Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-04-28

! Vardaman's opponent, Senator Will
| liams, advocated the same The only
difference between them was in what
way it could be accomplished. Mr..
! Williams said it would require time to
| educate the northern people up to it.
Mr.. Vardaman said unless the question
was agitated congress would never con-
| slider it. Mr.. Williams in making his
position clear on the question, said he
would suffer an arm amputated if that
would accomplish the object.
Ex-senator Money in a speech in the
senate said the 14th and 18th amend
ments were illegal, that they had never
| been legally ratified by the necessary
majority of the states, as one state
failed to vote and two states rescinded
their votes. and if properly presented
to the supreme court that court would
! so decide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the scientist
and educator. said ''no abstract princi-
| Piles of benevOlence can reverse the
great family instinct that settles the
question forever, the Creator has hung
out the colors that form the two rally
ing points SO that they shall be unm1s-
takably eternal. Nay, there is hardly
| a single sense that does not bear wit
ness. The white man must be the mas
ter in effect. whatever he is in name"
Thomas Jefferson, the great statesman
and founder of democracy, said: l am
certain that the negros will be free,
and | am equally certain that they can
never live on the same soil on terms of
political equality with the whites.
Abraham Lincoln, "A Republican presi-
dent and leader of the Republican par
ty. said: | am not, nor ever have been
in favor of bringing about, in any way,
the social and political equality of the
white and back races; l am not nor ever
have been in favor of making voters
nor jurors of the negroes, nor qualify
ing them to hold office. There is a phys
ical difference between the white and
black races, which will forever forbid
the two races living together on terms
of social and political equality. Inas-
much as they can not so live, while
they do live together, must be the po-
sition of superior and inferior, and |
as much as any other man, am in favor
Of having the superior position assign
ed to the white race"
Thus we see that Vardaman occupies
the same position on the race question
that all those great men advocated,
with this difference, that time has
brought the race problem up to the
present time with all its threatening
disorders of society of government.
Vardaman basis his conclusions on the
present cOnd ditions, whereas those great
men based their conclusions on future
conditions.
Voter says: But is there Bny reason
for advOy ating this measure at this
time. For twenty years the negroes
has taken no interest in politics? Has
not the Constitution of Mississippi set
tied this question? Is the repeal of the
18th amendment a line issue at this
time in any southern state? Have they
not all followed the example of Missis-
sippi and eliminated the negro from
politics?
Voter seems to think there is no rea-
son for advocating the race question at
present. There is the same reason to-
day, with an absolute certainty of an
impending crises, that existed and call
vOrabiY set forth by Jefferson, Lincoln,
Holmes and others. Voter says has not
the constitution settled this question
by eliminating the negro from politics. |
The constitution of Mississippi has not
eliminated the negro from politics. |
The negro has the same right, under |
the constitution, to vote as the white |
man. The educ ational qualification
clause is the only bar to the ballot, |
which affects the white as we'll as the |
black. There are a large number Of
IlSSIOGS WHO are CudllIlGu NOlSIS anu dll
others are using every effort to gain an
education sufficient to qualify as |
voter. The negro's ambition is to gain |
social equality and intermarry. Was
it not for that feeling of ambition they
would care but little for politics and
would not vote; but they believe through |
the ballot they will gain political power |
and that would be the entering weoge |
to open the way to social equality and |
white society and eventually amalga-
nation.
Voter says for twenty years the ne
gro has taken no interest in politics. |
Why have the negroes taken no interest |
IN politics for twenty years? 1t is from |
the fact they arc debarred from voting |
in democratic primary and their party |
(the Republican, has not been organ |
lied and not in working order, but as
soon as an organization is brought |
about, every one that can qualify will |
rally to that standard. Every regular |
organized party can use the primary
system of nominating its candidates. |
A few eastern counties and all the |
western counties, included in the Delta, |
number FROM twenty to thirty negroes
to one white man, and can elect the |
county and state officers, and perhaps, |
Two or three congressman, and if the |
northern states bring money to bear in
the elections, we may have in a few
years a Republican governor and Re-
publican majority in the legislature as
and yet Voter claims there is
no necessity of agitating the race ques-
ton. Voter says Vardaman is doing his
best to stir the passions of the people
to the widest pitch by crying secret
caucus, corruption and bribery He
has been In more secret caucases than
any man before the people.
L do not know how many secret eau
cases Vardaman has been in and can
only name one-the famons secret eau
Gus Of 1911. We had the Know-Noth-
ing party, the Greenbacs party and the
Populite party. During the existence
Dc each one Of thASe rnnrt;or tho Dan |