The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-11-11
WOULD ELIMINATE
SOUTHERN NEGRO
Senator CuIlom Favors White
Domination in South.
BLACK MEN OF NORTH WISE
Illinois Legislator Says President In
Present Trip Is Endeavoring to
Eradicate Mason and
10 Dixon Line.

Washington, Nov S.-Senator Shell
by NJ. Cullom of Illinois, with an un-
broken record of &c years in the sem
ate as a Republican representing a
Republican state, friend of Lincoln
and a Lincolnian Republican for near
ly sixty years, has come out in favor
of white domination in the south and
the elimination of the negro from poll
tics in the sections of the union where
there is danger of negro supremacy in
political affairs Senator Cullom said:
Eliminate the negro from politics
in the south-give that section of the
country an exclusively white ballot or
a franchisement which shall mean alb
solute and unequiyocal white suprem-
acy in the management of its whole
affairs and there's not state below the
Mason and Dixon line which will not
be found in the Republican column Of
the electoral college"
To Break the Solid South.
Senator Cullom's discussion of the
subject was apropos of President
Taft's tour of the southern states,
which is generally viewed by politi-
clans of both the big parties as bid
for the vote of at least one of the
southern states in favor of the next
Republican presidential candidate.
The Illinois senator is the first Re-
publican of national influence who has
come out into the open to declare for
this doctrine.
THE whole truth of the situation"
continued Senator Cullom. "is that the
south believes in and really needs the
enforcement of the Republican doc
trine of a protective tariff. Therefore,
the people of that section would Ike
to vote in behalf of candidates-con-
gressional, national and state-who
would support such policy. But they
are held in leash, so to speak, by the
fear of negro domination; the fear OF
colored men in Office, both of the cleo
tive class and those appointed at
Washington.
Afraid of Race Issue.
They are afraid of the race issue;
there can be no doubt OF that. They
are constantly in a state of excite
ment over the prospect of colored
vote of superior numbers, and natural
~ they cling together against the
black man as a matter of protection,
not of their industrial interests, but Of
their personal affairs.
II do not necessarily mean that |
favor the total disfranchisement of
the negro. In Illinois, for instance,
we have a large negro vote just as in
Ohio. Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jer-
sey and New York But up in these
communities it is a different PROPOSE
ton. There appears to be a distinction
somewhere between the two sections
in this respect, and the northern col
ored man uses his ballot with wisdom
and fairness. We are satisfied with
him. but il is notorious, of course, that
the south is not.
Taft is Wise.
president Taft is showing wisdom
in his southern tour. He is big, good
natured, whole souled, patriotic and
generous statesman to whom the
south or any other section may well
and implicitly trust its absolute des-
tiny. Mr.. Taft is just now mingling
with the southern people in order
that he may get better acquainted
with them and they with him. They
will find that he is the right man for
his place.
"Of course, the president doesn't in
tend to surrender any principle, but
at the same time he is willing to make
concessions to the southern people
commensurate with any fair sense of
justice. And likewise does he intend
to eradicate the Mason and Dixon line.
In my opinion, he is just the man for
that task and II he does not accomp-
lish it, to a certain degree, at least, ]
shall he sadly mistaken"