The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1912-10-25
Who Made Capital
OfNatio,a HeaOen
For Negro Race

FROM the MACON NEWS.
White men OF Georgia who are con.
templating casting their ballots for Ell
their Mr.. Roosevelt or Mr. Taft on No
vember 5 would do well to read and
ponder the race conditions that have
grown up in Washington under the
administrations OF these two men as
described by Editor Josiah Carter oil
the Marietta Journal in one of his
letters to his paper Mr.. Carter. as
the private secretary Of Senator Hoke
Smith, has made his temporary resi-
dence In Washington for a year or
more past and it evidently makes his
blood boil TO see how far the political
catering of the republican party to
the negro has gone toward putting the
bottom rail on top, II not "black heels
on white necks." MIR. Carter says:
Speaking about the negro, were
you ever about Washington much
You ought to see what the republicans
have done for the capital city
cor about three hundred and fifty
thousand population half are negroes
Washington is the negro's heaven. The
departments are packed with blacks
They have authority over white men
and white women. Beautiful girls
take orders from negro men. Next
to me at the table of my boarding
house sat a lady whose grandfather
owned FIVE hundred slaves. Her boss
is a negro. pass negro policeman
sometimes as | enter the senate Office
building. Negroes pile all over you on
the street cars On important streets
thousands of negroes live in houses ad
Joining white families. A man from
England looking at Washington would
decide that America was not a white
mans country, but that it was hall
white and half black.
1.-The capital of the naticn ISLANDERS
the people, for this Is a white mans
country"
Not only Is Mr. Roosevelt who boasts
that his mother was a Georgian re
sponsible above all men for fosterine
such conditions in Washington, but
in several instances he ruthlessly
sought to bring about such conditions
in the south. When DIR. Crum was
appointed collector of the port OF
Charleston, s. c., among the staff OF
white employees who were dependent
on their places for their livelihood and
who were forced to serve under the
colored man or resign was a lady de
scendant Of one of the most famous
of southern revolutionary heroes.
We do not blame the colored people
! for taking advantage of such oppor
tunities and presuming on them when
white men in authority deliberately
choose to so outrage members of their
own racial blood and caste and we
desire to say for DR. Crum, which may
have been true of all the negroes
placed In official authority In the
south, that he was southern born and
southern trained and knew and kept
his place as we'll as he could under the
invidious nature of his position. But
/ this is not true of the northern negro
and of the Washington negro, who arr
disposed to be seTf-assertive and oven
bearing. and we might easily foresee
, that with continuance of republican
federal administrations the nation s
capital, at it's past rate of progress
would within few years become an
impossible place either of residence
or sojourn for self.respecting southern
ers' at least
Editor Carter further says on this
subject.
THE republicans do not sympathize
with us Georgia folks Up in Taft's
state the intermarriage of whites and
! blacks is allowed. In Roosevelt
state think the same is true | know
shat negro children and white children
attend the same schools in New York
that whites and blacks eat in many Of
the restaurants together, and the othe'
day | read an Associated Press dis
patch where Teddy had dined witt
three negros in Boston, | believe"
This question Of racial cleavage anf
segregation is still and always will be
the most vital southern question, as II
goes to the salvation of our civiliza
ton and race purity, and it is hard tc
believe that many southern white mer
will deliberately vote either to return
Mr.. Roosevelt to the White House CT
continue the republican regime al
Washington at the risk OF such price
Charity In Compromise
! The best methods OF compromise