The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-21
THEODORE E. BURTON

coal iron. stone. phosphate. lead. zinc. and all that He knows the agricultural ener- gies of either bank and how much freight they will supply. Above all. he knows the probable cost of improvement and if the game is worth the candle. He Is abso- lutely honest man. Just and impartial to the marrow. and with . will of iron. Thus. when 1t comes to rivers aAd harbors. Theo- dore E. Burton is the American Congress-; and If all the other of the peoples affairs had been as we'll managed. the country would be in heap better fix than it is.
 Faction is the tribulation of party and the delight of history. It has thwarted much of good and more of evil The Dem ocratfc party is fair game for it. and many cruel blow it has dealt that organization When you get into the superior class of Democrats you find a set who will not fol- low the multitude to do evil. They refuse to yell Release unto ps Barabbas'' because 1t is in the platform to turn Barabbas loose. Local self-Rovernment is the soul of the Democratic party. and your true Demo- crat is so for what he believes. He Is for states' rights: he is for taxation for revenue only; he is for . currency good as the best in the world: he is for honesty and economy in public expenditures: he is for strict construction of the Constitution: he is Jealous of power: he is for the largest personal liberty consistent with public or
 
 He is conservative.
 On the other hand. your Republican of the average class has but one principle-the majority. He will never bolt: he is for the platform. whatever 1t declares and for the ticket. of whomsoever 1t is composed The Republican party Is thoroughly disciplined. could give a hundred examples. but sin gle one will suffice. When the Fifty ninth Congress was convened the Republican par ty was worse split up over the rate bill than the Democratic party had been over the silver question wren the Fifty -th'rd Congress convened. The Democratic party went all to flinders over silver: the Re publican party got together on rates-ex- cept Foraker. Sam Mccall and two pr tnr,e others.
 But there is faction in the Republican ranks out in Ohio. and Surton is in 1t up to the elbow. The colored man and brother Is in it. too. and our graduate or operilh Is by no means favorite with the gradu- ates of xenia. It seems that the negro sol diers of the Twenty-fifth United States In shooting up the town of Brownsville, Tex It is true that they denied 1t: but there is not a man in the United States who has the faintest conception of the negro character who does not know that those negro roldirrs shot up that town and then conspired to conceal the fact. President Roosevelt very properly had the soldiers in the conspiracy discharged. and the pity of it Is that there not a summary way to cashier some of the white commissioned officers. who have put themselves in even a worse attitude than the colored privateJ.
 Senator Foraker became the champion of the negro ruffians and abused the senate's patience and affronted its intelligence in numerous elaborate addresses. designed to paint the discharged rioters lambs sent to the slaughter by Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. This thing Is become a matter AL> ID of Ohio. where there are some 2e.000 negro voters though the State constitution of Ohio is the only one in the Union from which the word white" has not been sexpunged from its suffrage clause. I wonder if Sena- tor Foraker is acquainted with the exper- fence Senator Sumner. of Massachusetts. had with Senator Reveis. of Mississippi. and there is tradition, whether fact or fiction, that Senator Sumner perceptibly cooled in his zeal as a fanatic after he got the treat ment Revels meted out to him in the cau- GUS that deposed Sumner from the chair manship of Foreign Relations We know suner voted the Democratic ticket in 1872.
 The Afro-American council met in Balti- more the other day and issued 0 manifesto that amounts to general orders to the Re- publican party. It condemned William H. Taft and Henry Cabot Lodge to political death and sought to mobilize the negro vote into n separate organization to levy politi- cal bIackmail on the c. o. P. It will not work Your white Republican of the North is in no better temper to take orders from the negro than Is your white Democrat of th. sou,h. If all the negroes of the North fall fin with this idea. promulgated by this Afro-American council and persist in it. the wear 1920 will see the fifteenth amendment n, the Federal Constitution as much of a dead letter in Ohio and Indiana as H is ,n Alabama and Mississippi. The COP would ho g,ad to see negro rule at the South. but # does not intend to have 1t at home. Sen a,or Forakers speech to Wilberforce Uni- versity was a demand for negro rule in at least three Southern States The 1irst an- IeaS. .a ,t was the beating up of a negro in +h. Tinted States Treasury Department