The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-28
REPUBLICAN HYPOCRISY T0TARD TIT
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gro, using him as q catspaw 20 pull
lchestnuts from the firefor it's benefit
in the north. He has been promised
Everything from forty acres and
mule to high official position, and
tentative hint at social equality.
Confronted with the problem of
eliminating him from politics in the
south or submitting to his domina-
ton in certain localities, restrictive
| franchise laws have been passed.
| These have been made the text for
much republican buneombe OF the
cheapest sort, and which appeals
only to the ignorance and credulity
of the negro race. In its recent plat
form the republican party declares
for such congressional action as
will determine whether by special
| Determinations the elective fran
chise in any state has been uncon-
| stitutionally limited, and if such be
the case, demands that representa-
| ton in congress and in the electoral
| college be reduced. For the past
| few years desultory efforts have
been made by the party in power to
reduce southern representation on
| account of the restrictive franchise
| laws of several southern states. The
| declaration at Chicago is nothing
but an appeal to the credulity Of the
negro for the purpose of holding
him ia line for the ticket. Speaking
of this plank, Gov. Vardaman, of
Mississippi, who by the way, is
Texas product, says:
I stand ready to accept the propo-
| sition TO repeal the fifteenth amend
ment, eliminate the negro from poll
tics, and, as d compensation to the
Inorth for that concession to the
| south, / would most cheerfully sur
| render that part of our representa-
| ton in congress which is based up
on the negro population.
| "With the negro forever eliminat-
ed from politics, continued Cover
nor Vardaman, I'VE people in the
south can stand anything that the
white people of any other section of
the Republic can stand. Since the
negro has been made such an impor-
tant plank in the republican plat
form, | sincerely hope that the dem
ocrats may accept the challenge and
come out squarely for a white man $
government. | do not believe that
any announcement that could be
made by the convention at St. Louis
would go quite so straight to the
hearts Of the white American voter
as a clear cut declaration against
negros participating in the govern
ment of the nation. The time is OPP
perfume for the democratic party to
speak out on this question"
Discussing the negro suffrage
plank in the republican platform
Governor Vardaman said: at is
nothing bot thinly yelled snare to
catch the poor, silly negroes vote
and there is no doubt that 1t will
catch them. | do not think that any
body with sense expects it ever to
be put in operation. But that CON
vention was Roosevelt all over, and
this declaration is but in keeping /
with the well known pharisaical ut /
terances, pernicious partisanship /
and meretricious attitudinizing /
which have characterized the ad- 4
ministration of the nations affairs !
since the occurrence of that hell /
born incident which put Roosevelt \
in the presidents chair and McKin- /
ley in the grave. | do not believe /
the matter will go beyond a cam /
paIgn utterance. Not that ROoss- 4
welt would stop at that, but because /
the sense Of right and justice of the .
white people of America revolts at /
the thought. But If anything should /
be- done along this line ii will not be .
done until the fifteenth amendment .
shall be repealed.
Such declaration by the demo .
cratic party would etfectually call .
the bluff of the republicans, They .
have mo- more intention OF eliminat- F.
ing the negro as "a political factor
than Of forcing the illegal trusts Ia .
obevsthe law. There not repub- .
Iican OF any note iu the whole couu- .
try who would accept GOV. Narda-
mans proposition. To do So would
be 60 admit that 90 them tha negro .
Is nothing more than means Gen a.
political end
Gov. Nardaman = suggestion may
bee "A little radical. but IL is soiu-
.tlou Of the problem, and rs adop-
tion by the party would pat the re-
pubucans In au attitude 9f hypo.
crisy aud double dealing before fHe .
honest suffragaus of the nation