Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-31

IDEAS ON NEGRO EDUCATION

Texarkana. Aug. S'.-Goy. Jeff Da'
Wis spoke to a very large and intel
lieent audience. majority Of thcul
being farmers from the surrounding
country. at the court house here yes
tcrdaE afternoon. II was one OF hiS
cllaract eristic red hot efforts. His Re
publican opponent Harry Myers. ant:
What the governor called the sore
headed, s0re-footed Democrats that
were eOine Ia bolt and vote the Rad.
ieal ticket, The four hundred colo
l.els and majors OF Little Rock, At
tolnpy General Murphy and his letter
and President Roosevelt and the Boot
e. Washington dinner We're handled
III a eat5tic manner, and all 20 The
evident relish OF The audience. which
apElauded vociferously.
The charge that he had done noi h
j1g us governor was answered "a
great length. and he gave MANY liz
ures to show i'll what way The Demo
eratis adminjs>ralion had been Of vast
be nefit to the state. The Repnbii=
cans wont e1,l OF power, he said, IL
3S-4. leaving only "a cents On hand
il. the state treasury. There is ROW
in the state vaults one million, four
hundred aud fifty seven thousand dol
lars.
y Ou]d / OF that be a picnic for the
Raaica1sa" >" said the governor, NO
vonder ri4ey are anxious TO get back
iNGo power, is it, Why, you would
have to put a ball and chain on the
raseals eyely night 70 keep Ell OFT
Of it."
The governor said he had been
charged with being an enemy OF the
public schools because he had failed
IN his last message to the legislature
10 make any reference to the subject.
Arkansas had the best school system
on earth already, and much larger
amount FOR school purposes had beer
raised under his than under any pre-
vious administration
The governor here declared himself
in favor of dividing the school money,
apportioning to each race only the
amount paid by it in taxes, and said
he was going to make a recommends
ton to this effect in his message to
the next legislature, This statement
was receives, with uproarious applause.
Negro ed,icaton he declared to be a
fiat failure.
.'hvery time you educate a niger
you spoil a good field hand. If you
want to spoil a niger for good. just
call him professor, said he.
He had been charged by his op-
ponent with being an enemy of the
old Confederates. This was the bit
terest cut of all The old Confederates
were the grandest and noblest men,
had fought for the greatest cause in
history, and the charge that he was
unfrendly to them was utterly false
More money by far for pensioning
them had been raised under him
than any other governor.
President Roosevelt's effort to
force social equality on the southern
people would never succeed, and the
speaker warned the negroes present
10 be careful.
'If you ever try it there will per-
haps be 4 lot of dead niggers, but
never any social equality. II a buck
nieger should ever escort young
white woman to church, her father,
il he were true southern white man,
would kill the brute as he would a
mad dog" he declared.
Every Republican president since
the war had been elected by the ne
gro voters. who held the balance Of
power in Illinois, Indiana, New York,
Ohio and ether northern states, and it
was in the hope of holding those negro
voters to his selfish interests that
Roosevelt had taken the stand he has
on the race question.