The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-04
WANTS REPEAL |: / |. ] |:
o. AMENDMENT
Bacon Says Southern Democrats
Must Stand Together for Main
1. IA t,esn,lance OF White Supreme
.WovLD: i \ RE: DucT 10 Y
But 81 Democrats Must. Sc Firm lin
Opposition to Negro Rule and:
+ Negro Officc-Hold ding
.fBy -. Associated Press.1

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MACON e A., Dec. Con gresham II
Ky. $Hardwicls. otIthe Tenth Georgia Dis
rricr,s a. CIV days y e le Ter to
Senator a.. o! az MS views on.
tho present political ltua ton. Senator
BACON replies lerlgt H. s:
The sens tor. says theresis ian effort to
outllRsI7e dec tares nat
white supremacy MUS EboFlnn ntained IN
the SCUM and everywhere e thai the pros
perity OF he South is due to white su-
advocates The repeal OF the
$fftcentf amendment, and Insists that I'M
.lnsssthat shall be done the people OF The.
South Will be forced Y to mai II tain Z their
proposition of white suprcmacy.F 'ollow-
ing is a para graz PHI III Z, L,
IF there were nothing else OF which TO-
boast, II this We're; the solo sacheyement5
OF the Dem ocratic$p party in the South this
cuing the South from a fate worse than
anarchy would earn for It and entltle,
II to the 8undying gratitude and apprecia-
itIon 81 al! those In tho, world who value
and prize civilization and NIL It's attendant
blessings. And there are, none who should
be more gra teful TO thc.. Democratic party
for this than the Republican party. OF tile
North because the Democrats. ~ thus
saving the civilization OF the South,Eat the
same time also saved the Republican
party from tho deep damnation which
would yilave been adjudged against them
through all the ages II they had sue
ccedcd in the effort which they made to
convert this whole Southland into the Ies-
5oiationi Of another Haytl.,@ i&
The senator charges, that the two most
important flices In Georgia under the
executive department., the co!lectorfat
Savannah and the collcctorsl Atlanta, are
held by negroes: that. the most important
is5 y-t yN1rsf
washington held by any one appointed
from Georgia lis that OF register or the
treasury, and held by q Negro He as
kerts that In he three ti,le's OF: savannah,
Atlanta and New Orleans there are, re-
spcctivcly, forty-tno, nirety-four and Eos
negro Fedora oiticeholders. He: holds mat
1t Is the policy 1.-THE. Republican, party to
put tho negro In 'posltlonS Of authority
in the Southern states. Near the conGlu-
sion his letter hb summarizes his whole
proposition with the question:: Shall We,
above all other things, stand for white
supremacy?1 and then he en- ha Sizes his
view by citing the fact that In 1865 the
negroes In tho United States numbered
4 100000; In 1905 they will number more
than 10 600, 900; that there are those chill
dren now born who win in their day SEQ
4nore than 3O,Oo0,0d0 OF them there!
1 Rather1than have negro rule Senator
BACON is willing to accept "a reduction OF
OF the United States. He says:t$
'.rhe repeal or 1.-THE fifteenth amend
anent, leaving to each State the power to
regulate for itself tho negro question.
would destroy tho sectipna! barrier. which
thu South SC greatly dcplores,S and for
tho removal Of which It knows no other
methud,''S
To says at tho last;Ss@
until this amendment is repealed tho
menace which must ever accompany 1t
will require that the white men of tho
South Should stand together upon tho
issue OF white supremacy and opposition
to ncgr ruie and negro otilceholding. IT
" within tho power OF tho party, IL It
desi, o. TO so do. to, repeal ! the hfteenth
Within the next three months
by securing Inc necessary action by Con.
gress ana III, ratification by the reguls-
Ito number at State Legislatures. Wnen
they refuse To do so 1t EcGn only bio he-
cause tl,oy desir. tho continuance of tho
opportunity for negro rule and negro Of
And while Thus still beleag-
ui'lng our stronghold, they approach with
sos words and promises Of the favor of
tnoss -who sit In he seals Of. power, i
would cry 10 the defenders, OF white. sis
preunae3': beware THE Greeks are at
the gates bearing gifts.