The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-09-01
BAILEYS PHILlPPlC.
Texan Scores President for Alleged
socIaI Equality ProcIivities in Z,
Opening Campaign Speech.

A New York dispatch says: The
| campaign in Brooklyn was opened
Thursday night by meeting held un'
der the auspices Of the Kings County
Democratic Club, at which Senator 10
seph w. Bailey, of Texas, was the pr!n'
ciral speaker. Resolutions endorsing
the. nomination of Parker and DAVIS
| were read, AMI after an Introductory
address in which he viewed the poiitt
cal situation, Edward n. Shepnerd,
chairman of the meeting, introduced
Senator Bailey, who was greeted "ltn
prolonged applause. in part he sad:
Not content with having 1cminatea
candidate VINO hal taught, by MS
personsl example, the pernicious doc
trine of social equality between this
Anslo-saxon and the African races, the
republican party has gene still further,
and, as if bent upon the mischleVous
design of aggrayation in racial antaso-
nism, it has deliberately proclaimed its
| intention TO reduce the representation
| OF certain states. in congress and IN
the electoral college, but the people OF
those ststes will not consent to be Tep-
resented by ignorant and inferior men.
DO the men who made and who
adopted that platform know that ii
their threat should be carried into exc
| cuticn the south would not be the
only sufferer? ID those men not know
that this country is so closely and so
firmly knit together that the whole
must suffer from every injury inflicted
on any part? The millions invested in
southern railroads are practically all,
except the foreign holding, the proper
ty CT northern and eastern men.
"But there is another and higher
i standard. This attempt to resurrect
sectional differences is in painful con-
! :rast with tie teachings of that great
and kindly man who was elevated to
! the presidency by an election and not
| by tragic event. AS this nation stood
with uncovered heads around the mar
| tyred McKinley's grave, men OF every
section blessed his name and memory
because he had restoreS good will be-
tween the brothers who had beer es.
tranged by the civil war. The sorrow
over his untimely death was universal
and as genuine in Mississippi as it was
in Massachusetts,. And yet, his sue
cessor, who promised to follow in Nc
! Kinley's footsteps, has reversed Nc
Kinley's policy and Is now fomenting
discord where Mckinley had peace"
THE race problem which now COLI
fronts the southern people will tax
! their highest wisdom and their most
unselfsh patriotism in its solution. Elk.
cept for a single and nameless crime
against he women Of our land, there Is
no thoughtful man in all the south
who does not deprecate lynch law.
! IF, however, there are amongst us
men who justify the lawless spirit,
which sometimes expresses itself in a
public lynching, they could not find, in
all the range Of English literature, 4
more pointed and complete defense OF
! such conduct than has been furnish ed
| by the republican candidate for the
! presidency in his work, Ranch Life
and Hunting TRAIL in which there is
! the following:
"'During the last two or three years,
the stock men have united to put
down all these dangerous characters,
often by the most summary exercise Of
lynch law. Bands of horse and cattle
| thieves have been regularly hunted
! down and destroyed in pitched fights
! by parties of armed cowboys, and, as
! consequence, most Of our territory
! IS perfectly law-abiding.'
"The president, as if relating com.
monplace incident, adds this mild
statement:
"a little over, two years ago, one
committee of vigiients in Montana shot
! or hung nearly sixty-not, however.
with the best judgment in all cases.
Il rejoice to know that whatever
may Ge done and said in the southern
! states which thoughtful men cannot in
dorse, it has never happened among us
! that any man with intelligence enough
, to write cook or with character
enough to command an election to an
important Office has ever justified
lynching as punishment for theft