The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-04
THE VIEWS OF BACON
SAYS EFFORT IS ON TO HEPUBLF-
 CANIZE THE SOUTH.
Declares That white Supremacy Must Be NFai;stained, and Advocates the Repeal of the Fifteenth
 Amendment to the
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Macon, Ga, Dec. 3.-Congressman T. W. Hardwick of the Tenth Georgia Dis trict, few days ago wrote a letter to Senator A. O. Bacon, asking his views on the present political situa- ton. Senator Bacon replied at length. The Senator says there Is an effort to Republicanize the South. He declares that white supremacy must be main- tained in the South and everywhere; that the prosperity of the South Is due to white supremacy. He advocates the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment and insists that unless that shall be done the people of the South will be forced to maintain their proposition of white supremacy. Following Is a paragraph:
 If there were nothing else of which to boast. if this were the sole achieve ment of the Democratic Party in the South. this great work which 1t ac- complished in rescuing the South from a fate worse than anarchy. would earn for 1t and entitle 1t to the undying gratitude and appreciation of all those in the world who value and prize civ- illzation and all its attendant bless ings. And there are none who should be more grateful to the Democratic Party for this than the Republican Par ty of the North, because the Democrats in thus saving the civilization of the
 
 Republican Party from the deep dam nation which would have been adjudg- ed against them through all the ages if they had succeeded in the effort which they made to convert this whole Southland into the desolation of an- other Hayti."
 The Senator charges that the two most important offices in Georgia un- der the Executive Department, the Col lector at Savannah and the Collector in Atlanta, are held by negroes; that the most important office in the Exec utive Department in Washington held by any one appointed from Georgia is that of Register of the Treasury, and held by a negro.
 He asserts that in the three cities of Savannah, Atlanta and New Orleans there are respectively forty-two, nine- ty-four and 108 negro Federal office holders. He holds that 1t Is the policy of the Republican party to put the ne- gro in positions of authority in the Southern States. Near the conclusion proposition with the question. Shall we. above all other things. stand for white supremacyT' and then he em- phasizes his view by citing the fact that in 1865 the negroes in the United States numbered 4.000, 900; in 1905 they will number more than 100o0.000; that there are children now born, who in their day will see more than 3o,000. 900 of them here.
 Rather than have negro rule Senator Bacon Is willing to accept a reduction of Southern representation in the Con- gross of the United States. He says:
 The repeal of the fifteenth amend ment, leaving to each State the power to regulate for itself the negro ques- tion, would destroy the sectional bar rier which the South so greatly de- plored, and for the removal of which 1t knows no other method"
 He says at the last: Until this amendment Is repealed the menace which must ever accompany 1t will re- quire that the white men of the South should stand together upon the issue of white supremacy and opposition to negro rule and negro officeholding. It is within the power of the Republican party, If 1t desires to do so, to repeal the fifteenth amendment within the next three monSls by securing the nec- essary action by Congress and the rat ification by the requisite number of State Legislatures. When they refuse to do so, it can only be because they desire the continuance of the oppor- tunity of the negro rule and negro of- ficeholding. And while thus still be- leaguering our stronghold, they ap- proach with soft words and promises of the favor of those who sit in the seats of power. would cry to the e lenders of white supremacy Beware the Greeks are at the gates bearing giftsy