Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-09-24
JACKSON STANDS PAT.

JACKSON STANDS PAL.
In his speech of acceptance of
the Republican nomination for
Congress by the Republicans of
this District. Hon. William III.
Jackson says he is in accord
with the Republican party and
its platform, and that he hopes
after he has gone that this dis
trict will continue TO be repre-
scented in Congress by one com
mitted to Republican principles.
We cannot understand how
any white man residing in this
section of the country can up
hold the policy of President
Roosevelt, recognizing "a negro
as the equal of a white man. And
we cannot understand how any
man can have the temerity to
come before the people of the
First Congressional District of
Maryland for their suffrage
proclaiming he is in favor of
reducing the representation in
Congress of the Southern white
man.
This is what the Republican
party means in its declaration
made at Chicago. The Repub-
lican party must exist by the
negro vote. Take this away
from the party and it will cease
to exist. Then, too, the policy
of the Republican party is to
give the negro the desire of
his heart, to hold him in the
Republican ranks.
What is this demand
What are the assumed rights
of the colored man?
In the far North he has the
right to marry a white woman.
In the North he can send his
children to school with white
children. and the white children
must sit in the same seat with
them. In the North he is con-
sidered the social equal of the
white man.
Then what does this state
nent, made at negro Repub-
lican meeting in Chester last
Tuesday night by Ex-Congress-
man Robinson, and published
in the Philadelphia Record, Wed
nesday. mean? Read it for
yourself
"Mr. Robinson's remarks were brief,
as he was obliged to leave to attend the
convention of the League of Republican
Clubs at Reading. but his utterances
caught the crowd and he was cheered
Justify by the colored men.
He spoke in a serious vein, touching
on the amendment to the Constitution
that gave them freedom. and said the
Republican party would be guilty of
cowardice if it did not carry out the
spirit and intention of the amendment
and see that the negro had the same
rights in the South as he had in the
North, or reduce the representation from
the South in Congress.
Is is not plain to the Southern
white man that the Republican
party intends to force negro
equality upon us? We have
told you some of the things he
considers his rights in the
North. We have pointed out
the policy of appointing ne
groes to office in the South, and
the disregard of the President
and the Republican party to
Southern traditions and Gus
toms. You are just as much a
Southern man as if you lived in
South Carolina. Our traditions
and feelings are the same. We
are the best friends the negroes
have, and we will do all i'm our
power to help them along in the
world if they but keep their
place, but the white men of the
State of Maryland defy the Re-
publican party to thrust upon
them the privileges the negroes
claim for themselves i'm the
North, and which their candi-
dates endorse.
White voter, if you regard
your rights and privileges as
you should, you will make
yourself committee of one to
advance the cause of the Demo-
cratic candidates for President,
Vice-President and Congress,
and see that they are elected at
the coming election in Novem-
Der.
You owe it to yourself re-
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