Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-29
IT is AN HERITAGE
TO BE WHITE

inc OBJECT or this communication
Is TO make some reply to an article
coming out In the Goo Goo" sheet
several days ago and handed In at
my house. purporting to be publish
ed by the Publication Committee of
the Citizens Party The paper from
which | quote is not dated, and there
seems to be no one responsible for
what goes in except the Publication
Committee. The day after the Unit
ed Citizens Party made their nomi-
nations, one OF the candidates told
the writer that he was a candidate
i asked what was the party, and
what did they propose to advocate.
and his reply was whispered TO me
anything TO be elected" and this
seems to be the principal plank in
their platform. They are evidently
throwing out inducements to get the
negro vote. II seems they attempted
TO quote from the Informer OF De
cember 1905 an editorial styled "A
step In the right direction" Now so
TO be no harm done and no insult TO
any white man OF this or any other
section. In fact the negro writing
/ tho article seems To know his proper
place. and even tries TO excite n GER
tain degree OF emulation among his
people TO try and initiate the white
man in his doings We understand
that this quotation stops with the
sentence which ends with "a step
In the right direction" The editor
of the paper coming out the other
morning in behalf or the United Cit
liens Party either says or seems to
say. the following: There are hun
dreds OF thousands of white men.
among whom the editor OF the Issu,
is proud to count himself one. who
believe that moral. respectable
black man is just as worthy fell
low human being and citizen as IA
white man who behaves himself -
and good deal better than one who
does not. We rejoice I'm the good in
huences of such men ms Booker r.
Washington. Professor Curry and
others OF their race who are helping
us make better civilization"
i Is IL possible that any man or com
mittee OF men could write the above
In such a time as this and in such
n city as Bluefeld. II is quite GER
tain that If the editor OF the Good
I Citizens Bulletin did not write the
above quotation, he endorses II and
the party seems TO endorse these
sentiments, as no one seems To have
come out and denounced them or
aimed to break away and explain
why such sentiments on the negro
man have been put in print To say
that politics are peculiar and that
IL is anything to get elected. will not
do when as grave a matter as the
negro social equality question Is in
volved. II seems that the true
white man Is as good as the negro
provided he behaves himself: other
wise not so good
Now the best information that I
can get as TO the origin Of the negro
IS that he descends from Canaan,
the fourth son of Ham, and IL is my
understanding that every one is a
negro who has n drop of this blood
in him no matter in what proportinn
Il consists. II is both ancient and
modern history that when any ma
ton attempts TO mix up and counte.
nance. or even associate with mon
grel breed that they degenerate and
some TO destruction. Therefore, II
is always well for good Democrats
and good Republicans, and other peO-
pie who are not especially alive, TO
be careful TO keep travelling on the
right road 10 edlfcatIon, even IL
straight and narrow he the way"
II the sentiments OF the editor OF
the Issue be the sentiments OF the
entire or greater part OF the United
Citizens party, then we are all left
70 infer that they are rapidly turning
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