The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-06-01

gifts, he confessed, but he had found
little use for these in his service in
the Senate, he said.
A Notable Example.
For example, he and the other Dem
ocratic member on the committee,
by fighting every item on the general
appropriation bill, had finally secured
the adoption Of rider providing for
the refunding of Southern cotton
claims. mot a line of poetry, not
even a single burst of oratory, was
used in the hight"
Tho Race Question.
Taking up the race question Mr..
Percy said 1t had been untruthfully
asserted that he claimed there was no
race question. In a speech before the
Mississippi legislature he had restat-
ed his position. His opposition to the
agitation Of the race question was no
new thing, taken up for political pur-
poses. 1t was, indeed, what drew him
into the political arena. Whether the
official records show Gov. Vardaman
honest or dishonest, and those records
speak for themselves, his election to
the Senate would yet be d menace. If
he is using agitation for the repeal
of the 18th and the notifications Of the
14th amendments, as he used the
agitation for the separation of the
school fund, as hobby horse to get
into office, he is a demagogue and
unworthy. If he means it seriously,
and if in real earnest he would seek to
re-nationalize the race question, his
election would mean the re-enactment
of force bills, the appointment of
Federal registrars at every polling
place in the South and would bring
chaos to our section, just beginning
to come into its own. Where do we
get white supremacy? 1t ran riot in
our ancestors in the forests of Ger
many; it was snatched from negro
hands, backed by Federal bayonets,
in 1875, and written into law in the
Convention of 1890. When did the
North interfere for our relief? Was
It in the emancipation proclamation,
in the enactment of the war amend
ments, or when the carpet-baggers
we're placed in control in the South?
Danger in RenationaIizinq Question.
Mr.. Vardaman says, change has
come in the attitude of the North
This change has not been manifested
in a single public utterance in the
North; not manifested in the debate
on the Sutherland amendment, and
certainly not manifested in the Re-
publican platform, which denounces
our laws for the Acknowledgement of
the negroes. Is there a single think
ing man who would re-nationalize
this question, who would open it again
with the thirteen Southern states to
stand against the thirty-four North
ern? Money, Tillman and other trust
ed and tried leaders of the South would
as soon walk into powder magazine
with lighted match as to introduce
a resolution in Congress for the repeal
of the 18th or the modification of the
14th amendment.
Race Relations Never Better.
Political agitators to the contrary.
there was never a time when race
relations in our state were better.
Not a negro votes in Mississippi, and
never one serves on a jury. But it
won't last long, says Mr.. Vardaman.
It will last as long as the white people
stand together. The price of white
supremacy is white solidarity---is the
| price too great to pay?"
But we fear for our children, urges
Mr.. Vardaman. Men and women of
Forrest county, what kind of children
do you expect to give to the world
Our fathers snatched white suprem-
acy from black hands when Federal