The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-16
That is What is Offered
to the People of the
South.
NOT ANATIONAL PARTY
The Southern Man Who Votes fol-
Roosevelt Thereby Says He Ap-
proves What the President
Has Done.
(BY THOMAS NJ. HUFHAM)

Nb1 i ftNAS vi. FOEhAM.)
1.-The National Republican Party
ana Theodore Roosevelt are respon-
sble for the revival of the negro
question. True it is urged in some
counties that the negro plank is a
bait.
Gov. McCrary. of Kentucky. once
said that as a general proposition he
ADMITTED the foreknowledge of God,
but with this exception that he did
not believe Almighty Himself could
tell i'm advance how a petty jury would
decide a case. So he is bold man
who undertakes to prophecy what
Theodore Roosevelt and the Radical
party Will. or will not. do if they
are given four years more of power.
Roosevelt is running the machine
ana the whole concern is like an al
tomobile party with a crazy chauffeur.
The south cannot afford to take any
chances on the negro plank in the
Chicago platform. That plank
amounts to an alarming threat and
ii is our business to see that so far
as in our power lies. he never has
an opportunity to execute it. Our
Republican friends complain most
feelingly that we promised never to
raise the question of negro suffrage
again after the adoption of the
we did And we have been as good
as our word; that vexed question
would to-day be sleeping the sleep
OF death having returned no more
to trouble us, if the Republican party
had been content to leave it so. Only
one national platform raises the ne
gro question, and that is the Repub-
llcan platform. 1t contains a threat
that unless the South once more
bows its shoulders to the terrific bur-
den of negro suffrage. she will be
deprived of nearly one-third of her
electoral votes and representatives in
Congress. We are offered a choice
between rotten apples: the one which
presents the South with reduced rep
resentation is distasteful TO the eye.
but the other is offensive to the nose:
ana you know that there is pro-
verb which says Follow your nose
Upon this subject we are in the con-
dition of the lady who. when asked
by a Snob with a fad for strained
pronunciation whether she said eye
Their" and "neye-ther" replied that
she said neither" If our repreSen-
tation and electoral vote should be
reduced we shall be absolutely at the
mercy of any kind of partisan and
oppressive legislation that the Repub-
lican party chooses to pass. How
would a law fixing the number of
hours for labor and the scale : OF
wages for the Southern cotton mills
do by way of sample? The condi-
lion in the past with the South repre-
scented by Isl electoral votes. has been
bad enough. We have already paid
millions of dollars in pensions for
which we receive no adequate returns.
The doubtful states of the North
and West are dotted over with costly
monuments. great public buildings
and magnificent parks built for poll
teal pur~ ses by the Republican
party. For every dollar expended in
the South they have expended num-
dred elsewhere. They appropriated
millions to irrigate and make fertile
the barren farms of the West. when
were said to have been so dry that
even the "bu ~ies used on them had
no springs" OF that APPROPRIATION
n large part was contributed by the
South The Appalachian Park Dill
which would prove of benefit to our
people is allowed to sleep in undls-
turbed repose within the dusty pigeon
holes of legislative committee rooms
How much has any Republican Con
gress spent to improve the lands OF
the struggling Southern farmer? MOI
one dollar: but when the Macedonian
cry rises from some stronghold OF
Republicanism, where the Confeder-
ate is still traitor and his sympatnl-
ger a copper head. help must d.
Forthcoming. and that right eariv
The .spigot is not wide enough: ano
the bung-hole proves in Insufficient. Iht
ONLY thing that will answer in sucn
an urgent case is to knock the heao
out of Uncle Sans money barrel ana
turn loose a golden stream into the
regions OF the faithful. Perhaps aft"'
oil there may be something IN tft
pnppblican cry of prosperity.
extends at least to robbing one set OF
citizens to enrich another set OF citi-
:ens If the South is 50 little re-
cardel. with her vote large and con
etartlv increasing. what have we ne
r. faar When our representation IS
o,,t down and we find ourselves a
no r-ercv Of a party that has all 1T
lifelong been q bitter and relentles'
enemy TO orr State and section! J,
tho rast affords a reliable Srandarf
"f Underwent there would be no llni
- their VIII exceDt the comnlete eX'
harrtiNn Of orr resources. WIN r.
~oect to Satiating the creed nj thF
Re~~b*nan marty. remen' Der that u
'~c'l!d be easter to ent'rry t@n da1gf
TOYS Of tho horse leech. But Wcrr'
of oil this illegal inicnitonS and Oh
"n'in"h'e attempt on the mart of tn
Penuh'ioan marty tn re-kindle the f1r"S
"f eN~tional hatred and stir M AGAR
The bitterness Of raca prejudice NAV
have denlora BILE effect ,,pon the ne
~rooS themselves. 1t will cause Their
tn indulge in DANGEROUS dreams al
n"hti"ai power and social equality
viii drive tho criminal element of the
roo when an sorrow 70 saw. con
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those hide"rc outra pes the hare men.
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