The San Francisco call., 1904-07-07
SECOND PLACE FOR STEVENSON Of ILLINOIS Oh TAGGART Of INDIANA
TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN PLEDGES
DEMOCRACY TO MANY REFORMS
Bitterly AssaiIs Republican Party for Its Attitude
Toward CoIored Race and Promises Inde-
pendenCe of Philippines

reducing that OF Massachusetts and other
States. wherever in the South negroes are dis
fra nchised. not such. but because OF ignor-
ance. 10y an educational qualification. or be-
cause OF any other right reason, In any other
constitutional way.
Disfranchissment OF a negro in Mississippi
Tor ignorance Is a horrible thing: disfranchise-
ment of a white man for ignorance In Massa-
chusets or Connecticut is a part Of New Eng
land higher education
Let not the business interest of the country
I deceive itself. let those controlling 1t prepare
II Roosevelt is elected this platform for
another period of uncertainty unrest, business
disturbance and war in the Southern
states, instead Of that peace and prosperity
I which both races now enjoy and which has
been rendered possible only by home rule and
Let the South not deceive itself either. II
the Republican party was sincere In its propo-
siticn to reduce Southern representation on the
grounds OF Acknowledgement or pretended ''un-
constitutional limitation itself il would ac-
company the proposition with another-to wit:
the proposition to repeal the fifteenth amend
Their duplicity is shown in this: They wish
10 maintain the fifteenth amendment. which
forbids the negro for racial reasons from be-
ing disfranchised. and. acting on the pretense
that he Is for racial reasons disfranchised, they
would nave The negro not counted as q basis Of
representation in the Southern States where he
chiefly resides. II is not the white man, as a
white man. who is injured by recurrence of
the pendency OF force bill days-he and
viii always maintain himself in business, in
agriculture and in the manufactures Com
ANFAAtaii2 anu lnuuStrlallN the white men OF
me Houth VIII not be much more injured by
this sort OF agitation than Northern people
Will be The mercantile class would be the
hrst 10 suffer. but as they debts to the
North and buy from the North and as nearly
everything they sell is manufactured in the
North they would not be alone in their suffer
ings
This Is but the entering wedge to g new pc
ROD ot Southern reconstruction" Il is the
beginning ever Of the old scheme revived for
political advantage, to retain a Republican
/ asset the solid negro vote of Indiana, Illinois
New Jersey and like conditioned States-this
time without price in money paid-by dlsutrb-
ing all over the Southland peace and order and
unsetthng business, and. as o remote effect
II successful hybridizing the race there and
African!zing its civilization.
That is the ultimate significance OF Il all II
indeed IL be not merely "a voice in the wilder
ness. crying out empty promises TO the negro
voters in lhe doubtful States ] wish 1 could
but Tor the opinionated and superstrenuous
character OF the man in the White House -
How small in comparison would be the i'm
mediate and ultimate significance of a mere
the necessary and natural results OF this re-
viNed agitation.
In keeping with all this consider the negro
Santo BambinO scene In the Republican Ma
uonal Convention. the wild alteration OF my
little Alabama cOOn''-Or was n Georgia coon ?
Why was all this prearranged and by whom g?
Why were the TWO little white girls placed
on the same platform with the little negro
boy 10 march around carrying flags? Who
nretends that il was accidental? What was
IS the subtle symbolical meaning of II all?
Is 1t a meaning which only white Republicans
dare 70 put into Words Or is il a meaning
10 be guessed at and to be LEFT to negro
orators. speaking to negro audiences. TO put
into words such as are adapted to negro races
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