The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-12-06
POLITICS IN THE SOUTH
BACON OF GEORGIA
EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS.
He Declares that White Supremacy
Must be Maintained i'm the South.
Repeal OF the 18th Amendment Is
Urged, to Destroy the Sectional
Barrier Which the South Greatly
Observation-Disclosures of Represen-
fatiOn Preferred to Negro Rule.

Macon, Ga. December 3.-Congress-
man T. W. Hardwick of the Tenth
Georgia district. few days ago wrote
letter to Senator A o. Bacon ask
ing his views on the present political
situation. Senator Bacon replies al
length.
The Senator says there is an effort
to Republicanize the south He de-
clares that white supremacy must he
maintained in the south and every
where; that the prosperity of the
lsouth Is due to white supremacy. He
advocates the repeal of the fifteenth
amendment. and insists that unless
that shall be done the people of the
south Will be forced to maintain their
proposition of white supremacy.
Following is a paragraph:
If there were nothing else of which
to boast. if this were the sole achieve
ment of the democratic party in the
south, this great work which it ac-
complished in rescuing the south
from a fate worse than anarchy,
would earn for it and entitIe it to the
uhd. ing gratitu ie and apprecia ion If
all those in the world VINO valde and
prize civilization and all it's attendant
blessings. And there are none who
should be more grateful to the DEM
ocratfc party for this than the Re-
publican party of the north because
the Democrats in thus saving the civ
iliZation of the south. at the same time
also saved the Republican party from
the deep damnation which would have
been adjudged against them through
all the ages if they had succeeded
in the effort which they made to con-
vert this whole southland into the
desolation of another Hayti'
The Senator charges that the two
most important offices in Georgia un-
der the executive department, the
collector at Savannah and the col
lector in Atlanta, are held by
negroes, that the most important OF.
fee in the executive department in
Washington held by any one appoint.
ed from Georgia is that of Register
of the Treasury, and held by negro,
He asserts that in the three cities
OF Savannah, Atlanta and New Orleans
there are respectively ~, "a, 10S negro
federal Office holders. He holds that
It is the policy of the Republican par
ty to put the negro in positions of au
thority in southern states. Near the
conclusion of his letter he summar-
ICES his whole proposition with the
question:
'Shall we above all other things
he emphasizes his view by citing the
fact that in 1855 the negroes in the
United States numbered 100000; III
1905 they will number more than TO-
600, 900; that there are those child1 en-
now born who will in their day sec
more than 30,00O,O00 of them here.
Rather than have negro rule, Sem
ator Bacon is willing to accept a re.
duction Of southern representation in
the congress of the United States. He
says:
1.-THE repeal of the fifteenth amend
fnent leaving to each state the power
to regulate for itself the negro ques-
ton, would destroy the sectional ba'-
rier which the south so greatly de-
plores. and for the removal of which
KNOWS no Quiet HIclHou-
He says at the last:
Until this amendment Is repealed,
the menace which must ever accom-
pany it will require that the whte
men of the south should stand To-
gether on the issue of white supren-
acy, and opposition to negro rule a1d
negro office holding. 1t is within the
power of the Republican party + 1T
desires to do so to repeal the flfteelth
amendment within the next three
months by securing the necessary &C.
ton by congress and the ratification
by the requisite number of state leg
islatures When they refuse to do so
it can only be because they desire ne
continuance of the opportunity or
negro rule and negro officeholdng.
And while thus still beleaguring CUR
STRONGHOLD they approach with oft
words and promises of the favor OF
those who sit in the seats of power
| would cry to the defenders of wlite
supremacy beware, the Greeks Ire
at the gates bearing gifts.