The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-13
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win. He showed that the Republican
marry ii one or progress and the Dem
ocratic negative IN history. Taieins
n, the charge OF the Democrats that
ne Negroes are ignorant and know
not how to vote, he pointed cut that
rtIIeS- han ever voted the Republican
ticket which had made the country
2. underworld power and In thus No-
ting had shown fine Judgment, which
fully answers the accusation OF ~
norance.
PROF Robinson during his speech
~ nearly an hour was attentfyely rs
tened 10 and frequently enthusiasts
IN, s.pniatItded He was followed by
nv. sT,1frner. who review governments
If people from early history to the
present. ABIDING TO the vice and cor
ruptfon arising from despodsm ana
+he flsnefts that human freedom
BRING He declared that the HePnD7
itger. Marty had It's birth in the desire
- Tree the nation from the curse Of
slal,s,-,r ADD to protect the Union lie
~, ois,r1ft9,i the actions of Tillman'
ets-,t,Ss ma others on the race ques-
40 Eas revolutionary and declared
fbSf those men appealed to the baseT
IA ssTSus OF men. All we ask, sal1
iSf Turner, +'is equality under the ~"
as;15d an opportunity to work out our
own SALVATION. -.
Consul Payne then eloquentiy
,4isrusse1 national and state issues
ana the race question for two hours
and RECEIVED loud applause. He held
the attention of his auditors in a
manner that Indicated that they Were
In perfect sympathy with the speak
err He declared that the two great
political parties before the people
aslsfIlpr for their suffra ges must stand
do 10 hnrI
II was impossible to degrade any part
Of the colintry's citizenship without
|ini,Irins the remainder of that citizen
shin. He admonished his race not to
fool away their votes but to have
foresight instead of hind sight, and
they would not later say: Il did pos
know they would do that. meaning
Iisfra nchIsernent He declared that
Republican victory was the only thing
to keep it from happening.
DR.. Payne said that the differences
between the two parties Is that one
has definite line of thought and
views entertained. The other chang
ed with the moon. One or the other
must administer the affairs OF the
country, and. If Bryan is elected. all
he will be able to do will be to turn
the Republicans out of office and put
the Democrats in. the senate holding
the see-sawIng he pleased. and the
IaborIne people would be out of work
and miIIions. yea billions of dollars
thrown to the winds to satisfy polite
al passion.
Reviewing the Democratic record
on the labor question, Mr.. Payne took
up slavery and argued that the policy
of the Democratic party was then not
that labor should be protected bus
nEHffI 70 L.
Dor He declared chat at least one
third of the legislation OF the South
and a part of the national was in the
interest of that policy before the war.
The result he said was human sla-
very. system OF planters owning
hundreds of thousands of slaves re-
suited and this brought on a sharp
conflict with white labor and degrad-
ed it. 1t allowed q few men to pur-
chase the best lands, and go to Africa
for people for those lands and finally
made the landowners and slave-hold-
crs vastly rich at the expense of la
Dor 1t developed into a condition
that brought the nation into a whirl-
wind of discussions and discomfort.
Naturally the system OF slavery
caused the South to drift into free
trade. It's capital was Invested IN
slaves and 1t was necessary to keep
these ignorant, they thought. to get
the best results. as enliGhtment and
education cause men to cry out for
liberty. Slave labor produced the
raw materials, but the finished pro-
duct required brain. Tho slaves could
grow raw cotton but they must not
manufacture from It, because that
meant skilled labor and the latter
meant freedom in the end. The
South to overcome this conceived free
trade and hads its cotton manufac-
tured into goods in foreign lands.
Thus were slavery and free trade
linked together. indeed. twin sisters
Discussing human liberty, DR..
Payne claimed that Thomas Jeffer-
son entertained ideas for the welfare
of the Negro and recognized that |
would come sooner or
later and believed it to be proper.
He quoted from Jefferson. when dis !
cussinC the constitutions: Every Is |
recognized in 1t but the Negro. but,
when I remember that God Is just, |
l trembIe for my country"
1t was denied that modern Democ-
racy was Jefrersonian, rather 1t is the |
offspring of Calhoun and Jefferson
would now eschew such men as TIL
man. He declared that since the
days of Calhoun the Democratic par
y has been the Negroes enemy in
politics and that the law books of
the South were full of statutes against
he Negro
Mr.. Payne eIoqueutly revied the
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