Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-25

called IAN organized appetite" Men take an
active parE=in politics only for the purpose
of securing an Office; hence republican poll
tics is disreputabie and decent men will not
act with that party.
The negro is out of the way. The new
constitution has removed him from politics.
The negro voter is no longer an objection
The democratic leaders say that they are
now willing to encourage negroes to vote,
because to obtain registration certificate
they must be educated or acquire property,
and thinking men believe that in local pol
ltics the colored taxpayers viii be divided
between the two PARTIES, If they are guided
by their own personal interest.
The lawyersEclaim that the constitution
viii stand any test to which 1t may be sub
Jected. The registration law has already
been before the supreme court and was
thrown OUT on accpunt of lack of jurisdic-
tfon The main question is likely to come
up at any time, but the ablest jurists have
no fear of the result. Thus the race ques-
ton may be considered settled in Ala
bama, and the elective franchise is limited
to the intelligent, thinking men of the
state; the business men and professional
men and the educated classes of mechanics
and other wage earners.
General Sympathy With Republican
Policies.
The sentiments of nearly one-half of the
democratic party. 1 am told (and this in
cludes the most influential business and
PiOASoSAohdA Ihefl Vi efois COAIihuhtyys
in sympathy with the republican admins
tration on the financial question, on the
tariff on its Philippine policy, on it's for
eign policy, in its efforts to build a Panama
canal and to encourage ocean shipping by
subsidies. One of the most prominent
democrats in the state said this:
Our people like Roosevelt as man, al
though they kick about his appointments
down here. One-half of the democrats sus-
tain him in everything he has done-Pan-
anna and Santo Domingo included-and the
other half would do so If it were neces-
sary."
While discussing the personality of one
OF the leading democrats of this state,
very Intelligent young woman remarked
that he was republican Her father dis
Sented. Whereupon she remarked:
why, papa. / have heard you talk poll
tics with him many time and you agree
on every subject He believes in every
thing you believe in, and you are a repub-
lican, aren't your
You're right, my child was the reply.
I'VE do agree on every subject; but he's
democrat and I'm republican,"
How many such democrats are there,
do you know, in this slater" / inquired.
Pretty much all my acquaintance are
in the same boat was the reply. IF they
lived in the north they would all be re-
publicans, but here in the south 1t is not
considered respectable to belong to that
party, even with the negro question out of
the way"
Is IL possible TO DullQ up republican
party here" I asked.
Yes; If the present organization could
be abolished and the present leaders per-
manently suppressed
This is the opinion of every person I have
talked with, democrat or republican. and
it Is remarkable how often you hear people
say that Mckinley would have split the
''solid south if he had lived to serve out
his term s
The democratic party is hopelessly di-
vided into factions; it has principles
that are not obsolete; it has no issues that
are popular; it's leaders do nothing but crit
icise the republican administration, and that
does not commend them to the public All
contests for office are settled at the pri-
maries. A nomination is good as an
election. The new constitution applies to
primaries as well as to elections; hence
it has REDUCED the numerical strength of
the party at least one-half.