The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-07-23

IdVOIS dS COIlSlQGIasltgn TO the
contributing corporations for double
dealing with the people and the
transportation companies in the
matter of transportation rates by
the interstate carriers; and for
many other iniquities of the re-
publican party too numerous to
mention.
This being the attitude of Judge
Taft, the representative of the re-
publican party in this campaign,
would not do anything to throw
any votes to him. If | were in
Ohio on the day of the election and
were to see a thousand negroes
staying away from the polls on &C
count of their antipathy to the po-
sition taken by their party, am
sure that would not uselessly say
anything to them that would cause
them to 60 to the polls and vote for
Judge Taft when such votes would
contribute to the election of man
who would reduce southern repre-
sentation in congress, destroy or
gained labor, and foster the other
liniquities mentioned, if he had it in
his power to do do so. On the con-
trary, | would pass them by in
silence, and thus let them stay
away from the polls, and thereby
reduce to that extent the danger of
the election of a man who stands
for so much that is hurtful to the
country in general and this section
of the country in particular.
am as much in favor of elimina-
ting the negro from politics and ex-
Guiding him from the polls-be-
cause he is incapable of self-gov-
ernment-as any man in the state.
When | lived in Smith county, the
county in which | was raised, a
meeting was called, at my sug-
gestion, for the first Saturday in
November, 1874, at Raleigh, to
initiate the organization of a white
mans party, which organization
was effected for Smith comfy on
that date.
When | was canvassing Rankin
county for election to the constitu-
tional convention in 1890 there were
two things that especially stressed,
and elective judiciary and white
supremacy.
When | was a member of the
constitutional convention in 1890
made a speech in that convention,
urging the adoption of an article for
the constitution to support white
schools by school taxes paid by the
whites, and negro schools by school
taxes paid by the negroes; and
when it was urged that it was in
conflict with the constitution of the
United States, produced decisions
of the supreme court of one of the
states of the union to support my
argument that the article | advocat-
ed was in harmony with the con-
stitution of the United States.
When that proposed article of
the constitution was defeated
some of the votes contributing to
its defeat being cast by men who
are now assailing mel advocated
in speech in the convention Civ
ing a pension of at least S75 year
to each disabled ex-confederate
soldier in the state, even if it
stopped every negro school in the
state.
When there was contest be-
tween a white man and a negro for
a seat in the constitutional conven-
ton, and the negro had nothing up
on which to base his claim against
the white man to the seat, except
that he was negro, and it would
give one negro seat in the con-
vention, lspoke and voted for the
consideration of the case on its
merits, and the seating of the white
man, because he was entitled to
the seat on the merits of the case.
Some of those who are now so
bitterly assailing me voted to seat
the negro, who had no merits in
the lease, except that he was a
negro.
When | was governor vetoed a
bill which, in my judgment, would
have been practically of no benefit
to the white race, but would put
negro /felons under the age of
seventeen in a reformatory school
instead of the penitentiary, and
gave this as my reason in my veto
message, and presented the records
to show that there was not then in
the penitentiary a white convict
under the age of seventeen.
When the president of the Uni
ted States arbitrarily and unlaw-
fully discontinued the postoffice at