The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-07
plank in which this language is used:
 Th~ Newvo Rlauk.

| plank in which this language is used:
 The Negro Plank.
 l we favor such congressional action as shall determine whether by special discrimination the elective franchise in any State have been unconstitutionally limited" followed by the promise made | in that event, to reduce Southern rep resentation in the House of Represen- tatives and in the electoral college The pledge Is to reduce representation if 1t is found that the suffrage has been "unconstitutionally limited" The only Unconstitutional limitation" would be in violation of the fifteenth amend ment, because of race. color or pre- vious condition of servitude." Uncon- additionally limited. The adverb "un- constitutionally" Is useless and fools nobody, especially when one remem- bers that the author of the phrase, or at least the voice that read it was the author of the old Force bill.
 | Whether or not the suffrage has been Internationally limited" is mat ter for the courts to determine and a report of a Republican Committee on elections in the last Congress so con fesses 1t. If a man be "unconstitution- ally" denied the suffrage then, after a determination to that effect, he can vote-that is his remedy and the right remedy. Having voted. of course there could be no reduction of representa- ton on this account. But all this de- ceives nobody, as I said. The real ob- ject of the Republican party insofar as that plank is concerned. and how ever spacious the phraseology in which it is clothed, Is to reduce Southern rep presentation without reducing that of Massachusetts. Connecticut and other States, wherever in the South negroes are disfranchised, not as such, but be- cause of ignorance by an educational qualification, or because of any other right reason. in any other con lstitutfonal way. Disfranchise- ment of negro in Mississippi for ignorance is horrible thing; dis lfranchisemept of a white man for ie- norance in Massachusetts or Connecti- cut is part of New England higher education.
 Let not the business interests of the country deceive itself; let those con- trolling 1t prepare, if Roosevelt Is elect ed on this platform. for another period of uncertainty. unrest, business dis turbance and race war in the Southern States. instead of that peace and pros- perity which both races now enjoy and which has been rendered possible only by home rule and by white supremacy Let the South not deceive itself either If the Republican Party were sincere in it's proposition to reduce Southern representation on the ground of dis franchisement or pretended ''unconsti- tutionai limitation" itself, 1t would ac- company that proposition with an- other. to wit: The proposition to re- peal the Fifteenth Amendment.
 Duplicity is shown
 Their duplicity is shown in this: They wish to maintain the Fifteenth Amend. ment, which forbids the negro, for ra. cial reasons. from being disfranchised and yet on the pretense that he is, foi racial reasons, disfranchised, they would have the negro not counted a. basis of representation in the South, ern States. where he chiefly resides It is not the white man, as a white man. who is injured by a recurrence tt
 the tendency of force bill days--ht can and will always maintain himself Lit is business, commerce, manufac- turing, agriculture and the negro, him. self. Commercially and industrialls the white men of the South will not be much more injured by this sort oi agitation than the Northern people will be. The mercantile class would be tho first to suffer. but as they owe debts , to the North and buy from the Nortt and as nearly everything they sell is manufactured in the North. they would not be alone In their suffering
 This is but the entering wedge to z , new period of Southern reconstruc tion." It Is the beginning over of tn. old scheme. revived for political ad vantage, to retain as a Republican as . set the solid negro vote in Indiana
 Illinois, New Jersey and like-condi , tioned States-tbis time without pric' , in money paid-by disturbing all ove
 the Southland peace and order; by de , moralizing reviving industries. unset ] ltling business and labor. hybridizint , the race there and Africanizing it's civ / iIization. This is the ultimate signifi , canoe of 1t all. if indeed 1t not b. merely "a voice in the wilderness" cry
 ing out empty promises to the negr'
 voters in the doubtful States. I wisl ? I could believe 1t was only that. would believe 1t but for the opinionate, , and superstrenuous character of "th man in the White House"
 |, How small in comparison would b. ,, the immediate and ultimate signif
 canoe of a mere partisan victory eith , CT way compared with the necessar, and natural results of this revived agi , tation.
 In keeping with all this consider tn negro Santo Bambino scene in the Re
 publican National Conventions; the wilt , adoration of my little Alabama coon or was 1t Georgia coon? Why was . all thus prearranged and by whom |. Who were the two little white girls lift ed on the same platform with the littl negro boy to march around with hir carrying flags? Who pretends that ? was accidental? What was the pre- l tended lesson to be taught? What !
 the subtle, symbolical meaning of t all? Is it a meaning which any whit , Republican dares to put in words? o 5 | is 1t a meaning to be guessed at an t to be left to negro orators, speakinl 8 to negro audiences. put in words sucl
 as are adapted to negro race, traits tendencies and longings?
 The Democratic Doctrine.
 But enough about the other party
 Some things about ourselves-on
 thing the country can rely upon; tn
 Democracy will nominate for Presi
 dent a man trained in the ways of tn
 Constitution, who will not usurp leg
 islative or judicial functions; wh
 will not recklessly violate information
 al usages: even the weakest natio
 no matter how tempting the profit t
 be reaped by it: who will not kee
 people guessing about what he is go
 ing to do or say next; it will nomi . nate him upon a platform ignorin dead issues and dealing with ever
 present live issue in tones certain an lunnoietoLahle. fayoring economy O