The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-08-29
VOLUME Z \ Y!I. No. ST

WIZ touiu not expect ma.
! 1ortty In Kentucky, pay the slight
est attention to what the people ol
lkentucky wishedt Why should the
President take into his cabinet a rep.
resentatiye from kentucky?
kentucky while .an agricultur,
al state, us developing great manu-.
LECTURERS. 1t is developing great
mining districts, and all of, them are
more or less dependent for their sue.
cess upon the protective tariff. There
are a number,AI doubt not, amone e
the democrats Of Kentucky; many
sincere protective tariff men, and vet
Throughout these 40 years sinae the
! war they have come forward solidly
and steadily TO vote the democratic
1lcket merely because Of the feeling
on the race issue, which they de-
rived from their far Southern breth-
rem. Now; ,is it not time for a high
~ intelligent, many intelligent, cleo
| torate to commune with itself and
TO say to itself that the period has
arrived In which by Independent ac-
tloR at the polls it shall establish
us rights to be considered by both
parties as a factor in making Mn
national al"policies and in selecting ma.
t1onal candidates.? =. r.,
History Repeats.
I'VE have arrived in the HISTORY
or the politics of this country at what
seems TIA be repetition of that con-
dlt1on which existed at> the end OF
Monroe's second administration, call
Cd the era Of good feeling. After
Violent outbursts against President
hooseyelt for his expressed sympathy
1or the colored man the men of the
South generally have come to recog-
nlze the sterling virtues and cour-
age and independence of our Presi-
dent. and I venture to say that there
10 no section of the country in which
ne 'ls more popular than he Is in the
South today. 1t was not an exae-
geration when gentleman of Texas
VINO greeted the president on be-
half Of one OF the cities of that state
said to him: Mr.. President, we well
come you to state where you have
more friends and fewer voters than
any state In the Union That was
true: That was an anomaly, and
When | ask you today is there any
reason for the existence of such an
anomaly, whether the time has not
come, especially for men of Ken
tucky. In. which there was never
Inc slightest occaion for the race
Efeeltng, to support President Roose.
l'VeN, not only I'M any expression
OF good wifi, not only In any praise
and approval, but also In that which
counts, In casting their ballots in be-
half of the party and its candidates
Of which he is the head.
propose, with your permission
Tor little while, to take up the race
question. 1T Is a question that Is
d1fhcult to deal with impartially
and In spirit Of friendliness and
charity toward all sides so as to avoid
irritating and bitter response. And
yet when one comes into a Southern
community with that regarded as
perhaps the chief object of the day
one cannot be frank and courage
Gus and avoid it. I know that the
discussion by northern man of
Ihe question ts apt to rouse on the
part Of the Southern democrat the
objection that he does not under
stand the question: that he does not
know the difficulties Of it, and that
| If he can't take 1t up without SYM
pathy with the attitude of the white
man the South he had better not
take 1t up at ALL
Invites Criticism,
"On the other hand. he is liable to
encounter the criticism of the color
| ed men, who with a natural sensi-
| t1Veness and interest in their race
| and remembering the\wrongs and op-
Dressions to which their race has
been in times past subjected, resents
on the part Of the northern man
any attitude which does not involve
CONTAMINATION 7of tflo attitude vi ti1s, tti1s
Southern white man, or which mani
tests the slightest consideration for
! his view. / am not pessimist with
| respect to the race question. am
convinced that it ts working itself
| out, and I am convinced that nothing
| has SO much contributed to it's
gradual solution as the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amend.
ments.
! Tho thirteenth amendment abol-
| lshed slavery. There have been some
intermittent attempts on the part of
extreme mon In the South at times
TO revive system Of involuntary
| serVitnde, called peouage, which,
however, Is subject to prosecution
| under the federal law, and which we
may expect to be eliminated in due
course. TtAe thirteenth amendment
on tho whole has been entirely eff
! fecttvc to release the slaves.