The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-26

L can say the DeSt-lOOklng thing OIL
earth is "a Maryland woman.
Il believe l know before this speech
the unterrified Democrats of Mary
land will put the negro in the hole
along with the coar referring to the
song.)
- am a Democrat. (Cheers.) If
there be any odium in that statement
L am determined to stand by David l..
Hill and bear it.
L am Democrat in Maryland in
1905, when it doesn't seem TO be tlle
fashion. The Democratic party in
convention assembled has passed upon
this amendment. l am not here 10
take up party dissentions or to say il
word TO hurt the feelings of any man.
L haven't come to talk about the
negro-I've talked about him in my
own State until I'm tired to death.
The only way on earth to get rid of
the negro is to get him behind you.
I'm not alone in that view. President
Roosevelt (cheers)--I like him. told
you l was a Democrat. l was born
one. l was rocked in a Democratic
cradle, brought up on the principles
of Thomas jefferson, Andrew Jackson
| and Charles Carroll of Carrollton.
| (Chees.)
- believe in Theodore Roosevelt
| (cheers) and in what he said in Rich
! mond last week. l am not offering you
my views. Some of you might want
your views signed by some one farther
! North. What Roosevelt said is just
what you are in favor of in Maryland
| He said that we must be careful of
giving government of freedom to races
| untitled for it. He was speaking of
| Filipinos We Democrats have been
| stirring them up and insisting that
the same thing applies to negroes
What the President says of Filipinos
| is true of the negroes Our govern
ment is not fitted for the negro. Mr..
Pesident, what's true of the Filipino
is true of the negro, if there's any
| treason i'm that, make the most of 1t.
"When | make a Democratic speech
/ always make the Republicans furn-
| ish the evidence. It's mighty hard
| to get the truth. Senator Cullom is
a radical. He's having hard time
! to make the Hawaiians fit for the
government we are trying to arrange.
| You know we are picking up any
territory lying around.
American idea of suffrage preSuppoSes
American idea of suffrage presupposes
that the body of citizens who are to
exercise the right of suffrage is fitted
for it by inheritance or education. No
negro in Maryland has that knowl-
edge by inheritance or education. on
that foundation the people of North
Carolina have disfranchised the negro.
don't like to talk about him. When
/ | was elected Governor by $685. ma
jority l was fitted TO make a speech
on the negroe. Now I'm tired.
North Cardinals Experiences.
:" Il tell you that if you have party
with $4,000 negroe voters in it lrs
bound to be bad. They say we havn't
got negro Governor. We have white
state officers VIII. - IGee, white pc
q m q tsll
difference with the Republican party
| is the negro behind the officer.
| (Cheers.)
81 came from State that has suf-
fered But twice in its history has
| it had periods of Republican govern
| ment-murder pillage, outrage, pFun-
| der and death stalked abroad in that
State, The staiwart white men had
! to take it upon themselves to rid the
State of scalawags and carpet baggers.
| Do YOU know what a ScalaWagi is :?
| It's a white man who thinks negro
| is as good as he is, and thinks the
truth when he thinks it.
| "In 1887 when crime walked
| through the State, the white men had
to assemble and buy guns. They even
bought IL riot gun. Preachers forgot
| to pray by the bedside Of the sick and
dying and carried Winchester rifles to
| protect women and children. Women
| iefugeed from Wilmington In free
| America. the land of law and liberty.
You are facing a thing like that here.
"'To rid the State. armed white men
went To an alderman and said resign.
He resigned. They went to another
and said resign. He resigned, and is
| living yet. The mayor had TO leave
| town. I'm not bOasting. | tell 1T with
shame. Through the whole list of
officers to the mayor of city of
| 10000 persons in the dawn of the
| twentieth century was made to leave
town. They literally took the city by
storm Am / boasting? God forbid.
| tell YOU in order that you may take
tho ballots out of the hands of negroes
! You must so vote as the amendment
4SayS.
I No White Man DISTINGUISHED.
! Some of the people of Maryland
arc AFRAID that the amendment is go
ing to disfranchisc the white man.
! Did anyone say that here? (Cries of
"Rayner said it" accompanied by
! hisses.)
They said it in North Carolina. Do
l look Ike an honest man? The wo-
mon say do.
$ L will say to the people of Mary
/ land, and | 40 not fear contradiction,
that not a single white man has been
QcptlNCu Oh HIS NOtC III NOTln caro-
| lima. (Cheers)
| 4 declare that not a single white
man will be disfranchised IN Mary
| land. (Applause.) The truth is you
/ cannot disfranchise the white man
lanywhere-ex except in the good old
radical city of Philadelphia.
"'Don't you believe that you can and
should make distinction between the
white man and the negro? God made
one and His mark is legible. Cap
plause.)
Not single one Of the men who
signed Magma Charta wrote his own
name to it. They could not write
their names. but they could and did
write liberty. They wrought liberty
and they fought for it, just as your
fathers did.
Don't tell me you are going 20
disfranchise the foreigners. It's lie.
(Applause.) Don't tell me that we
are going to disfranchise those who
have fed from tyranny to find the lib
erty for which our fathers fought and
died Ii isn't true. (ApplauseO
1.-The Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States was