The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-08
RACE KNOWLEDGE SPREADING

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OF Nevada, has taken position which -
think has no Immediate hope of realiza ON. but
which at the same time goes far in justihca-
ton. Nardaman. the wild, OF Mississippi took
much the "a me position namely the repeal of
the Fifteenth Amendment but his locus IN quo
made him ridiculous Mr. Newlands cannot
be charged ~iN anything savoring OF dema-
goguery. On The subject Of Colonel Roosere!.
and tn negro. he says:
Colonel Roosevelt opened up a very Interest-
ing question in declaring that his new party
should be white mans party. IT is true that
he weakened the logic of his position by declar-
ng that ii should be white in TIE SOUL, and
black and white in the North; but perfection
IN mental process is not TO he expected of one
who is going through revolution of long held
opinions He will come out all right IN the
end, and Will reach the inevitable conclusion
that the blacks as q race must everywhere In
THO country be deprived of sovereign. and
that is what black suffrage The same
reason that instines Acknowledgement Of the
blacks in p@rty justifies 1T in government II
we ought TO have white mans party We should
also have white mans government
The colonel complained Of black domination
lat Chicago. But what does he think of black
domination at Washington, maintained by the
black vote IN five pivotal Northern States where
they have the balance OF power?
There K but on ie ! party III the South to-
day the Democratic party-the white mans
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white mans party there What Will happen
when they get into hot rivair. with each other?
Twin they then botn suppress the black vote at
the polls - they Will az the primaries. or will
they Did for it? And II they do, viii the candi-
dates at the primaries long desiste
( The blacks had a right to be mad free men,
/ but did they have the right to be made
eregns And was not their sudden transfer
nation from slaves to sovereigns the greatest
cruelty that could be inflicted upon them as
well upon the whites? Freedom was right
suffrage was privilege, The former was bene-
fetal, the latter pretudictal Whilst securing
and n,theun~ tn former, why not with
draw the latter, avoiding the appearance
OF injustice by applying IT only to those here
tnd then now numsneiy and benefcially we
could bring the nation into cooperation with
the States in plans for the ree--not tha sham
bttterment Of this unfortunate race,
But the colonel To this question is on the
rIaht road, though he is as yet unwilling to go
far enough
What Senator Newlanus says in this inter
view g. OF course. more than the South
ftas bcen knowing and feeling Cor more tran
a generation 1t is truth. by the way. that,
in all probability. has never grazed the con
scIousuess of the Colonel, who is the Innocent
cause o. It's announcement by the senator from
Nevada Again. Il is thing which all the
facts in The case preclude the South from ac-
lively urging. 1t is part 20 SIT still and
que; and wait for common sense on the negtD
question 10 be born 10 other sections. as those
sections learn something of the negro, his ca
fpactfies and Ms limitations, from some other
source than the old wives tales OF politics or
ar-history 1t is nevertheless encouraging to
! know. tAat-lhe- Nest,-apd,- MAJ hope tina
North and the East, are beginning TO waken
to fact as distinguished from fairy-taie.
The only danger Is that pointed out in the
suggestion that both parties in the South may
seek the negro in primaries That there is
a temptation in this direction, since the num-
Der OF qualified negroes increases. cannot be
denied To yield to the temptation would he
20 deliberately open a Pandoras box OF evils
closed in all Southern States with trial and
with strife. in several of them only after blood
shed. The best way in which the South can
serve the csuntry the negro and itself. is to
go the even tenor OF its own way OF white
government, and leave 10 the slow perception
OF the nation as a whole the truth which Sen
ator Newlands has prematurey discovered for
himself