The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-20
Wants Democratic Convention to Dec are Party "he White
 Mans PafIy'
WILL CARRY PRESIDENCY
 F PUT IN THE PLATFORM
If the State Presenting the Idea shoule Threaten to Withdraw If Not Adopted, Senator Thinks
 1t Would Carry.

Washington. November 19.-tSpecal)- eRosolved. That the democratic party of the United States is and has always been a white mans party"
 This plank Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama believes should be inserted in the next democratic national platform. He goes further. He believes that some state through it's delegates assembled, should press this plank before the con- vontion's committee on resolutions with the declaration that the delegates will withdraw from the convention in case it is not adopted. He would prefer that the declaration come from delegation repre- senting d northern state, but if such is not the wish of such delegation rather than have the matter eliminated, he ad- vocates that it be presented by q south ern state. His own state, Alabama, comes first on the alphabetical list, and the high regard in which the senator's views are held in that state insures that it's delegates to the next national conyen- ton will more than likely be inslstent upon the adoption of such Il plank.
 Would Carry the Presidency.
 should any one state submit this plank | with declaration of withdrawal In l case it is rejected it would carry through said the senator tonight. More over, 1t would carry the presidency. It ! would overtop every other issue. In the
 southern states the g}test ipu nQute To-
 day and such a deciafatfof on tiie 'pai't
 of the national convention would bring
 the negro situation immediately home 10 the people of the north, who sooner or 1 later will have to meet it face to face, 1,,if day.
 Expected North to Act. "f have expected continued the sen i ator, "ths movement and his demand to i come from the white men of the north as l a reaction from the extreme action taken from lS6O to 1870, when popular frenzy was employed as a driving force to rush through Congress the disastrous pro- gramme of negro political and social equality in the provisions of force bills, and bills 10 secure the equal rights of negroes in hotels theatres and places Of public resort. That era has passed away. l the north having rejected it's folies. and ii may 1t never return. The poor white peo- hple of the north are feeling the fatal i poison of such enactments, and are exas- i perated at the new era of brutality that social crimes have developed among the l negroes everywhere. The white people of the south have resumed control Of l which this deliverance has been accomp- ! llshed are the ballot box and the cotton 1 plant
 "I do not presume to ignore the bless 1 ings of Providence. 1 believe that the i spirit of the Most High was the controll- 1 ing force that directed the work of tho l convention that drafted the constitution of the United States and submitted it to l the states and the people for ratification. l believe that the people 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 i the Indian tribes the African race was chosen for that great trust in the i birth hour of this republic. find no place for either of them in that new political creation--'the people of the l United States
 "The People" Named In Preamble.
 The people. entrusted with the vast l and precious duty. were named in the
 preamble of the constitution. They and
 their delegates were all white people. as-
 sembled from many countries, and of | many languages. They came together by l common impulse. This was the in- auguratlon of the sovereignty of the gov
 erning people of the United States, as q | racial nation, or dynasty of white people. l Negroes were here In every state and :. territory but they were slaves and not
 even recognized in the constitution as | constituting t people or a tribe, or as having any right that did not belong l alike to all human beings Except the i Indians, there were no other people in l the country and the negroes and the l Indians were not represented in that con 1 vention When the constitution in the preamble declared that we. the people 1 Of the United States. do ordain this gov ernment for ourselves and our posterty.' 1 .Ix it. tf ] clear as if the Chinese, or the negroes. | in the free state of the Congo. should ! ordain a written constitution creating a l government whose sovereignty should be- ] long to them and their posterty. We | established a people whose racial dis l tnction was that of the white man.
 and confirmed to them the sovereignty l they had won from the British crown. l and so it shall be while the preamble l of the constitution shall stand and bear | witness to an established fact. Our
 white people have always recognized l these truths as being sacred and have | never denied or abandoned them.
 Search Into the Foundations.
 Tn one cardinal principle" concluded
 the senator. "I am now. as have all l ways been. true to the conviction that, 1 as to government. I would search into the foundations of our creeds for the
 true stuff for the making of plank fin
 our platform like this: Resolved. that inc democratic party of the United States is and has always been white
 mans party.
 '.If any candidate for the presidency
 should decline to mount this platform.
 would not help him 10 do so by yield-
 ing my conviction nor would refuse
 to support him if he were fairly the
 nominee of my party. would Say to
 him; When roH are better acquainted
 with the foundations of our government