The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-27
He ETALKSPOLITICS
f. Wade Vaughn of Atlanta
Discusses Southern Situation
Says Sentiment Is Divided Be-
tween Parker and Hearst.
THE NEGRO QUESTION.
Says South lis Incensed at
RoOseVeIt's Attitude.
Division of Sentiment There on
This Issue.

Georgia. who is in Topeka this week
attending the National Association of
Mutual Insurance companies, there is
some doubt as to what Georgia will
do relative to the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination. Sentiment, he
says, is divided between Hearst and
Parker.
Mr.. Vaughn is not as distinctly
southern in his conversation as many
of those from the Sunny South. but
he is intensely southern in his ideas.
He is bright and an extremely inter
esting conversatiOnalist- Like nearly
everybody else in the Cracker state.
he is a Democrat.
THE working classes in Georgia are
for Hearst" Mr.. Vaughn said, in
speaking of Georgia politics-there Is
but one kind of politics in Georgia,
and that is Democratic-''b the men
with money are for Parker. They are
scared to death Of free silver, and be-
cause Hearst is supported by the ele-
ment that was for free silver they
are against him now.
why. there were several thousand
of these Democrats who voted for Nc
k1nley four years ago They are the
money class. 1t is generally believed
that HOke Smith, who you remember
was in CleYeland's cabinet, voted the
L
lanta Journal is the Parker organ,
and the News, John Temple Graves
paper. is for Hearst.
The big issue in the south, though,
is the nigger problem Mr. Vaughn
always says '@nigger.s THE Democrats
are together on that proposition. They
believe that the persistencv with
WhIch Roosevelt has persisted in the
appointment of Crum over white peo-
pie Is an insult to the south If he
wants to give Crum a job why don't
he take him UP to Washington where
he has a lot of jobs where the Write
people won't kick2
1t is wrong to recognize the niger
as the social equal OF the whites God
Almighty never intended them to be
equal Don't. the BfB3e say The sons
of Ham shall be hewers Of wood and
drawers of water?' Educating the Mig
ger as the social equal OF the white
man simply develops the instinct in
MN 10 assault white women. 1t is not
safe for a white lady to go on the
streets of Atlanta alone after dark A
lot of ntggers have been educated to
think they are as good as a white man
and they have become criminal in their
instincts. They have killed three DO
Itcemen in Atlanta in the last three
years, and If it wasn't for their fear
worse than they are. Some time ago
| 1t was found that a gambling den
which was run by some of these mig
ser toughs, had a watch tower above
III.
| One day a niger in that watch tower
picked off a policeman in the street
with a rifle. 1t was impossible to cap
ture MIN and the building was burned
and he burned with It, Right to the
! last he stood in that tower trying to
shoot more policemen.
"AH the niggers are not that way.
Many of them know their place and
not assume to be the equals of the
/ whites. That kind the south believes
! in If they are needy they always get
/ help. People in the north do not un-
derstand the attitude of the south to-
ward the niger. Up to a year or two
ago there was an old niger in Atlanta
1 who had followed his master through
the war. He could call the roll of the
Thirty-nintn Georgia regiment from
memory and tell every man who was
dead. Every Memorial day he used to
put on an old confederate uniform and
! a sword his old master had given him
during the war, and he was prouder
of that old uniform and sword than
any white man in Atlanta could have
been. And that niger had the respect
of everybody, and when he died six
| of the best known men in Atlanta
were nis pail bearers.
when my wife was a little girl her
mother died and she was raised by an
/ old black nanny. I expect she thinks
as much of that old nanny as she
does of me Some time ago the old
| nanny come down from Virginia to
visit us. We met her at the train and
my wife kissed her, but the old wo-
man didn't think for a minute that
she was our equal. At our mouse she
ate in the kitchen with the cook and
wouldn't think of eating with the fam
/ lily. You northern folks don't under
stand the attitude of the south toward
the niger. It's the Niger that has
been educated to think he is the equal
of white folks that we are down on
The state election board rendered a
decision late Thursday afternoon that
Judge O. L. Moore was entitled to the
Republican nomination for district
1 Judge in the Ninth judicial district. and
/ that protest of d. w. Wheeler, G. G.
Moore and others to his nomination
was no good.
The hearing was finished about
| O'Clock and Il few minutes later, after
| comforting in the private office Of Sec
| retary of State BurrOW, Attorney Cen
Ieral Coleman announced that the
/ board decided in favor of Judge Moore
As in previous contests, no reasons
were given for the decision.
! The opponents of Judge Moore assert
/ that they had the law all on their side
and that Judge ]. s. West, who was
their attorney, presented an exceeding
ly strong argument. The other side
| presented letters from Mr.. Wheeler. as
chairman of the committee, showing
/ that he had advised the election of del
the convention was called, to which
procedure he afterwards objected.
| If the supreme court decides in the
| Allen-Bowersock case that the decision
of the contest board is not final as to
the law involved, this judicial contest
| will be taken to the supreme court
The contest against the nomination
papers of A. L. Gilbert, as the Repub-
/ lican candidate for state senator in the