The Jones County news. (Ellisville, Miss.) 1909-1924, 1913-08-07
"BLACK HEELS ON WHITE
NECKS.

dent admirer OF President Wilson, and
we fully realize that he is doing a
great work for his people IN helping
20 lift from their backs many OF the
burthens they have been made to bear
since the end OF our civil war, TO
loosen the grip that Wall Street has
kept upon the throats Of our farmers,
and TO faithfully carry out, to the let.
ter and without evasion, every pledge
made In that Baltimore platform.
But as Soutnerner, We believe 10
the social and political supremacy Of
the white race over the negro, and that
instead of demolshng the barriers
erected between the Auglo-Saxon and
the African, that they should be kept
strengthened, and II anything builded
even higher. This sentiment and be-
lief is inherent and implanted in the
heart of every native-born and white
Southern man and woman.
by way Of prologue, we will state
that the blunder committed in the APP
pointment Of that Oklahoma negro
lawyer Patterson is attributable more
TO Senator Gore and o her politicians
than to the President Ia naming this
negro for the important position OF
Register OF Deeds in the District OF
Columbia Woodrow Wilson has sim
ply followed an example set by Gro
yer Cleveland and adopted by sue
ceeding Republican Presidents But
when our people saw a.Southeru born
and raised man occupying the White
House, they expected and believed
shat this black cloud would be lifted
and the country given genuine
Angle-Saxon administration. Hence,
when the announcement was made
that negro lawyer had been named
for Register of Deeds, highly re-
sponsible position, carrying salary
OF "a 900 year, and Ia which Office
number of white men and women
must serve in subordinate positions
every true Southern white man was
shocked and indignant They could
not understand why their Democratic
President should thus recognize and
honor the Afriean, a race that our
people had within the last half century
held in bondage. They looked upon
that appointment litel ally as placing
black heels on the necks of white
women.
Had our Southern Democrats any
intimaton that such an appointment
would have been made by Woodrow
Wilson, prior to the Baltimore con
vention, does not every man know he
would not have been given single
delegate south of Mason and Dixon's
line, and not u Southern paper would
dared have supported his claims
la the future, should the Repubi-
cans or Progressives secure control of
the government, with what consistency
can we condemn, or even protest
against, the appointment of negro
ollice-holders 10 the South, when our
own Woodrow Wilson had thus
recognized the race, and demolished
social barriers, by naming negro to
such responsible and high Office
placing him in power over white men
and women, and which subordinates
must look upon and treat that negro
as their superior aud boss2
What a howl went ap from the all
over the South when President Roose-
welt named a negress as postmaster
at lndianola, Miss, and Dir. Crnm
for Collector at the port Of Charles
ton, s z. And yet in neither OF those
positions were white women required
to serve under these negroes. as
would be the case in that Register a.
Deeds Office.
We want and we need tariff reform
and IL flexible currency; but we sneak
for the whole people OF our Southland
when we right here declare that we
had rather see both OF these great
measures OF relief for the country
defeated or dropped, then to have The
racial barriers torn away and Afri-
cans placed in high Office, with white
men and white women as their subor-
dinates.
Even Abraham Lincoln, the eman.
cipator'of this race, did not believe in
negro suffrage, let alone negro Office
holders, as he fully recognized the in
feriority of that race as compared
with the Angle-Saxon. Mr.. Lincoln
declared,