The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-01


ings of the American people. Let him
realize that radicalism in this country
is stronger than Bryan, or Hearst, OF
Debs. or Watson; and that the self
important leader who seeks to butt the
engine off the track will politically die
as the fool dieth.''
No Longer a National Party.
The Democratic party can no longer
claim to be national. 1t is sectional.
The South is still its victim. The South
is still the quadrennial sacrifice which
| corrupt or stupid Southern politicians
| deliver over to Wall street. But for
the solid South. the Eastern Democra-
cy would have to shut UP shop, join
the Republicans, and face a genuine
party of opposition.
What keeps the South solid? Moth
ing in the world except an out-of-date
sectional animosity, and the shameless
| ~ hypocritical cry of negro domina-
ton.
In each Southern state there is a
monopoly of privilege and power which
is fighting for it's life. AS a rule, this
monopoly is based upon the support OF
| Northern railroads. Northern banks,
| Northern manufactures. the school
book trust, the Standard Oil trust. the
tobacco trust, the whisky trust and the
cotton seed Oil trust. Fed bountifully
]
machine in the Southern states is very
naughty, indeed. 1t wants no change
| Southern politicians will sacrif1ce the
national ticket any time to maintain
the local monopoly. And the negro
question" is the joy of their lives. They
exist upon it. They fatten on it. With
enc shout of "nigger" they can run
native Democrats to their holes at any
hour of the day Men who appear to
hava Soma common canGa in other di-
rections lose all their mental bearings
when the negro question" is sprung,
and they Immediately begin to hop
around in a Dervish dance of political
hysteria.
Vain Argument.
In vain you point to them that the
Southern states, excepting Georgia,
have disfranchised the negro. In vain
you remind them that the negro is
completely in our power. and that there
is absolutely no limit to what we do
to him when we want to do 1t.
In vain you suggest that in spite of
the political cry of negro domina-
tion," the Southern people are so de-
termined not to part with the blacks
that we are ready to lynch the emil
grafton agent who tries to carry them
away. Nothing counts-not during the
campaign. After the campaign the
politician laughs, the editor laughs, the
officeholder laughs, I'VE fooled them
one more time"-and they wink as they
meet and pass.
Take the state of Georgia, for ex-
ample. 1t is ruled by the railway
combination of which Hamp McWhor-
ter is the lobbyist, the professional
Corruptionist. He is the creature of
August Belmont, Democrat, and ]. p.
Morgan, Republican.
On Sept l, 1904, in Atlanta, alleged
that this Democratic machine in
Georgia could not be maintained with
out the negro vote. l challenged them
to unite with us Populists and remove
that disturbing faction from politics
challenged them to meet us on the
question of principle before the white
people of Georgia-leavng the negro
out of it. Did they dare to accept
it2 No. Do they now dare to accept
it? No.
They are perfectly aware of the fact
that they cannot secure a majority of
the white votes in Georgia, and they
hold the negro in reserve. He is the
card they keep up their sleeve
Wright and the GOvernorship.
Let it be remembered that the Hon.
Boy6in Wright. the railroad candidate
for Governor of Georgia, has already
placed himself on record as being OBJ
posed to removing the alleged negro
question from politics. He can't part
from that stock in trade of political
humbuggery. He must keep his dear
niger question" He might want to
use it again. Bereft of that, he might
not have anything to talk about when
he faces the dear people. He simply
proves what l stated in that Atlanta
speech: THE Democratic bosses in
Georgia are determined not to allow
the negro to be removed from politics.
Without him they would be as much
lost as the COW that had lost her
cud.'
Can such political hypocrisy always
succeed? VIII tn people never open
their eyes? The Populists have
publicly and solemnly offered to aid
the Democrats in removing the negro
question from politics. We want to
have a fair, square fight on principle
before the white people of Georgia;
and the railroad candidate for Cover
nor says that we shall not have it,
He contends that the white primary
had already settled the negro ques-
| tion." Why, then, did he not inform
| the people of that fact during the last
campaign? Why was the alleged race
issue" ridden so hard in Georgia If the
white primary had already settled it?
In. truth, the white primary has not
settled the negro question" The
white primary is not a law 1t can
be put aside by the Democratic party
| at any time. The State Executive
| Committee can adopt 1t or not, accord
| ing to pleasure.
A Question for Mr.. Wright.
Does the Hon. Boykin Wright mean
| to say that the Democratic party of
Georgia pledges itself to the people
that they will abide in all future cleo
tons by the vote of the whites? l
challenge him to state in plain, simple,
unequivocable language just what he
| does mean.
/ long for the day when the politi-
| cal servitude of the South will end.
| To see my home section prostituted
every four years to the bestial lusts
! of Wall street tires my indigestion.
| Fellow Citizens: Arouse yourselves
| to the facts Realize that for four
years the national Democratic party
| will have no platform excepting that
abominable makeshift adopted at st.
Louis. Realize that the plutocratic
element which captured your machin-
| cry will possess IL four years at the
least. Realize that your national chief
is not Bryan, nor Hearst, nor Bailey
but Tom Taggart of Indiana. chairman
of your National Executive Commit
tee. And who is Tom Taggart? A pol
itician of low type who rose to power
by coddling the negro vote OF Indianap-
oils in ways which would make a New
York ward heller blush At French
Lick Springs, Indiana, is one OF the