The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-28

Endorses Senator MOFEan's Proposed
 Plank fer Democratic RlatfOrm. Editor Advertiser:
 stand of Senator Morgan of your State relative to the negro question and the next National platform of the Demo r eraieI party is;, Resolved. that the Is, and has always been, white mans party"
 I am a commercial traveller, repre- ing nearly all the South. and feel I am competent to speak on this ques- tion.
 since coming South and seeing condi- tions here, 1 fully agree with the South on the race problem.
 Now if the Senator from Alabama, for whom l entertain the highest re- aro' sert "5ii plank K in f tSe next Democratic National platform, declare for the re- peal of the fifteenth amendment to the constltution of the United States, he will meet my ideas exactly.
 I favor leaving the franchise to the different States and as know from personal observation the average ne gro is no more capable of intelligently exercising the franchise, than tho Filipino is of government, and may say not one half as weu duall- fled. There are other Issues to como before the people, but to my mind, none of one half the importance as this race question,
 This fifteenth amendment was con- ceived in error, in the heat and haste of sectional strife; and time has proven 1t a breeder of more Sectional feeling. black impudence, arrogance and crime. than anything that has ever entered our national life.s
 1t makes the negro, as far as the Federal government is concerned, the equal of the white man He is not the equal, never was and never will be.
 La knC A will submit to the domination of any other race, and the negro presumes to domination. Gods chosen people" were white. He declared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that He would make of them ''chosen people" All admit the Jews are white. Shall we make of other races something which the Crea- tor did not design? In the race for the negro invariably fails, thus caus- ing envy and finally leveopinE into revenge in the shape of criminal as-
 The negro of the South imagines he is a privileged character as far as the Federal government Is concerned.
 nave only to cite my Northera friends to the Brownsville, Texas, in- cident, to prove the negro's utter arro- gance, and defiance of even the su- preme authority of the Federal gov ernment
 And right here l want to enter word of praise for President Roosevelt in his drastic action in this case; noth- ing short of what he did would have been adequate and further, l positively pity the ignorance and haste of the Northern whites in condemning him.
 All praise to President Roosevelt tn his manly and just action l have als ways been a Republican and my home is in a Northern State, solidly Repub- lican but, given an opportunity to vote on this repeal question, it will be in favor of the repeal. ,-,
 Ohio, by the State Legislature. rat fled the amendment. but my popular vote in Ohio was lost
 In fact, it has never yet been rati- fled by two -thirds of the union, by pop
 shail we let this burning disgrace
 shail not we of the North rather say to our white brethren of the south, it out and thus blot from history the one act that keeps sectional feeling stirred"
 breed and multiply trouble and sor. row, and as long as this section is in the Federal Consultation these crimes will increase, our innocent women VIII suffer andJ9age Lynch will continue 70 hold court/ not only in this beautiful Southland. but he is fast extending his turisdiction to the productive worth.
 The longer we delay, action the heav- fer our penalty will be, Many t1 us have pledged ourselves to give our lives, if need be, to protect innocence and virtue" Must 1t come to the need be" stage2 What is the matter with Senator Morgan for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, in 1908?
 Some say the Northern and Eastern Democrats won't support a Southerm man"
 Let me ask, have they recently sup ported a Northern, Western or Eastern
 A Northern Republican.