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RAGE ISSUE.
Senator Morgan Would Make 1t
a Straight Test by a
WHITE MANS PARTY.

Wants the Democracy 10 Dsc'afe III its
Platform That II Stands for White
Supremacy Alone and He
Thinks II Would Win
Next Election.
"Resolved, That the Democratic
party Of lts United Sta5as is and has
always been q Whits r,aG's party"
THIS plank, Senator ] IN I. Mor-
gan, OF Alabama, believes, saould 90
inserted in the Dsmocrasic national
platform. He believes turthsr that
some Southern State, thru ugh It's dele.
gates, should press this plank before
the 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 declsra.
tion come from q Northern delegation,
but II none such advance 1t 10 advo'
Gates that 10 bs presented by 5 South
ern State. His own State, Alabama,
comes first on the ALPHABET ical LIST,
and the high regard In which the
Senator's views are held in that State
insures that its delegate to the next
Democratic national convention are
more than likely to lie %insistent upon
the adoption of such a plank
"Sould any one State submits this
plank with q deolarationo OF w~ith3rwal
In case Ii is rejsoted it would carry
through" said Senator Morgan.
"Morso> or, 1T would carry tho Presi
deaoy. II would oversop every osher
is,us. In the Southern States The
question Is acute today, and such .
declaration on the part Of the nation.
al convention would bring the negro
question Immediately home to the
people Of tho North, who, sooner OF
later, will have to meet 1t face to
face, just as we Of the South are do.
ing today.
1T any candidate for the Presi.
dency should decline to mount this
platform, I would not help him to do
80 by yielding my conviction, nor
would I refuse to support him If he
was fairly the nominee Of my party.
I would say to him, When you are
better acquainted with the founds
tions Of our government you will wei.
come this saving truth to which We
will turn 1T last in order to purify l.
and make 1t perpetual
Alabama has this duty before 1t,
but it must be approached with due
care and circumspsction without dis
turbing the vantage ground we now
occupy. Rore was not built In q
day, yet it stands q monumental leg
son to the world upon it's seven hills,
after many viclssitudes.
II have expesGed this movement
and this demand to come from the
white men of the North as a reaction
from tho extreme action taken In
1850 to 1870, when popular frenzy was
employed as q driving force to rush
through Congress the disastrous pro.
gram of negro political and social
equality in tbs provisions OF force
BILLS and bills to secure the equal
rights Of negroes in hotels, theaterS
and places of public resort. That era
has passed away, the North having
rejected it's follies, and it may never
return.
1.-THE poor white people OF the
North are feeling the fatal poison Of
such ensctnents and are exaspersted
ut the usw era Of brutality that
social crimes havs developed among
the negroes everywhere. The white
psople Of the South have resumed
control Of their local affairs and need
have no fear that the evil days will
return upon them in any new and
serious way If they are true to their
country and its organic laws.
1.-THE instruments by which this
deiverance has been accomplished
are the ballot box and the cotton
plant. I do not presume to ignore
the blessings Of Providence. I be-
lieve that the spirit of the Most
High was the controlling force that
directed the work Of the convention
that framed the constitution Of the
United States and submitted it to
the States and the people for ratifca-
tion. I believe that the people of
tho 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. I
do not believe that the Indian tribes
or the African race were chosen for
that great trust in the birth hour Of
the republic. I find no place for either
Of them in that new political creation
the psople Of the United States
The people, instructed with that
vast and precious duty were named
In the preamble to the constitution.
They and their delegates wore all
white people, assembled from many
countries, and of many languages.
They came together by . common i'm.
pulse, like that of the Wise Men, who,
led by a star, met at tho stable ir
Bethlehem to bear witness to . royal
birth.
"This was tho Inauguration Of the
sovereignty Of the governing people
Of the United States, as . racial ma
tion or dynasty Of white people. In.
dams In tribes were then inhabitants
OF vast areas and were segregated
from the people Of the United States,
and were recogn lied in the constitu-
tion as . se~lf-governing people with
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