The Columbus commercial., 1906-11-06

Inc NaSnVlilo, IenH., AmefI.
can of October, 10Th, comes very
nearly hitting the bulls eye in
the following, about our distin-
guished Governor and his great
desire tc repeal the fifteenth
amendment:
Gov. Vardaman of Mississip-
pi, announces his intention,
should he be sent to the United
States Senate, to urge the repeal
of the fifteenth amendment. He
is reported to have said in an in
terview given out in Chicago
yesterday: ''It is my hope.
through the United States Sem
ate to demonstrate to the nation
that there is only one practical
way of settling this matter. and
that is by plainly showing the
negro his proper place in our
system of government. The race
question must be settled, and
that very soon. 1t cannot be dis
posed of, however, until the ma
ton as a whole has been con-
vinced that there is a distinction
between the white and the
black
1t is probable that the Cover
nor is using this ultra and i'm
practical issue for campaign con-
sumption without any real belief
that he can carry it into national
politics. He won the governor
ship in Mississippi by proposing
to give negro schools such sup
port only as came from taxes
paid by negroes, but he has not
been able to secure such baneful
legislation, the nearest approach
to it being his mischievous veto
of the Legislative appropriation
for the Negro Normal School at
Holly Springs. He finds it a
good stepping stone to office,
however, to play on the race
prejudice of the illiterate whites
in the hill counties of Missis sippi
and many of them are credulous
enough to believe that he could
really secure the repeal of the
fifteenth amendment if he were
elected a United States Senator
The fifteenth am endment was
monumental blunder born II
sectional rancor and the over.
sloping of the abolition senti.
ment. 1t did the South lncalcu'
liable injury. 1t aggravated th'
race problem and brought de
moralized political condition.
from which the South was man'
years in recovering. But tn
| country at large will not consen
to it's repeal. The "war amend
ments" as they are called at tn
North are regarded there with
sentimental attachment and rev
erence and such agitation a.
Gov. Vardaman proposes to in
augurate, if he could make an
impression at all, would serv
only to inaugurate another era {
| sectional politics and give in
petus to renewed force bills, an
Crumpacker bills that unde
present conditions are but r.
mote menace to the South's pc
! Iitical peace.
Mississippi is getting alon
we'll enough under its new col
,, stitution and the heavy negr
population there constitutes I
/ factor in it's politics. The pc
pie of Mississippi would be Wi
in this particulaT to let We
enough alone. While the Mort
!, ern politicians refrain from I'll
{ agitation of the political cond
O ton of the negro in Mississippi,
K behooves the Mississipplans
keep quiet on that subject, al
those who are sensible and res
Z ly patriotic will do so.
II Agitation of the race relatio
:, IN the South for any reason is
= ADVISED and it would BE- espec
,f ally mischievous when CARR
W into national politics. The dive
d ing together of the two races
the South is a condition rath
:, than a problem. It is not
d thing to be solved oy legisl
id ton or otherwise. All consld'
alton of right and common ser
or dictates that the whites a