The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-01

corrupt or stupid southern politicians deliver over te Wall Street. But for the seiid South. the Eastern Democracy Repubiicans. and face a genuine party of opposition.
 What keeps the South solid? Nothing in the world except an out -of-date sec hxpocriticaY cry of % nssrn m doniss ionsss ssien. In each Southsrn state there !s . monopoly of privilsfe and power which Is nghtins for It's ms: As a rule, this Northern railroads. Northern banks, Northern manufacturers. the seheoi book trust. the Standard oil trust. the
 su .s:d ei e ESsssf ,rn. p aae fully from these rich sources. the Dem ocratic machine in the Southern States I is very naughty. indeed. It wants no riice the national ticket any time to maintain the local monopoly. And the | negro question" is the joy of their lives They exist upon 1t. They fat- they the e can h. run native Democrats to their holes at any hour of the day. Men | who appear to have some common sense in other directions lose all their mental sprung. and they immediately begin to hop around in a Dervish dance of politi- cal hysteria.
 l have disfranchised the negro. In vain you remind them that the negro is completely In our power. and that there is absolutely no limit to what we do to
 In vain you suggest that in spite of the political cry of negro domination" the Southern people are so determined not to part with the blacks that we are nd rsnaay ts lynss o ss the ,ha smigrsaiOn agent sgsn. ing oounts--uot during the campaign. After the campaign the politician laughs. the editor laughs. the onice- most more anS tins..:and sa.. they wink as they
 Take the State of Georgia. for exam pie. It Is ruled by the railway combi- nation of which Hamp McWhorter Is tionist. He IS the creature of August Belment. Democrat, and J. P. Morgan,
 on September I. 1904. in Atlanta, I all
 saTx,a sssa that sea h, nd %asns tn out the negro vote. I challenged them to unite with us Populists and remove that disturbing faction from politics. l challenged them to meet us on the , people of Georgia--leaving the negro out of 1t. Did they dare to accept Il? No. Do they now dare to accept 1t? No.
 lnSy dEe PGTlcStly dWdtS VT tHc tdCt that they cannot secure a majority of the white votes in Georgia, and they hold the negro in reserve. He Is the card they keep up their sleeve.
 Boykin Wright, the railroad candidate for Governor of Georgia, has already placed himself on record as being op- posed to removing the alleged negro question: from politics He can't % part humbusgery. He must keep his dear 'fnigger question He might want to use 1t again. Bereft of that, he might not have anything to talk about when he faces the dear people. He simply proves what I stated in that Atlanta speech: The Democratic bosses in Georgia are determined not to allow the negro to be removed from politics. Without him they would De as much lost as the COW that had lost her cud." Can such political hypocrisy always succeed? Will the people never open their eyes? The Populists have public ly and solemnly offered to aid the Dem ocrats in removing the negro question 1 from politics. We want to have fair. square fight on principle before the white people of Georgia; and the rail road candidate for Governor says that the negro question" Why, then. did he not Inform the people of that fact Ss tes es ass rdep wsS sS srd in Georgia, if the white primary had already settled 1t? In truth, the white primary has not settled the negro question" The white primary is not law. It can be put aside by the Democratic Party at any time, The State Executive Committee can adopt it or not, according to pleasure
 Does the Hon. Boykin Wright mean Georgia pledges itself to the people that they will abide in all future cleo
 tions, by the vote of the whites? | challenge him to state in plain, simple
 uneauivocable language just what he does mean.
 I long for the day when the political servitude of the South will end. To | see my home section prostituted every four years to the bestia1 lusts of Wall Street tires my indignation. to the facts. Realize that for four years the national Democratic party l will have no platform excepting that abominable makeshift adopted at St. Louis. Realize that the plutocratic element which captured your machine | least. Realize that your national chief
 Is not Bryan. nor Hearst, nor Bailey but Tom Taggart, of Indiana, chairman l of your National Executive Committee. | And who Is Tom Taggart? A politi-
 elan of low type who rose to power by ] coddling the negro vote of Indianapolis I in ways which would make New York ward heeler blush. At French Lick
 Springs, Indiana, is one of the largest
 most splended gambling resorts m
 Amegica. Known throughout the
 Union as the Monte Carlo of these United States. Who Is the chief mana
 ger and keeper of this magnificent
 gambling hell? Tom Taggart. the of | ficial commander in -ehief of the ma
 tional Democratic party.
 Those of you who mean to vote the
 principles of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
 Jackson, and Alexander H. Stephens
 can never be at home In a party which
 Is tied hand and foot to Wall Street
 corporations. Those of yeu who want
 can find better place than is afforded
 by the party whose national chiefs are
 August Belmont. Bill Sheehan. Cord l Meyer, Dave Hill and Pat MoCarren,
 Those of you who believe that citi-
 zen should vote as he prays ought to
 think twice. and again twice, before
 following the banner which Is held
 aloft by the notorious Tom Taggart-
 the gambling hell man of Indiana. from politics forever. Let us quit be-
 ing scared by political scarecrowsi Let
 us quit seeing ghosts Let us quit
 warming over the hatreds and preju.
 dices of the past. Sweep away all this
 rubbish. Rid your minds of Ignorance
 and superstition. Rise to the dignity
 of manhood which dares to think fol
 itself. Help us build up a real party
 of the people, based upon the Jefferso.
 nian theory of government.
 Let us educate ourselves and others
 think alike. Without such unity oi conviction and purpose no political