Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-02-16
BILL DOOLY'S LETTER
In Which He Treats the Subjects
He Discusses According to His
Own Views, and May or May
Not Reflect the Opinions of
the News, Which Are Ex-
pressed in Its Editorial Col
umns Only.

The smoke OF the political battle has
cleared away and as l see nothing in
the way that would be likely to get
hurt will fire few promiscuous shots
in the direction where heard the last
noise.
About the last thing saw or heard
before and up to the election was the
big stick racket, so currently circulated
against Roosevelt. [ concluded that
clubs would be trumps for the next four
years. thought it best to sing small
for awhile, for fear some kind hearted
fool killer might deal me hand of big
sticks
Now laying all jokes aside the big
stick question is about the poorest
thing in the way of an -electioneering
scheme | eyer heard circulated against
a candidate and no doubt but some
newspapers that handled the big stick
question so freely feel rather cheap af-
ter seeing the Presidents expression of
equal rights to all men and special
privileges to none, and declaring him
self in favor of square deal.
The administration has been accused
of every political crime, corruption and
militarism, iawlessness, violation OF
the constitution in the Philippines, vi
olation of international law at Panama,
worst of all false pretense-a show Of
hostility to monopoly in public and an
alliance with monopoly in private. The
American people have listened to these
charges, the administration has left its
record as its sole defense and the peo-
pie have endorsed that record with
their approval. The accusations are
refuted, the accusers are condemned the
! accused are vindicated.
And now what are you going to do
about it? You will have to console your
selves by saying have as good presi-
dent as the other fellow, and the other
fellow has as good a president as me
and that settles it. 1t looks like men
of sense would stop hollering niger
equality at the republicans and saying
that the republican party is being kept
alive by the negro vote when any man
ought to know that the republican par
ty would be equally as we'll off without
the negro vote at all. The principal
part of the negroes live in the South
and where they are allowed to vote at
all they vote with the party that feeds
them and gives them work. don't
blame them for voting the democratic
ticket, neither do / blame the demo-
Gratis for wanting his vote since it
it counts as much as a white mans vote,
but do blame any party for trying to
keep a discord. It's like the pot calling
the kettle black. At least 1T IS evident
fact that if the negro votes at all he
votes the democratic ticket.
In the presidential election of 1900 the
repu blicans carried 2s states and the
democrats carried II states. The states
carried by the democrats contain pop
ulation of 25,216,640 according to the
census of 1900, little less than one
third of the total population of the Un-
tied States. These II states contain a
colored population of 7,e4S,Os7, and OF
the II states carried by the democrats
in 1904 more than 30 per cent. were col
ored.
The 2S states carried by the republi-
cans have a population Of 40,3S4, 5s5 ac-
cording to the census OF 1900, of which
,1,045,1 are colored or a little more
than per cent. This means that out
of every 100 persons in the democratic
party more than 80 are colored, while in
the republican party only two are color
cd.
A study of the official census report
of 1900 will show that there is almost as
many negroes in tue State of Georgia as
there is in the 2s states carried by the
republicans. In the II states carried by
the democrats there were 1,60S, sS1 col
ored voters, wanting only a few votes
to average 100, 600 colored voters in ev-
cry single state the democrats carried
n 1900. There we're nearly 100, 0OC
more colored voters IN Georgia and
Mississippi than there were in the Is
republican states.
If one-half the negroes in the South
had voted the republican ticket the
democrats would have lost the states oi
Georgia, louisiana, Mississippi and So
Carolina even IL there had not been 8
white republican in those states, and
now what are you going to do about it
buddy.
have have been asked several times
for my views on the tariff question bui
that is one thing have always refused
to discuss. The tariff and the negro
have been subjects OF discussion for lS'
years and will for that many more
While the negro. was . slave men were