Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-21

Thomas Z. Watson, Populist candi-
date for the PresideWy. in a speech at
Atlanta, Ga, on Sept. /, declared that
the Democratic attack on President
| Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
| hness to the negro was piece of ID, NJ
ocratic hypocrisy and he challenl
| Parker to indicate his own position on
the race issue. On this point Mr.. Wat
son said
The South should demand TO tnow the
| Facts about Parker How does he stand
| upon this alleged question? Is his position
| II so, in what respect? The South should
demand explicit reply to the following
| questions before it votes for him upon
the assumption that he differs from Roose-
! velr on the negro question:
| J. Would you refuse TO eat at the same
J , Would you refuse to appoint negroes
| to office in the South?
8. If elected will you refuse TO receive
on terms of equality at the White House
| such negroes as Bishop Turner, Booker
| Washington, and T. Thomas Fortune?
- 4. DO you approve the mixed schools Of
| New York, inaugurated under Grover Cleve-
| land-in which social equality is practical
| ly made matter of compulsion2
| .. If such sehools-wherein black chill
dren and white children are educated to-
gether-are good thing for your native
| state OF New York. would they be good
thing for Georgia and South Carolina? II
| not, why not?
Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion of the negro
| question, as far as its bearing ON the
present national campaign is concerned,
! Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
national leaders have prostituted the
name of Democrat and are demanding
| that they shall be followed bhndly in
| spite of the fact that they have re-
nounced every principle of Democracy.
Asking, will the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principeP
he continued
In the South we are told we must submit
TO the surrender to Wall street because Of
the niger What blessed thing il is
Tor Democratic leaders that they always
nave the niger to fall back ON. For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on the Niger" and to-day he is their
only stock in trade.
Note the hypocrisy of It, In their ma
tional platform of 1872 they s0lemnly pro-
tested their allegiance TO the doctrine OF
equality. regardless of race or color.
and pledged themselves to maintain the
emancipation and the Acknowledgement OF
the blacks
In 1876 at st. Louis. Henry wattcrson
being chairman of the convention, they
solemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out Of
the civil war.
In 1880, in 1884 in 1888. the national
conventions Of the Democratic party re-
affirmed these declarations on the negro
question, and thus stood pledged to oppose
any reopening of the questions settled by
the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these formal
pledges are now browbcaten and iA-
undated by Democratic leaders, who say
we must indorse their capitulati0n to Bel
mont, David b. Hill, and Pat McCarren
because of the niger"
Negro Powerless in Politics.
What can the Southern negro doT'
asked Mr.. Watson. HE has been dis
franchiscd in nearly every Southern
State excepting Georgia; and in Georgia
they do not dare disfranchise him, be-
cause Democracy in Georgia cannot be
maintained by the wmta vote" He con-
tinued:
Therefore, the cry that we arc in danger
from THE nigger' is the most hyrocriti-
cal that INSCRIPTIONS leadership could in
vent. Grant. sherman, and Sheridan, with
all their armies. conld not revise the law
OF nature In the PROSTATE South.
The white man is master wherever he
PLANTS his foot the world over. DO you
tell me that Roosevelt can do against the
recuperated South what Thad Stevens
could not do against the exhausted South?
Roosevelt could not do it even if he would.
The Democratic leaders who talk this
stuff. and the editors who write it. laugh
and wink at one another as they pass,
they know what n humbug IL all is AND
how 1t is being used to make the people
forget, or coHdone, the inglorioHs surrender
to Wall street which they made at st.
Louis
In the West Virginia Democratic con-
vention, the State of the Democratic Bomi-
nee for Vice President. the white suprem-
acy resolution vas voted down, and
Aug. /, 1904. Parker himself in writing
TO the negro negro, James A. Ross, addressed
him ms MY dear sir" just us though
Ross had been a white man.
Surrender to Wall Street.
Turning to other issues. Mr. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sure
rendered to Wall street because, as SEN
ator John w. Daniels. of Virginia. put
it. they were tired of being ia the
minority He continued:
Not afraid of Roosevelts militarismP
No. Not afraid of l;ooscve.t's niggerism?
No: All that is fudge and snbtcrfuge.
Tired OF being n the minority, there
Not tired Of being In the wrong? No.
ne ala not even pretend that he had bern
In the, wrong Simply because they have
been In the minority they are ready to
drop the principles which they sworc for
eight years were right, ana To adopt lh,se
which even row they do not dare say are
right. Great God, what attitHde for
the leaders of II great national party
If conId become politically tipsy rnnngh
10 vote Tor Parker on the platform Of
1901. as constructed Icy Parker himself
would take one more drink small one
ut that and vote for the other twin.
Roosevelt. Give me the. original every
time. rather than the blurred indiStiHCt
copy. Give me the genuine article, rather
than the spurious substitute.
What Has Parker DoneT
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects to
Candidate Parker personally He asked:
Why should GeOrsians support Parker.
OF New York, rather than feIlew
Georgian? What 90 YOU know of Parker?
What has he done that was notable: What
has he ever said that memorable?
What has he ever written that STAMPED
him with individuality?
David II. Hill declared ut st IuOis
that lie had been intimate With Parker far
thirty years. aud that he did noi know
how Parker stood on the money JHcStiau.
Was this statement trupt IL So, Parker
is the most negative public maa She
American continent Was the statement
IN lse? If SO, David II. IIiii il the hug!cSt
liar between the two oceans ThiE', II
a man living Intimate terms With Al,x-
ander II. Stevens aud Abe IIlcoln fvr
thirty years aud net kLowiRG hRW he sid
on the greatest Ioitical ques,ieRs IF 5he
day.