Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-11-15
WILL qHE DEMOCRATIC PARTY REPEAL THE
FOURTEENTH AND FIrTEnNTH AMEND1rENTs2
CONVICTED ETTRS. LHTEE1ON

hand to repeal the obnoxious amendments which
are so irritating the southern. states With the
executive and both of congress of one faith
with good majorites, the time has come for the
Democrats to immortalize themselves.
And they certainly do this thing that the south
has waited for and camored fortyfive years
Hon. Grover Cleveland a northern man. with
northern principles. He had no particular repugnanee
to the negro in politics. 1t was Mr. Cleveland VINO
was the first preside t made registrar OF
the United States treasury He had been accustoned
to educated negroes in New York and he was per
suaded to give to of them this important orrcs
for political effect, and it worked well In the north
at that time but it resulted in placing Negroes
name on every bank note issued direct from the
United States treasury since He had no repus-
nance to negroes socially. He and his bride enter
tanned Douglas and his white wife at the Wn'e
House, and the Democrats did not mlna It. as 'h7S
gave Mr.. Cleveland second term thereafter
And Mr. Andrew Carnegie gave big dinner to
which he invited President Cleveland to meet MT.
Booker washington and they dned together. and
ookers dned at the same table win
President Cleveland and Mr. Carnegie These are MS
torcal facts.
Mr. Roosevelt never invited Booker to his table,
and have the facts direct who went to the
White House investigated southerner then Nv
ing washington City.
Tn the rush and hurry of cabinet days President
Roosevelt was obliged eat hurried lunch in his
anteroom, and it Mrs Roosevelts custom to SEND
up waiter with the lunch, and it was also her Gus
tom to walters when her husband had visi-
and in a great rush for cabinet meetings to save
time for him.
So it transpired that Booker washington happened
to be in the ante-room the two walters came m
and there nothing to do but to offer lunch 20
visitor although it not premedtated by ether'
and would not have been offered except as here
stated, and there and no less to the in
cident so wef elaborated by Mr. Roosevelta enemies
than here stated.
This was something different from entertaining
Fred Douglass in the White House with his white
wife, and sitting the family table with the couple
But as have stated, THE Democrats could not make
and md hR
did not attempt repeal the fourteenth and fiji
teenth amendments before stated.
We are told that Governor woodrow Wilson is
born and bred southern man. who sympathizes
with the south and it's race burden. His wife is
Georgia lady born in our state and fully aware OF
these racial troubles.
AMENDMENTS of which the southern states com
plain loudly?
We all know in the south, that there is crisis
impending long as the race question is alive ana
vrile.
Negro Acknowledgement be legal to give it
national import 1t would seem that the time is ripe
repeal of the ballot privilege while nobody IS
clamoring for repeal of the thirteenth amendment
which gave freedom to the colored race.
Can depend upon President Wilson to move to-
wards this great and national movement?
Will the Democratic congressman from the south
him up in DOING? If there is failure on this
the country will ask itself what benefit do we
get if htere is nothing doing in this direction?
Doubtless the whole country is ripe for it and ex-
pectng it. Who do this work intellgently as
who understands prevailing conditions?
PRESIDENT rAFT's OVERWHELMING DEFEAT.
Cheating does not thrive when the cheating can be
uncovered Republican party went to pieces on
that stolen nomination at Chicago in June and its ex
posture.
In the sbuth cheating in elections have been
common, under exciting conditions, where the negro
large that southern politicians became adopts
in cheating, was simply laughed at because
the blame laid negroes and those who in
sisted a fair count.
But this wouldn't go north of Mason Ddxon's line,
and poor Mr. Taft has pulled his down on
his head and smashed himself and his party out
of recognition Three little states, Of them Utah
(Which is saying whole LOTT, stuck to the Taft ma
chine, and only by small majorities in nearly fifty
states.
Mr. Taft is a good-looking knd-hearted and doubt
less well-meaning gentleman, but he has missed his
calling he allowed President Roosevelt to give
him supreme court judgeship some years ago he
would have struck it rich" because he would have
fixed life and played the role of judge with
much ernpressent but he preferred the presidency,
and Roosevelt with astonishing Partially,
secured for him the election in 1908
For a person of Mr. Tafts limited attachments he
should have been wise enough to retire in favor of
after the primaries of last spring evinced
the latter's selection.
But Mr. Taft couldn't it that way. his party
managers secured big lot of negro delegates in the
south and with these negro delegates they shoveo
white California Pennsylvania, ct al
and the deed was done
1t too much for human endurance. The dis
pleased until they induced Roose-
welt to head revolt, and wherever they the
Taft gang they pulled them down and under
wonrEN's CLUBS AND THE DRINKING PRIVILEGE
The temperance prohibition to have
had a back-set in the late national election. Mr..
Chafn few votes that they hardly reckoned
at all.
But 1 nevertheless surprised to hear that the
most exclusive perhaps popular wOman's
club the city of Philadelphia is at odds about
allowing liquor dinner parties and wine service to
attract their gentleman visitors. The women who
and aarYfiN nh
served forbidding intoxicants in their club
building made the bold statement that lit was impos-
sble to get the any sort of entertainment
unless there something to drink
The matter debated long time and when tho
vote taken it a tie and the matter comes
at next general meeting for settlement
the president of the club is pronounced advo-
liquor provision it is likely to be carried
the time. The older ladies strong in oppo-
planned by saying that the who wish the od-es
parties gatherings which this exclusive and high
toned club had avoided in the past One speaker said
he ente ed and kant in goo1