Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-01-11
CANDIDATE MANNING
AGAINST POL|T|AL
REPRESSION
written for exclusive publication in
The EichncDd Planet by Joseph
G han:ing, who is candidate
for the Republican nominttiCn
for : resident of tho u. S.


In the minds Of the American people,
the fact that should be plainly
brought out. Is the truth that the
existing political condition in tho
Southern states is one OF political
repression OF tho masses Of the peo-
pic OF the South and is not one of
socalled Negro disfranchiscment"
Those responsible for the rulc OF
tho people of the South by minority
government, those who have Fastened
the autocracy system upon all the
people OF the South, arc astutc. in
deed, in thcir propaganda to uphold
the WRONGS they perpctrato as against
true democracy.
Southern Democracy called 1t up
holding "whitc supremacy" I'm the
Nays prior TO diSfranchiScmcnt lCgis-
lation: whom this political autocracy
stuffed ballot boxes in tho black belt
counties 10 overcome maioritics
pollcd in tho "whitc counties" ko}b
was counted out as Governor of
Alabama, rs was Evans OF Tennessee
by this method. Tho autocracy was
simply UNFOLDING minority rule. II
was not upholding "whito suprcm-
acy."
Under tho existing system, The
political autncracy has iynchcd tho
ballot rights OF all the people OF the
South in opposition to this system
and, Whi'c the colorcd citizen is
eliminated from voice in government
it Is not condition OF moro NEGRO
disfrarchiacmcnt." Republican par
ty leaders OF the North have known
these facfs al along. | charge that
many Of them have not desired ttot
tho South become Republican because
II a
ern Republican leaders and bring
about wider distribution of Federal
patronage.
| charge that somc Northern Re
public0ns have wished for Northern
sectional Republican control, to the
exclusion of making tho government
fully American. Northern RcDubli-
can leaders, since the Harrison adj
ministratiOn won't out OF control,
have rclcGatcd the Southern cause to
nothing moro than Il field for dole
gatc-Gctting exploitation, Delegates
from the South to the National Rc-
publican Convention have been seated
sololy on tho grounds that tho dele
gates seated favored tho nomination
Of tho candidate for President, whose
nomination WAS desired by the in
forests dominating tho National Ro-
puDiltan tOfIlmllloS.
This procedure SGT up as regular,
in tho South, organizations and lead.
crs having no other aspirations than
Federal patronage. 1t frequently
mado irregular ORGANIZATIONS that
had earnestncss and local votes be-
hind them, bringing defeat for re-
election TO candidates for local coun-
ty Offices. This policy has left tho
L IA It f., Of 4,
States OF the South without sincerity
of purpose or recognized leadership
other than candidates for post Offices.
This nomination OF candidates for
President hy the Republican National
COMMITTEES also disrupted tho party
in the North.
| fought this thing in 1908. I
understood, then, its pernicious char
actor and know the harmful results
to como from such course. I
resent the repression OF the people OF
tho South by the Southern Democrat
ic political autOcracy, on the one
hand, and by this Northern RcDubli-
can rCcrcancy and duplicitv, on the
other. | propose to carry the whole
truth to the Republican voters OF
the country and let it be determined
whether or not this Northern Repub
lican leadership shall continue in
these questionable methods and re-
prehensible tactics.
The only way to bring ND an issue
IS to state all the facts involved and
force Il square adjustment. There
has not been. in a majority Of the
Southern States, any sincere party
organization since the Roosevelt
Hitchcock program OF 1908 to nom
mate Taft. McIlarg, it will De re
numbered, fixed the Southern "dcl-
- cgatcS' for tho 1908 Republican Ma
tional Committee that nominated
Taft
Practically the identical Southern
bremen OF That 1905 stcam-rollcr
acted in the same capacity in 1912.
The machine Roosevelt constructed
to nominate Taft in 1908 rolled over
Roosevelt in 1912. The personal OF
that sort CT "politics" in the South
stands for no more except a longing
for Federal jobs, than does confed-
crate money stand for thing of
value. \ sclf-rcspccting Republican
President would decline to appoint
any one Of these "pio" pirates to
Federal Office.
The hour has struck to stop this
thing OF having the Republican
South prostitutcd to the plano Of
Dc1hG no more than a pawn for
Northern Republican manipulators
or national party nominations. The
time has come for citizens in tho
South, who are Republicans and who
nave n right to vote under the con-
stitntion OF tho United States, to
assert their right.
they have Il right to organize and
TO present their just demands for
voice in government. The Republi-
can Party has no right to cast out
from its deliberations those whose
rights have been lynched by a polit-
lcal autocracy; and, particularly Ia
This true, since that Republican ad-