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Miss Wilson Breaks
An Elevator Barrier
HIS NEW PLAN
Noted M ississi ppian Explains
Why He Will Urge Repeal of
the Fifteenth Amendment and
Modification of the Fourteenth
Northern and Southern People
Both to Be Pitied for Attitude
They Take Toward Question So
Vital to the Race, He Declares.
WASHINGTON, May lO.—Anent
Senator 1 ardaman's determination to
push resolutions in the Senate to the
repeal of the Fifteenth amendment,
which gives the negro the ballot, and
to modify the Fourteenth amendment
concerning the social rights of that
race, the noted Hississippian has writ
ten the following for The Sunday
A merican.
BY JAMES K. VARDAMAN.
U. S. Senator from Mississippi.
T HE importance of the race
problem is rightly understood
by compartively few people.
Uninformed men and women of the
North carelessly push It aside with
the absurd statement that, "it is
a Southern question and should be
left alone to the white man of the
South to settle." And on the other
' hand, there are a great many stu
pid men and women of the South
who seeing no way around the diffl-
(Silty, hold it to be an insoluble
problem, and content themselves
to let matters drift.
For the two classes, I have no
other feeling than that of commis-
eration. Possibly. they cannot
lelp it. They are as ignorant of
the real tendency of things—as in
capable of understanding the dan
gers Involved in the policy of do
ing nothing, as the light-hearted
child who gathers flowers from the
rosebush beneath whose foliage Is
( Oiled a viper ready to strike it to
death. This question is not a po
litical question—It is not a sectional
issue. But. on the contrary, it is
a great national question. And its
solution rests with the nation at
large No greater question ever
agitated the minds of a libertv lov
ing people, the purity of whose
blood and the permanency of
whose civilization depend upon the
right treatment of the question at
this time.
The' Indiscriminate commingling
of the races, the enjoyment of equal
political privileges and breaking
down of all racial barriers—social
and political—ultimately result in
the amalgamation of the races, that
will mean race deterioration, mor
al and intellectual decay, and in
the end the overthrow and destruc-
ton of the civilization which glori
fies the beginning of the twentieth
century. If I could have my way
about things, 1 should exclude
from the United States every race
'•V .color, every specimen of man
*tnat can not amalgamate with the
white race without being a detri
ment to the white race. We do
not want any people in America
that can not be assimilated, that
can not be absorbed by the domi
nant race without resulting in race
deterioration.
.Great Mistake Is Cited.
A great mistake was made when
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments were adopted. Or,
perhaps I should state history more
accurately if I should say when
these amendments were proclaimed
a pert of the Constitution. They
were never constitutionally adopt
ed. It is a matter of history, I
think, that the voters of the
States never gave their approval to
these legislative enormities. They
are entirely out of harmony with
the truth, and grossly violative of
the spirit of the times. Abraham
Lincoln never for one moment in
all of his career favored giving the
ballot to the negro. In the memor
able debate with Mr. Douglas, in
which the race question was a
burning Issue. Mr. Lincoln gave ex
pression to these words: "I am not,
nor ever have been, in favor of
bringing about in any way the so
cial and political equality of the
white and black races—that I am
not, nor ever have been, in favor of
making voters and jurors of ne
groes. nor of qualifying them to hold
... nor to intermarry with white
people; and I will say, in addition
l,o this, that there is a physical
difference between thg white and
black races, - which I believe w ill
forever forbid the two races living
on terms of social and political
equality. And inasmuch as they
can not so live while they do re
main together, there must be the
position of Superior and inferior,
and I as much as any. other man
am in favor of having the superior
position assigned to the white
race.”
If we are to have a government
by law, there must he in ihe law a
recognition of the racial differences.
A law suited to the governments of
the white man of America—“the
heir of ail the ages in the foremost
flies of time”—can not be adapt
ed to the government of this civ
ilization—veneered savage, but a
few generations out of the barbar
ism of Africa. The white man is
a self-governing creature. The
negro has not sustained the power
of self-development. The only civ
ilization he ever enjoyed was in
culcated by the superior race, and
that civilization lias lasted with
him only so long as lie was under
the influence and control of the
white man who inculcated it. When
left to himself the negro has uni
versally drifted back to the barbar
ism of the jungles. With all the
Christian world has been able to
do for him in the last hundred
years in Haiti, he is to-day the
worshiper of the voodoo, and can
nibalism is not distasteful to him.
nor does it shock his conscience.
U. S. Experience Discouraging,
Our experience in the Unjled
States Is quite as discouraging as
the Haitian example. Notwith
standing that the white man has
built for him schools and cnllpges,
cared for his deaf and dumb and
insane and his blind, helped him by
example and precept, the negro race
Ih America is growing more crimi
nal. Indeed, it is a hundredfold
more criminal In the v ear of our
Lord 1913 than it was in 1861. In
the State of Pennsylvania, where
the negro is only abeut 2 per
cent of the total population, more
than 17 per cent of the male
criminals of that State are
negroes; and 30 per cent of
the females criminals are of the
colored race. In the city of Wash
ington, the negroes are about
28 per cent of the total papula-
Continued on Page 2. Column 4,
This Section.
J AMES K. VARDAMAN.
Senator from Mississippi,
who plans to solve the negro
problem by abolishing the Fif
teenth Amendment.
Capitol Operator, Apologizing, Lets
'J.essie Woodrow’ Ride, When
She Presents Card.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—“Sony,
rriias, but you ran not ride on this ele
vator,” said an elevator operator in
the Capitol this afternoon to a pretty,
fair-haired girl. She wafl about to
enter one of the members’ elevators
on the House side.
“But 1 Was told to go up this way.
slip quietly answered. ”1 am Mils
Wilson.”
"Sorry; it's against the rules," he
reiterated, but as he took a card from j
her hand and read "Jessie Woodrow
Wilson," he quickly became apologetic
and said: "Step right in, miss!”
And in she stepped and up she rode.
Washington Dazed by
Half-and-Half Gown
Mrs. Gulick Changes Costumes When
She Turns Around, and
Society Is Startled.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-The half-
and-half gown of Mrs. Mason Gulick
j lias again blinded Washington socie
ty, which temporarily lost its sight
the other day at Mrs. Preston Gib
son's cubist gown.
Mrs. Gulick appears to be wearing
at first sight a pretty creation of blue
flowered silk, black hat trimmed with
j biue and artistic lapis lazuli earrings.
Then you look again and behold she
i has on a gown of plain blue silk, no
| earrings and a plain blue hat.
The reason for this seeming delu
sion is that Mrs. Gulick’s gown ‘s.
flowered silk on one-half and on that
side she wears an earring. On the
other side it Is plain silk and she
wears no earring and the hat Is un-
fri-mmed.
Bryans Hold Party
In a Grape Arbor
Garden Reception to House Members
Hitherto Given Only at White
House by President Himself.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—The
members of the House and "the la
dies of their families,” to quote the
invitation, were the guests in whose
honor Secretary and Mrs. Brvan
tapped the flowing grape Juice bar
rel Thursday afternoon at a recep
tion at Calundet Place.
Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark
w*>re not present, despite the recent
TMark-Bryan “reconciliation.”
Secretary and Mrs. Bryan received
their guests in the garden. Refresh
ments were served under the grape
arbor. Representative and Mrs. Un
derwood and other Congressmen
helped receive.
Heretofore official garden parties
have been given only at the White
House.
Old Southern Woman
Lost in Los Angeles
Widow of Confederate Army Officer
and Her Granddaughter
Missing for Weeks.
LOS ANGELES. CAL., May 10.
Lost in Los Angeles by her friends,
the Daughters of the Confederacy.
Mrs. J. L. Allcorn, 90 years old, the
widow of General James L. Allcorn, a
distinguished Confederate army offi
cer and one-time Governor of the
State of Mississippi, is being hunted
by police detectives. With her is Miss
Lillie Ennis, of Friars Point, Miss.,
her 16-year-old granddaughter.
The two women arrved in Los An
geles on the evening of April 22 in
seahch of George H. English, a neph
ew of Mrs. Allcorn. Falling to locate
their relative, they sought the aid of
Local membership of the Daughters of
the Confederacy.
Since April 28 nothing has been
heard from the two women, despite
many inquiries made by the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy.
Cowgirl Goes From
Hospital to Altar
Member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Show Arises to Wed
in Arena.
NEW YORK. May 10.—Miss Goldie
Griffiths, star cowgirl with the Buf
falo Bill show, who was removed to
Bellevue Hospital last night after be
ing thrown from her horse in Mad
ison Square Garden, left the hospital
this afternoon and mounted her cow
pony and darted down to City Hall
to get a marriage license to wed
Harry Smith, a cbwboy, in the arena
to-night.
"I allowed I couldn’t get well if 1
stayed in that hospital any longer,
and besides I didn’t want to disap
point Harry." said Goldie to-night as
she threw a saddle over a broncho.
“We are golhg to be married on
horseback, minister and all, and I
sure hope the cayuses don’t throw
the wedding."
Smith and Miss Griffiths are na-
o£ S&a Francisco.
All AtlantaToBe Tagged Monday
Pretty Girls to Seek Charity|Fund
No Escapingthe Fair Canvassers!
Sheltering Arms Workers Will
Be at Their Downtown Posts
Bright and Early.
To-morrow morning t-arly every
body in Atlanta will be tagged!
Bocleiv with all if* splendid para
phernalia of Paris gowns, paradise
plumes that will make the bird-lovers
shiver, and other accessories to a
perfect presentation of fashionable
woman, will be on the streets display
ing Tag
If some pretty voting gir! with a
smile that is worth a thousand dol
lars waves a small slip Of puper be-,
fftre you marked "Tag,” be sure that
you do not clasp your pocket book
tightly arid run away, but get out a
piece of silver and take your medi
cine like a man. And there will be
young girls et&tioned at the corners,
and in the public thoroughfares so
lorelv that even the pagan gods who
sometimes visited the earth would
have turned and handed them tjlelr
winged swndals, or magic wands, or
whatever they happened to be car
rying at the time, just as the modern
young man is going to do with his
contribution to the Sheltering Arms,
Glorious Opportunity.
Tay Day IS one of the glorious op
portunities one has to do something
really good. During all the year no
one ever asks for help for the Shel
tering Arms, but when Tag Day
comes, they are just naturally ex
pected to give something for the up-
‘Seers' Got Million
Out of New Yorkers
Chicago Attorney Uncovers Work
Ings of Immense Clairvoy
ant Trust.
CHICAGO, May 10— Mac Lav
Hoyne, State's Attorney, asserted in
Judge Scanlan’s Court to-day that
the so-called "Clairvoyant Trust,”
which has been operating in Chicago
for eighteen months, originated In
New York City, where its print'!pals
had swindled their victims out of
f 1,000,000.
Mr. Hoyne left Chicago several
days ago with Joseph M. Ryan, alias
Professor Charles T Crane, a clair
voyant, who was brought here from
Lusk. Wyoming, charged with swin
dling. The State's Attorney said that
Ryan had divulged many of the se
crets of the clique.
"He admits that the whole business
is a swindle." said Mr. Hoyne. “He
admitted dividing the spoils with cer
tain politician*. Ryan said that Chi
cago had been a good town to work
In. owing to police protection."
I SURE
C. A. STELZLE
Keir Hardie Woos
English Suffragist
Alleged Love Letters Found Among (
‘General’ Drummond’s
Bomb Plots.
LONDON, May 10. The Daily Ex
press says: “An astonishing discov
ery was made by the police during
their recent investigation of the suf
fragette activities.
"In a search for documents in the
keep of one of the foremost charities
in the city.
If everybody knew what the splen
did Sheltering Arms women are doing
they would be even happier for their
gift-giving
Once a year these women, assisted
by a bevy of beautiful matrons and
lovely youhg girls, engage in the
great game of Tag.
They do not run around like the
little children and say, "I got youl*
tag.” They Just make themt»eJves at
tractive, stand at some place ap
pointed. and modestly hand out a lit
tle paper tag, for which you may pay
T .
Continued on Page 2, Column 4,
This Section.
offices and domiciles of the malignant
suffragettes there came into their
hands a bundle of letters which
proved not to be bomb plots but the
outpourings of an overflowing heart.
They were notes from a love sick
Socialist member of Parliament to a
lady who for some time has tajten a
prominent part in the militant move
ment.
"Naturally the police will not di
vulge the contents of these previous
letters, but it can be stated that they
are of an astounding character. There
seems to be little likelihood that the
letters will ever*reach the public, but
the poilce have had at leusl an amus
ing experience."
The Daily Express does not men
tion the names of the parties to the
correspondence, but it is reported
in newspaper circles that the So
cialist M. P. is Keir Hardie and the
lady "General” Flora Drummond.
Admits a Chemist
Can Create Life
British Scientist Thinks It Must Be
of Low Form, and Cannot
Dispel Religion.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON. May 10.—Professor Sims
Woodhead. lecturing before the Royal
Society of the Aria, discussed the
origin of life.
He said he agreed with Professor
Schafer that It was quite posaible a
very low form of life might be cre
ated by a chemist, but he insisted
that was "no reason to change om -
belief in God."
Cut-and-Dried Machine Methods
Will Meet With Severe Setback
From Commissioners if They're
Attempted by Any Presbyterians,
Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus,
Ohio, and Dr. Waitland Alexan
der, of Pittsburg, Are Leading
Candidates Before Assemblies.
By REV. CHAS. A. STELZLE.
(Who will be a leading figure in the
great Presbyterian Assembly.)
R ELIGIOUS prejudice dies hard, |
but religious pension produces
a devotion . which is unrivaled !
in the affairs of men. Both these sen
timents will be typified in the great
ten-day congress of Presbyterians to
be held in Atlanta beginning next
Thursday, when for the first time iti
their history tfyrre will gather to
gether the three leading Presbyterian I
General Assemblies, representing ■
practically the combined Presbyte
rian membership of the United I
States There are a dozen denomtna- ,
tions in tills country, following the
Presbyterian system and doctrine
but tho Presbyterian Uhureh in the
United States of America (Northern). I
the Presbyterian (’hutch In the Unit-'
ed Slates (Southern), and the United
Presbyterian 'TlUich of North Amer
tea, which ary in meet .in Atlanta,
contain about 2,000,000 of the 2,500,- I
000 members in the-e dozen denom-
ina tions.
1.400 Commissioners.
There will be 1,400 commissioners
in the three bodies—half of them lay
men The day sessions will be ile- j
voted to business, but at night there
will be great popular meetings in the
Auditorium, in which the combined I
assemblies will unite.
Politics are supposed to be tabooed
In a general Assembly, but neverthe
less there will be some tnteresttne
"contests." especially for the inodcra-
torship of tile Northern Assembly. I’
has frequently happened that the can
didate wiio has been loo aggressive
in his efforts to secure this older
has been strongly rebuked by the
commissioners hy the election of a
dark horse,” and In recent years
these aspirants Tor olflee have left
the management of their campaigns
to Intimate and trusted friends who
are both wise and discreet. do-lb*
a dozen or more men will cotne to
the assembly with their "moderator’s
sermon" packed In their- grip, for
who can tell which of them may he
"called" to preach on next Sunday
morning as the first man in the
Church—and Incidentally to have his
sermon most heartily commended by
one group and most fiercely criti
cised by another—for there is every
shade of belief on every subject
among these very human commis
sioners. And I hat's what makes an
assembly meeting so mighty Inter
esting.
Nothing Cut and Dried.
There's nothing set up nothing cut
and dried—nothing like a slate. If
anyone suspects that a "machine" is
trying to put over any measure, it’s
a sure sign that the measure will he
ripped to pieces in order to And the
motive back of the "job.”
Now, th the matter of the moder-
atorship—Which, by the way, has be
come an exceedingly Important of
fice. arid requires that tills officer shall
be traveling throughout the country
during practically the entire year-
much depends upon a man's theologi
cal opinions it's a foregone conclu
sion that a radical will not win, but
neither wlii an ultra-conservative.
The tendencies are all toward pro-
gressiveness. but an out-and-out rad
ical stands no sort of a chance. A
sane, middle-of-the-road man will
have the best chutiue. Opinions dif
fer as to which of the candidates
being suggested Is most satisfactory
in this particular, for ail of them
would, no doubt, insist tiiat the,
measure up to this standard.
Bodies Behind Radical.
It wag recently charged by a Pres
byterian newspaper that a definite at
tempt Is being made by Union Theo
logical Seminary, of New York, the
Board of Home Missions and the
Presbytery of New York to capture
the assembly by electing a radical to
the moderstorship. although this pa
per was wise enough not to name the
candidate of this alleged combination.
The movement was characterized by
this newspaper as the
attempt to control the
the days of
R KV. CHARLES A. STEL-
ZLE, one of the leaders
in 11t <* Presbyterian Assem
blies meeting:, already well
known here.
warped through prejudice, for, In tha
first place, these interests could not
elect anybody to this office; if they
tried it, such an attempt would sim
ply invite defeat; and. as already
stated, a radical could not be elected,
anyway.
It is also rumored that a regularly
organized effort has been under way
for some months, under the direction
of a group of conservative leaders —
that is, conservative in their ideas s
to methods of work so far as national
administrative affairs are concerned—
to elect a moderator who will smash
the tendency In some of the boards
toward specialization and modern "ef
ficiency methods.” the contention be
ing that these boards have no right
to have new ideas on old problems,
but that they must continue their
work in the same manner that it has
been done for 50 years.
Much Campaigning.
It is said that a definite visitation
of Presbyteries and individual min
isters has been in progress to further
this movement, for some time, bur
that this effort became so ponderous
that It has fallen of its own weight.
But even if it is not already dead,
it would be unmercifully dealt with
as the assembly itself for, be it
said to ihe credit of the entire Church
and to that of the commissioners
who will be In Atlanta this week,
every board and every official and
every individual member get? an ab
solutely square deal at the assembly,
and no "movement” no matter how
sincerely organized, or how worthily
promoted, will stand a ghost of a
chance if by any possibility it re
sults in the unjust injury of any man
or organization in the Church.
Probable Candidates.
Now as to some of the candidates
who are being mentioned. The race
will probably be confined to two, al
though others may run. First there's
Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus. Ohio,
who has been active as a member of
the assembly's evangelistic commit
tee and In several other important
national enterprises, and who has
been regiarded as one of the most
satisfactory all-round pastors and
preachers and executives in the coun
try. He has been called to many
leading churches, but has persisted
in remaining in ColumbUB to develop
a big church and institutional work
in that city. Dr. Palmer will have
the strong support of the Middle
Western section of the country.
-Then comes Dr. Waitland Alexan
der, of the First Church of Pitts
burg. who has the reputation of be
ing a "millionaire minister”—at any
rate, he is said to be very wealthy,
but th fine thing about Dr. Alexander
is that he spends large sums of hif»
is reported, all
social work
in Pittsburg and