The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-08-26
TEXAS SENATOR is PRINCIPAL
SPEAKER AT CAMPAIGN
RALLY.
ROOSEVELT AND RACE EQUALITY
Declares Race Problem Which Now
Confronts Southern People viii
Takes Their Highest Wisdom
In Its Solution.

New York, Aug. 25-The campaign
in Brooklyn was opened tonight by a
meeting held under the auspices Of
the Kings County Democratic Club,
at which Senator ]. w. Bailey of
Texas was the principal speaker. Re.
solutions endorsing the nomination
OF Parker and Davis were read and
after an Introductory addess in which
he reviewed the political situation,
Edward M. Shepard, chairman Of the
meeting introduced Senator Bailey,
who was greeted with prolonged ap-
plause.
1T has never happened heretofore"
said the senator. "and it will seldom
happen hereafter, that the personal
opinions and conduct of candidates
have determined or will determine
the suffrage of so many voters as in
this campaign" He would not utter
one syllable of the habits or the
character of President Roosevelt.
Taking up the tariff question, Sen
ator Bailey said:
Tariff Question.
"Our Republican friends profess in
dignant surprise at our declaration
of the tariff question and their cam
paign committee have done us the
honor to partially incorporate nearly
the entire plank in the platform on
that subject in their campaign book.
They did not however have the candi.
dates to repeat it in full and did not
even print the complete sentence
which they pretended to quote. They
seem to be fercely aroused because
We have dared to say that protection
Is a robbery Of the many to enrich |
the few.
Race Equality.
mot content with having nomi |
mated a candidate who had taught by |
his personal example the pernicious |
doctrine of social equality between
The Anglo-Saxon and the African
races. the Republican party has gone
still further and as II bent upon the
design of aggravating
racial antagonism, it has deliberately
its intention to reduce
he representation OF certain states
IN congress and in the electoral col
ege because the people of those
states will not consent to be repre-
;ented by ignorance and the inferior
men. Do the men who made and who
adopted that platform know IL the
hreat shO"ld be carried into eXecu-
ion the South would not be the only
Do these men not know
hat this country is so closely and
% firmly knitted together that the
whole must suffer from every injury
Inflicted on any part? The millions
invested in Southern railroads are
practically all. except the foreign
the property Of Northern
nd Eastern men.
Sectional Differences.
"But there Is another standpoint.
his attempt to resurrect sectional
ifferences is in painful contrast with
he teachings Of that great and kind
man. who first elevated 20 the
residency by an election. and not by
tragic incident As this nation
TODD with uncovered head around
fhty McKinley's grave. men Of ev-
~ section blessed his name and I
lemOry because he had restored gDOd
ill between the brothers who had a
cen r tranged by a civil war.
The sOrrOw over his untimelv q
sath was a. universal and a. gen. 4
Inc in Mississippi as II was IN Mas .
.chusetts And yet his SUCCESSOR. q
no promised tO follow On McKlnley'sl 2
,0tsteps. has reversed Mckiuleys Z
llicy and is nov fermenting discOrd p
here Mckinley had brought uE !
sace. q
Refers 90 Iynchin-s.
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