The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-10-27


We can't get away from the negro
as long as we are threatened by |
and we shall be threatened by him
both from without and within as
long as he is made the subject OF
political agitation by Il party i'll the |
North actively hostile to us and our
civilization.
This party OF agitation and aggres-
sion happens at the etime to be led by
Theodore Roosevelt He is half of
Southern extraction, SO that the
s'strain of coarse barbarism" he re-
fers to he must have discovered in
his own blood; anyhow, he shows it
surely enough. He is President OF
the United States. He is a candidate
for reelection. AS President he
brought the race question to the
foreground, anew into our politics.
In every way ht has advanced it as
an issue and ass liled us as a people.
He has attacked our character as
Christian men and women. He has
|impugned our patriotism and our
llovaltv as citizens. He has undone
as far as one man can undo, twenty
five years of sectional peace-making.
He is the most undoubting OF sec
tionalists. He stands the self-cOnfi
dent bigot, as well as the self-ap-
plauding candidate, OF Il section.
Thaddeus Stevens in his day, was
not more intolerant. Ben Wade,
inspired by the passions OF actual
war, was not more implacable. with
one hand he fourishes the ''big stick"
Of equality" over us, whilst in the
other-behind his back-he holds in
reserve Il third Force Bill, to "purify''
Southern elections and to reduce the
Souths representation i'll Congress
and in the Electoral College, to the
end that he and his party may have
their own way and recreate us in
their very likeness, Though in the
attempt racial war be precipitated in
the Southern country, it is nothing
: to him and his fellow-partisans. The
| negro, having been made white
man bv law, must, if he is unable to
| maintain himself, be maintained a
| white man by force. -,
Meanwhile the people OF the South
: are Christian people just like the peo
ple of the North. They want to dc
right. They ask only justice. Never
a Northern community, where the
! negro becomes too much in evidence
: or happens to be too numerous fo
/. comfort, but has troubles OF its owl
= sometimes bloodshed-often riot
= and, if not violent expulsion, motto
: for the negroes to get out. Yet II
- the South, we have them with us II
:; overhowing masses and every hou
IL of the day and night.
o Under normal conditions 1T Is ;
? hard nut to crack, a cOmplicate'
problem to solve. The Presiden
comes with his big stick to make
re harder. The Republican party swoop
II down upon us to make it Impossible
'e But we must not say word. Ii W
re whimper we are accused OF 'treasons
j. and strategems and spoils."
Does the business man OF tn
- North, do the God-fearing, Chrlstla
men and women of the North, wan
g four more years of sectional aglts
8 ton. merely to crafty the malevt
8 lence of Theodore Roosevelt and t
s secure him and the ring of CORFU
9 tionists who surround him, in power
g Has all sense of popular fellowship
81 all love of truth for truths sake, a
q thought of fraternity and !ustl
81 gone out of the Northern mind ar
g heart? We shall not believe it uni
q we see it set down in black and viii
Il by the vote of the coming Sth
81 November