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Noted Mississippian 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 JO.—Anent
Senator Vardanian'* 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 Misiissippian has writ
ten the following for The Sunday
American.
BY JAMES K. VARDAMAN.
U. S. Senator from Mississippi.
T HE importance of the * race
problem is rightly understood
by compartively few people.
Ininformed 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 diffi
culty, 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
help 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
coiled 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 liberty 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, I should exclude
from the United States every race
of color, every specimen of man
that 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 part of the Constitution. They
were never constitutionally adopt
ed. It is a matter of history, I
think, that the voters of (he
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
office, nor to intermarry with white
people; and I will say, in addition
to this, that there is a physical
difference between the white and
black races, which T believe will
forever forbid the two races living
on terms of social and political
J AMES K. .VARDAMAN,
Senator from Mississippi,
who plans to solve the negro
problem by abolishing the Fif
teenth Amendment.
Miss Wilson Breaks
An Elevator Barrier
Capitol Operator, Apologizing. Lets
•Jessie Woodrow’ Ride, When
She Presents Card.
WASHINGTON. May JO.—“Sorry,
miss, but you t an not ride on this eie-
vator,” said an elevator operator in
the Capitol this afternoon to a pretty,
! fair-haired girl. She was about to
enter one of the members* elevators
I on the House side.
“But 1 was told to go up this way,”
she quietly answered. “1 am Mis*
Wilson.”
"Sorry; it’s against the rules.” he
reiterated, but as he took a card from
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. M aaon Gulick
has 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
blue and artistic lapis lazuli earrings.
Then you look again and behold she
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. Guliek’s gown :s
flowered silk on one-half and on that
side she weans an earring. On the
other side it is plain silk and she
wears no earring and the hat is un-
trim med.
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. Bryan
tapped the flowing grape juice bar-
; rel Thursday afternoon at a recep-
! tion at Calumet Place.
Speaker and Mrs. Champ Clark
were not present, despite the recent
! Clark-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.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 11)13.
All Atlanta To Be Tagged Monday
Pretty Girls to Seek Charity Fund
No EscapingtheFair Canvassers!
‘Seers’ Got Million
Out of New Yorkers
Chicago Attorney Uncovers Work
ings of Immense Clairvoy
ant Trust.
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 mast be in the law a
recognition of tho racial differences.
A law stilted to the governments of
the white man of America—“the
heir of all the ages in the foremost
files 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 has lasted with
him only so long as he 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 jungle.s. %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 United
States Is quite as discouraging as
the Haitian example. Notwith
standing that the white man has
built for him schools and colleges,
cared ^or his deaf and dumb and
insane and his blind, helped him by
♦■xample and precept, the negro race
in America is growing more crimi
nal. Indeed, it is a hundredfold
more criminal in the year of our
Lord 1913 than It was in 1861. In
the State of Pennsylvania, where
the negro is only about 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
1 colored race. In the city of Wash-
j ington. the negroes are about
i 28 per cent of the total popula-
Continued cn Page 4. Column 3,
i This Section.
FOUR FAIR TAC-GERS.
Miss Marian Goldsmith.
2 Southern Women
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. .1. L, Ailcom. 90 years old, the
widow of General James L. Allco.rn. 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
search of George H. English, a neph
ew of Mrs. Allcorn. Failing 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-
j 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 cowboy, in the arena
to-night.
T 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 going 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
tive*, a X ban Francisco.
Miss Mary Helen Moodv.
Sheltering Arms Workers Will
Be at Their Downtown Posts
Bright and Early.
To-morrow morning early every
body In Atlanta will be tagged!
Society with all its 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 young girl with a
smile that is worth a thousand dol
lars waves a small slip of paper be
fore you marked “Tag.'’ be sure that
you do not clasp your pocketbook
tightly and run away, but get out a
piece of silver and take your medi
cine like a man. And there will be
young girls stationed at the corners,
and in the public thoroughfares so
lovely that even the pagan gods who
sometimes visited the earth would
have turned and handed them their
winged sandals, 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 Arm.),
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 h?lp for the Shel
tering Arm a, but when Tag Day
comes, they are just naturally ex
pected to give something for the up
keep of one of the foremost charities
in the city.
I If everybody knew' what the aplen-
(’Hl< AGO, May 10.—Maul-ay
Hoyne, Slate's Attorney, asserted in
Judge Bosnian* Court to-day thai
the so-called “Clairvoyant Trust.”
which has been operating in Chicago
for eighteen month*, originated in
New York City, where its principals
had swindled their victims out of
$1,000,000.
Mr. Hoyne ieft 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 w hole business
is a swindle.” said Mr. Hoyne. “He
admitted dividing the spoils with cer
tain politicians. Ryan said that Chi
cago had been a good town to work
in. owing to police protection.”
'. C. A. STELZLE
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.
R EV. CHARLES A. STEL
ZLE. one of the leaders
in the Presbyterian Assem
blies meeting 1 , already well
known here.
Miss Alice Mav Freeman.
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 young girls, engage in the
great game of Tag.
They do not run around like the
little children and say, “I got your
tag." They just make themwlves at
tractive, stand at some place ap
pointed, and modestly hand out a lit
tle paper tag, for which you may pay
Continued on Fage 2. Column 5,
This. Section,
Keir Hardie Woos
English Suffragist
Alleged Love Letters Found Among
’General’ Drummond’*
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
offices and domiciles of the malignant
suffragettes there came into their
By REV. CHAS. A. STELZLE.
(Who will be a leading figure in the
great Proebytorian Assembly.)
R ELIGIOUS prejudice dies hard,
but religious passion 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 I
Thursday, when for the first time in
their history there wi.l gather to
gether the three leading F’rosbyterian
General Assemblies, representing
practically the combined Presbyte
rian membership of the United
States. There are a dozen denomina
tions in this country, following the
Presbyterian system and doctrine,
but the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America (Northern),
the Presbyterian (•Lurch in the Unit
ed plates (Southern), and the United
PreRbyterian Church of North Amer-
ica. which are to meet in Atlanta,
contain about 2.000,000 of the 2,500,-
00ft numbers in the?e dozen denom- j
(nations.
1,400 Commissioners.
There will be 1.400 commissioners!
in the three bodies—half of them lay
men. The day sessions will be de- j
voted to business, but at night there
will be great popular meetings in the-
Auditorium, in which the combined warped through prejudice, for, in the
a^emblies will unite. first place, these interests could not
Politics are aupposed to be tabooed I elect anybody to this office; if they
in a general assembly, but novnrthe tried it, such an attempt would aim
less there will b*-* some interesting ply invite defeat; and, as already
“contests," especially for the modera- stated, a radical could not be elected,
torshlp of the Northern Assembly. I< anyway.
has frequently happened that the can- It is also rumored that a regularly
didate who has been too aggressive organized effort has been under way
in his efforts to secure this office for some months, under the direction
has been strongly rebuked by the of a group of conservative leaders —
commissioners by the election of a that is, conservative In their Ideas ’s
“dark horse," and in recent years to methods of work so far as national
these aspirants for office have left administrative affairs are concerned—
the management of their campaigns to elect a moderator who will smash
to intimate and trusted friend.- who ’the tendency in some of the boards
are both wise and discreet. No doubt I toward specialization and modern “ef-
a dozen or more men will cyme toi rt ‘‘ lenoy m «* thods -” the contention be-
the assembly with their "moderator’s ; lng that these boards have no r, K bt
sermon” packed In Iheir grip foL to have new ,deas on old P roblerr ' s -
who can tell which of them may be but that they muSt continue th * ,r
called”
to preach on next Sunday
work In the same manner that It has
« Mifu* Marion Acheson.
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 si^k
Socialist member of Parliament to a
lady who for some time has taken 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 police have had at least 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. Js Keir Hardie and the
lady “General” Flora Drummond.
morning as the first man In the j been done for 50 years
church—and incidentally to have his Much Campaigning,
sermon most heartily commended by It is said that a definite visitation
one group and most fiercely crlti- of Presbyteries and individual mln-
clsed by another—for there Is every isters has been In progress to further
shade of belief on every subject this movement, for some time, but
among these very human commis- that this effort became so ponderous
sioners. And that’s what makes an that it has fallen of its own weight.
assembly meeting so mighty inter
eating.
Nothing Cut and Dried.
There is nothing set up—nothing cut
and dried—nothing like a slate. If
anyone suspects that a “machine” is
But even if It is not already dead,
It would be unmercifully dealt with
as the assembly itself for, be it
said to the credit of the entire Church
and to that of the commissioners
who will be in Atlanta this week,
trying to put over any measure, IF* every b ° ard and eVery ° fflclal 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 sny possibility it re
sults in the unjust injury of any man
a sure sign that the measure will ne
ripped to pieces in order to find the
motive bark of the ''job.''
Now, In the mnttcr of the moder- |
atorship— which, by the way, has be- |
come an exceedingly important of
fice, and requires that this officer shall , , _
be traveling throughout the country ! or organization in^the ^orch.
during practically the entire year— j
much depend** upon a man's theologi
cal opinions. It's* a foregone conclu
sion that a radical will not win, but
neither will an ultra-conservative.
The tendencies are all toward pro
gressiveness. but ati out-and-out rad
ical stands no sort of a chance. A
Probable Candidates.
Now as to some of the candidates
who are being mentioned. The race
will probably be confined to two, al
though ethers may run. First there is
Dr. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus*. Ohio,
who has been active as a member of
the assembly’s evangelistic commit-
Admits a Chemist
Can Create Life
Britlzh Scientist Thinks It Must Be
of Low Form, and Cannot
Diapel Religion.
sane, middle-of-the-road man will j tee and in several other important
have the best chance. Opinions dlf- national enterprises, and who has
fer as to which of the candidate* been regarded as one of the most
being suggested is most satisfactory satisfactory all-round pastors and
In this particular, for all of them preachers and executives in the eoun-
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, May 10.—Professor Sims
Woodhead, lecturing before the Royal
Society of the Arts, discussed the
origin of life.
He said he agreed with Professor
Schafer that It was quite possible a
very low form of life might be cre
ated by a chemist, but he insisted
that was “no reason to change our
belief in God "
would, no doubt, insist that the,'
measure up to this standard.
Bodies Behind Radical.
It was 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 moderatorship. 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 most daring
attempt to control the church since
the days of “the early Roman See."
But such a charge could be made only
by a strongly partisan Individual,
whose good judgment has .become
try. He has been called to many
leading churches, but has persisted
in remaining in Columbus 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 the fine thing about Dr. Alexander
is that he spends large sums of his
own money, and, it is reported, all
of his salary, in sensible social work
among needy people in Pittsburg and
elsewhere But aside from tjiie Dr.
Alexander is a successful worker
among men and he Is aieo a popular