Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-09-14

 MOST SCATH|NG
Thomas Watson Talks
 of Nigger Question.
He Scores the Democratic Party Unmercifully for Its Glaring
 Inconsistencies.

Mention was briefly made in the
 last issue of the Journal Miner of the
 address of Tom Watson at Atlanta
 Georgia, and promise made to repro
 duce synopsis of his speech. The
 speech is one of the most scathing
 arraignments of the democratic party
 which has been made in recent years.
 Coming as it does from a southern
 man and former democrat and bear
 ing as it does the indelible impress of
 truth it is all the more severe. Every
 line of it abounds with truthful sug-
 gestion and in its entirety it is one of
 the most truthful eXpositions of the
 shams of so called democratic princi-
 ples that has been seen. The separate
 arraignments are so closely connected
 and interwoven with each other that
 it has been found almost impossible
 to give a synoptic review of it so it is
 given in full and will be found well
 worthy of perusal.
 ''In this campaign the democratic
 national leaders have prostituted the
 name of democrat, and are demanding
 that they shall be blindly followed,
 in spite of the fact that they have re-
 nounced every principle of democracy.
 Will the real democrats follow the name rather than the principles? In the south we are told we must submit to the surrender to Wall street be- cause of "the nigger. ' What a
 blessed thing it is for Democratic leaders that they always have "the nigger" to fall back on. For thirty years they have been doing business on "the nigger," and today he is their only stock in trade.
 Note the hypocricy of it. In their naionaI platform of 1872 they solemn ly protested their allegiance to the doctrine of equality" " regardless of race or color, and pledged themselves to maintain the emancipation and the enfranchisement of the blacks. In 1876 at St. Louis, Henry Watterson being chairman of the convention, they solmenly declared their "devo- tion" to the constitutional amend ments growing out of the Civil war In 1880, in 1SS4, in 1888, the national of the democratic party reattirmed these declarations on the negro question, and thus stood pledged to "oppose any reopening of the questions settled by the thirteenth, and fifteenth amend ments.'' Yet. after all these formal pledges, we are now brow beaten and by democratic leaders, who say we must indorse their capitu- lation to Belmont, David B. Hill and "Pat" McCarren because of "the nigger.
 What can the southern negro do? He has been disfranchised in nearly every southern state, excepting Georgia; and in Georgia he has been ''white primaried. In Georgia they do not dare to disfranchise him be- cause the men who control the demo- cratic machine in Georgia know that a majority of the whites are against them. They need the negro vote to beat us with. For that reason the Georgia senate, a few days ago, killed i. the Australian ballot law, which . would have thrown the elections en- 5irely into the hands of the whites. i Why do democrats in Georgia refuse . to disfranchise the blacks? Why do . hey kill election laws which would . insure the political obliteration of the blacks? There can be but one answer democracy in Georgia can- lot be maintained by the white vote. Therefore, tLe cry that we are in ianger from "the nigger" is the most the interruptions leader hip could invent. Grant, Sherman nd Sheridan, with all their armies, 'Oulu HOJ IONeISS tue law Ol udIuT6 III he prostrate south. The white man s master-wbereveI he plants his oot, the world over. Do you tell me hat Roosevelt can do against the re- south what "Thad'' Stevens ould not do against the exhausted outh? Roosevelt could not do it, ven if he would.
 The democratic leaders who talk his stuff, and the editors who write t, laugh and wink at one another as hey pass. They know what a hum- Jug it all is and how it is being used o make the public forget, or condone he inglorious surrender to Wall street which they made at St. Louis. In he West Virginia democratic con- 1 ention, the state of the democratic { nominee for vice president, the ,