The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.5, page 662, Oct. 1900, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers Where hot the hounds come baying, at his hip; With one idea foremost in his mind, Like the keen prow of some on-forging ship. New England Magazine, 23 (OC(. 1900), 227. A Statement on Southern Politics ''Tuskegee, Ala., cat October Coo] THE INTOLLERENCE OF THE SOUTH Politically speaking there are at least one fourth tof] our states that might be designated as the ''submerged fourth.'' Politically they are dead states. From now until the second Tuesday in November in every part of the union outside of the South, there will be public speaking torch light processions &c that will reach the remotest corner of each state. Besides this political documents by the thousand pounds will be sent into these states. No one can fail to see that the opportunity to hear and see some of the greatest statements and most eminent speakers and to be constantly in receipt of political literature is in the long run a great education. But the South receives no such education and ''appears] to not want to receive it. It prefers to remain politically dead. In Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou ti~siana, Floridia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, there will be no discussion of the great national issues upon which the campaign is being fought. There will be in these states personal squabbles for the party nominations in which as a rule nothing but local matters are discussed and personal abuse often dealt in, but no broad generous discussions of the great questions of the day. There will be no torch light processions, no great speakers, hardly a dozen pounds of literature will be sent by either party into these states. We have been told year by year that it was the Negro that kept the South politically dead. Let us see, the Negro has been practically out of politics in Miss. and South Carolina for ten years by reason of the new Constitutions adopted in these states, and yet Mississippi, and South Carolina are in exactly the same political condition as the other Southern States. 662