The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-18
CHAPTER XII.

|IGHTEEN years Of peaceful re-
81 building passed and men be-
gan to forget the horrors of
reconstruction. Allan Mcleod
had become the leader of his party in
the state. He was awaiting the ar
rival of a visitor with some impa-
tience in his room at the hotel.
walk in, CASTOR; you're a little
late However, better late than never"
Mcleod plunged directly into the pur-
pose of his visit.
castor. you're man of genius.
heard your speech in the last Demo
cratic convention in Raleigh, and-1
don't say it to fatter you-that was
the greatest speech, made in any as
sembly In this state since the war;"
Thanks" said CASTOR, with wave
Of his arm.
81 mean it. You know too much to
be in sympathy with the old mossbacks
who are now running this state. For
fourteen years the south has marched
to the polls and struck blindly at the
Republican party. The southern peo-
pie have nothing in common with
these northern Democrats who make
your platforms and nominate your
candidate. You don't ask anything
about the platform or the man. You
would vote for the devil if the Demo
Gratis nominated him, and ask no ques-
tons: and what infuriates me is you
vote to enforce platforms that mean
To %I0
Man shall not live by bread alone
Mcleod"
'Sure: but he can't live ON dead
mems bones. You vote in solid mass
on the negro question, which you set
tie by the power of Anglo-Saxon in
science when you destroyed the recon-
struction governments at blow. Why
should you keep on voting against
every interest of the south. merely be-
cause you nate the name Republican,"
"Why? Simply because so long as
the negro is here with a ballot in his
hands he is Il menace to civilization.
The Republican party placed him here.
The name Republican will stink in the
south for a century, not because they
beat us in the war, but because two
years after the war, in profound peace.
they inaugurated second war on the
unarmed people of the south. butcher
ing the starving, the wounded, the
women and children. Their attempt
to establish with the bayonet an Afri-
can barbarism on the ruins of south
ern society was a conspiracy against
human progress"
''You are talking in a dead language.
We are living in a new world"
principles are eternal"
principles? I'm not talking about
principles. I'm talking about practi-
cal politics. The people down here
haven't voted ON a principle in years.
They've been voting on old Simon
Legree. He left the state nearly a
quarter Of century ago."
Eyes, Mcleod, but his soul has gone
marching. on. The Republican party
fought the south because such men as
Legree lived in it. and abused the
negroes, and the moment they won,
turn and make Legree and his breed
their pets. Simon Legree is more than
a mere man who stole $4,000. 900, alien
ated the races, and covered the south
with the desolation of anarchy. He is
an idea. He represents everything
that the soul of the south loathes and
that the Republican party has tried to
ram down our throats-negro suprem-
acy in politics and negro equality in
society. go.
"You are talking about the dead pas.,
Castor. I'm surprised at man OF
your brain living under such a de-
fusion. How can there be negro SUI