The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-23
YEOKANS' APPEAL FOR A
FULL DEMOCRATIC VOTE
Wants an Old.Time Democratic
100000 on Nov. 5.

Atlanta, Oct. 22.-The following ap-
peal is issued to the Democratic voters
of the state by Chairman M. J. Yeo-
mans of the State Democratic Exec
utive Committee:
The election for President, Vice
President and Congressman is now at
hand. The questions at issue are of
more vital Importance to the people of
Georgia and to the South generally
than any that have confronted us
since the days of reconstruction. The
South is engaged in an attempt to
settle the race question that has been
thrust upon it. What it needs is to be
let alone. This question has been made
a burning issue in this campaign by
the Republican party. The result Of
this election will determine whether
the South will proceed with the set
Element of this and other issues pc
culiar to it's people, unmolested and
untrammelle6, or whether 1t will be
handicapped by federal interference
and the race issue famed into a
flame Of passion. the result of which
cannot be foretold.
what Parker stands For.
Parker and the Democratic party
stand for the enforcement Of the law
and the preservation of peace and
good order along the lines mapped out
by the constitution, and for the settle
ment of the vexed questions that con-
front the people Of the South by the
South itself, free from outside inter
ference.
There is less excuse for the people
of Georgia and of the South to divide
on the questions that confront us now
than there has been in any election
since the Civil War, and more reasons
why they should stand together and
vote a solid Democratic ticket than
ever before in the history of this
country. The people must choose be-
tween Parker and Roosevelt The 9TH
err candidates for President may re-
ceive a few scattering votes, but all
votes cast against Parker in this cleo
ton are votes for the Republican par
ty. and will be so counted by our po-
ntical opponents.
An Obnoxious Administration.
The present administration is in
many respects the most obnoxious to
our people OF any that has preceded
Il. II has made sectionalism and the
race issue prominent The people OF
the South SnOulu meet lneSe issues
fairly and squarely, and every white
man in Georgia should go to the polls
and vote the Democratic ticket.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee at its session In Atlanta, Feb.
20. in fixing the rules to govern the
primary, of April 20. in which primary
congressman were nominated and dele
gates selected who went to ST. Louis
and aided In the nomination Of Par
ker and Davis, passed the following
resolution;
at is further ordered that all white
voters without regard 10 past political
afiillation. who desire to align them
selves with the Democratic party, and
who will. II their right to participate
IN said primary be challenged. pledge
themselves to support the nominees OF
the Democratic party, are hereby de-
clared entitled 20 vote therein and are
cordially invited to do So"
The Primary Vote.
In the primary held on April 20. un-
der the rule above stated no 900 white
Democrat voters. practically the en-
tire white vote Of the state. participat-
ed. and thus pledged themselves 10
support the regular Democratic nomi-
nees. They cannot, support the regu-
lar noff1opraff tic n0ufiun4a a. fhnss