The Elbert County tribune., 1904-09-22
PARKER ExcORIATED
E. wArSONS RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNsRS.
Raising of the Negro Question By
Democrats Denounced ms Hypocrisy-
Roosevelt Preferred to Hills candi-
sste who Is Bos-ed by Wall Street.

Atlanta. III. Oh s,tpt- - t--s-N
the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
illness TO the negro was a piece OF Dem
ocratic hypocrisy and he challenged
Parker to Indicate his own position on
the race issue On this point Mr. Wat
son said:
The South should demand 10 know the
facts about Parker How does he stand
upon this alleged question: IS MS position
| II so, in what respeetg The south should
demand explicit reply to n, the mol fo,lo mnns
The assumption that he differs from Roose-
welt on the negro question;
1. Would you refuse TO eat NJ the same
table with Booker Washington
. Would you refuse to appoint negroes
to office In the Souths ,
g. m elected Will You refuse 10 receive
on terms OF equality at the White House
such negroes as Bishop Turner. Booker
Washington. and T. Thomas fortunef
| New York inaugurated under Grover Cleve-
land-in which social equality Is practical
iy made a matter q eon BPorsIo h,ocs chill.
drcn and white children are educated to
ecther-.are a good thing, for yenr native
thing for Georgia and South caroiinaf II
not, why not7
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion OF the negro
question. as far as its bearing on tho
present national campaign is concerned.
Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
national leaders have prostituted the
name of Democrat and are demanding
that they shall be followed blindly in
spite OF the fact that they have re-
nounced every principle of Democracy.
Asking, "Will the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principleT'
he continued:
fatl avl.t
to the surrender to Wall street because OF
'.the niger" What a blessed thing 1t il
for Democratic leaders that they always
have the niger to fall back on. For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on "the niger" and to-day he Is their
only stock In trade.
Note the hypocrisy of 1t. In their ma
tional platform of 1872 they solemnly pro-
tested their allegiance to the doctrine of
and pledged themselves to maintain the
emancipation and the enfranehisement of
the blacks.
In 1915 at ST. Louis, Henry watterson
being chairman of the convention. they
solemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out Of
In 1850, in 1884. In 1888. the national
Of the ns%Oerate party re
question. and thus stood pledged to oppose
any reopening of the questions settled by
the thirteenth. fourteenth. and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these formal
pledges we are now browbeaten and In
undated by Democratic leaders, who say
mont, David b. Hill, and Pat McCarren
because of the niger"
Negro Powerless In Politics.
What can the Southern negro do?"
asked Mr.. Watson. He has been dis
franchised in nearly every Southern
State excepting Georgia; and In Georgia
they do not daro disfranchise him. be-
cause Democracy in Georgia cannot be
int l.,,t In IL
| tinued:
Therefore. the cry that we are In danger
from ''the Niger is the most hypocriti-
| cal that Inscriptions leadership could In
vent. Grant. Sherman, and Sheridan, with
| Of nature in the PROSTATE South.
The white man Is mastcr-wherever he
Plants his is, foot the world eyer Do you
| recuperated South what Thad Stevens
could not do against the exhausted South?
Roosevelt could not do 1t even II he would.
The Democratic leaders who talk this
stun, and the editors who write II, laugh
and wink at. one another as they pass,
| they know what humbug 1t all Is, and
| how 1t is being used to make the people
| forget, or condone. the inglorious surrender
TO Wall street which they made at St.
In the West virginia Democratic con-
vention, the State of the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice President, the white suprem-
| acy' resolution was voted down, and on
Aug. l. 1904. Parker himself. in writing
him th as y DEAR Sra hsss Sess
| Ross had been n white man.
Surrender to Wall Street.
| Turning to other issues, Mr.. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sur
| rendered to Wall street because, as Sem
ator John w. Daniels, of Virginia. put
| it, they were tired of being in the
minority" He continued:
Not afraid of Roosevelt's miiitarism?
No. Not afraid of Roosevelt's niggerism7
No; All that is fudge and subterfuge.
Tired of being In the minority" there
was the milk In the cocoanut.
Not tired of being in the wrong7 No.
in the wrong simply bee n ne tb nse b beee
been In. the minority they are ready to
eight years were right, and to adopt those
which even now they do not dare say are
right. Great Cod what an attitude for
the leaders of great national party
II could become politically tipsy enough
1904; as constructed by Parker himself.
at that-and vote for the other twin,
Roosevelt; Give me the original every
copy. Give me the genuine article. rather
than the spurious substitute
| What Has Parker Done?
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects to
Candidate Parker personally. He asked:
Why should Georglans support Pnraer.
o. New hoIk rather than n fellow
Georgian? What do you know Of Parker:
What has he done that was notable? What
ms he ever said that was memorable?
! what has he ever written that stamped
| him with Individuality?
David II. Hill declared at St Louis
| that he had been intimate with Parker for
thirty years. and that he did not know
now Parker stood on the money question,
| WAS this statement true: II So Parker
Is the most negative public man on the
! american continent Was the statement
ialsei u SO, David Il. lin Is the boidcst
mar between the two oceans. Think of
| man living on Intimate terms with Al <
ander H. Stevens and Abe Ilcoln FOR
thirty years and not knowing how he stood
day. VI $40