Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-12-07
JOSEPH c. MANNING
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1t enabled tho minority political
| autocracy to get n strangie hold on
constitutional liberty In tho South.
| Tho administrations Of Roosevelt
and Taft not only failed and refused
TO meet the issue Of Acknowledgement
put also frowned upon those Repub-
llcan Party leaders who urged that
constitutional Justice be upheld ey-
orywhere In this nation. The facts
or this Acknowledgement Juggling
were placed before tho party leaders
| and before the people OF tho entiro
country.
spent greater part Of my time
conducting campaign rs against
this outrage and, as is known, was
hoard throughout the North. fore
warned the Republican Party Of con-
tinuod aggression OF the Southern
Democracy and Of tho coming into
national control OF the South In tho
saddle autocracy. Republican Party
leaders oppose now, of course,
Southern sectional control of tho
nation.
The issue, however, is that OF tho
| control OF tho South itself, by those
who proclaim "World Democracy"
for abroad and are, themselves, re-
sponsible for TIun-lilte autocracy in
some OF our States at home. Rcpub
lican Party Indifference to this con-
dition has brought to tho Republican
Party of the North the direct respon-
SibilitN for tho political aggression.
ca thc part of the Southern oligarchy
that has resulted in Southern sec
tional domination Of the Federal
Government
We must do away with either
Northern or Southern sectional dom
iuation by enforcing "World Demo
cracy' everywhere at home. by
applying the constitutional liberty
guarantee of the nation in every
site alike, and only can thorough
going Amcricanism be established
except by seeing to it that all Amer
leans have all rights Of all Americans
everywhere in this country of ours.
Neither life nor property is secure
to a disfranchised people. a people |
having no voice in government is a |
subject people. The only protection
as against the lyncher is fair vote |
and an honest count. Without this
there is no protection of safety Of
life or property rights. Autocracy
rule in America is as much to be
loathcd and denounced as Hun meth
DDS in Germany. Lynching in Ala
bama is as revolving to civilized
conscience as Hun brutality in Bel
GUM. Civilization has no place any
whore for those who arrogate to them
selves rights which they deny to
others. This nation can no longer
tolerate nation that has enfran-
chiscd and half DISTINGUISHED.
virginia rapiStprp5 ITO 000 mon
for military service and it was an
nounced that, Of that number, only
10000 were eligible voters under the
Virginia system Of Acknowledgement.
OF the $4,000 male citizens of vot-
ing ago in this State only 10000
are eligible voters. There are 245,-
900 whites disfranchised. The South
| in tho saddle Democracy Of Virginia
| dominates 2,35O,000 people on an
electorate, trimmed down and shot
| to pieces with outlawry Of constitu-
tional rights, that totals just
100000!
am determined, as n candidate
| for the Republican nomination for
| President, that the American people
| shall, for once, be confronted with
the opportunity of uphol1ing at home
those lofty principles Of government
l
| many thousands of its disfranchised
| Southern citizens who as loyalty re-
sponded as did those enfranchised)
fought to uphold abroad. The
statement of truth Is necessary to
tho understanding Of tho situation
and to the end that wrong may be
righted.
Right is no theme for controversy.
Justice is not matter for dispute.
Any party or any citizen must move
on plant that is unworthy Of con-
fidence or support If guilty Of contin
ued and repeated denial of justice.
The party OF Lincoln must have the
Lincoln spirit in it Or else those who
believe like Lincoln may finally
desert it. Success came, at the last
election, as a protest against South
ern Democracy. 1t was rebuke to
Southern sectional Democracy and it's
policies. 1t would have been q tre-
mendous rebuke had the Republican
Party itself been right. 1t Is the
duty Of Republican voters to put the
party of Lincoln on right lines.
4 JOSEPH G. MANNING.
$50 West Thirty-fifth Street,
lNew York, November %, 1918.