Mr. President. for many years I have been profoundly Impressed by the racial complications of the United States. holding within its boundaries. as its does. nearly twelve millions of blacks. and facing on the Pacific hundreds of millions of people of the brown and yellow races. who look upon the United States as the promised land of opportunity. At the Baltimore Democratic convention I presented a platform plank proposing to restrict suffrage in and immigration to this country to people of the white race. Later on Mr. Roosevelt. whose views regarding the right of the blacks in the South to suffrage. to officeholding. and to social recognition have hitherto been in marked hostility to the prevailing sentiment of the South. astonished the country by his declaration in favor of organizing a Progressive Party as a white party In the South and as a white.and black party in the North.
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