The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-08-25
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WRONG TACK


daman for the United States Senate,
few OF the State papers are derid-
ing him for his position on the race
question They allow their prejudice
against the Governor to get the ber-
ter Of their argument, and take
tack, which if it were followed by all
Southern people, would bring about
Ia condition unbearabie.
These few papers claim the race
question a dead issue and that it Is
almost barbaric in this twentieth
century OF enlightment These few
papers claim that it IS the duty OF
the present day to uplift the be-
nighted negro and do all that is pos
sible to help the black brother. They
take issue with the Governor on
every point in his argument on the
race question and try to make it ap
pear that His Excellency Is bent on
brow-beating the negro.
We did think that the people OF
Mississippi were fully acquainted
with the Governors position on this
question. Whatever reasons are
assigned for his victory in his last
race it is generally conceded that he
rode to the Governors chair on his
race question plank and with all the
criticism, it was a most generous one
to the negro.
The race question is not dead, and
| If anything is more prominent and
| important today than it was two
years ago
Last Tuesday the grand old State
of Georgia proved this when it set its
endorsement on the coons retirement
by electing Hoke Smith as Governor
over five strong men.
How any editor can claim the issue
dead, we can not see, when negroes
| from all over the United States as
sembled at Harpers Ferry, in what
IS called the Niagara Movement"
are clamoring for equality, for the
franchise and for every white mans
right The most prominent leaders
| OF this race addressed the convention
meetings and in strong terms de
manded no end of rights for the ne
gro, They demanded the highest
education and every favor Can any
sensible Southern white man fail to
see the significance of all this? Can
he doubt the result if the negroes
desires were granted? And does each
year lessen the demands of the edu-
Gated negro?
The black man was the born serv-
ant OF the white, to obey, not COM
mand; to serve, not ruule, and the
farm and plantation his natural home.
There he can labor in the work for
which he was intended and at the
same time enjoy his freedom and So
c1ety- If the negroes of the cities
were forced to return to the farm to-
day, 1t would not be necessary to send
to Italy for labor
he old negroes today say their
happ1est days were spent on the farm
and we believe they will be returned
or colonized
he Republican party is wise and
IS gradually wedding out the negro
| political power in its ranks. Every
presidential campaign they ask less
help of the negro vote. In some of
the largest Northern cities the negro
property holders have tried to over
reach Upon the white resident sec
tons. What has caused this7 Their
efforts met defeat and why? Because
he was not wanted as a neighbor. an
equal. The negro is better educated
! TO-DAY than he was ten and twenty
years ago, and right here we ask. has
his crime against defenceless white
women decreased On the contrary,
Verify. the race question is not dead
Give the average negro the higher
education, which he seldom masters.
and he becomes pompous, is filed
and running over with self-conceit
and is a hard one to handle and keep
within his proper bounds.
But Governor Nardaman does not
beileVe IN brow-beating and cheating
the negro. He believes in educating
him enough to look after himself and
save himself from being cheated by
grasping white men. He be-
iieves IN protecting him and in Civ
ing him rights that vii make him a
contented and peaceable citizen. He
made all this clear to every white
person IN the State OF Mississippi
in his last campaign, and every
white man IS fully acquainted with
his ideas and opinions
Governor Nardaman has openly de-
claned that if he IS elected to the
United States Senate he will make