The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-04

| and practices, now denies and combats
the principles of white supremacy
among us. The principle is the vital
one with us, and no one who in any
manner or degree fails to recognize
and affirm it's Importance and correct
ness should be allowed to evade the
issue or deceive us, it matters not
with what honied words, or in what
ever guise, he may come. 1t is not a
question to be disposed of with am
blguous phrases, or with the splitting
of hairs, or by professions which are
inconsistent with acknowledge prac-
tees. Those who practice social equal
1ty cannot excuse themselves to us by
saying that in theory they are opposed
to social equality.
What the Democratic Party Stands
for.
The Democratic party in the South
makes no uncertain or equivocaI ut
terance in regard thereto. 1t is at all
times and under all circumstances and
everywhere within our borders unquai-
ltledly in favor of and insistent both
in theory and practice upon white SUI
premacy. The Democrats of the South
recognize this as vital to their every
important social and material inter-
est, and to maintain it in their state
and local affairs they will, if neces-
sary, sacrifice every other political
consideration and interest. Therefore
it is. that for every man who believes
in the vital Importance of white SUI
premacy in Georgia, his place is in
the Democratic party. He should not
be seduced into an abandonment of
J it by the promises of rewards from
those who preach or practice political
and social equality, nor should the man
of to-day turn from it because of
WEAKNESS in the struggle which his
father has handed down to him. The
issue of white supremacy is as vital
to-day as it was then his father main
tained it under circumstances vastly
more difficult and trying than those OF
to-day.
The Reason for White Supremacy.
The intensity of this demand for the
maintenance of white supremacy is not
due to hostility and unfriendliness by
the whites toward the negroes. That
no such feeling exists is conclusively
proven by the fact that during nearly
forty years of freedom, with all the
world open to them, only an inappre-
ciable fraction of the negroes have by
any inducements been lured away from
the Southern states. But with the
kindest feelings towards the negroes,
ana IN numDerleSS instances or person
al affection for individuals of the race,
as is found in the personal experiences
of almost every white man in the
South, it is recognized that negro rule
would be a calamity which would in
volve in ruin the negro no less than
the white man; and use the term me-
gro rule as equivalent to mongrel
rule, the latter being if anything the
worse of the two.
Democracy Means Prosperity.
During the past thirty-four years
it has been through the supremacy of
the Democratic party in the South
and through its unyielding mainte-
nance of which rule, that our civiliza-
ton has been preserved, and that
there has been made possible our great
material progress and our marvellous
increases of wealth. And it is the as
surance and confidence which the
business world has that the whites
of the South will continue through the
Democratic party to maintain their
political supremacy, which causes 1t
to retain hundreds of millions of dol
lars of investments which its capital
lists already have here; and 1t is the
confidence in the continuance of that