Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1904-02-11
BILL DOOLEY'S LETTER.

caught on the opposite sue lTOm Juo
News Office week before last and conse-
quently did not get my letter to the Of
Ace until Tuesday, and the editor SAID
be did not know II be would have space
to publish 1t that week or not. AS he
didn't publish my article 1t cannot be
charged that broke my promise for
wrote II and took it to the office and 1t
would have been there sooner IL IL had
not been for the high waters.
Our minds were set at ease to some
extent when we heard that w. j. Bryan
had sailed for Europe, thinking our
ewes would get a rest, and his absence
did do some good In the way of rest to
our eyes, but this morning the first
thing we saw on picking up paper was
his name and the next was that he OBJ
iected to holding the Democratic Nat
ional Convention in New York or any
where else in the enemY's country. lie
SAYS he enjoyed his trip highly, was en-
Enthusiastically received in Europe by
the Czar, tho Pope, King Edward, Pres
ident Lou bet Tolstoi, and the Prince
Of Denmark. He talks as If they put
their arms around him and called him
their dear cousin. Well, il he can make
men think that they care that much
for him would like to see him, and IL
this bo really true he had better go
back and stay there. | don't like to
have anything to say in the columns OF
the News about political affairs know
ing as do that the News is non-par-
tizan paper, but still as l don't intend
to give anything but stubborn facts l
guess it will be all right.
Bryan is a sharp man, but sometimes
he tries to make men believe things
that are unreasonable, like Henry Wat
terson OF the Courier Journal
Editor Watterson must have been
using using some of Bill Dooley's Dini-
ment, or more likely he had been u.s.
ing something of decanter and glass.
1t some times makes a mans head one
sided to hear such things especially
when he says the republican party has
lived partly on contributions levied up
on the manufacturers and partly
through the folly of the democrats,
but even at this rate it must long ago
have perished except for the negro
vote. II editor Waterson will take facts
and figures from the census of 1900 in
all probability when he gets his head
leveled up he will see by looking at
the census impartially that he has
made wonderful mistake in his as
sertious. Any man who is familiar
with the history of the country from
1890 up to 1904 knows that men are do
ing better than they have for the last
40 years.
Now Editor Watterson, we will fight
YOU while with facts that cannot be
denied, and we propose to refute your
statement with the figures OF Tacket
In the presidential election in 1900
81 81 tnu nd he
republicans carried 2S. The II states
that the democrats carried contain a
population of 25, 216, GAO according to the
census OF 1900, little less than a third
of the total population of the United
States. These II states contain col
ored population of 7,642,0S7, therefore
Of the II states carried by the demo
Gratis in 1900 more than 30 per cent o
the population is colored.
The 2S states carried by the repub
licans have a population OF 49,384, IS!
according to the census of 1900, of which
1,O45, 1853 are colored or a little more
than 2 per cent. This means that il
the democratic states out of every 10(
persons more than 30 are colored, while
In the republican states out OF ever.
100 persons little more than two art
colored. A study OF the official censu
report OF 1900 will show that there ar
almost as many negroes in the state o
Georgia as there are in the 28 republi
can states.
In the II states carried by the demo
Gratis there were 1,60S, S8l colored voter
lacking only few votes to averag
100, 600 colored voters in every singl
state the democrats carried in 1906
There were nearly 100, 900 more colore
voters in Georgia and Mississippi tina
there we're in the % republican states
The republicans did not carry singl
state that lad as many colored voters a
the state OF Kentucky. The republica
nlurality in each of the twenty-eigh
states exceeded the number OF republ
can voters except in Delaware and Nj
rvland. So it is absolutely certain tha
the republicans carried % states with
ont the negro vote. No one will sa
that all the negroes in these states vo
ed the republican ticket They haN
their colored democratic clubs and or
tors in many places. II one half I'll
,negroes in the south had voted the r
nn6lican ticket in 1900 the demOcra
,would have lost the states OF Georgi
Touisiana, Mississippi and South Car
lima even IL there had not been a whi
reuublican in those states. The oiiici
cansus Of 1900 also shows that the
Somocratic states with about one thu
~ the United States population conta
ohout 65 per cent. OF its illiterates, tn
there are IL states with more than Sl0I
SOO illiterates each and 9 OF them we
carried by the democrats. The 9th
,yo atates, New York and Pennsylvan
srs accounted for by their large pop
iation which is more than half th
81 the II democratic states. Now brot
ar Watterson, you may fool some
leading them on soft corn but any IN
NO has tried to keep with the tim
'.ill see that tho republicans have
carry the negro on his crippled nip I
tu the democrats get ready to use b
nd "a soon as be has voted you thr
rim hack to the republicans until th
wnnt him again and, to say the least
re democrats had to start into a ca
~aign without the expectation Of a
ei5 from the negro it would be abe
6iscouraging as 1t would be foI
- 10 start coon hunting on a d.
Hf-ht without dog to do has treein
While the negro remains TO be mt
1oiitical tool Of, any and all will
~, wbo happen 10 have him in th
s.ession when they need such a I
Il this end. close by wishing
Nsws and its many readers a long
happy life. v,n-s ,-n,,
BILL DOOLEl