Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-11-13

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the sentiments Of leading Republican
poalIciane respecting the dlsfranchise-
ment OF the negrol It hasn't been SO
very long since they we're openly
threatening the South with the loss
Of representation in Congress II she
dislranchised The negro. Nov so
prominent Republican as Senator
Cailon Of Illinois is quoted as favor
ing such Acknowledgement
In Washington dispatch 70 The
Kew York Times he Is reported as
sympathizing with the communities 10
the South IN which the negro is in
she majority In this dispatch he is
quoted as saying;
How can you blame communities
Ike South Carolina and Mississippi
Tor Instance, for voting the Demo
cratic ticket when IN some sections
the proportion Of coiored population
Is ten blacks to one winter It Is in
communities like these that the white
people are afraid"
Senator Cullom's change Of base on
the question Of negro Acknowledgement
is due, not to sympathy with white
people who are threatened with the
evils that come from permitting the
negro to have the ballot, but to be-
lief that If all the negroes In the
South we're disfranchlsed the Republi-
can party would be the gamer. that
many. If not all OF the Southern States
would become Republican. Some Of
them, he says. are naturally 10 favor
Of protection and their interests would
make them Republican. This is what
he says:
Take a State ike Alabama, for IN.
stance, There Is community which
possesses vast coal. iron, and other
industries demanding a protective
tariff. With her rank States like Ten
nessee. Texas and others. They all
want to be protected industriaIly, and
the people are ready to join US were
II not for the negro"
The Senator isn't In favor Of dis
franchising negroes in all parts Of the
country. they are help 10 the Re-
publican party IN States like Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and others that
might be mentioned. He looks with
favor upon the Acknowledgement OF
the negro in the Southern States sImp-
~ because he thinks the Republican
party would be benefited by Il.
That party gave the negro the bal.
lot because It thought It would be
good policy to do SO from party point
OF view. and now It Is willing that the
negro shall be disfranchised In the
South for the same reason-sa party
reason. The question with Senator
CuIlom Is not what Is best for the
negro, not what is best for the white
people Of the South. not what Is best
for the country, but what is best for
the Republican PARTY He favora that
which win keep the Republican party
in power Surely that isn't a high
motive for a statesman to be con-
trolled by.
But isn't Senator Cullom mistaken
In assuming that II the negroes In the
South were dlafranchised with the ap-
proyal Of the Federal Government the
Southern States. or at least the ma.
jority Of them. would become Republl.
cam In about an Of the Southern
States the negro Il practically dis.
franchIsed now by State laws. and yet
the movement towards the Republican
party In the South doesn't seem TO
be very marked. There Is a pretty
big chance that Senator cuIlom Is
mistaken. The Southern people are
Democratic from principle, and II Is a
safe prediction that they viii remain
so Iona after the Illinois Senator has
passed from the state Of activity. says
The Savannah News.
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