Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-23


OF the South and England's industrial
life would receive almost death
blow. while that of New England
would totter upon It's foundations, Cot.
ton still Is king.
Il Will venture to say that the ex.
listing political conditions, under which
the two races are so rapidly aivanc-
Ing In material prosperity. are. in
their general outlines, the only posi-
Bile or practicable ones But far be Il
| from me to declare or intimate that
no improvements, no authorizations
are necessary. The basic principle
upon which the new Southern consti.
tutions rest is that as fast as our col.
ored citizens become qualified by
education or property. or both for
the franchise. they shall be endowed
with 1t. Without fraud or subterfuge
that principle should he firmly applied
in the actual administration of GOV.
eminent. Intelligent and responsible
minorities of colored voters thus In.
troduced into Southern celebrates can
never menace, in my Judgment. the no
litical supremacy of race endowed
with an genius for domination. Along
with Il just ard gradual bcstowal Of
the franchise should go an earnest eff.
fort to advance the negro race through
public cducation.'
On the subject of territorial evpan.
sion, Mr.. Taylor reviewed the var.ous
steps In the acquisition of former
French and Spanish possessions. in
Guiding Louisiana, Texas, California
and Florida, and the action Of tn,
American government in bringing
about the freedom of Cuba. He de-
clared that as a result of these sev.
eral acts the South has reaped tire.
mendous benefit and continued:
when all Of it's antecedents are duly
considered do you think that the
South should set her face against
this policy territorial and commercial
expansion, from which she is now
rcaping such Il harvest, upon the
round that 1t is contrary to the teach.
incs Of Southern and Democratic
statesmen. Should the South lay the
axe at the root of tree that Jeffer
son planted an Cleveland watered? Is
1t not almost time for the impractical.
bic dreamers who rail ut this policy
to perceive that the growth OF n nm.
ton like that of n plant is the nevita-
BILE and predcstined outcome of nat
ural law.
when intolerable conditions forced
President Mckinley to intervene in
the affairs of Cuba he did not hest
tate to strike the blow which severed
that Island from Spain and added tc
our dominions Porto Rico, Guam and
the Philippines. Since the advent OF
President Roosevelt have heard no
complaint whatever of his hostility to
the policy of expansion. At the head
of this great and growing nation VIC
now have an enlightened and progress.
sive statesman who has been equal
to all his opportunities, and who is
regarded, certainly in foreign lands,
as the foremost living American
When through his harpy and friendly
intervention the war between Japan
ana Russia was closed by treaty exc
cuted upon American soil he gave to
our diplomacy place 1t had never oc.
cupied before the worlds politics. I'M
judging him the South should not for.
get that he has never lifted either his
hand or his voice, so far as | know,
against the settlement of that uues.
ton Of questions which she has EN-
oodied in her new constitution"