The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-11-03
MORE PLAIN TRUTHS.

TO some OF our friends, who are talk
ing about what the Republican party
will and can do il ii comes into office,
we would say not to overlook the ne
gro in the wood pile" and that the At
rican brother is only waiting for a
reinstatement Of an administration
similar to the Lowndes regime, to be-
come the offensive citizen of the State
to white gentlemen and white ladies'
Indeed, tits almost impossible to con-
ceive the airs negro can put on
when he thinks he has little power
or influence back OF him, and one pc
culiar feature about the negro charact-
er is that as soon as he gets his head
up he gets too good to associate and
affiliate with other negroes, usually
classed by the upper ten Of colordum
as good for nothing low down mig
GERS This il ,exemplified in a. report
that recently comes from Texas that
Booker Washington, (good man as he
may be although he has never been
able to quite explain that New York
circumstance, "in which he was bat
tered up for following a white LADY,
while travelling through Texas recently
positively refused to ride in the cars
with other negroes as required by law
In the Lone Star State, but keeping
himself exclusive and away from his
colored constituents and fellow race
people he chartered a whole Pullman
car to ride the short distance from
Austin to Temple, in that State.
We do not like to bring the negro
into toomuch prominence, butt would
be well to consider, before deciding to
vote the Republican ticket, what the
future of the negro will be if raised
in the social scale under a. Republic
can administration. The city Of Phla-
delphia furnishes most striking IL
lustration Of what the negro Is or be-
comes with social equality. Surely
anything but productive or progress
sive citizen. Since the time of the
Emancipation Proclamation by Presi-
dent Lincoln, the negroes in Philadel-
phia have had absolute social equality,
intermingling in every way with white
people. Their children attend the
same schools, they eat at the same
tables in hotels and other places of
public entertainment, they sit beside
each other In churches, theatres and In
public assemblies, and to all outside
appearances are Heterogeneous with the
white race in every particular. In
that city there are $4,000 negroes, and,
Notwithstanding all the advantages
they have had, as named before, a re
cent canvass of these negroes shows
that only $50 of them had ever taken
an education to fit them for the duties
OF an uplifting life or had ever
learned a trade or profession, and
that of these (450) only LOG were &C
tually filing occupations other than
that of menials or helpers to me-
chanics and other trades people, show
ing conclusively that giving the negro
social equality, either In part or ID
whole,in no way betters his general
condition, and that I'm spite OF all that
has been done for him, he still de-
Eires to be the newer OF wood and the
drawer OF water" or rather he prefers
to be shiftless and live from hand to
mouth, which practically means that
he lives off the white people.
You should keep in mind approx
mately of the voters OF this State-55,-
600 are negroes, $4,000 white Republi-
cans and 10000 are Democrats. The
negroes, combining with the white Re
publicans, gives the Republicans &c.
900 voters, and it in needless to say
that if that party il successful the tail
is not going to wag the dog, but the
negroes will be in a spositioE to de-
mand everything they want.-Selected