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Show THE POLITICAL SITUATION SITUA-TION IN THE SOUTH A verv rtinathabl. Change In political politic-al c-onilltlons W nhmrwible In the r-outhein Stntes, it 1 1 on which during dur-ing the nxt few )tji will he worth of the closest ntlentlon of eccij student stu-dent of National polities It lias been quite aiipaicnt fot some time that the aetlnn nf Mississippi Louisiana, South Cninllua Ninth Carolina, Car-olina, and, more rnentl Alabama, nnd Virginia In dlfranihlslng th negro population, will be followed b po!ltli.tl changes of gieat lnipoitiince Fmnml for the tun post of ellmlnat Ing ihe Republican strength In those States, the Constitutional amendments which made it Impossible foi a negio tn vote lme resulted in the it cation of a While llepublle in pails As long as the negro was a political factor and allied himself wllh the Republicans, as he was bound to do Just m lnng was the ltepubllcnn partv In the South handicapped It inuhl not and did not eonmiinil the suppott of the re spec table element It lenders whose tone em In Republican since" was due nlmott entliel) tn the desire to hold Tederal offiie, used the negieies as an id tu the ncnirtipllshmi nt of selllsh ends Aa soon as the negio became dlsfi.inchlsed mah pininTnent white men of Ihe South, who In secret espoused es-poused the Itepubll. an principles of pmteitlon and sound mone but nuild not endure nsnocl.ctlon wllh Ihe negro openly Identities! themselves with the Republican part In brief the white voters of the South hitherto solldllleil through common iiiiiafronNiii lo negro suffrage, are dividing The ate fiee In vote and act iiciui Una In theili views rf tho best Interest nf their Slnti an I their ceiuntrv, knowing that the menace men-ace which the feaieel has lieen re-mov re-mov el 1'ieBldent Roosevelt has given an liu-petun liu-petun tn thl movement t his ullei -niices to C'liiilini in Lon of the 'lexas Republican Stale cnmiultlie lie wanted Ihe members or tin pailv In the Smith lo be something more thin seekers after ofllce and traders In St He delegations eltiilng riesldentlnl eHrs He wauled them In show u spltlt of aggressiveness lie eleslied, 111 feel, that (he leicveu of Republicanism Republican-ism should petmenle tin South Impressing Im-pressing Itself upon each lonmiunli, and In course of lime resulting In the eleelnpment of an active oigaiilzatton The result of the President's advice Is alread apparent In Alabama, Ihe Republicans have, nominated a Slate ticket and am waging a contest In several Cnngicssleinil eliilrlcts, 111 Arkansas, Ar-kansas, a new coterie nf Rcpubllcaua nie In the Held, attempting tn overthrow over-throw the machine whhli for so long has inouoiintlAil, iiirrtiptl or otherwise, other-wise, tho continl of the Peeler il of. Ilces1, In North Carolina, Scnntnr Prltchaid Is to lead n campaign upon the Issue nf protection to the industries indus-tries which hnve been so largel In-Miumcntnl In-Miumcntnl In developing that State, while In Texas, tho most Demociallc of Deinocrnllc Slates, now llfo It is been Infused into the Republican organization organiza-tion and a movement his been linu-guraled linu-guraled which bids filr to atliact National attention Henry Litihlleld West In Porum. |