy
Asking. will the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle -
| he continued:
| In the South we are told we must snbmfs
to the surrender TO Wall street because Of
| the niger" What a blessed thing j, is
| for Democratic leaders that they aiways
have the niger to fall back on FIR
! thirty Years they have heen doiag busi-
ness on the niger and to-day he is iheis
| Note the hypocrisy OF It, In their ma
! A"na! platform q 1872 they soemniy pro
| tested their allegiance to the doctrine of
! equality. regardless Of race or color,
| and pledged themselves to maintain the
Characterization and the enfranchisemcmt q
! the blacks.
| In 1876 at st. Louis. Henry wa.tersors
| being chairman o. the convention. they
| solemnly declared their devotion 10 The
| constitutional amendments growing ont Of
| III 1880, in 1854 in 1888. the national
| conventions Of the Democratic party re-
| affirmed these declarations on the Negro.
! question. and thus stood pledged 10 oppose
| any reopepine Of the questions settled by
! the thirteenth. fourteenth, and nfteentb
amendments Yet after ali these formal
! pledges we are now browhcaten and in
! undated lay Democratic leaders. who say
| we must indorSe their capitulation to BEL
! mont, David 4. Hill. and Pat McCarrer.
! bccause OF the niggCr.'
Negro Powerless in Politics.
| What can the Southern negro do?'''
asked Mr.. Watson. He has been dig
frauchised in nearly every Southern,
State excepting Georgia: and in Georgia
they do not dare disfrAnchise him. be-
cause Democracy in Georgia cannot bs
maintained by the white vote" lie con-
| timed:
Therefore, the cry that we are in danger
| from the niEger'' is the most hyEocriti-
cal that INSCRIPTIONS leadership could in
| vent. Grant, sherman and Sheridan, With
al their armies, could not revise the law
| Of nature in the PROSTATE South.
Inc white man is Master-wherever he
| plants his fto' the world over. Do yen
| te!! me TINT Roosevelt can Go against the
rec1Perated Sonth what Thad Stevens
| could net do against the exhausted South p
| Roosevelt could mol do II even II he would.
The Democratic leaders who talk this.
| stun, ard the editors who write il. laugh
| they know what humbug it all is. and
| how it is being uscG 10 make the people
| forget, or condone the ngiorious surrender
| to Wall street which they made al St
| Louis.
| In the West Virginia Democratic con
| vention. the State OF the Democratic nonii-
| nee FOR Vice President, the white snpreIs-
| acy resolution was voted down. and on,
! Aug. l, 1891 Parker himself, In wiring
| 70 the nei'1. James. A. Ross, addresses
| him as My dear sir Just as though.
| Ross had been white man.
Surrender to Wall Street.
Turning to other issues, Mr. Watson.
said the Democratic leaders had sur,
rendered to Wall street because as Sem
ator John W. Daniels of Virginia. put
it, they were tired of being in the.
minority" He continues:
:. Not afraid OF Eoosevet's militarisrn7
NJ; All that is fucge ana suhterfuge.
| Tired OF being in the minority" there
| was the milk in the cocoanut.
| Not tired of being in the wrongt No.
He did NOT even pretend that he had been.
| II the wrong. Simply because they have
| been in the minority thCy are ready to
! drop the principles which they swore for,
| eight years were right. and to adopt those
Nhlcb even now they do rot dare say are
! right. Great God! what an ATTITUDE for
the leaders Of great national party.
| to vote for Parker. Oh the platform Of
| 1904. as constructed by PARKER himself. j
| would take one more drink ~ small one
| az that-ard vote for the other twin,
| Roosevelt, Give me the orig!na! every
| time rather than the blurred. indistfnet
| copy Give me tAr genuine article rathes~
| than the spurious substitute,
What Has Parker Done:
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects to
| Candidate Parker personally. He asked:
Why should GeorSians support Parker,
| OF New York, rather than fellow
! Georgian? What 90 you know Of Parkerr
| What has he done that was notable: What
has he ever said that was memurahley
/ What has he ever written that Stamped.
| him with individuality: r
| David b. Hin declared Mt St Louis.
! that he had been intimate with Parker for
| thirty years, and that he did not know
| how Parker stood on the money question
| Was this statement truei II so. Parker
| is the most negative public man on the
American continent, Was the statement
| false: II so, David Il. llli Is the holdess
! liar between the two oceans. Think OF
J man living en- Intimate terms with Alex
| aru,i II Stevens and Abe Lincoln fns
! thirty years aud rot kuowini how be- s,not,>
! or ,I9r greatest iOH;ica! questions ns The
| day
The popuiiSt leader declared than the
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