The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-11-23
NEGRO CHIEF ISSUE.
Mr.. MORGAN W ULD
HAVE SOUTH PRESS 1T
ON DEMOCRACY.
Alabama Scion Puts Forth a
New Idea as a Means Of
ConstitutiOnally Elimi
mating the Blacks.


cratic party Of the United States
is aud has always been a white
mans party"
This plank. Senator John 7.
Morgan, Of Alabama. believes.
should be inserted in the Dem
ocratic national platform. V
special dispatch I" the Balti
more Sun. He believes fnrther
that some Southern State.
Though its delegates. should
press THIS plans before tie CON-
mitiee on resolutions With the
[ declaration that the delegates
will withdraw from the couven
ton IN case it Is uot adopted.
He would prefer tha; tie dec.
lafatlou come from a Northern
/ deleg alton. bur If none such al
vance it lie advocates that II be
presented by Southern State.
HIS Dan State. Alabama. comes
frst on lie alphabetical list. and
the high regard Ia witch the
Senate : Views arr held IN that
Safe iu>ures that is delegates
% Tie next Democratic uatieual
convention are more than liael,
- ae i-s.scel. upon the adoption
o.. such a plans
"S4-ulI any one Safe submit.
,-is p.aLz with a declaration OF
withdrawal lu case il j. rejected
i; would carry through" said Sru.
atgr Morgan. "Morro, er. il
~oull carry tie Presidency. 1t
would over op every other issue.
In HE Southern States the ques
ton : acute today. aud such a
declaration on tue part of the
rational convention would b.lng
The negro question Immediately
home TO the people OF the North.
who, sooner or later. will have to
meet il face 10 face. just as We OF
the South are doing today"
''lf any candidate for the Pres.
idency should decline TO mount
this platform, | would not help
him 10 do so by yielding my con.
viction, nor would | refuse to SUI
port him If he was fairly the
nominee of my party. l would
say to him. Nv hen You are better
acquainted with the foundation
of our government you will vel
come this saving truth to which
we will turn at last in order to
purify it and make it perpetual.
alabama has this duty before
1t, but 1t mnst be approached with
due care and circumspeclion with
out disturbing the vantage ground
that we now occupy. Rome was
not built III day, Yet it stands a
monumental lesson to the void
upon its seven hills, after many
ViclssitudeS.
81 nave expected this move
ment and this demand 10 come
from the white men of the North
as reaction from the extreme
action taken in 1850 to 1870. when
popular frenzy was employed as a
driving force to rush through
Congress the disastrous program
OF negro political and social equal
ity III the provisions of force
bills and bills to secure the equal
rights of negroes in hotels, the
aires and places of public resort.
That era has passed away. the
North having rejected its fOllies,
and II may never return
'The poor white people of the
North are feeling The fatal poison
OF such enactmentS and are ex
asperated at the new era of bru-
tally that social crimes have de
veloped among the negroes every.
where. The white people of the
South have resumed control of
their local affairs and need not
have no fear that the evil days
will return upon them in any new
and serious way if they are true
to their country and it's organic
laws.
The instruments by which
this deliyerance has been accom-.
plished are the ballot box and
the cotton plant. | do not pre-.
sumo to ignore the blessings of
| Providence. | believe that the
spirit of the Most High was the
controlling force that directed the
work of the convention that
framed the Constitution of the
United States and submitted il to
the States and people for its rat
ification. | believe that the 'peo-
| pie of the United States were
then set apart to establish and
execute that plan of government
which had no precedent or model
in the wisdom of nations. | do
not believe that the Indian tribes
or the African race were chosen
for that great trust in the birth
hour of this great republic. L
find no place for either of them
in that new political creation
the people Of the United States