The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-07-07

diSfranchlsemen of white man TO
ignorance IN Massachusetts or Con
| nectlcut il at part of New ENGLAND
higher education ~
Let not the businc interest o.
the country deceive it,cif; let those
controlling il prepare, II Roosevelt
! IA elected on this platform for anoth-
or period az uncertainty, unrest, busi'
ness disturbance and race war ia the
Southern States. instead OF that peace
and property which both races now
enjoy ana which has been rendered
possible only by home rule ana by
white supremacy Let tho South not
deceive Itself either II the Rcpubli-
can party wcro Eincare In II PROPOSE
lion 20 reduce 6 utbcra ropre ;enta,
lion on the grounds of the iisfran-
chiscmert or pretended 'unconstltu
tienal limitation itself, IL would nc,
company that proposition with anott-
or, to wit; The proposition 70 repeal
thc Fifteenth Amendments
.Thoir dupllcity Ia shown IN this;
They wish to maintain the Fifteenth
amendment which forbids the negro
for racial reasons from being disfran-
chised, and yet ON the pretense that
ne Is for racial rea .ons diafran chised
hey would have the negro not count
al AS 4 basis OF representation ~ the
Southern States, where he CHIEFLY re-
sidea. Ii is not the white man, as
white man, who is injured by d re
eurrcnce 10 the pendcncy OF forcehill
lays he can and will always main.
tain himsclf-it is business, com
mercc, manufacturing. agriculture aud
the negro himself Commercially and
the white men of the
South will not be much more Injured
by this sort Of agitation than Northern
neople will be. The mercantile class |
would be the first to suffer, but as |
they owe debts to the North and buy |
rom the North, and as nearly every
hing they sell Is manufactured in I
he North. they would not be alone in
heir sufferings.
This is bnt the entering wedge to t
new period of Southern reconstruc-
ion 1t is the beginning over Of the
,Id scheme. revived for political adj
'antage, to retain a. a Republican as
ct, the solid negro vote in Indiana
Illinois, New Jersey and like-cQrdi /
ioRed states-this time without price
n money paddy disturbing all over
he Southland peace and order; by
reviving industries, UNI !
et ling business and labor. disin-
agrating society, and as a remote
feet if successful, hybridizing the
ice there and Africanizing its civili-
alton That is the ultimate signi-
cance of 1t all. II indeed 1t be not
lerely a voice in the wilderness cry
* out empty promises to the negro
oters in the doubtful states. | wish
could believe Ii was only that. |
ould believe it but for the opiniona
II and super-strenuous character of
he man in the White House.
How small in comparison would be
le immediate and ultimate signifi
snca Of mere partizan victory
ther way compared vita the neces-
lry' and natural results of this res
ves agitation.
In keeping with all this consider
Ie negro Santo Bambno scene in
lie Republican national convention.
Ie wild alteration OF my little Ala
INA COON or was II Georgia coon?
'hy was ii all thus pre-arranged, and
: whom? Why were the two little
hite girls placed on the same plat
rm with the little negro boy to
arch around carrying flags? Who
etenda that 1t was all accidental? I
hat was the pretended lesson to be
ught? What is the subtle symbol
/ meaning Of 1t all? II 1t a mean
g which any white Republican dargs
put in words? Or is 1t meaning
be guessed at and 10 ne left to J
gro orators. speaking TO negro au-
snces. to put in words such as are
apted to negro races, traits, ten
ncies and longinga?"
the speaker turned his
Iention to the party in convention. I
but enough of the other party. X
me things about ouTsclves-one
Ing the country can rely uBon; the (
will nominate for Presi &
I.
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