Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
PARKER EXCORlATED
THOMAS E. WATSON'S RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS.
Raising of the Negro Question by
democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy
Roosevelt Preferred to Hills Candi-
date Who Is Bossed by Wall Street.

| the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
hness to 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.
lacts ABOUT Parker. How does he stand
| upon this alleged question? Is his posftion,
| at oil different from that of Roosevelt?.
IL SO, in what respect? The South should,
densfInns explicit reply to the following
| the assumption that he differs from Roose-
| welt on the negro question:
l; Would you refuse to eat at the same
taDle with Booker Washington?
T. Would you refuse to appoint negroes
| to office in the South?
| o.. II elected will you refuse to receive
on terms OF equality at the White House
such negroes as Bishop Turner Booker
washington, and I. Thomas Fortune?
f.. 10 you approve the mixed schools of"
New York, inaugurated under Grover Cieve-
land-1n which social equality is PRACTICAL
ly made matter of compulsion?
.. If such schools-wherein black chill
dren and white children are educated to-
gether.are good thing for your native.
State of New York, would thew be a good
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 bindly in
spite of the fact that they have re-.
nounced every principle of Democracy.
Asking, will the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle?''
he continued:
In the South we are told we must submit
TO the surrender to Wall street because of
tine niger" What a blessed thing it is
nave the niger to fall back For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on 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 enfranchisement 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 1880, in 1854, in 1888, the national
conventions Of the Democratic party re-
affirmed these declarations on the negro
question, and thus stood pledged to oppose
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these formal
pledges we are now browbeaten and in
Inundated by Democratic leaders, who say
we must indorse their capitulation to Bel
mont, David B. HILL and Pat McCarren
because of 1.-THE niger
Negro PowerIess 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 dsfranchise 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 hypocriti-
cal that INSCRIPTIONS leadership could in
vent. Grant. Sherman, and Sheridan, with
all their armies, could not revise the law
of nature in the PROSTATE South.
The white man is master-wherever he
plants his foot the world over. Do you
tell me that Roosevelt can do against the.
recuperated South what Thad Stevens.
could not do against the exhausted South?e
The Democratic leaders who talk this
stuff, and the editors who write it, laugh
and wink at one another as they pass.
they know what a humbug it all is and
how it is being used to make the people
forget, or condOne. the inglorous surrender
to Wall street which they made at st.
Louis.
In the West Virginia Democratic con-
vention, the State of the Democratic nomi-
nee for Vice President, the white suprem-
acy'' resolution was voted down. and Oh
Aug /, 1904, Parker himself, in writing
to the negro, James A. Ross, addressed
him as My dear sir just as though,
Ross had been a white man.
Surrender to Wall Street.
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.
it, they were tired of being in the
minority" He continued:
Not afraid of Roosevelt's militarisn2v
No. Not afraid of Roosevelt's niggerisin?-
"Tired of being in the minority there
was the milk in the cocoanut.
- Not tired of being in the wrong? No.
in the wrong. Simply because they have
been in the minority they are ready to,
drop the principles which they swore for
which even now they do not dare say are
right. Great God! what an attitude for
the leaders of great national party.
If could become politically tipsy enough
to- vote for Parker, on the platform of
1904. as constructed by Parker himself I
would take one more drink-a small one
at thatrand vote for. the other, twin,
time, rather than the blurred, indistinct
copy. Give the genuine article, rather
than the spurious substitute.
What Has Parker Done?
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects to-
Candidate Parker personally. He ask ed:-
Why should Georgians support Parker,
of New York, rather than a fellow
Georgian? What do you know of Parker?
What has he done that was notable? What
has he ever said that was memorable :
What has he ever written that stamped
him with individuality!
David B. Hill declared at st. Louis
that he had been intimate with Parker for
thirty years, and that he did not know
how Parker stood the money question.
Was this statement true? If so, Parker
is the most negative public the
American continent. Was the statement
false? If so, David B. Hill is the Doldest
liar between the two oceans. Think Of
q man living on intimate terms with Alex
ander Ii. Stevens and Abe Lincoln for
thirty years and not knowing how he stood
on the greatest political questions of the.
day?
The populist leader declared than the
people could not secure reforms in the
Democratic party when it is ''bossed
by the same old Wall street crowd which