Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-22
PARKER ExCORIATED
THOMAS z. WATSON'S RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS
Raising of TIE Negro Question by
Democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy
Roosevelt Preferred to Hills Candi-
date Who Is BOssed by Wall Street.

L
Atlanta. Ga. on Sept. l, declared that
the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
illness 10 the negro was piece of Dem
Ocratic hypocrisy and he challenged
Parker to Indicate his own position on
the race issue. On this point Mr.. Wat
son said:
The South should demand to know the
facts about Parker. How does he stnrd
upon this alleged question? Is his position
at all different from that OF Roosevelt?
II So I'm what respect? The South shoH'd
demand explicit reply to the following
the assumption that he differs from Roose-
welt on the negro question;
1. Would you refrse to eat at the same
table with Booker Washington?
2 Would you refuse to appoint negroes
to office In the Sopth?
g. II elected will you refuse to receive
on terms of equality at the White House
such negroes Bishop Turner, Booker
Washington. and T. Thomas Fortune?
4. Do you approve the mixed schools of
New York, inaugurated under Grover Cleve-
land-fn which social equality is practical
ly made a matter of compulsion?
s. If such schools-wherein black chill
dren and white children are educated to-
Of Ee coed thing thing for tSsy your native
thing for Georgia and South Carolina? If
| not, why not?
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion of the negro
question. as far as its bearing on the
present national campaign is concerned,
,, Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
! national leaders have prostituted the
| name of Democrat and are demanding
that they shall be followed blindly in
spite of the fact that they have re-
! nounced every principle of Democracy.
Asking, Twill the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle"
he continued:
| to the Surrender to Wall street because OF
the Niger" What blessed thing it Is
for Democratic leaders that they always
have 1.-THE niger TO fall back on. For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on 1.-THE niger, and to-day he Is their
only stock In trade.
Note the hypocrisy of it. In their ma
tional platform of 1872 they solemnly pro-
tested their allegiance to the doctrine of
equality, regardless Of race or color,
and pledged themselves TO maintain the
emancipation and the acknowledgements of
the blacks.
In 1876 at st. Louis. Henry watterson
being chairman of the convention, they
solemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out Of
the civil war
In $780, In 1884. in 1883 the national
affirmed these declarations on the negro
question. and thus stood pledged to oppose
ally reopening of the questions settled by
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these formal
pledges we are now browbeaten and in
undated by Democratic leaders, who say
we must indorse their eapitulation to Bel.
mont. David L. Hill. and Pat McCarren
because Of the nisger.'
Negro Powerless in Politics.
What can the Southern negro do?'
asked Mr. Watson. He has been dis
franchised in nearly every Southern
State excepting Georgia; and in Georgia
they do not dare disfranchise him, be-
cause Democracy in Georgia cannot be
maintained by the white vote" He con-
tinued:
Therefore, the cry that we are in danger
from the niger Is the most hyrorrit;-
cal that INSCRIPTIONS leadership could in
vent Grant. sherman, and Sheridan. with
an their armies could not revise the law
OF nature In the PROSTATE South
The white man Is master-whereyer he
plants his foot the war,d over D. you
tell me that Roosevelt can do against the
recuperated South what Thad stevens
corld not do against the exhausted south?
Roosevelt could not do it even if he would.
The Democratic leaders who talk this
stun, and the editors who write it, laugh
and wink at one another as they pass,
they know what humbug it all is and
how it Is being used to make the people
forget. or condone, the ingorious surrender
TO Wall street which they made at St.
Louis ~
In the West Virginia Democratic con-
rention, the State of the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice President, the white si.prem-
aey resolution was voted down, and on
Aug. I. 1904, Parker himself in writing
10 him the n negro Tr ,d James A Ross, addressed
Ross had been white man.
GurrauAar e.. VII
Turning to other issues. Mr.. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sur
rendered to Wall street because. as SEN
ator John W. Daniels, of Virginia. put
1t, they were tired of being in the
| minority" He continued:
Net afraid of Roosevelts militarism.
No. Not afraid of Rposevet's nigyerismf
No; All that is fudge and subtcrfuge
Tired OF being In the minority.'- there
was the milk in the cocoanut.
Not tired or being in the wrong? No.
ne dld not even pretend that he had been
| IN the wrong Simply because they have
9eeh In the minority they are ready to
drop the principles which they swore for
eight years were right. and to adont those
| which even now they do rot dart. say are
right Great God. WHAT an atti;i.,.,. for
the Leaders if,1s Of a great national party.
| III could become politically tipsy enough
| to vote for Parker on the platform Of
1904 as constructed by Parker himself 7
would take one more drink-a small one
| at that-and vote for the other twin
Roosevelt Give me the original every
time, rather than the blurred indistinct
| copy. Give me the genuine article rather
| than the spurious substitute. =
What Has Parker Done?
Mr.. Watson then paid his res
Candidate Parker personally.
Why should Georgians SUI
| OF New York, rather tn
| GeOrgiaDS What do vou
What has he done that W
| mas he ever said that
What has he ever wrs
| him with indivdualit
David Il. Iiill d
| that he had been I'M
| thirty years. and
| how Parker stood
| Was this stateme
| is the most neg
American contiI;
| falsel IL so, Il.
| liar between
/ man living
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| Thirty years
\ on the Creata
| day:
The popul
people could
Democratic
| by the same
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