Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — A WHITE MAN’S PARTY. [ARTICLE]

A WHITE MAN’S PARTY.

White Republicans in Georgia Grow eary of Subordinalion to the Blacks. Atlanta, Ga., April 1. —The ew White Man’s party, oranized by Republicans who ave grown weary of subordiation to the negro element, is developing into a move of eonderable political importance, he adhesion to this move of Fnited States Marshal Longtree h Jonathan Norcross, ex--tongressman Freeman and ten of such character, stamps ~ as a movement bound to lake itself felt.. An address issued to-day ..•ays: “We have tried negioes for fteen years as party leaders, nd find them totally meffiient. They are not reliable oters, they are incompetent s leaders, and have no .capaity for organization. We can . .ever aucceerl as a party until ze have thrown off the menus of negro leadership. There re numbers of counties in the Uate in which the negroes outnumber the whites, and yet . hey count for nothing at the )allot-box. The whisky bottle r mjiieyhas more influence dth them than political prindple.. The first thing resorted o to control the negro vote is he whisky bottle. If that loes not succeed, tnreats which he makers have no idea of ex--cuting will scare him away. These facts show the ne;to is utterly unreliable as a oter.”

The address then goes on to *: ell how the Democratic press >f the State, taking the colorid majority in the Republican >arty as a test, insidiously aught them to demand their lumerical rights in convenions. Prompted by this idea hey thrust themselves forvard as a matter of right to he leadership of the paity, md, being incompetent, destroyed its power for good. This action of ignorant negroes placed them in a ridicu Lous light. Assuming control if the Re publican party under Governor Butler, it had gone :o the dogs year by year, and 'he Democratic press should ie held accountable for the wil effects of educating the negro up to the point of claiming the leadership. Here the address makes the astounding declaration, coming Irom undoubted radical Republican sources, that this is a white man’s country, and white men will control any negro who pushes himself to the front md any white man who urges him to it is an enemy to the country. The address then announces the purpose of the signers to reorganize the old Whig party . as an adjunct to the Republic can party, which will be the white man’s party, with Republican ideas. . “If,” says the address, “a sufflcient number comes to the convention we will put in nomination a ticket for the State officers and Electors, and otherwise organize throughout the Stale, which generally has adhered to the party, and special rates have been given by railroads to the convention.” The committee is flooded with letters from Republicans n Alabama, Tennessee, South md North Carolina and other Southern States, showing that the movement will spread to them —Courier-Journal Special. Radicals placed the ballot in the hands of Sambo to make him the balance of ipower.and te use him to perpetuate their lease. They now complain that he is too easily ueed-r-that others can use him as readily as they—that a bottle of whisky ir a little money inspires him with mprq gratitude than all their efforts to im press him with the idea that to|the Republican party they owe their freedom ana citizenship.— They all want office, from Lize Pinkston and Agnes Jenks down. In this element the radical party has a wild elephant bn its nands. Secretary Jfyers does not “droop” verv much in county. The Democratic convention which met in New Castle recently instructed its< delegates to the State convention “to cast the solid vote* of Henry county for his nomination.” How is that for “drooping?’, '