La Junta tribune., 1904-09-24

the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
Gness TO the negro was piece OF Dem
ocratic 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
upon this alleged question: Is bis position
at all different from that OF Roosevelt!
II So In what respeetr The south should
questions before it votes for him upon
the assumption that he differs from Roose-
welt on the negro question;
table with Booker washinstoni
q Would you refuse to appoint negroes
to ofYSre In the Scrthf
8. If elected will you refuse to receive
on term. of equality at the White House
Washington. aud T. Thomas Fortupe,
4. Do you approve the nt.cd schools OF
land-in which social equality is practical
" made n matter Of eonipuision; ..u.
dren and white children are edueated to
gether-are a good thing for your native
State of New York, would they be good
thing for Georgia and South Carolina! II
Negro Cry Il Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion of the negro
question, as far as its bearing on the
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 principleT'
he continued:
In the South We are told We must submit
IN he dor fa all sfr Ne a
the niger" What blessed thing II IL
for Democratic leaders that they always
thirty years they have been doing bust.
ness on the niger" and to-day he Is their
Note the hypocrisy Of II. In their na.
tiona! platform Of 1872 they soiemniy pro.
tested their Allegiance to the doctrine OF
and pledged themselves to maintain the
emancipation and the enfranchisement Of
In 1879 at ST. Louis. Henry watterson
being chairman of the convention. they
soIemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out OF
In isso. in 1884. in 1888. the national
AHMED these declarations on the negro
question, and thus stood pied ed to oppose
any reopening Of the questions settled By
the thirteenth, fourteenth. aud fifteenth
amendments Yet after all these formal
pledges we are now browbcaten and in
we must indorse their capitulation to Bel
mont, David b. IIill, and Pat McCarren
because Of ''the niger"
Negro Powcrlcss In Poiitics.
"What can the Southern negro do?"
asked Mr.. Watson. He has been dis
franchised in nearly every Southern
State excepting Georgia: and 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 In danger
from the niger is the most hypocriti-
cal that unscrupulous leadership could in
vent, Grant. Sherman. and Sheridan. with
all their armies. could not revise the law
Of nature In the prostrate South.
The white man Is master-wherever he
plants his foot the world over. Do you
tell me that Roosevelt can do against the
reeqPerated South what Thad Steven.
could not do against the exhausted Southf
Roosevelt could not do ii even II he would.
The Democratic leaders who talk this
and wink at one another as they pass.
they know what humbug It all Is. and
bow how Il Is being used to make the people
to wall street which they made at st.
In the West virginia Democratic con.
vention. the state of the Democratic nom;-
nee for Vice President, the white suprem-
Aug j. 1904. Parker himself. In vritins
him a. NY dear ans SIR = just % as oaissssS snoasS
Surrender to Wall street.
Turning to other issues, Mr.. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sur
rendered to Wall street because, as SEN
ator John W. Daniels, of Virginia, put
it, they were tired Of being in the
minority" He continued:
Not afraid Of Rooseyeit's militia rfsmY
10. NOT afraid Of Roosevelt's nigserismf
No; All that Is fudge and subterfuse.
rnL..
wa. the milk IN the cocoanut.
a. Not & tired Of being In the wrong! No.
In the wrong. Simply Because &c the1 ne1 Ssee Ssee
drop the principle: which they swore wore for
which even now they DO not dare say are
right Great God! what an attitude for
es, poltie.Ig iH11 s,pe1 p,rtz sznousA
t. vote for Parker. on the platform a
iooa nSaia ' s.ss ssn,ssse,sa y Parker hin;s
g q tnat1and vote for the other twin,
hoosevsit; Give me the original every
copy. Give me the genuine article. rathss
than the spurious substitute.
what Has Parker Dosse9
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects 70
Candidate Parker personally. He asked:
Why should Gecrzians support Parker.
Ssof.iani What DO 70. know ~ 4 Psrhss: P
What has he done that vas uotabie? 'WNaf
Ms.t has vfs s. .e,e s,er that n,,, wa. |snsr.h.
him with individuality?
David Il: Hill declared At 81. T.ouis
that he had been intimate with Parker Sor
thirty yearS, and fhaf he DID NOT know
how Parker stood on the money question.
Was this statement true: II so Parke9
= ]. the most neEative public man on lie
false? n 70. David n. IIiII IL the Soid..ss
uaf between the two oceansL ThInE q
z man living on intimate terms with Alex.
an0ef H. stevens and Abe lincoln for
thtrty jean ana not knowing how he stool
e the greatest political QuestIops of tI,e
The populist leader declared than tie
people could not securs reforms in the
Democratic party when it is ..bos,e,I