The Cairo bulletin., 1909-09-24
SECRETARY OF WAR DICKINSON
SAYS rE is FRIEND OF
SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
WHITES MUST Be JUST
If They Would Govern-Must stamp
Out Mob Rule and Uphold
the Law in All
Gases.


day Secretary of War Dickinson paid |
high tribute to President Taft and
gave some strong advise to the
people of the south He spoke IN
part as follows:
Referring at length and in compll-
mentary terms to President Iait'
Secretary of War Dickinson in adj
dressing the Tennese State Fair TO
day, discussed the political situation
throughout the south.
| President Taft said Mr.. Dfekin
son, has gone further than any he
publican president to meet the WISH
Yes of the sorth in establishing a poll
Icy looking to the production OF peace
within her borders In this he has not
responded to any demand OF either
of his party or of the people OF the
north A reader of thought, knowing
the conditions he patroEcally aud
courageously does what he believed
4. is best, trusting to results for his vim
dication. The great hold he has upon
{ the confidence of the country at least
| holds judgment in allegiance. HIS VIM
dication will depend mainly upon the
wisdom, self-control and conservation
! manifested by the southern people,
II would be calamity II his efforts
2 should be nullified and his good VIII
alienated If man of his character,
Z position and patriotism fail, then 1T
S will be long before another will fol
@ low in his footsteps. No question OF
b the south giving him political srpport
lis involved The south can cooperate
q with him IN his great work OF conclli'
Q alton and promoting peace and mar
+ mony, and yet cast everyone or lts
4 electoral votes against him IT M
b Should become a candidate for re-elec
Q ton. | am confident that no Thought
= u winning its votes mas influenced ms
e course toward the south and that ever
g il he expected to become a candidat
81 To succeed himself he would, thoug
ell confident that the south would Vot
against him. do exactly what he ha
laone. deeming 1t sufficient reward
he brings peace where dlsc0rd pre-
Walled and establishes a sounder basE
yeI for dealing politically with the eond
H. tions that affect the relations betwee
c the races in the south"
ty MIR. Dickinson spoke of the honest,
energetic application to public affair
courage and patriotism, as cbaracte
lstics of former President rover Clov
land, and declared that these sam
III characteristics were manifest in G
|l arythng said and done by Preside'
" raft
A Race Question.
The judicial work of the preaideI
m lie declared, extending over Kentuel
and Tennessee gave him intima
knowledge Of their conditions al
those that effect other southern stat
in common with Tennessee. But
al should not be forgotten, he said, tn
Ter while he vas sympathetic iWth Il
Ter south and the unfortunate condition
adj peculiar to it, he was a Republics
an and northern man. For that reaso
lat it should not be expected that
in would accept in it's entirety the scout
re- ern view, He had appreciated the
be tent of the irritation that had con
lat from appointing negroes to office
the south.
rth HE understands, he added, 9Th
ain this is a broad, deep-seated race que
ent ton that cannot be ignored or argu
EEL out of existence, and that for t
peace of both races it Is the part
wisdom that such appointmet
al should not be made, and he has pl
led ncIy declared this to be his poll
and has carried it out He holds WI
his distinguished predecessor. W
declared in his famous speech ma
In New York before the Loyal Legi
ar that the purity Of the races must
for maintained" While he Is thus m
flo. eating the difficulties Of our Situate
we should do our para to sustain h
:. and make this burden Of his office
easy to bear as the exigencies OF
conditions will admit
Whites Must Be Just.
hat Eff the white people assert the ri
asst to govern then the government sho
the be one Of fairness and justice &
the eminent OF law and not OF passt
.ch. The courts, and not mobs, should p
ish lawbreakers. Negroes should
protected in their property rights,
tied with Justly, and governed by
um, constituted authorities. Those who
- tablished the commonwealth Of 7
|abn nessee, such men as James Rob-
nis son, John Sewer, and Andrew ia
.Et son. would have spurnod with in'
rw nation tho very suggestion that
~ time Of peace they did not have
virtue and manhood to enforce
- law through the courts. The CAM
nm ing virus Of mob rule, no mat
against what evils directed. destr
all wholesome life in the body poll
and makes 1t polluted wreck. sw
ed by passion and incapable of