The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-10-25
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1912.
The tImen Voter.

Here and there is to be found q man
who votes according TO his feelings
This is a very poor reasn for doing
anything. Often a man awakes in the
morning and the first impulse is to
give way to his feelings, but when he
remembers duty he bestirs himself and
soon throws off that bad feeling. So
it should be with the man who votes.
His opinion should be formed after he
has given unbiased consideration to
the issues before him.
Many Negroes don't think. They
are governed by their feelings. These
questions we submit for careful con-
sideration. Why oppose a democrat
for a republican? The laws that have
been passed in the South which we
complain of because of their unjust
ness have been passed during repub-
lican administrations. The republi-
can pie hunters in the South have &C
quiesced in these laws. Why cleave
to the republican party? Does it not
seem to you that it is better to make
friends with oil parties?
AS a a C we are weak, and individ-
ually we are absolutely helpless.
Were it not that the white people of
the South are tolerant, our suffer
ings would have been many times
greater than they have. 1t would not
require discriminatory laws to make
it so, either; but merely to exact of
us oil, the full requirements of good
citizenship without showing mercy.
True, we are a young people, a part
OF a nation that is disgruntled, a race,
an unfair condition, but we we're not
made the citizens we are by the South
ern people. They strove hard to keep
us in bondage, but the God of justice
decreed that we should be free and
that same influence compelled those
people who fought to keep us in bond
age to have compassion on us after we
were free.
The Negres of the South have suf-
fered many prosecutions since they
were emancipated, but on the other
hand, it must be admitted that the
Kind deeds done for them by far over
balance the prosecutions. No people
could have p%rospered as the Negroes
have in the South had there not been
a kindly-disposed attitude toward
them by the people among whom they
live.
The thinking man will take these
into consideration when he goes to
cast his vote.
There is no power on earth that can
compel the Southern man to build
schol houses and churches for and to
give employment to the millions of
Negroes. Nothing can do this but a
sense Of justice. No president of the
Nation is going to take it upon him
self to attempt to regulate the local
affairs of this state, for he knows that
passing laws and issuing proclama-
tons will never bring about the de-
sired results. Negroes must learn
that home affairs are the most vital
TO him. He must learn to love his
home state and his home town. He
must learn that love for home and
state means that he will sacrifice even
his life's blood for their preservation.
He must learn that the Yankee of the
North does not care about his wei
fare, and that when he comes to our
dear Southland he comes looking for
money. He must learn that a demo
crat in Tennessee will feel duty
bound to look after every interest OF
Tennessee and the South, and a repub.
lican is duty bound to have q banker
ing after the superficial. He feels
that he must look to the North for all
that is good and noble. The republi-
can feels that way becautse he gets
his pie with more regularity from re-
iblican administrations. On the 9th
hand a democrat in the South is &C
to looking to his home and
knows from years of experience
South is every whit the equal
49, North, and he really desires that
Negroes stay here and work with