The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-11-24

any result, 1t must be critical, it mus
be aggressive, 1t must be quick TO SCI
and eager to assail and it must llv,
for some other object than to traffic
with the victor for hegga1s share II
the spOils of office. If the Democratic
party is to succeed, 1t must have faltl
and couIage-the courage OF its faith
The Republican party has often sue
ceeded where it was wrong through
the sheer power of audacIty. The
Democratic party has too often faileC
by weakly tempOriZlng with its adver-
sary in the presence of a great issue
The party which has the audacity of its
wickedness will always triumph over
the party which has not even the cour
age of its convictions.
''Such are the views by which
have guided my course, and to these
views adhere
VULGAR GRAFT.
This patronage which can't gel
because | have stood for the rights OF
my people-what is it but vulgar
graft invading the realms of states
manship and lntrudlng its coarse and
sCrdid face in the temple of the peoples
rights? And here, tonight, as native
born son of the Old Volunteer State
as one whose forefathers helped to re-
deem it from the wilderness and the
savage. within the very shadow of the
Hermitage, where rest the ashes of
our noblest hero, say to you that If
such is to be the aim and standard of
public service, | do not want your
Office, and would not have it.
NO NEGRO APPOINTMENTS.
Il took occasion to make speech
on the Indianola case. | said the Pres
ident had abolished that postoffice
without warrant of law. l said he
had done a gross wrong to the people
of that community. | called attention
to the fact that, though the Republi-
can purity had often held power
through the negro vote of New York.
Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, in all the
territory moth of the Ohio river, no
President had ever appointed a negro
| said the President
ought not to force negro postmasters
upon the Southern white people when
they would not be tolerated by his
own.
i attempted to present the Southern
view of the negro question. | attemp-
ted to make our Northern brothers un-
lerstand that the Southern white man
leid his government and his civiliZa-
ion in trust for posteIity and for man
Kind. l begged the Republican Sena-
ors to lay aside all prejudice and try
o understand the race prObl EN- and
lelp us to solve it, and, If they coul1
rot DO that, to leave it clone to the wis
iom and humanity of the Southern
people. There was in that speech, no
word of bitterness or elimination. 1t
vas an earnest, emphatic and indig-
lant protest against a policy which
would surely have aroused to fiercest
ctivlty the race passions of the South,
which would have reopened the healed
of sectional strife, which
would have brought woes unnumbered
n both black and white. and would
vhole country.
A WHITE MANS COUNTRY.
any countrymen, if to hold a seat in
he Ur tied States Senate | had to re-
ract or apologize for that speech,
you'd spurn the office with contempt. |
went to the Senate as a white man
nd a Democrat. | have never practi-
ed the Aft lean dialect, and can only |
peak white mans language in
,hite mans cause. 1 believe this Is
white mans country. white mans
utilization and a white mans gov
rnment, Our Caucasian ancestors
Jared this magnificent fabric Of free
overnment and its every stone is
laIked with the chisel and cemented
nth the blood of your sires. We be
ing to race which has never yet
ivIded sovereignty and dominion
ne very Joshua of mankind. of whom
WAS Written that upon whatsoever
iii ne sets his foot it shall be his and
0 man snail stand against MIN all the
avs of his life. This land is ours
V the blood of our foretatheIs, by tho
shes Of our dead. and, please God,
shall be transmitted unshorn OF its
lessings, to our descendants forever
lis 1t for such sentiments as these
rat | am 10 ue condemned? Is it for
ais that | am to be an outcast frC IN
10 favor Ut the Democratic party?
Immon every drop of white mans
lood in your veins to answer.
"Eellow citizens. | have challenged
" critics TO slow where you have
altered by any act or utterance of mine.
10 YOU tind il here? What dire Ca
unity befeli you by reason of my Ind
,nola spee IN? Let me tell you the
lain facts. The President put the
ostot1ice back and he appointed a
hite man. A little later, when like
,cident occurred, at Greenville.
'hi.e man quietly took the place of
~ negro, and no official notice was
ken of the incident. More than that.
lie President has changed his whole
purse with respect 10 tho Negro and
,e Southern people. He has repud
ted the significance of the Booker
'asnington dinner by publicly declar-
~ that there can he no social equality
etween the races. He has repuuiated
10 platform of his own party by
nietly signItylng MS disapproval of
le bill to reduce Southern representa-
on. lie has but recently declared,
lst as | did in my Indianola speech,
lat Tue Southern people should be left