The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-11-04
THIS CAMPAIGN UNIQUE ..
IN ISSUES IT INVOLVES

THIS CAMPAIGN UNIQUE
IN ISSUES IT INVOLVES
The presidential campaign stands
UNIQUE in the transcendent impor-
lance OF the issues Involved. The real
question Is: Shall the Republic live! II
seems to be ct its last gasp. inc feae-
| raj Constitution, which Is, or rather was,
! the bond OF union, and which defines anu
limits the powers of the Fedcral Govern III.
ment, is as dead to-day and has been LOT LOT
forty three years, as an Egyptian nuns
nv. r. Ia possible to breathe into that
once sacred instrument the breath OF ne,
and at last restore 1t to its original v'gof?
There Is a hope, faint at best. Know ut
! such a hope, how faint so ever II may oe'
Is enough to excite the utmost energies
OF every man, who loves the form OF gov
eminent, now lost, handed Gown 20 US ~
our fathers. The Supreme Court or the
United states, With a dexterity that might
excite the envy Of the most nlmoie ~
intellectual acrobats, has lodged q de-
cision on the oonstitutonallty OF the
so-called Amendments to the Federal Con
stitution. Whenever the question mas
come before it. and 1t has often come
It has been utterly unable TO define ne .,
legal status Of our new possessions,
new term, which Is awfully symptoms
tic OF the trend OF events, and which mas
come OF late years into our political
vocabulary. Nor has this august tribunal
been able to determine what part OF the
country is a republic and what g. uesPot--
ism nor where tho Constitution IS opera :
tive and where it Is in abeyapce, thou y
the matter came before It me str!c.ly
business and financial form. WEI may
ne rexclaim with Tom Wa. tson, Wnere are
Wa at" or more classically with Cicero
"Il,inam penteum sumus. guam rem
MI blican habemus?'' # Judge Parker
comes TO the 'front.' I am certain ne VIII
find out and let us know VINO We are,
what we are, and where we are: hat
at least will be some comfort. me ia,e
Of the republic Is quivering n me out-
ance Judge Parker may possibly save
u NM Il Is an herculean task. lie Is
sa re- prudent conserva tive. and profound
iurist. learned in the law, tutored IN thc
ways OF the Constitution. pure ana IN
corruptible, able, self-reliant. IN the very
prime Of physical and intellectual ne.
and in the Hottest sense OF the wore, a
gentleman If elected, he Will una"eu,
mnseduced. unterrihed, do his duty. Ills
n,o lit,es engage our confidence. and In
SHIRE our hopes VIII he be electedY
tren1ble with hope and fear rs = ask the
question. But for one ugly and a"tui
thing II would be as confident or ms
triumphant election as that the ON
Of November will como. This great cues
ton, full of fate, is to determine, w.
Editor not by you or me- not 5py ~
country, not by people who have justly
the right of suffrage, bu by an alien, ana
congenitally inferior race. 50 marKea, y,
MANY CONSPICUOUS ways, by the llhbei y.
God, a class who have only a paper ri i...l
10 suffrage. and that paper right punctu',
&C, by, and saturated with, violence h'ln
fraud. They have no more concepl'ol' !, =!
the nature and responsibility OF ~ D rh,s
than the teams they drive at,ela' MS y!
Inferior race holds the balance OF power
in MARYLAND, New York. New Jersey,
West Virginia, and Indiana, and ! greatiy
fear that they will determine the result
OF the election. Mr. Editor, can u pc
possibly true that seventy mililons OF
white people can submit to the RUE g, l ~
decide who shall rule US? Can we Sud
nit to such domination? II 50, we are
already slaves, tho slaves Of our late
slaves. the slaves Of a lank minority, the
slaves of n hopelessly inferior race,
branded ms incapable of progress and I'M
provement through all the DARK cycaes
| OF their history, The bare suggestion Iires
my blood and arouscs my no.. .t,,'.s MnI
Where is our Ango.Saxona bloodl ! lhu
rather welcome the man on horsepa ,,
| or let the Gear or the Unspeakaple 'Iurk
| take us.
(! Have we already become so debnsed ana
!, so debauchpd by sil)yNand wicked iesls,
| lation that VIC can possibly s'lan'l s'!nil
seventy millions OF white folks bow tils
! knee to ten millions OF black ga'n'no'.si
iGod Forbid! Rather let war, pestsle''ce
/ and famine come! =,
we must not blink the truth. 10 speak
the truth is always in order. Truth purl--
nes and strengt hens. It makes awe w,
Only towards and weakllngs rear '.,e
truth. Yet we-fatal sign-are AFRAID y
utter the unduted truth! and are iast
getting to be like he people Or Rome ~
the corrupt days OF the Commonwealth.
i who held one thing ready on the Tongue,
another shut up Intthe heart me ieaaets
of thought--God save the mark-the gleus
newspapers, the highest religious cohvem-
tions, In discussing the many soG.a,' i,o',
4 teal and economic problems mat coll-
front us, shun tho discovery OF me trus
| causes OF our troubles. as II tho rum
!, we're deadly upas. films the Amos
phere Will, poison and death. TO apprnleh
| which would be rash, nserous, j ff!''pS
4 fatal They tackle mere acndenib !, kilu
| Incidents. refusing to see the cause |l'lHl'
i is directly on the surface, OnNl' y S'u !,
diagnosis is made and the real cause ., y,
our dreadful disorder Is dlscpvereu, q ~
| treatment is silly empiriasnn, zen w, !
lions of negroes governing seventy MI,
lions OF white people! AVho ahn Wnat
has brought this terrible con.liton! My,
! Mr.. Editor, We did 1t; we ourselves; AVG
| by 1--WE" / mean the governing ma!prisy
of the United States. By the Fourleehth
and Fifteenth Amendments az tha consul,
tuition. negro equality Is assettei ana
negroes are admitted to suffrage, Ih Ntase
tJn,l ynra