The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-08

ments, and in the brutal and inoeieh-
 sible manner in which their President
 has raised the lid of the racial Pan.
 dora,s box--that our people. black and
 white. may be tormented wtn 'he
 devils that have emerged from It.
 T speak the sentiment of the soutn
 of today--the new South, If you wii
 when I tell you that the mistaken att-
 tuda of inc Republican President has
 done more to check the real progress or inc negro than all else that has been
 done since the war His stupporn oIs regard of the advice of even ms own party referees in the states ahec.eu, in his mad determination that white constituencies should be served py negrb offlceholders exclusively in the South-for 1t would be repudiated III the North-has rekindled the slumoer- ing embers of racial hostility to de- gree that has not been known since the days of reconstruction.
 | Was 1t necessary? Let them ask the memory of their martyred Mckin- ley, who, twice honored with the rresi- rency, died with South and North kneeling together at his bedside unit ing their prayers that God might spare his life. Typical Republican that he was. just and fair to white and black alike, there was something m ms gentle demeanor that said to the whole country though placed In ms sxaitsa @ office by partisan instrumentaltty ne was indeed. the President or all the states. and all the sec 5ns. Alas! the pity of the unfulfilled promise that ms successor would continue the policy which had so markedly contributed 10 the spirit of national unity. and as the result of which even the Republican party made enough converts in the
 South to break its solidity and to make doubtful several States, which. by the change of policy. are today more cer- tainly Democratic than ever Even as Democrats we had hoped that the time had come. by Gods grace, when white men could differ on economic issues without fear of sacrificing their civilization or of immolating inteln- gence and good citizenship upon the
 altar of illiterary, corruption and racial disturbances! 'l''l U, M
 - Leave 1t to the Negro.
 Lest the Republicans should want
 further testimony than that offered by kinley, let his successor ask the negro lhimself-not the political type out for the loavas and fishes. but the conser- vative representative of his race-if the
 changed policy has been productive of good or evil to the race in promoting harmony or discord between It and these who, in the very nature of things,
 ought to be. and are. their real best
 T would not deny them single right
 to which they are justly entitled nor would our people. As conscien-
 among ipos " us. and which is here to stay,
 we but ask the privilege of co-operat- ing with its better element toward the
 upbuilding and the uplifting of the
 and to that end I protest with all the fervor of my nature against thats po- litical interference which seeks to use
 the negro for the one purpose of par more difficult for his real friends to help as they would. If left unhampered
 by political mischief makers.
 More than that would bespeak for them at the north the same consider alton they receive In the south-though frequently denied them in Republican States-that of having the right to
 earn their own bread by the sweat Of sault when, as has happened under more than one Republican governor. they have asserted that simple right. All the south asks Is to deal with judgment dictates, and we pledge that | the solution will be for the best of all concerned-best for the negro best for
 the whites and best for the country at large.
 sponse to this suggestion the Republi: can reply Is to point to an occasional outbreak against the law as evidence that we need help from partisan sources-but our answer is that for ev- | cry Statesboro there Is Wilmington. and that occasional expressions of mob violence, however unjustihable. ara no more expressions of public sentiment | in Georgia or Texas than when they oc- cur. with less cause to provoke tEem. In Illinois or Indiana. Why, even MT: Roosevelt in his Winning of the West | has gone further than the most rabid apologist for mob violence in Georgia or Illinois would think of going, for
 in defense of lynching for nothing
 worse than horse stealing he wrote; | In many of the cases of lynch law which have come to my Knowledge
 the effect has been healthy for the community
 "Elimtnate the race question as political issue, and you have put the capstone on the pyramid of national crats should welcome the day when 1t | is done. for then will all the States | divide In healthy contention over econ oynic issues-and the country will Dc | the better for It.
 ton to punish and no issue that Is not Of equal concern to all the sections. l II is not a party of greed, graft. spol- neace and not for war. It would pre- serve the honor and dignity of the country at any time, anywhere and at any cOst-but 1t Is not prancing over inc world with a chip on it's shoulder | daring somebody to knock 1t off. It stands for union of the States in heart, as well as in name--as the sur
 est way to the God-given destiny which | has decreed that this shall lead all the nations of the earth. In success or de- | feat, its mission is everlasting, nor will it be content until through It's in- strumentality the dragon of sectional discord has been slain and all the sec tions are brought together in that true spirit of national unity that must be | the inspiration of our future greatness. and the abiding faith that will cry from every hreside in the land the glory