The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-07
EDWARD G. WALL w1scoNs1N's FAvoRITE SON.

the country deceive itself: let those
controlling it prepare, if Roosevelt is
elected on this platform. for another
period of uncertainty, unrest, business
disturbance and race war in tho
Southern States, instead of that peace
and prosperity which both races now
enjoy and which has been rendereA
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| white supremacy.
Let not the South deceive itsel
either. If the Republican party wei
| sincere in it's proposition to redud
Southern representation on the rourE
of disfranchisement or pretended "ul
constitutional limitation itself,
would accompany that propositicf
with another, to-wit The propositid
to repeal the Fifteenth amendment
1t is not the white man, as a viii
man, who is injured by recurren%l
to the tendency of Force Bill days
he can and will always maintain him
self-it is business, commerce., manl
featuring agriculture and the neg4Hl
himself.
This is but the entering wedge
a new period of Southern reconstrud
ton" 1t is the beginning over
the old scheme, revived for politics
advantage, to retain as a Republica
asset the solid negro vote in Indiand
Illinois. New Jersey and like condiK
toned States-this time without price
in money paddy disturbing all ovelH
the Southland peace and order; thd
demoralizing reviving industries. unt
settling business and labor, disinte9
grating society and as a remote effect
if successful, hybridizing the racd
there and AfricaniZing its civilization
That is the ultimate significance of
it all, if indeed it be not merely "a
voice in the wilderness" crying out
empty promises to the negro voters
i'm the South. / wish ! could only be-
lieve it was that. / would believe it
but for the opinionated and super
strenuous character 'of the man in
the White House"
In keeping with all these negro
sunto bambino scene in the Republic
can national party; the wild alteration
of my little Alabama COON" or was
it Georgia coon? Why was it thus
pre-arranged. and by whom? Why
were the two little white girls placed
on the same platform with the little
negro boy to march around with him
carrying flags? Who pretends that it
was accidental? What was the pre-
tended lesson to be taught? What is
the subtle, symbolical meaning of II
all? Is it a meaning which any white
Republican dares to put in words? OR
is it a meaning to be guessed at and
to be left to negro orators, speaking
to negro audiences. to put i'm words
such as are adapted to negro race,
traits. tendencies and longings?
But enough about the other party
Some things about ourselves-one
thing the country can rely on: The
Democracy will nominate for Presi-
dent a man trained in the ways of
the Constitution. who will not usurp
legislative or judicial functions; who
will not recklessly violate internation-
al usages; even with the weakest ma
ton no matter how tempting the
profit to be reaped by it, who will
not keep people guessing about what
he is going to do or say next; it will
nominate him upon a platform ignor-
ing dead issues and dealing with
every present live interest in tones
certain and unmistakable; favoring
economy of administration, enforce
ment of honesty in the public service;
a wise and business-like revision and
reduction of tariff by the friends OF
the masses and by the commonweal
and not by tariff beneficiaries and
their representatives alone, a reduc-
ton which shall aim at equality OF
burdens and equality of opportunities
and whose ultimate object shall be
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