The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-20
HOBSON STUMPS
FOR PARKER
Roosevelt, He Says, Stands
for the Usurpation Of
Power, His Opponent
for the COnsti-
tuition.
DISCUSSES THE NEGRO QUESTION
President Not Sincere in His
Denunciation Of Rings
and Spoilsmen.
DISCUSSES THE NEGRO QUESTION

NEW YORK. Oct. 90 1904 Richard
Pearson Hobson. of Alabama, the naval
hero of the Cuban war, who is now MAX
ing stumping tour Of this state for
Parker and Davis, in comparing the cam
didates of the two parties said today.
while Roosevelt stands for. the usurpa-
ton of power and disregard Of the consti-
tuition where political advantage is to be
gained, the nominee OF the Democratic
party stands for the observance of the
constitution. Within the last few years
the Republican party hasibeen diverted
from its normal trend until as evident
after the Chicago convention the voice
of the plain people is no longer heard, but
rather the command of. single man or
group of men. The Republican platform
was made in a closet by shrewd politi-
clans and lawyers, and is, nothing more
or less than political brief. endeavering
to make out the most plausible case for
the party whether with or without the
facts.
'One of the important questions
to this country, is the negro prob
lem. The Democratic party has declined
to take up this. leaving 1t to the States
who know the facts to deal with it in
dividually. The Republican candidate,
however, with a view to gaining negro
votes has projected the question into the
field of politics, thereby disturbing the
cordial relations between the two races
and producing widespread eonsternation
and distress. I believe the United States
has great responsibility and will have
the great honor of working out how the
white man and the black man can live
together in the same free land mutually
| helpful of each other in the working out
Of their progress and evolution It is evil
| dent that with SO short experience the
| black men as q whole are not prepared
to take up the most complicated and diff
fcult of human tasks, the work Of gov
erpment. particularly. in sections where
| they are in the majority. It is further
evident that the most fundamental law Of
evolution pronopnces that in the propaga-
ton of the species the high should seek
| the high to produce yet higher and should
| never go off to mingle blood with the low.
| Wherever this law has been violated in
the world by the white race mingling
with. the yellow and black races it has
been suicidal The fundamental fmita-
! tons prescribed by nature must be OBJ
served before progress can be made in
working out this great question. Yet
| both limitations have been violated by the
President in his negro appointments and
his negro social associations.
ssThe South PROPOSES to be not only
just but generous to the negroes within
| its doors; to guide and help them toward
higher life, and intend to give in my
| own State all my influence to having
the negro treated before the law in all
| respects exactly as the white man. in
cluding the privilege Of the franchise.
While there is no race issue raised in
politics to threaten the limitations
named above we can and will give to
worthy individual negroes proper recog-
milton, including the filing of offices
under the government.
We hear Theodore Roosevelt, re,
former, talk of dethroning the
| political rings, and vet we find Presi-
dent Roosevelt supporting the Addicks
ring in Delaware, and the Quay ring in
Pennsylvania, and giving over the prae-
teal management of his party and the
government throughout the country to
the hands of the machine, politicians.
The result has been that we are in the
presence of more corruption in this nd-
ministration than in any administration
since the government began.
s'When an investigation was called for
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