The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-23
PARKER ExcoRIA'
THOMAS E. WATSON'S REC
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNEE
Raising of the Negro Questio.
Democrats Denounced as Hypot
Roosevelt Preferred to HiI1,s d
date Who Is Bossed by Wall ST,

date Who Is Bossed by Wall Str
Thomas E. Watson. Popuist 5.8
date for the Presidency, in spe6s
Atlanta, Ga, ON SEPT. 1, declared
the Democratic attack on Pre-
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged tF48
illness to the negro was a piece of
ocratic hypocrisy and he chalT
Parker to indicate his own positi{
the race issue. On this point Mr.. g
son said:
The South should demand to kno SSs:
facts about Parker. How does he &8
upon this alleged question? Is his pc
at all different from that of Roos
If so, in what respect? The South sS
demand explicit reply to the follssa
questions before it votes for him Ei
the assumption that he differs from I8
welt on the negro question: @s
l. Would you refuse to eat at the EfS
table with hooker Washington: s
>. Would you refuse to appoint DH8s
to Office in the South? E4t
.. If elected will YOU refuse to ross
on terms of equality at the White IS@
such negroes as Bishop Turner, BIZ
Washington. and 4. Thomas Fortune :sS
T. DO you approve the mixed schodsS
New York, innugurated under Grover ,Ha
land-in which social equality is pra,sS
ly made matter of compulsion? rs
.. If such schools wherein black HI
dren and white children are educated
gethcr,nre Il good thing for your lts
State of New York, would they be a E
thing for Georgia and South Carolina
not, why not? ~
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy. Hs
Taking up the discussion of the IN
question, as far as its bearing on r.
present national campaign is conceIs
Mr.. Watson said that the DemocSs
national leaders have prostituted Rs
name of Democrat and are demult@S
that they shall be followed blindlSi
spite of the fact that they have&
nounced every principle of DcmocM
Asking, will the real Democrats fo%
the name rather than the princirS
he continued:
In the South We are told we must 81 &
to the surrender to Wall street bocauss
the niger. What a blessed thing
for Democratic lenders that they alyS
have tho bigger to fall back on.
thirty years they have been doing Il
ness on the ni-gcr,' and to-day he is x
only stock in trade
Note the hypocrisy Of it. In their
tional platform Of 1872 they solemnly 4
miipsiuilcc 70 tiie doclf!i'3
~ I, i,f't, i,I VI race or e
n,,,ir.;,ii r .i iI TO- ~
the blacks.
In 1876 ut St Louis, Henry Waited
being chairman of the convention, I
solcmnly declared their devotion to
t% NV, 'hi'''''le''ts growing 'uT
ny 100 w" ~ 900, :. 1000
co,ron n,o ~ ~ ~ \, isoo, me mal
y ttirnn '1 ,h VI ,uI ,viii,,i',iH part!
, n,'!,.,it 'nrs9 'rit,o.S Oh ne hS
INV r",o |i;,' ,"ou p!tuseo 10 opH
ny ,Li,ti, VI tiiG IutstioLis s .:ei
,monJm'nnt ~, a III ny ~
ninI,rnt *. nit.r Az THESE ioi
iimiii,t od ,,,. no, m iloM I nGa,eh anu
.ii''''iH.tu ny l'eh,ocritlc leaders, VINO
wv ,l'uSI iiin"rSe Iilnir canitniallo,i 70
" "m,, ~ Nv .,i ~: Nm. a,iu lat Mceai
VI 'ne iHEser'
Negro Powerless i'll Politics.
tN'hat can tho Southern mario 4
ASKED Mf. " atsoh. lie mas been
franchlsed i'll nearly every South
nlate excepting georgia; ana III Geol
.nes 10 no' dare ulslrahcmse NM
cause democracy IN georgia cannot
maintained ny the "hlte vote. lie
'ihueu'
Therefore, the cry that we are in dal
r cpI th,t ne liEger Is In" most hynHc
vent. Grant, sherman. and Sheridan. F,
all their armies could not revise the
of nature il the PROSTATE South.
The white man is wherever
plants his foot the world over Do
tell me that Roosevelt can do against
recuperatcd South what Thad Ste,
could not do against the exhausted So,
Roosevelt could not do it even if he wo
The Democratic leaders who talk
and wink at one another as they p
they know what humbug it all is.
how 1t is being used to make the pc
forget, or condonc, the inglorious surrel
to Wall street which they made at
Louis.
In. the West Virginia Democratic
vention, the State of the Democratic NJ
nee for Vice President, the white supp
acy'' resolution was voted down, and
Aug. l, 1904, Parker himself, in wri
to the negro. James A. Ross, addre
MN rs MY dear sir, Just as tho
'''s Nau '''" +" "N''e 'ii'n.
surrender to Wall street.
=, ut t, 70 o'her issues, Mf. wa
said the Democratic leaders had
rendered to Wall street because. as s
otnr John w D,nio1s of v;rn;r;,
;. =,
1t, they were tired of being i'll
minority" He continued:
NJ eu,, :. go
No' alra!u OF HG"sevelt miiltafi
No. 10 N9I AFRAID or Rnosevelt,s nisEerl
M ..n; al 'nat Is luu@e ana snDter1
,, aireu OF pelns IN the minority, q
""s ny Ill mi4ih III tne cocoahut.
Not tireu OF pelns IN the wrong;
ne alu not even pretend that ne had |
~ the wrong. simply because they |
Ieen ~. ~ Tue liinorltE lhey are ready
u tap. tne lrlncipies when they S"ofe
Si .SS 1eals were right ana 70 adopt q
r Wntth e cnnot nov aney 90 NOT care say
Iish5. Great God! what an attitude
II i could become polIticalIv I tin sven enc
to vote for Parker, on the platform
a9o4, as constructed by Parker himsel
as that@and vote for the other e'a'. +,
Roosevelt: Give me the original e,
dime' r Gt,e than the blurred. midst
than the spurious substitute attA''e ="
What Has Parker Done7
Mr.. Watson then Maid his resnect,
Candidate Parker nersonally Ha asl
wbv should cooro,.ns .,n,a.. D..
of New York, rather than fe
Georgian? What do you know Of Par
hos bn mas sv ne uo one t1 taot was notaDie
What has he ever written that stan
him with ! individuality?
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