The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-13
RACE ISSUES
 DISCUSSED Leader Williams Defends
 the South. PARKER BOOM IN HOUSE Grover Cleveland Denies Tay-
 Tor Incident. Republican Member Says Thomas Jefferson Dined Negro Missis- sippian Makes Witty Answer
 to Bartholdt's Charge.
PARKER BOOM IN HOUSE

Washington. April 12-The race ques- ton again was injected into the proceed fngs of the House today when Mir. Scott. of Kansas. delivered long address in which he referred to his previous state- ment that it was current in Kansas that Ex-president Cleveland had dined C. H. U. Taylor, a Kansas negro politician. He read several letters from Kansas citizens that it had been Tayior's boaat that he had received such social atfen- tion from Mir. Cleveland. He also said that Mir. Cleveland. while governor Of New York had signed bill providing for mixed schools.
 In spirited reply Mir. Williams. of Mississippi, the minority leader, defend ed the attitude of the South toward the negro and said that discussion of tho race question by the Republicans was an old game, by which. when the Repuh- lican party found itself confronted with issues that threatened it's supremacy. 1t began to wave the bloody shirt.
 At the instance of Mir. Bartlett, of Georgia. a letter from Ex-president Cleveland was read, denying that nc had ever dined negro. Mir Bartlett also declared Judge Parker. of New York. to be the man whom the Democrats will nominate for President. After it's read- ing. Mir. Bartlett said that whenever Mir. Cleveiand's name was suggested as possible candidate for President. the Republicans seemed to get very much excited and afraid.
 Mir. Bartlett: T know he will not be nominated. I know, too. that he does also knew that the Democratic party would nominate some one who was true Democrat and he added with some deliberations: "It Is not very difficult now to state who that will be-
 Does the gentleman know who 1t will be- Inquired Mr. Dalzell
 'Yes," said MT. Bartlett. "the whole country ltnuws. Judge Parker, of New York; which elicitsd Democratic ap- piause. Mir. Lacey Qowa} facetiously asked If the statement was not discour- | teous to his two colleagues, Williams of Mississippi, and Hearst of New York. T withdraw in the interest of party harmony" calculated Mfr Williams. {, amid laugh
 MT. Hearst was not in his seat. | MT. Pujo 0a.) spoke in favor of the bill allowing national banks to loan 26 per cent. of their assets on real estate. The delegate bill was laid aside, and at | b:11 D. m., the House adjourned. Roosevelt and Jefferson. l MT. Bartholdt said that if the judg- ment of the Democrats President Roose- welt had made a mistake In inviting MT Washington to die with him. then what Thomas Jefferson did must be 1n unpardonable social sin. As between MT. Roosevelt and MT. Cleveland, he said, in one case we have a President l in office upon whose time. attention and consideration every citizen of the re- Il public, irrespective of color. party or | religion has an equal constitutional claim. whereas, In the other we have I a man out of office who has no such ob- l ligations, but who lives in the enjoy- ment of those greater privileges of pri- vate citizenship and greater freedom of action. which allow him to make social | determinations.
 1 The Presidents luncheon to Washins- ton. he said, was a hurried, improvised affair, while in the case of Mir. Jefferson 1t Syas a well arranged. well prepared banquet Mir. Scott. resuming. had read | the laws of New York signed by Mir. Cleveland, while governor, providing for mixed schools. Although Mir. Cleveland had denied this. he said, it was easy for man to forget a matter of twenty years ago. He was willing to concede that the Ex-President had forgotten about the law He also referred to the de- nials of Mir. Cleveland, of charges by Thomas Watson, of Georgia, that the Fix President had nominated a negro, l Charles H. Taylor, as minister to a South African Republic. Mir. Watson he said. undoubtedly meant South Amert- can Republic, because in 1893 Mir. Cleye- land had nominated Taylor minister to Bolivia If the Democrats did not wish to make an issue of the negro question why did they initiate discussion of it9 He did not understand why some gem tlemen should hold up the bugaboo of negro domination. Are you really afraId?" he inquired, of the Democratic side, "or are you only pretending to De lafraid? Will they tell us that but for
 this cry the South would still be the
 solid south?"
 williams Says Things.
 + A vigorous defense of the South for it's
 att,tnda on the negro question was made
 bv MT Williams (Miss) who said 1t was
 aD old game, known a long time to those
 yrho know anything about American poll
 lies. that when the Republican party
 fonnd itself faced with issues that threat
 ened its supremacy, 1t began to wave the
 bloody shirt one way or the other. H9
 said however. there was one thing neith-
 CT the Republican party nor the entire
 world could do, and that was ''to make the South consent to regard social eqaal-
 itv as A thing to be desired" Nor could l they make the South consent to the prop l osition that the right of the negro con- 
 sists in giving him power to govern the
 white men of the South He declared the negroes rights in the South as recognlzed much more abundantly than anywhere else His God-given. inalienahle. born right to earn his living in the sweat of his brow and the right to a fair trial No man, however" he added, mot com petent to exercise the right of suffrage l should be armed with 1t. The Republican party cannot persuade Southern white
 men that 1t is not good or humans thing to purify in the South the white mans civilization and to perpetuate therc
 the two things upon which he said it was founded-the white mans code of ethics and the sanctity of the white mans | family"
 All the world knows. he said. that SO cial equality leads finally to the lack oi l racial integrity and purity.
 MT. Williams, referring to Mir. Bar.