The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-20
MIR. BRYAN's WORDS OF WISDOM.

Mr.. Rrvan's CAMPAIGN in Indiana is
having a more far-reaching effect than
to the voters who hear him eloquently
expound the doctrines OF Democracy.
He is winning over many voters TO
the support of Parker and putting
new life into the Democratic cam
paign in that pivotal State. But he
is doing more than that: he is
speaking to the whole Republic and
warning the North of the Pandora's
box of ills that are in the Republican
party's reopening of the race question.
He lis a Northern man who knows no
sectionalism-one who loves the
whole Republic and would do justice
to all men, His Indiana speeches
have touched upon every phase of the
issues of the National campaign He
understands conditions in the South
better than any public man OF this
day of either party, and would help
and not hinder the Southern people
in their earnest effort to solve the
difficult problem that they alone can
solve. Every voter in America should
read and consider the following words
of wisdom spoken by Mr.. Bryan in
Indiana on the race issue:
who would have supposed in 1896
that a Republican administration
could have brought the race issue into
national politics again? Who would
have thought in 1896 that one Re-
publican president could have done as
much as President Roosevelt has done
IN
races and to hang over one section
of this country the peril of a race
issue? Who would have thought that
in 1896?
land yet when 1 WEI to st. Louis
and met the delegates from the South
1 found the one overshadowlng ques.
ton with them was the question OF
race. l want the Democrats of the
South to be able to help us in the
solution of this question, and If there
were no other reason for voting for
Judge Parker than his position on this
question, it would be reason enough
why a Democrat who believed in eco
nomic and industrial reform should
vote for him in order to remove from
politics this distracting issue that now
makes a great section incapable of
considering economically the welfare
of this whole country.
But, my friends, that is only one
question, and a question which the
people of the North, many of them,
do not understand. 1t is like talk
ing to a man who lives upon the equa-
tor about what snow looks like to talk
to a man in the NortL about what the
race issue means. But the people in
the South, who have the race issue to
meet, understand what it means, and
/ think, my friends that those who
live in the North ought to pause for
n while and consider their condition
before they thrust upon them four
years more of President RooSevelts
administration. that. in order to get
political advantage from the colored
vote of the North is trying to destroy
the peace and tranquility of the en-
tire South
Mr.. Bryan truly says that the people
of the North do not understand this
question, and he discloses Roosevelts
real motive in precipitatng it when
he says it was done ''in order to get
political advantage from the colored
vote of the North" If every Demo-
cratic speaker in the North would
thus meet the race issue it would be
good politics and show wise statesman
ship. Nothing more sensible than
Bryan's Indiana speech has been spoiz-
en- on the race situation since Henry
Grady's famous Boston speech.