The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-07
HEFLIN Is USING
 PLAIN LANGUAGE Gives Much Attention to the
 Negro Question AT HACKS B. I. WASHINGTON Clerks In Auditors Office Are Working Hard on Confederate Pension List,
 Which Will Be Ready
 This Month.
ATTACKS B. T. WASHINGTON

democratic doctrine" He is the nominee of the party and Is fighting Benjamin | w. Walker, republican-populist who is putting up a game contest. Heflin seems | to think the negro question is the burning one, and never fails to lambast every man who has ever shown special favors to Booker Washington or allowed Wash | ington to help them to political positions. | He says that the republican party has put false notions in the heads of the ne- groes and that Booker Washington, hav- l ing gone into politics, has lost his in- fuence He may enjoy being negro | patronage boss for Alabama" said MT. Heflin at Newsite, Tallapoosa county, Friday. "but he is destroying his use fulness, his head is turned, he is a changed negro. he is not what he was five years ago.
 One-Man Power.
 | In this speech MT. Hehn went some what minutely into the republican record and showed that that party stands for one-man power at Washington, and has | but little regard for the rights of individ- | uals and of the states. It has been the party of favoritisms and the fostering 1 influ sce of the trusts. It is more than ever time server and the handy instru- ment of pedantic wealth. It Is marked with looseness and extravaganza in all the departments of national government and rank corruption holds high carnival in the postal service at Washington. In flight of oratory that brought him ringing round of applause, MT. Helin cried That partys imperia1istic drunk enness and materialistis craze is fraught with grave danger to the country and patriotic men everywhere should rise up and help us save the life of this nation from the dangers that threaten it."
 Dangers In the Path.
 "Go stand at tho gravesides of the worlds dead republics and read the .in- 1 scriptions thereon and you will find that | extravaganza, oppression, class legisla- tion imperialism and miltarism were the agencies that wrought destruction. Rome | hourished for a season and Virgil sang for 1t the glories of the globe. but when Rome ceased to look to the comfort and well being of the masses of her people and turned her attention to the demands | of the classes she was sowing the seeds of disintegration. She divided her people into plebians and patricians; those made | poor by civic conditions and those made | rich by governmental favortism Rome, | as the republican party is doing today, | removed the power from the citizen to | the soldier, the big army became a bur den grievous to be borne, milltarlsm and | imperialism struggled with the spirit of | the old Roman republic and mlltarism and imperialism conquered, and where Is Rome? She fell down among her beau- l tiful hills and died, and today the de- parted spirit of the Roman republic tells | the spirit of the American republic to profit by her example. Let us heed the teachings of history and avoid the dan gers and pitfalls that line the pathway l of our national life.
 Remarks on the Negro.
 MT. Hefiin then reviewed the question of Mr. Roosevelts tendency to encourage | social equality with the negro and ar- l gued that this had a bad influence on the negro himself. He told of the negro preacher, Jamison, in Wisconsin, who i had boldly spoken out for social equality, | and referred to the army officer who had | married a ncgress and was to be thrown l out of his place. ''It matters not how | ambitious the negro may be to marry | into the white race, or how much the | white man may descend in the scale and l desire to marry into the negro race, 1t l cannot be done in Alabama. We settled | that question in the constitutional con | vention, and if that Is shutting the door | of hope in the negro's face, it Is shut nailed, barred and locked and the key thrown away. As delegate in the con | stitutional conveneion ex-Governor Oates | favored the following resolution. which | was defeated. The legislature shall never 1 pass any law to authorize or legalize any l marriage of any white person and a ne- | gro or the descendants of a negro to the third generation inclusive, though one ancestor of each generation be a white l person.
 | "Mr. Vaughan of Dallas, offered the | following amendment to the section: The | legislature shall never pass any law to l authorize or legalize any marriage of any | White person and a negro or descendant | of negro Mir. Oates moved to table | this amendment and I voted against him.
 MT Vaughan's amendment was overwhel- mirgly adopted and our constitution now 1 contains the provision that no marriage can ever be in Alabama between a white | person and a negro of a descendant of a | negro. was right and sound on the ne- gro question then and I am right and | sound on 1t now"
 Incorrect Articles.
 | MT Heflin called attention to some of the recent articles in the Tuskegee Stu | dent, printed at the Booker Washington school at Tuskegee, saying they are | inaccurate. In one of these it has been said that one half of all the cotton plan
 tations in the United States are under
 black control
 That the black farms of all kinds pro-
 duce greater value to the acre than the whites" "It is noteworthy that the pro-
 portion of self-supporting negroes is much
 larger than the self-supporting whites;"
 These are figures to which the figure
 can point with pride" He also quoted
 the following from Booker Washington's s
 recent speech at Athens, Ga. to indi-
 cate that he is in favor of social equality
 "I believe that much trouble could be
 averted if a larger number of white
 people would take the time and trouble
 to get better acquainted with the colored
 people in their communities; they would
 get their confidence and cooperation"
 Winding up, MT. Heflin said: "The
 mantle for policy sake he wore so long
 has been, under recent conditions, thrown
 aside, and the real Booker is seen as he
 is. Against the practices of Booker Wash
 ington and the practices of Jamison plain
 talk is necessary. The negro must be
 told the truth"
 Cause of Delay.
 The pensioners who will come in this