President Roosevelt tried the experiment of offering encouragement and inducements in that direction to what was known as the Gold-standard Democrats, but even that was barren of satisfactory results.

President Taft seems to be the only Republican President since Mr.Hayes who has allowed himself to labor under the delusion that the desired result could be accomplished through the use and distribution of Federal patronage.

The chief mistake on the part of those who thus believe, and who act in accordance with that belief, grows out of a serious lack of information about the actual situation.

In the first place their action is based upon the assumption that the Solid South,--or what remains of it,--is an outgrowth of an honest expression of the wishes of the people of that section, whereas, in point of fact, the masses had very little to do with bringing about present conditions and know less about them.

Those conditions are not due primarily to the fact that colored men are intimidated by white men, but that white men are intimidated by the Democratic party.