The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-16

Of this union as aliens to the com
monWealth of Israel and strangers to
| the covenant of promise. In the eyes
of the Republican party the South
Lis an outcast. unfit to share in the
control Of its government under which
thew live and unworthy to be trusted
even with the management of their
| own affairs No Southern statesman
sits in the cabinet of the Republican
President. no Southern diplomat rep
resents his countryS interests abroad
as ambassador or minister at the court
of any of the great powers OF the
world. When the two great polltlcal
parties assemble in national conVen-
ton to select candidates for the OIL
ces of president and vice-presldent OF
the United States, no Southern man
is chosen. We have men of ability.
experience and eloquence. statesmen
who are in every way dualliled TO
serve as the nations chief maglA-
trate. yet nobody seriously thinks OF
nominating them. Why? Simply be-
bause the Republican party is sec
tional party. will not nominate
Southern man and would defeat any
Southern candidate by appealing TO
the passions and prejudiceS OF the
Civil War. We sometimes hear of a
National Republican Party NV
friends the National Republican
Party" is nothing but a name, pure
figment of the imagination. You
might offer q, reward of a million dol
lars to any one who would prove
that such a thing as a National Re-
publican Party exists or ever did eX-
list in this country. and you need not
have the slightest fear that any one
would ever appear with the proof and
claim the reward. The man who
should undertake to locate the Nation
al Republican Party would attempt q
vain and foolish task. 1t would be
easier to run a freight train through
an Irish potato. You might as
North pole: because scholars and
scientists tell us that somewhere
far away among the desoiate wastes
of arctic SHOWS. there Is q north pole.
1t would be easier to find cure for
consumption: for though the great
white plague. the captain Of the
men of death" has long Knocked at
human skill, the world still cherishes
a hope that some day q benefactor
of the human race will arise and STAY
his ravages forever. Some very good
men talk of VOTING the National Re-
publican ticket and the State Demo-
cratic ticket" AS to the last proDO-
sition. / commend their judgment and
rejoice to know that they are not far
from the kingdom. but they are Woe
fully mistaken about voting the first.
The words National" and 'Republi-
can" won't fit each other any more
than a fat mans trousers Will fit a
lean mans legs or a square peg lit II
round hole. Speak of the National
Republican party, you might as well
talk Of a silent sound. an empty ful-
ness or Il hollow solid. You might
as well talk of an Industrious tramp,
mic n
telegraph messenger, a married bache-
lor or baShful drummer 1t would be
as sensible to speak of a wealthy edi-
tor conscientious politician. OF
truthful lawyer Of a woman who
won't talk. You can give free vent
to YOUR fancy. spread broad the wings
of your imagination and fly 10 the
farthest regions of absurditY and con-
tradiction but you may feel sure that
YOU have reached the limit of the
Impossible when you arrive at the idea
of d National Republican party. This
seems amusing. and it is we'll enough
perhaps to speak in jest. but my
friends. if Theodore Roosevelt is
elected president, the joke VIII
straightWay cease. The republican
party is not national in it's principles.
practices. platforms or policies: it is
not national in it's ambitions. aims
hopes. desires or purposes. 1t has
never seen a day. an hour or mo-
ment when it was anything but
sectional party There is but one ma
tional party in this government. ana
that is the Democratic party. party
as broad as the nation. When the
Democratic party is in power, a cltl-
zen of the United States wherever ne
sees it's flag fly in any part or the
world. on the land or on the sea. can
look UP at its starry folds ana say
"That represents my country" II we
should be driven to a choice of evils,
| do not doubt that the South Will
adhere even through injustice and
persecution to her grand and salutary
doctrine that ours is the white man 5
country and that the white man must
rule it. All history, the records Oh
Kingdoms that have risen, fiourlshed
and passed away. prove the correct
ness of that position The South
disfranchised the negro, because
thirty years of experience had proved
him not only totally unfit for the du-
ties and responsibilities Of citizenship.
but also a continual source of disor-
der. corruption and strife. The ne
gro's history. when compared with the
history of other races and peoples
proves his inferiOrity. Almost every
other race dwelling alone. obedient to
influences from within, has slowly
and by it's own effort. developed from
harbarism - civilization. Ages ago
the Egyptians came into being. how
or where We DO net FNow: they be-
can their life in the black night Of
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