The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-10-08
TRYING TO HOOD
WINK NEGROES
Democrats Pursuing Their Usual
Double Faced Policy.
Upholding Disfranchisement In tho
South While Forming Colored
Bryan Clubs in West.
tFrom the Baltimore Sun, Dem. J

(From the Baltimore Sun, Dem.)
General Winfield s. Hancock, who
was the Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent In 1850. declared the tariff WAS
to say. II Pennsylvania Democrat might
be protectionist for projections sake,
while Democrat in Georgia or In
Iowa might hold fast to the doctrine
of IL tariff for revenue only The Massn-
chusetts Democrat might be IL free
trader without reservation of any kind.
while the West Virginia Democrat
might be free trader only with re.
spect to commodities which were not
produced by his own State General
liancock's pronouncement was consid-
cred an ingenious evasion of the tariff
issue, but it did not produce harmony
in the Democratic party. and the gcn-
era was defeated
Twenty-eight years have passed since
General Hancock defined the tariff as
a local question upon which the Demo-
Gratis of each State We're free to act
with regard chiefly to local interests.
The principle which he then formu-
lated seems to have been adopted by
Democrats in the West in respect to
the relation of the Democratic party
to the negro. Last week the West Vir-
.cinia Democratic convention embodied
III its platform planNs demanding GER
Tain qualifications for voters. designed
to disfrunchise muiv negroes Their
platform also contains il declaration in
favor of separate coaches for white
and negro passengers on railroads. The
West Virginia Democrats not only re-
fuse to hold out the olive branch to
the negro and invite him into their
fold. but they are determined to limit
his political activity by disfranchis-
ing law and to bring him under the
operation of "Jim Crow" law when he
travels on the railroads of that State.
What are the Promisesp
Out in Nebraska and in Kansas the
Democratic campaign managers are
organizing negro voters ilto Bryan
clubs. In Ohio no effort will be spared
to secure the support of the negr'
voters for the Democratic nationnl-
ticket. What pledges have been given
and what Inducements have been Of
fercd does not appear. But II il fair
inference that the managers have
promised to do something foc the me-
no perhaps to recognize him in the
distribution of Offices, If Mr.. Bryan
sionlG be elected, and also to take
n action as the negroes may de-
IN Il IN respect to the reinstatement
tie %, gro battalion dismissed from.
lie army by President Roosevelt for
The attack on Brownsville. Last week
vhou the West i.sinia Democrats
vrre declaring for Il disfranchisemcnt
Jaw aud for Jim Grow" law. the
Democratic convention In the Twelfth
Congressional district of Ohio adopted
platform favoring 1.-The enactment
of laws which shall accord to all men
accused of wrongdong. whether sol
ders or civilians. fair and impartial
trial and an opportunity to be heard
before conviction or punishment"
This apparently refers to the Browns
vile incident 1t may also have a
broader meaning ami more extended
application and may he susceptible of
m interim, tation which viii make
Southern Democrats omen their eyes
with ,muzement and possibIy with an.
prcnrusiou.
Race Question "Local Issuep"
There seems to be no ground for rea-
sonable doubt that the Democratic
campaign managers in the West. in the
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