The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-13
AR7ocRAcY BANDAeEs FOR THE HOSPITALS

Republic. Mr.. Watson, he said, un-
doubtedly meant South American re-
public, because in 1893 Mr.. Cleveland
had nominated Taylor as minister to
Bolivia.
lie inquired of the Democrats If they
did not wish to make an issue of the
negro question why did they initiate
discussion of 1t. He did not un-
derstand why some gentlemen should
hold up the bugaboo of negro domi-
nation. Are you really afraid" he
inquired. "or are you only pretending
to be afraid?" If there was no poll
tics in the question. he asked the Dem
ocrats what there was in it. win
they tell u.s." he asked, that but for
this cry the South would still be the
solid South?"
vigorous defense of the South for
its attitude on the negro question was
made by Mr.. Williams of Mississippi.
who said these statements from the
Republicans were a sharp game" 1t
would, he said, be interesting to know
whether or not the word was passed
down from the Republican leader on
this floor to play the game" 1t was
also an old game, known a long time
to those who know anything about
American politics, that when the Re-
AIblican party found itself faced
with issues that threatened its SUI
premacy, 1t began to wave the bloody
shirt one way or another. He said
however, there was one thing neither
the Republican party nor the entire
world could do. and that was to make
the South consent to regard social
equality as a thing to be desired"
Nor could they make the South con
sent to the proposition that the right
of the negro consists in giving him
power to govern the white men of the
South.
Rights Not TrampIed Upon.
He declared as absolutely false that
the negroes rights in the South are
not recognized much more abundAntly
than any where else, his God-given,
inalienable, born right to earn his liv-
ing in the sweat of his brow, and the
right to a fair trial" No man, how
ever, he said, not competent to exer-
else the right of suffrage should be
armed with it. The Republican party
cannot persuade Southern white men
that it is not a good or humane thing
to purify in the South the white mans
civilization and to perpetuate there the
two things upon which, he said, it
was founded-the white mans code of
ethics and the sanctity of the white
mans family"
All the world knows, he said, that
social equality leads finally to the lack
of racial integrity and purity.
Mr. Williams, referring to Mr.. Bart
holdt's statement that President JEFF
ferson had dined a negro. provoked
laughter and applause when he said
that "every man knows that If the
nigger ate at Monticello, he ate in
Jefferson's kitchen and not at Jeffer-
sons family table"
Unless the negro race was lifted up,
Mr.. Williams said the entire race
would go down. The people of the
South appreciated the fact. 1t was go
ing to lift this race, gently, sanely and
in the proper way. 1t had the kind
Hest feeling for the negro. Personally,
Mr.. Williams said, he had this feel
ing, "and am man who is popular
with the negro"
Negro as n Trust.
''You can't defect us from live pend
ing issues" concluded Mr.. Williams
1--WE are going to treat the colored
man in this country in the very best
way he should be treated" God, he
said, had given the colored man to the
South as a trust, and that trust should
be kept. There was not to be a hybri-
dized South. He wanted the country
TO know that he was speaking as a
SOutherner, with the pest interest at
heart Of both the white and black in
habitants.
1.-THE negro race will develop, when
1t does because of inherent qualities.
When this time comes, If it ever does
the white race will still be ahead, as
it never will yield as the progressive
race of the world"
Mr.. Bartlett of Georgia sent to the
desk and had read a letter from ex-
President Cleveland, dated March ID,
1904, in reply to one from himself de-
nying certain allegation of Thomas e.
Watson of Georgia.
Mr.. Bartlett, in explanation of his
action, said that while he was one of
those who did not agree with Mr..
Cleveland in many things the EXPIRES
ident did, he nevertheless had the let
ter read as an answer to the state
ments made by Mr.. Scott
While declaring that he was not
making any defense of Mr.. Cleveland,
Mr.. Bartlett said that whenever Mr..
Cleveland's name was suggested as a
possible candidate of the Democrats
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