The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-02
WILLIAMS AGAIN.

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light with an interview. In his most
recent, he is quoted as having said:
II believe that there is limit beyond
which the solid South itself will not go
in supporting a Democratic platform OF
a Democratic candidate, and that limit,
or one of the boundaries of it, is Fed
eral ownership and operation of rail
roads. The South is not going to put
I'D with negro conductors, negro ticket
agents, negro clerks in the passenger
and freight departments, nor common
coaches for the two races, nor common
waiting rooms for them. Moreover,
even il there were not a negro in the
South. | do not believe the South would
put up with the paternahstic and CEN
tralizing influence of the system, under
which political administration in
Washington would hold the daily bread
of million and a quarter of voters,
their wives and children, in its hands,
Mexicanizing the Republic and making
it cease to be republic of lesser repub-
lies"
1t is admitted candidly that Mr.. Will
Hams phrasing is catchy if not fetch
ing. but this disloyalty to one party
and party's principles can not be COM
mended, notwithstanding the implied
construction of fealty by the leader of
the Democracy in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States.
In the United States today there are
only two political parties contending Sc
riously for supremacy in the control OF
the government, while others are grow
ing and crowding the Republican and
the Democratic parties. 1t will not be
questioned that the policy of the Repub-
licans is to Africanize the public service,
especially in the South, and to Mexican
ize the United States by re-eleet1ng
Roosevelt for third term and as many
terms as he would desire until removed
from this mundane sphere; therefore it
is the duty of the South, and every
white man in the South possessing self
respect and having the least regard for
his family or his kindred, to disapprove
and to resist radically and determinedly
every policy and every pretension of
Republicanism.
The issue today in the South is not
the Federal ownership or operation of
railroads by the government, but it is
the all-important, the all-absorbing cleo
ton of a Democrat as the successor
of Roosevelt, OF any candidate of the
party of Capitalization, of the paternal-
istic system which enriches the North
to the detriment of the South.
IF the Democrats would triumph in
the next presidential election; if the
South would escape the bitter cup of a
greater hunliiiation-of political gall
and wormwood-there must be lineup
on the candidate of the Democracy and
the platform which will be enunciated
at the National Convention of the party.
In the failure of Democrats TO give
loyal support 10 Bryan; in the support
given TO the Republican candidates by
the Gold Bugs, the policy of centraliza-
ton and the curse of Authorization of
the South, through the public service,
was made possible.
As leader of his party Mr.. Williams
should have insisted that unflinching
loyalty to party in its contest with the
Republicans and their policies is the
highest duty incumbent on Democrat
and Of every white man having at heart
the welfare of the South. He should
have declared that the South, through
the dictates of self-preservation. must
be bound solidly against practically
solid North, and that in the failure of
the Democracy to elect their President
IN the next national contest, the South
can not escape the evil influence which
IS slowly but steadily creeping onward
and controlling with an element always
menace to good government. As a
leader he should have urged lineup, all
eyes to the right and dress up and the
forward march, with that resolution and
determination characteristic of the lead
er who never plays to the galleries or
would win the plaudits of his admirers
or his enemies.
Now, as desire to develop Mr.. Viii
Hams and to know if he would practice
his teaching, what would be his attitude
If the platform of the party should fail
to respond to or measure up to his no.
ton? Would he stand by the nominee
or would his influence be given to the
Republican candidate?
While John Temple Graves seems to