Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — A HERO’S INDICTMENT [ARTICLE]

A HERO’S INDICTMENT

Captain Richmond P. Hobson, the hero of Santiago harbor, will make a number of speeches in Indiana this fall. He is outspoken in his condemnation of the attempt of the Republicans to appeal to race prejudice and attributes the recent unhappy conditions in the South directly to the action of the president. After referring to the lynching of two negroes in Georgia, Captain Hobson continued: “We must, however, calmly recognize the fact that this wave of lawlessness in Georgia and in other states has followed upon the heels of the recent action of the president in farcing the race question upon the Chicago convention and the Republican platform. In fact, the whole unhappy situation in the South that has grown worse and worse with the course of the Roosevelt administration, is due to the flagrant violation of fundamental laws of nature, whether intentional or unintentional on the part of the president. “The accepted Interpretation of Mr. Roosevelt’s position on the race question means negro political domination where negroes are in the majority, or a return to the unhappy conditions of the reconstruction era, and means the mingling of the races in blood relations. By the laws of nature where two races differing in sociological status are found together in a political organism it is the higher and not the lower that should be Intrusted with the grave questions of governing, and it is suicidal for the higher race to intermarry with the lower.”