The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-09-23
PARKER ExC0RIATED
THOMAS e. WATSON'S RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS.
Raising of the Negro Question by
Democrats Denounced as .Hypocrisy-
Roosevelt Preferred to Hills Candi-
date Who Is Bossed by Wall Street.

date for the Presidervy. in a speech at
Atlanta, Ga. on Sept. !, declared that
the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the ~latter's alleged friend
liness to the negro was a piece Of Dem
oeratic hypocrisy and he challenged
Parker to indicate his own position on
the race issue. On this point Mr.. Wat
son said:
The South should demand to know the
facts about Parker. How does he stand
upon this alleged question? Is his position
at all different from that Of Roosevelt?
II so, in what respect? The South should
questions before it votes for him upon
the assumption that he differs from Roose-
welt on the negro question:
l. Would You refuse to eat at the same
table with Booker Washington?
, Would you refuse to appoint negroes
to Office in the South?
3. If elected will you refuse to receive
en- terms of equality at the White House
such negroes as Bishop Turner, Booker
Washington, and r., Thomas Fortunel -
A. De you approve the mixed schools Of
New York, inaugurated under Grover Cleve-
land-in which social equality is practical
ly made a matter of compulsion?
% If such choois-wherein black chill
State of New York, would they be a good
thing for Georgia and South Carolina? IL
not, why notf
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion Of the negro
question, as far as its bearing ON tho
present national campaign is concerned,
Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
national leaders have prostituted the
name of Democrat and are demanding
that they shall be followed blindly in
spite Of the fact that they have re-
nounced every principle of Democracy.
Asking, "Will the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle?"
he continued:
In the South we are told we must submft
to the surrender to Wall street because Of
the niger What a blessed thing it is
for Democratic leaders that they always
have the niger to fall back on. For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on 1.-The niger and to-day he is their
only stock in trade.
Note the hypocrisy of it. In their ma
tlonai platform of 1872 they %solemnly pro-
tested their allegiance to the doctrine OF
equality regardless Of race or color.
and pledged themselves to maintain the
Emancipation and the enfranchisement Of
In 1876 at st. Louis, Henry Watterson
being chairman of the convention, they
solemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out Of
the civil war.
In 1880, in 1884, in 1888, the national
conventions OF the Democratic party re-
affirmed these declarations on the negro
question, and thus stood pledged to oppose
any reopening of the questions settled BY
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these formal
pledges we are now browbeaten and in
Inundated by Democratic leaders, who say
we must indorse their capitulation to Bel
mont, David b. Hill, and Pat McCarren
because Of 1.-The niger"
Negro POwerless in Politics.
What can the Southern negro do?''
asked Mr.: Watson. HE has been dis
State excepting Georgia; aid in Georgia
they do not dare disfranchise him, be-
cause Democracy in Georgia cannot be
maintained by the white vote" He con-
tinued:
Therefore, the cry that we are In danger
from the niger" is the most hypocriti-
cal that INSCRIPTIONS leadership could In
all their armies. could not revise the law
of nature In the PROSTATE South.
The white man is master-wherever hs
plants his foot the world over. Do you
tell ne that Roosevelt can do against the
recuperated South what Thad Stevens
could not do against the exhausted South?
The Democratic leaders who talk this
stun, and the editors who write it, laugh
and wink at one another as they pass,
they know what a humbug 1t all is, and
how 1t is being used to make the people
forget, or condone, the inglorious surrender
to Wall street which they made at st.
In the West Virginia Democratic con.
%vention, the State Of the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice President, the white suprem-
acy" resolution was voted down, and on
to the negro, James A. Ross. addressed
him as "My dear sir Just a. though
Ross had been a white man.
Surrender to Wall Street.
Turning to other issues, Mr.. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sur
rendered to Wall street because, ss Sem
ator John w. Daniels, Of Virginia, put
it, they were tired Of being in the
minority" He continued:
Not afraid of Roosevelt's militarism9
No. Not afraid of Roosevelt's niggerism1
Nc; All that is fudge and subterfuge.
w waire ths OF nth, being e IN IN the minority there
Not tired OF being in the wrong7 No.
He DID not even pretend that he had been
In the wrong. Simply because they have
drop the principles which they swore for
eight. years were right, and to adopt those
which even now they do not dare say are
the leaders OF a great national party.
If l could become politically tipsy enough
to vote for Parker. on the platform Of
1904. as constructed by Parker himself.
would take one more drink small one
at that-and vote for the other twin.
Roosevelt; Give me the original every
time, rather than the blurred. indistinct
copy. Give me the genuine article, rather
than the spurious substitute.
What Hat Parker Donep
MI. Watson then paid his respects to
Candidate Parker personally. He asked:
Why should Georgians support Parker.