The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-25
retters tc tbe GdftOr
THE LATE ELECTION.
Ana Some of the Results That Wtae
 Action May Produce.

And Some of the Results That WHae
 Action May Produce
 Editor The Advertiser:
 After taking time to look over the results of the late election. am nor thap ever satisfied that the mag snItuuo of our disaster In the late eieCtioh .S due more largely to the mistaken ae tacks our orators made upon noono ona veif's personality than any other one thing. You and recognized the Iact beforehand that Rooosevelts poputarlty with the masses of his party was gyms him the nomination over the heads oL L the disgrunted Republican leaders Ln Congress, and a little renectloh Ous to have Induced the belief also tnat the same causes which made him at- tractIve to the people in the Repupl- can party, would also have cnarm for the Independent vote, as well as for such Democrats as were nor ex- treme in their views. IL IS more niS ? victory than anything else although l think that we could not have elected anybody, even Mir. Cleveland. n the midst of all thIs prosperity, which IL 10 useless to shut our eyes to or 70 at- 1 tempt to deny. Some Of our Demo cratic orators said they tound that At- tacka on Roosevelts personality were more attractive than anything else they could deal in. This only showed that the masses of our party hated Hoose- welt because they felt that he had such strong hold upon the masses or nis own party.
 I tried very hard to convince myself that we had some chances of winning against Roosevelt, but after divesting myself, as far as possible, of the in-
 iuences >of the campaign l am return Ing % my original opinion Of him, ana that is, that he Is patriotic and broad minded. and do not believe that no will participate in any crusade against the South. I am very hopeful that ne will see that the negro question can best be settled by the Southern people. and shall really not look for him to back up any federal interference; that is to say. any legislation by Congress even on the lines of reducing represen- kation.
 read carefully the editorial in re- cent Issue of The Advertiser headed "Rooseveit and the South" in which you seem to think that the Washing ton correspondent of The Evening Post, Leupp, Represents Roosevelt when he writes that the President proposes no quarter as to the race question" Now let me make a prediction, and that Is that this sentence will not represent what Mfr. Roosevelt will say in his Att lanta speech, if he makes one thero. The man who is choosing to go to At lanta and make a speech there, which will be, suppose, his first utterance after his election. and then to visit his mothers grave in that State, will not be harsh in his utterances as to the white people of hls mothers native State. That he will denounce crimes committed by the whites towards the negroes because they are negroes, have not any doubt You have done that in The Advertiser time and again, and he can do not less; but he will dis crirninate. Remember that he is a man of great ability and whatever peo- pie may say about him he has given many evidences that he is intensely patriotic. He has now no other mo- tive. and he has, believe. the desire to do the right and wise thing In re- gard to this great problem that com fronts him in the South. He has been a student of history. and Is no doubt studying this question now, both sides of it. Any study of the question that any such man can make must bring ought to be settled by the people of the States where it exists. He Is also bound to know that the negroes in the South are making great mistake when they array themselves solidiy against the white man, and I cannot see how a man with his great perspi. caCity can fail. in the speech which he is to make. to give the negroes whole some advice, such as will tend to bring about better condition of things in the South.
 wish our people would pave the way for Rooseveles speech and make 1t easy for him to be conservative and kindly in his treatment of the negro question. Even your editorial, iI which you express the opinion have quoted. leaves the question one oI doubt as to what he will say. I hope the Southern people will give him q welcome that will touch his heart and at least open the way for him to be ouI friend. sincerely think it a mistake to decide beforehand that his speech will not have a welcome in the South Let us give him a fair hearing and a fair chance.