The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-11-30
G |. ISSUE
Senator Morgan WoaId Make 1t
q Straight Test by a
WHITE MANS PARTY.
Wants The Democracy to Declare Ia lis
Platform That 1t Stands for White
Supremacy Alone and He
Thinks II Would Win
Next Election.

links ~ WOuu Wh
Next Election.
Resolved, THAI the DIR ocre Ito
party ofgbhe United Ststas ID aud has
slways been q white mans party"
Thts plank, Senator Jehn T. M;r-
gan, of Alabama, believes, should TO
inserted in the Democratic national
platform. He believes further that
Homa Southern State. throughit dele.
gates, should press this plank before
the committee on resolutions with
the declaration that the delegates
will Withdraw from the convention In
case it Ia not adopted.
He would prefer that the deolara.
zion come from q Northern delegation,
but IL none suoh advance 1T no advo.
oates that 10 DO presented 10y o South.
orn State. His own State, Alabama,
comes frat on the alphabetical LIST,
and the high rogald In which tho
Senator'S viows are held In that State
insureB that It's delegate to the next
Democratic national convention sre
more than likely to he ineistent upon
che adoption OF such q plank.
"6ould any one State submit this
plank with o declaration of Withdrawal
In case 1t Ia rel 3otGd 1t would csrry
through" said Senator Morgan.
Moreover, 1t would carry the Presi
denoy. 1t would overtop every other
issue. In the Southern States the
question is acute today, and suoh p
declaration On the part Of the nation.
al convention would bring tho negro
question Immediately home to the
people of the North, who, sooner OF
later, will have to meet IL face to
face, just as we Of the South are do
ing. today.
III any candidate for tho Presi-
donoy should decline to mount this
platform, / would not help him to do
30 by yielding my conviction, nor
would l refuse to support him If he
was fairly the nominee OF my party.
1 would say to him, When you are
better acquainted with the founda.
bSons of our government you will vel.
some this saving truth to which we
Will turn at last in order to purify 1t
&uu make 40 pefpOGual.'
Alabama has this duty before it,
but it must be approached with due
care and oiroumSpeotion Without dis
turbtng the vantage ground we now
occupy. Rone was not built in o
day, yet 1T stands q monumental les
son to the world upon its seven hills,
after many vloissitudes.
Il have expected this movement
and this demand to come from the
white men of the North as q reaction
from the extreme action taken In
1850 to 1870, when popularfrerzy was
employed as q driving force to rush
through Congress the disastrous pro.
gram Of negro political and sooial
equality in the provisions Of force
BILLS and bills to seoure the equal
Rights Of negroes In hotels. theatars
and places Of public resort. That era
has paBged away, the North having
rejected its ~follies, and IL may mover
return.
The poor white people Of the
North are feeling the fatal poison OF
such enactments and are e~xasperatad
at the new era Of brutality that
social crimes have developed among
the negroes everywhere. The white
poople Of the South have resumed
control OF their local affairs and need
have no fear that the evil days will
reGurn upon them in any now and
serious way II they are true to their
county and It's organic laws.
Tho Instruments by which this
deliverance has been accomplished
are the ballot box and the cotton
plant. l do not presume to ignore
the blessings Of Providence. 1 be-.
lieve that the spirit Of the Most
High was the controlling force that
directed the work Of the convention
chat framed the constitution Of the
United States and submitted 1t TO
the States and the people for rabiios-
ton. Il believe that the people of
the United States were then oct apart
to establish and execute that plan OF
government which had no p~recedenb
or model In the wisdom Of nations. I
do not believe that the Indian tribes
or the African race were chosen for
that great TRUSS In the birth hour Of
the republic. / find no place for either
Of them In that new political creation
the people Of the United States
The people instructed with that
vast and precious duty were named
In the preamble to the constitution,
They and their delegates were all
white people, assembled from many
countries, and Of many Languages.
They came together by a common inn
pulse, like that OF the Wise Men, who,
led by q star, met at tho stable ia
bethlehem to bear witness to O royal
birth.
This was the Inauguration Of the
sovereignty Of the governing people
Of the United States, as 9 racial ma.
tion or dynasty Of white people. IN.
dams In tribes were then inhabitants
OF vast areas and were segregated
from bhe people of the United States,
and were recognized In the constitu-
Gion as q gelf-goVerning people with
whom treaties could be entern5,into.
Negroes were here, in every State
and Territory, but they were slaves,
and not even recognized In the con.
stiGutton as constituting o people or q
bIib0 or III having any right that did
not D0ioDg alike TO aii human beings.
Thsro were no other people In Che
country, and tho negroes and the In.
Glars were nos represented In that
convention. When the constitution,
Ia bhe preamble, declared that we,
the paople Of the United States, do
cr6ata this government FOR ourselves
and our po9terity,' The line OF delimi.