The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-07

~~~~ cratic party on the tariff. on the money question or on the question of expan- sion. But they submitted. in the face of the black evil that threatened the South those were minor issues. This crucial time, the time when ths dues- ton of the race issue, when the aues- ton of sectionalism faced the South was not the time for white men of the South to differ. There would come a time when the white man might align himself with the Republican party on other questions of governmental wis., dom, but that time was not now.
 MT. Coleman spoke to the crowd. as neatly and as carefully dressed as if he was attending an afternoon reception at the Beauvoir Club. His language, arguments and illustrations were as carefully chosen as If he was address ing the Board of Directors of the Car negie Library of Montgomery. The crowd liked him all the better for that. He made a good speech. an effective campaign argument.
 MT. Coleman made some telling points on the tariff, an issue which he regarded as of paramount import ance. He showed to the Cuilman County farmers how unjust and un- equal it was, when American manu- IdCIuTeTS SOtQ kOOaS Su anu ~ PCt NStas lower in Europe than they sold them In America.
 MT. Coleman denounced the President for raising the question of sectionalism and for punishing the South with the negro.
 "There are respectable Republicans in CulIman County" said Mir. Coleman, Men who are Republicans from prin- ciples, and who have stood by the party long and Loyalty. He had a good public position to give away in Alabama. Did he say to respectable Republican of this county. T will re- ward your faithfulness. will make you register of the land office at Hunts ville," No. no, he gave that s4.o0o place to a negro and put him over the white men in the office. A white man the underling of a negro. It makes my blood boil"
 This was the sort of talk for a Gull man County audience and they cheered 1t heartily.
 Governor Johnston was Happy.
 Ex Governor Johnston closed the speaking. He Is a taking campaign talker.- His many years in Alabams politics have given him an understand ing of the needs and requirements of a campaign speech and he can enter
 
 speech hardly second to Jess Stallings. The former Governor. in a conversa- tional way, discussed certain of the national issues, but he put in his heaviest blows on the negro question He declared that the North was re- sponsible for the negro and the negro question. Everything bad. the frosts. the storms and the chilling winds, he said. came from the North.
 "The question after all that comes home to us. the vital question, Is the negro question:" said the speaker '"The negro is all right in his place He casts a nice black shadow. The Bible declared that the negro should be "a newer of wood and a drawer of water and the servants of man. This was the Divine law and 1t was so rec ognized by all civilized nations until the Republican party came along and tried to repeal the laws of Almighty God.
 He had the same start as the white man and yet he remained a barbarian an eater of his fellowmen through all the centuries In Africa. He never in- vented & plan or any other thing. He didn't even have an alphabet and he couldn't even, spell a-b ab. Yet the President says we must open the door of hope to him. I am quite willing but the door must lead to the kitchen and not to the dining room.
 "When you vote for Roosevelt you vote for Crum and Booker Washing | ton. It may not read that way on the ticket, but it smells that way" Cullman County Democrats are much gratified at the outcome of their ac- tive campaign. They figure on a County victory by margin of 200 votes.
 Montgomerians are interested in the County election because the Demo- cratic candidate for Probate Judge is Robert I. Burke, formerly of Mont gomery and who is a son of ex-Audi- tor M. c. Burke.