CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-09-22
PARKER Exc0RIATED
THOMAS E. wATsON.s RECENT
SPEECH TO sOuTHERNERs.
Raising of the Negro Question by
Democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy-
Roosevelt Preferred to Hiirs candi-
date Who Is Bo~.ed by Wall Street.

Atlanta. Ga. on Sept. !, declared that
the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged friend
liness to the negro was piece OF Dem
ocratic hypocrisy and he challenged
Parker TO Indicate his own position on
the race issue. On this point Mr.. Wat
son said.
The South should demand TO know the
facts about Parker. low. does he stand
az all different from that Of Reoseveit?
II SO. In what respectf The South should
auession. a o Sefore Il ip Votes - for @ him "p"n
the assumption that he differs from noose-
welt on the negro question;
table with Booker Washington
wonld you refuse to appoint negroes
3. II elected viii yon refuse 30 receive
on terms Of equality at the White House
such negrocs MS Bishop Turner. Booker
Washington, aud 7. Thomas Fortnncs
=. Do you approve the mixed schools Of
New York. inausurnted under Grover cieve-
iandnin which social equality T. PRACTICAL
.. II such schools-whcrcip black chill
dren and white children are educated To-
State OF New York. would they be a good
thing for Georgia and South Cnrolinaf II
not, why not.
Negro Cry 1. Hypocrisy.
Taking up the discussion OF the negro
present national campaign is concerned.
Mr.. Watson said that the Democratic
national leaders have prostitnted the
name OF Democrat and are dems Bding
that they shall be followed blindiy In
spite OF the fact that they have re-
nounced every principle OF Democracy.
Asking. "wiii the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle p
he continued:
In the South We are told We must submit
TO the surrender TO Wall street because ~
the nigEer What a blessed thing II rs
have the niger to fall back ON. For
thirty years they have been doing bust
ness on the nirrer." md to-day he is their
Note the hypocrisy Of IT, In their ma
tionai platform of isI2 they soiemnly pro.
equality" regardless Of rnce or color.
and pledged themselves to maintain the
emancipation and the enfrsnehisen,eut Of
In 1870 at st. Louis. Henry wstterron
being chairman OF the ce,vrniicn. th~y
soiemnly declared their devotion to tbe
constitutional amendments growing out Of
In 1850, 10 1894, In 1855. the national
nfiimed these declarations on the negro
question. and thus stood pledged tn opposs
the thirteenth. fourteenth. and nfte~pth
amendments Yet after all these formal
pledges We are now browheafen and In
Inundated by Democratic leaders. who asy
we must indorse their cnpItuisfion to BEL
mont. David y. nm. and Pat Mccarrea
because Of ''tbe nigxer."
Negro Poweriess ia Politics
What can the Southern negro do r.
nsked Mr.. Watson. He has been dis
franchised in nearly every southern
State excepting Georgia: and In Georgia
they do not dare disfrsnehise him. be.
cause Democracy In Georgia cannot be
maintained by the white vote" He con-
tinued.
Therefore, the cry that We are In danger
from "the Niger IL the most bypocriti-
cal that unscrnpuious iesder.hip eouid In
all their armies. could not rvvise the hv
OF nature In the pro<trnte South.
p,apss ''s nj. Ton ass tbs sis % D.
tell me that Roosevelt eau do against the
rccuperated South what Thad Stevens
could not do against the exhausted SOUTH
Rcosrvelt could not do IL cr~n " he would.
The Democratic leaders who TAN this
stun. and the editors who write It. laugh
and wink at Que another they psrx,
they know what humbuT u ali Is. and
how Il Is being used 10 make the people
Louis
nee for Vice President. the white ruprrm,
acy' resolution wns voted down, and on
10 The nnsso. % Iamss "i Ta.. ~ aasqa..oi Tri.,ns
him ma MY dear SIR" Just as though
Ross had been whsite man.
Surrender TO Wall street.
Turning to other issues. Mr.. Watson
said the Democratic leaders had sur
rendered TO Wall street because, as Sem
ator John w. Daniels. OF Virginia. put
IL. they were tired OF being In the
minority" He continued:
Not afraid Of Iiooseycit'r militnrism1
Ne. Not afraid Of nooscvclrs nizgerisInf
No; All that Is fudge aud subtrrfuse.
Tired OF being In the minority" there
WINS the milk In the cocoenut.
Not tired Of being In the wronr1 No.
In the. wrong. slmply because they have
drop the principles which they sworc for
which even fow they DO not dare say src
the leaders Of great national party.
could become politically tipsy enough
1905 as esns,rsr,sd by S raSser n P'nfssa h%ss
would take one morr drink-n small ono
at that,.nnd vote for the other. twin.
time. rather than the blurred. indistipot
copy. Give M. the genuine article. rnthcf
than the spurious substitute.
what Hns Parker Dorcr
Mr.. Watson then paid his respects to
Candidate Parker personally. He asked:
Wuy snuuIu Gcotginns support Parker.
of New York. rather than fellow
Georgianf What DO you know nf Parl~rr
What has he doDc that was notnbicg What
has he ever snld that was meinofnhief
What has he ever written that stamped
him with Individuality
David u. ilill declared Mt ST. Louis
that he hnd been Intimate with Parker FOR
thirty years and that he did not Know
how Parker stsad the money question,
Was this statement truei II so. Parker
IL the most negative public mnn on the
American continent. Wns The statement
faixcf II 40, David II. iiiil Is the boIdrst
liar between the two occans. Think nf
n man living ou Intimate terms with Alex
nndrr IL. Stevens ma Abe Lincoln far
thirty years aud not knowing how he stood
on the greatest political questions Of ti,e
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