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THE LEDGER. Th arlow S. Carter. EDITOR AND MANAGER. SATURDAY MAY 12, 1000. THE RACE CONFERENCE. John Temple Graves Argues for feparation. A STIRRING SPEECH. Separate Government Here or Elsewhere the Only Solution of the Negro Question. I By Telegraph to Greenville Nows. Montgomery, May 0?The race problem conference opened the second day's session at 10 o'clock k:? 'in IIIIJJ 11 n M 11 I I lii . I IICIC IS Mil U 11C X pectedly largo attendance and many arc here from distant points. The discussion opened at once. A M Waddell, of Wilmington, N C, gave a thrilling recital of the events in North Carolina, which led-up to the present movement to amend the constitution so us to restrict suffrage, llis speech was heartily and frequently applauded. Ho was followed by .John Tern* pie Graves, who argued for separation of the races into distinct localities as a cure for the existing evils. IIo held that in a portion of the United States capable of holding 70,000,000 people the negro could set up and have his own government. Mr. Graves, who is one of the leaders of tbuoght in the South, spoke in part as follows: "For twenty \ ears I have been in constant protest against the cc niplacent assertion that there was no race question in the South. Men of power and influence in my own and other States ? politicians of prominence, skimming tho surface of events?have soothed m with the assurance that there was no problem and that time and patience and folded hands would settle these great questions in the perfect way. 44ihe Hunkers and statesmen of the old world have recognized it long ago. Mr. Gladstone has said that iis solution would he the crucial test of our civilization. Arthur Balfour, the rising hope of English statesmanship, holds it first among the problems of our national life. Bismarck declared ihat the value of republics was at stake in our capacity to solve it. 41 The issue of races is not peculiar to America. It is the problem of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. It burns in India, in Africa and in America. 4<l quote here the vital question of Prof Win II Council, of the Industrial school of Huntsville, Alabama: THE VITAL QUESTION. " 'Will the white man permit the negro to have an equal part jq the industrial, political, social and civil advantages of tho United States ? This, as I understand it is the problem." "These words canto from a negro-the wisest,the most thoughtful and the most eloquent negro of his time?as discreet as Washington, a deeper thinker and a much more eloquent man. But for one hour of the Atlanta exposition Council would stand today where Wabhington stands?as the recognized leader of his race. "The answer to it is in every white man's heart, even if it does not lie oponly on every white man's lips, it may he expressed in diplomacy; it may he roiled in indirection; it may lie softened in philanthropy; it may he guarded in politic utterance, and oftenest of all it is restrained by ultra-con - servntism and personal timidity. I c But wherever the answer to this \ vital question comes, stripped ofjt eihiage and indirection, it rings t like a martial hugle in the single i syllable?'NO !" < "This may not ho right, but it 1 is honest. It may not he just, i hut it is evident. It may not he I] politic, but it is a great, glaring, indestructible fact. I do not stop 1 | to defend it. I do not justify it. i I do not argue it at all, hut 1 stato | it as a truth that we may as we I j in the beginning look it frankly and fearlessly in the face. North I and South, the answer, wherever | it is honest, is the same. 1 j agree with Alboin Tong? e that; there are not twenty thousand | men in the republic who can answer that question in the affirms-I tive. Council knows the answer | and states it with the courage of j a man. Bishop Turner knows it, | Bishop Holsey knows it; Blyden ; and Bruce and Taylor knew it, I think that Booker Washington knows it sadly in Ins heart, and I believe that every thoughtful gentleman who strips theory from the bare form of fact knows it-here ami everywhere. "It is a problem for us becauso it halts our material development. It frightens immigration from industrial competition with the negro lt?d ters capital from investment in the shadow of an unsolved problem. It makes a standard of labor that j :1: ii 1*1 vijiiuicet* hi i our poor against menial but honorable service. It is paralyzing agriculture on farms and property in the suburbs and j is driving all who can make the sacrifice to the safety afforded by proximity am) police protection in the cities. "It i ? a problem for the white race because it poisons in the minds of growing youth the con- > ception of a sacred ballot. It i stabs our reverence for the con j stitution. It corrupts politics i It throttles independence of i thought nrtiu freedom of politicul j action and forces us, whether we | will or no, into the ranks of one < political party. > | 4'It is U problem for lis I i it weakens law and tempts justice ji from the jurors' boxes to the J judge's bench. i "It is a problem for us, because it divides the church and sets men j of common faith and creed into | separate and sectional divisions "It is a problem for us because j it grows in difficulty with mRrvel- i ously increasing numbers and is i magnified in vitality and danger < by delay. . "Every vital issue of civiliza- < tion and development is wiapped in the shadow of this increasing i problem. "It is no loss a problem of appalling import for the negro raco. "It is a problem for him, be cause he can never?North or South ? t?e received in equal sue ial I, and personal relations with the families of the white race, and i ] can never theretoro he a social i equal with the white man. "It is a problem for him, be- ] cause be will never?North or , South ? be permitted to govern | in any State or county even where j he has a majority, and he can ( never therefore be a political i equal. I "If he can have then neither | social nor political equality?and , every fact and all theory and all instinct and every unbroken pre- i cedent declare that he cannot ? | then he can never under these con (li.ionn roach tho full develop mont of a citizen or a man, and his suffrage becomes a mockery 1 and his lil>erty a farce. ' ' It is a problem for the negro I l>ecause he can never compete { with Anglo-Saxon civilization. 1 His is the weakest and o.irs the ' stiongest race on earth. Our ' majority is 60,000,000, and we * have a thousand years tho start 1 >f him. No rue# has ever com >eted successfully with the Saxon, ind where is the hope for tho ne?ro ? In politics; in society; in industry and in trade there is no tvell founded hope for the inforior race. History without a break and precedent without a variation, procliains this to be true. There is not a line of li^ht or ray of promise for him in either.. 1 'This is tho core of my con tontion?tho basis of my argu^ merit. All our splendid platitudes are wrecked on tins stern fact. All our brave philanthropies beat out their beautiful lives on this inexorable truth: The negro fronts a hopeless anil unequal com-* petition ! "There he stands, that innocent and unfortui ate stranger. For j his sake the one difference has widened between the sections of our common country. Over his black body we have shed rivers of blood and treasure t emphasize our separate convictions of his destiny. And yet as the crimson tide rolls away inlo the years wo realize that all this blood and treasure and travail was spent in vain, and that the negro, whom a million Americans died to free, is in present bond and future ..1:11 ~ ..i ?L: 1 i I'li/minc pliii i? slave, wnipped oy circumstances, trodden under foot by iron and ineradicable prejudice: Shut out 'orevor from the heritago of liberty, and holding in his black hand the hollow parchment of his franchise as n freeman looks through a slave's eyes at the impassable barriers which imprison him forever within the progress and achievement of a dominant and all conquering race. A STARTLING QUESTION. "Take ?Booker Washington, lie is the typo and embodiment of all worth and of all achievement in his race, liis linen is as clean as yours. IIis fame is broader than the repute of any statesman in this hall. His character, stainless and unimpeachable, deties criticism. His patriotism is clear, uis courtefey unfailing. What attribute of worthiness could you kki to nit* equipment ( And yet I challenge 'bin conference with i proposition: "What man of you, gentlemen, philosophers, statesmen, metaphysicians, problem solvers that yon are?what man of you would install this great and blameless negro in your guest chain tier tonight ? If he were unmarried what man of you would receive with epuanimity his addresses to your wurd ? What man of you would vote for this proven states man for governor of Alabama? "Would you do this now?: Would you do it tomorrow ? ! Would you do it in ten years ? I J fVhen woi. Id you do it ? "And why would you refuse to :Io it ut all { "Search through all your logic for a reason. Explore all your themes for a cause. And when you fail to find in reason, in religion, or knowledge or justici, anywhere an answer, you wdl find at last the answer ? IN HIS SKIN ! Bleach that to the whiteness of your own, ami have solved the problem by a chemical solu.. tion. But until this leopard shall remove his spots, until this EthU r>pian shall have changed his skin, you may tug in vain to draw out this leviathan of problems with a hook. A BACK ISHL'K. "When will we learn that this is, froin first to last, a race rpiesr.? : wwii?mi innuo ui race and not politics, a thing of skin and not if section or condition i Straighten the hair and whiten the akin of the negro, and the issue is closed But the skin and the hair battle all theories and mock every solution that seeks to harmonize elements inherently ami incurably antagonistic. The history of races is the history of race antagonism and separation. It goes hack to Bahel and runs through Hebrew and Egyptian, Jew and Gentile, Turk and Christian, Maygar and Hungarian, the casts of India and tin Spanish warfareagi i ist the Moors. It never yet ended in atnalgama ill _ J _ l iiuu in was si'iui'ti in niirtnony Never yet was peace found thii side of division ! 4'To treat this question witt expedients is temporizing the use loss. You might as well sal veil broken limb with vasaline, 01 treat a cancer with catnip tea, This is a easo for surgery ?surgeij heroic, but beneficent. The knife that severs the limb, but saves the life. "Industrial education will nol solve, hut-complicate the problem. Industrial education is murine faster among the white race thai with tho negro. The supply ol skilled labor from the white rani will be equal to every demand ol the times. Carry every theor) of Hooker Washington to its fill and perfect consummation, am you only make a new and deadliei competition between antagonistic 'PI L ? * * i i iiu ci'uuici nereioiore has been Bocial and political. Yoi will carry it then to the materia things. From the intangible things of pride and aspiration vol transport it to the realm of tlu bread winner, and you make tin struggle fiercer in the materia' jealousies of trade. The battle of trade. The battle of the loal will be the deadliest battle of the races. When tho 'negro makei what the white man needs/ an<: the white man makes what the white man needs, tho Waterloc of competition for tho nogro is at hand, and not Napoleon himscll can save the negro from the rotil and destruction which must follow the clash of his powers with the invincible industrial race of the world. The whole theory too ol this last solution rests upon the flimsy basis that tho negro wil supinely consent to ignore politics, u? disclaim hoc in I equality, to sur render at your bidding the in estimable rights which are his bv the constitution, ami giving ovei at your call the social aspiration! which are inherent and inborn, will, in a mere slavish spirit o1 acquiescence, sink into the inferiority to which you carefull) invite him. 'Pardon me, gentlemen, but this seems to me the baseless fabric of a dream. TIIE rF.HMA.'ENT SOLUTION. ' On this great question I stand now wnoro I have always stood ? where Webster stood and llenrj Clay ; where Thomas JefTersoi stood, and Abraham Lincoln, atu Henry Grady, and Council ant Turner and the rest?where it time all men will stand who set the light and t are to face it. "Separation is the logical, 1 h? inevitable, the only way. N( other proposed solution will stani the test of logic and experiment "For no statute will pernia nently solve this problem. N< anodyne of law, no counter?irri taut of legislation will quiet l lunger than the hour of its appli cation. The evil is in the blooc of races, the disease is in tlx bones and the marrow and tlx skin of antagonistic peoples. 44 We have come in God's prov idence to the parting of the ways In the name of history and ol humanity ; in the interest of boll races, and in the fear of God, J call for a division. We can mak< it peaceably now. Wo may b< forced to accomplish it in bleo< hereaftet. PUBLIC OPINION FAVORABLE. 44 speak this deliberately ant ! from personal and intimate knowl edge of the trend of sentiment in i the country. For ten years I have been preaching the separa1 tion of the races from Maine to 1 California. I discuss the quos tion almost nightly with repre?? sentative audiences North and 5 South in a freedom, a fullness and | a reciprocal candor which few ! newspapers or individuals have j pursued. And 1 do not hesitate i to say that at this time and in this 1 light, 1 would be willing, without , reserve, to submit the ouestion ' - ? 1 . and tlio South's position on this ; g^eat problem, to tho judgment 'and justice and kindliness of the i great majority of our brethren in r the North. 3 "The representatives of 10,000 4 negroes in Kansas ask for it. Two onferenees of tho African Motho ^ dist church representing a half million southern negroes ask for it. The South is sprinkled thick with negro societies organized to i 6 ^ promote it, and I have more than casual reason to believo that the ^ solid judgment which rests bohind the benetieent experiment of I Booker Washington, touches him I that neither worth, nor merit, nor achievement will ever bridge the impossible barrier of race prejudice, and that when tho last arrow ) \ of hi? noble etToit has been shot, i . ' I it must gome to this at last. 3 IT CAN HE DONE, i "It is neither impossible nor 5 impracticable. The elements are willing anil the way is ic reach. This is not a day of impossibility ties. To the genius, the energy and the necessities of this age all things are possible. Every day sees the business world, the edu cational world, the political wo. Id converting the impossible into the possible. The hand of the Almight y is steadily opening the way. "One-thy d of the territory of the republic is untaken and undeveloped and recent otlicial testimony has declared that stored reservoirs can redeem in the West a territory cipial to the mainte nance of 70,000,000 people. The | islamls of the seus are ours and may furnish a key to the solution. . The repatriation of the dark conr tinent from which the negro canto * offer? h suggestive remedy, j Kvory year God multiplies the ( ways of separation. f 4'No great problem affecting . hum an destiny was ever solved by r theory and indirection. The world's crises have been domin&? t ted by direct men with brave, it straight strokes. tkAway with exj>eriment! Let us have done with temporizing. Away with timidity and hosita' lion! Let us face the great ques tion like men! Let us grapple the tnighty issue bravely and once 1 for all. Let us see the end from * the beginning, and go forth to * meet it with faith in God and in 1 our i ace '' 3 T?L - I i * * i uo itiHi speaaer or me morning wiih ex-Gov \V II McCorkle, 9 of Went Virginia. 1 <30lil) fTKKLOK l)KATH ? "Theie in but one small chance } , to vo your life find that is through an operation," whs the awful prospect set before Mrs. 1 t II Hunt, of Lime Kidge, Wis., - by her doctor after vainly trying j to cure her of ft frightful ease of , stomach trouble nrd yellow jaundice. He didn't count on the 3 marvellous power of Klectric Bitters to cure Stomach and Liver - troubles, but she heard of it, took . seven Iwittles, was wholly cured, 1 avoided surgeon's knife, now weighs more ami feels better thun ever. It's positively guaranteed to cure Stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles and never disapi>oints. Price 50o at Crawford Bros drug store. i' pap'er ' and' 'the' Atllnu'* Twlc?-a-Week Journal for 4 11 * V I ? ? 4* A* V/ ?? Announcements. FOR SOLICITOR. I hereby announce myself a can din d ite for the office of Hohoitor of the Hxth Jml icial i ircuit, pledging my* ael' t< abide I he result of the ilemoi crntic primary election, ami faithfully to discharge the duties of said office in the event of my election. THOS F. VcDOW. run nuUKfi UK Khl'KKSA'Ns ? ATIVE* The many friends of J N EM ridge re-mect fully ami <unce his name for re-election for the Home of Kepre<> seutativce of Lancaster county. MANY VO ERS. c/r. t am a candidate for the Houie of Representative* BUbJ-ot to the Democratic primary. .1 W HAM EL ?//I am a c^noidate for re election to the 1 j?*j?isla> u re. I will abide (lie resuit of the democratic piiniary election. 1 V WILLIAMS. FOK CLEKK OF tOURT With a high s**ii*e of appreciation of past considerations and tokens of ktmhies- and witii a deep feeling of r titude for the same, I beg to an- , ounce myself a cand dat? for reelection to the office of < 'lerk of t'ourt for .Lancaster ( ounty at the approaching primary, su jec to the ru'e< of ttie Democratic primary w s L POItt'EK FOK *H EKIFF I hereby announce myself a candidate foi HIierifT ml Ject t < the rulen of Democratic party .IAjWKS S U 1LSON <ws The many friends ol t'apt John P Hunter hereby announce bim as a candidate for the offl e of sheriff. ??u'3? j et to the result of ttie democratic primary. Mr Hunter's floe record as Sh- rift in the pant in a snfltcle> t guarantee of what bin future admint-tration will be in c.ise ??f his election ANY VOTERS. .FOR OOUNiY AUDI iOR. I renpectfully announce my candidacy for the oitice of cnuutv Auditor, aubjVct to the rule* of the Democratic primary. L J PERRY. rert t liercby announce myaelf ana can didate f.?r A uditor -subject to the rules governing the Democratic primary. HOLLH H H()R I ON. ac Mr Editot:?Keaii/.ing the valuable aervlcea rendered during hia term of onim, the neat tier a and correctness of hi* work, and knowing: litrn to be well qualified for t' e position, please Niinouiice the name of J no a Cook for re- elect ton to C tie office of County Auditor, subject to the tnlee governin# the primary. -MANY FRIENDS. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCAHON To the Votera of Lancaster Cbunty: With many thanka f.n past favora, and at the solicitation of friends. I hereby annnu-.ce myaelf as a candldate for the office of County Kuperin reuueiu or nitiu at ion, nubject to the ruiea governing the Democratic prli mary; and, if elected my time and energies areyoure for the beat Intercet a of education. J ? BLACKMON. ,'zn Mr Editor:?Please announce the name of PROF A <3 ROWELL as a candidate -for the ( ftlce of County Superintendent of Education, eubjsct to the rule* governIng the Democra'lc primary. If elected, ,we pledge him to discharge the duties of the office to the beat interest of education. MANY FR1KND& FOR SUPERVISOR The friend* of W Q, Caakey, announce him a* a candidate for County Supervisor. Mr Cfeakey will abide the reault of the Democratic primary elecMona. r/K At the earnest solicitation of many friends, I hereby announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the office of Oounty'Supervie'T, aul ject to the result of the democratic primary. M 0 GARDNER CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. Tin Kind Yoi Han Always Bougkt szz.airfaES, ? . ^