The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-08
Voice From the South


Clark Howell, editor Of the Atlanta
Constitution, spoke to the toast, Dem
ocratic Success the Guarantee of Ma
tional Unity" Mr.. Howelps reference
to mob violence was vigorously cheer
ed He said:
Regardless Of sections or political adj
the flag is its own and every citizen
should be willing and ready, in case of
necessity, to offer UP his life's blood for
its defense. A party that would build its
hope of success as the Republican party
has done, upon a bold and definite chal-
lenge of the peace, prosperity and happi-'
country IS sG neith 81 entitled to its own
self-respect nor to- that of the public
sentiment of the nation
There Is not a declaration of our plat
form that is not born of an honest desire
to help the whole people, to serve the
whole country, and SO to administer the
affairs of the government that neither
harm, hardship nor injustice will be work
ed to the people of any state or section.
Disguise as they may, the Republicans
cannot deny the sectional animus of their
party purpose nor evade the record of
their administration in its unjust and un-
generous dealings with the South in the
matter of federal appointments and in
the brutal and 1ndefenSible manner in
which their president has raised the lid
of the racial Pandora's box that our peo-
pie, black and white, may be tormented-
it.
Checks Negroes Progress
The mistaken attitude Of the Republican
president has done more to check the real
has been done since the war. His stub
born disregard Of the advance of even
his own party's referees in the states af-
fe ,, ts in his mad discrimination that
white constituencies should be served by
negro officeholders exclusively has re-
kindled the embers of racial hos
tility to degree that has not been known
since the days of reconstruction Was it
necessary? Let them ask the memory of
their martyred Mckinley, who, twice hon
ored with the presidency, died with South
side, uniting their prayers that God might
spare his life Typical Republican that he
was and fair to white and black alike
meanor that said to the whole country
that while placed in his exalted office by.
party lnstrumentality, he was indeed the
lions.
The South asks to deal with this
snegro) question as its conscience and
solution will be for the best of all con-
cerned. Eliminate the race question as a
political issue and you have put the can.
stone on the pyramid of national unity
John B. Stoll, editor of the South
Bend 1Qnd.) Times, was the next
speaker. His toast was triumphant
democracy. Andrew Mclean, editor
of the Brooklyn Citizen, closed the
speechmaking, when he responded to
The Democracy of the Empire State.e
Today at Rosemount
ESoPUS, N. Y, Sept. 7.-Alton B.
Parker will make his first speech since
his formal acceptance of the nomina-
ton at Rosemount tomorrow in the
presence of the visiting editors of
Democratic newspapers. 1t will take
the form of a reply to an address of
greeting to be made by Charles w.
Knapp, of st. Louis. The editors are
expected to arrive from New York be-
fore noon. Judge Parker will speak
from the veranda at Rosemount, and
with the exception of the brief speeches
there will be nothing formal about the
occasion.