The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-28
NEGROES TEMPTING DISASTER.

We have been expecting that the general
impulse toward political insanity would result
la some such movement as that which is said
ie have originated among prominent" col
ered men of Richmond looking to the organi
zation OF a negro support OF Woodrow Wilson
L: States where the brother in black is sup
posea to bold the balance of power.
Nothing could be more hurt,uI, either to
the negro race or to the cause OF good gov
itself, than the apparent success OF such an
undertaking
We say fhls #ith no feeling of resentment
against the negro. Instead, ne think that by
attempting such course leaders Of the rsce
who should know better are simply trying IT,
undo what has been done for them. That
they appreciate what the South has done for
them, lei us admit; that they have ssnsed the
proper method OF showing that appreciation
lei us emphatically deny.
The trouble is that the negro cannot seem
t. sense the real reasons underlying his polit-
icai disfranchisment. The better educated he
Ia the more independent and the more useful,
fundamental The South had to be rid, in
some way. OF the mass OF negro voters-illh-
crate venal and drove drtven~--that put
upon 1t by the greatest crime ever perpetrated
IN name OF virtue No section or State. or
community live forever al the highest
tension. But what the negroes who are mis-
rakenly starting this movement do not ia
No trsc iaw n
South amounted to nothing more than treat
ment of symptoms, The disease started with
Abraham LiDcoln's proclamation, designed to
precipatate murder and rapine, and left al the
st1nging memory OF a folly to he. endured
The South has cured itself OF the blight The
South by virtue of its political cohesiveness
ray be called the sponsor of the Democracy.
IL would be suicidal for the South to sanction
IN another section the suppurasien of sore
ef which It has healed itself
What the negroes who ara now professedly
irving to get their party from under Repubii-
can control ought to understand La that the
south has dealt with them in no spirit OF
rolitics II has acted toward them at the
dictates of far deeper and stronger emotion
and principle Il has been trying to get them
cut OF politics Of all sorts - not out of Re
publican politics into the Democratic
camp The real friend OF the negro. white
friend or black, holds the groundwork o'
fjs interest the hope that the day Will come
whep the negro race will finally understand
that 1t Ia not compatible with It's Development
that 1t should continue to confuse It's Tea
assttnv with the distraction OF undertaking q
function for which It was never ntted II the
North desires to keep the negro in politics. II
tnly means tina. the negro has ono less ehanet
ont Of a pitifully small minimum OF chances
X shat he already possesses IN fhe North 4ha
Is not the south S affair, except in SO far as the
south has sympatny for the negro. For the
soutb ar the Democracy TO In any way encour'
age the entry OF the negro In politics IN an
other section would be for it 10 compromise
tfssopinions and recant its beliefs
IL IL highly important, in our opinion. ina
WILSON shat1 be elected President and that the
democratic ticket be successful in the forth
canning election We think voice the bet
ter sentiment Of the entire south. however
when We SAY that it we're far better that No
No defeated than that the South permit the
o,ening wedge involved in this movement te
make easy the way for the re-entry OF eondi'
,son that four years OF war produced. and that
4 took more than generation OF ttaFah u
bring under control