The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-11-01

reconStFuct!on~rd ga lied, Will iln2eI
with our people. II cannot be for
gotten that it was The Republican PR
" that placed the heel Of an i&nor-
ant, seni-s&vage and far inferior race
upon the necks Of a proud, caiva;roGs
and conquered people. In the history
Of al conquests, even Of Imperial
Rome by GothS and Vandais, the de-
grading infamy was not conceived Of
Furnishing a brave and enlightened
people by placing as rulers over them
their former serfs, many freshly I'M
ported from the African wilderness.
Could a more humiliating and brU-
tai punishment be conceived by men
in human form? Ill the other
wrongs and expressions to which the
South was subjected after the sur
render pale into insignificarce before
this crowning infamy. Our people
might forget their robbery by an ar
my of white adventures from the
North and the misruie and thiayery
that characterized their control Of our
State governments. They might for
get that it was the Republican party
that filed their land with bayonets,
and the march of Sherman through
their PROSTATE country with fire and
sword. These were often the fruits of
war and the fate of the conquered.
But they can never forget those de-
grading and humiliating days when
Republican administration turned
loose, years after the surrender OF
our armies, a horde Of newly enfrar-
chised blacks, backed by all the pow
er the Government could furnish, and
inhamed by the most incandiary har-
angues and teachings from white lead
ers and the Republican authorities at
! Washington, to browbeat their former
masters and insult our cultured and
noble women.
Let President Harding search the
archives of any Southern State dur
ing the days Of reconstruction and
carpet-bag and negro rule, and he will
find abundant reason for a "Solid
South" so long as the National tickets
are labelled Republican" and "Denl-
ocratic." But underlying it all is the
placing by his party of ''black heels
. on white necks."
! But we have now third generation
of voters since the Civil war, and. it
is said that time heals all wounds. 4
the. President carries out in good
faith his reported promise to let the
white people of the South alone settle
the race problem, and not put over
them any Federal negro appcintees:
he may succeed in his design to split
the solid SOUTH. Last year, in North
Carolina, where the negro vote was
eliminated by both parties, the Repub-
licans polled AZ per cent. of the votes
cast. In my travels over the country
l find a growing spirit Of independ-
ence among the younger voters to
cast their ballots for men and ignore
party lines. These new voters may
change the political complexion of
the South, but it is like Singing
Psalms to a dead mule" to try and
ever get an old-line, moss back Dem
ocrat, who lived in the days of re-
construction and negro rule, to vote
any ticket labelled "Repubilcan."
"You may break, you may ruin. the
vase if you will, but the scent Of the
negro will cling to it still"
: In my next sketch I will tell hoy
the South was redeemed from negro
rule and about The tissue ballots used
in South Carolina and how a steer
was voted in Ebert county. Georgia.
Also about the work done by the Ku
Klux Klan in saving the South.
But if our country is ever in peril,
and it must be saved through the Re-
publican party, in that event sou can
always count on the South, as has
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