The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-07-23
Theodore E. Burton
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States rights; he is for taxation for
revenue only; he is for a currency
as good as the best in the world; he
IS for honesty and economy in public
expenditures he is for strict construc-
ton of the constitution; he is jealous
of power; he is for the largest personal
liberty consistent with public order.
He suspects all fads and experiments
He is a conservative.
on the other hand your Republican
of the average class has but one prin-
majority. He will never
never bolt; he is for the platform,
whatever it declares, and for the ticket
of Whomsoever it is composed. The
Republican party is thoroughly dis
ciplined. l could give a hundred ex-
amples, but a single one will suffice.
When the Fifty-ninth Congress was
convened the Republican party was
worse split up over the rate bill than
the Democratic party had been over
the silver question when the Fifty
third Congress convened. The Demo-
cratic party went all to flinders over
silver; the Republican party got to-
gether on rateS-eXcept Foraker, Sam
Mccall, and two or three others.
But there is faction in the Repub-
Ican ranks out in Ohio. and Burton
is in it w to the elbow. The colored
man and brother is in it. too and our
graduate of Oberlin is by no means
a ~favorite with the graduates of Xe-
mia. 1t seems that the negro soldiers
of the Twenty fifth United States
infantry amused themselves last Au-
gust by shooting up the town of
Brownsville. Tex. 1t is true tina they
denied it; but there is not a man in
the C4Ited States who has the faint
est conception of the negro character
who does not know that those negro
soldiers shot w. that town and hen
conspired to conceal the fact. President
Roosevelt very properly had the SOL
diers in the conspiracy discharged, and
the pity o. it is that there was not
a summary way to cashier some of tie
white commissioned officers. who have
put themselves in even a worse atti-
tude than the colored privates.
senator Foraker became the cham
plOn of the negro ruffians and abused
the Senate's patience and affronted its
Intelligence in numerous elaborate
addresses, designed to paint the dis
charged rioters as lambs sent to the
slaughter by Theodore Roosevelt and
William II. Taft. This thing is become
a matter of factional politics in the
Republican party of Ohio. where there
are some $4,000 negro voters, thOugh
the State Constitution of Ohio. is the
only one of the Union from which the
word white has not been
from its suffrage clause, L wonder if
senator Foraker is acquainted with the
experience Senator Summer, of Massa-
chusetts, had with Senator Revels. of
Mississippi, and there IS tradition,
whether fact or fiction. that Senator
Sumner perceptibly cooled in his zeal
as a finatic after he got the treat
ment Revels melted out to him in the
caucus that depOsed INN from the
craftsmanship of Foreign Citations. We
know Simmer voted the Democratic
ticket in 1872.
The Afro-American Council met in
Baltimore the other day and issued
a manifesto that to general
orders to the Republican party. 1t con-
demned William H. Taft and Henry
Cabot Lodge to political death and
sought TO mobilize the negro vote into
a separate organization to levy politi-