The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 2, Ed. 1, Friday, October 23, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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A FRUO-AMERICAN VOTERS
DEMOCRATS ATTEMPTING TO USE
NEGRO ELECTORS AT
CAT'S PAW.
Progress
lican
of the Race Undtr Rcpub-
Rule World Record is
Ectnblished.
The intelligent Negro does not
worship false gods lie i.s thoroughly
familiar witn the condition of his
1 rotlicr in the south where demo-
oriicy is in the saddle. Ik known
that at Heart the leadsr af the demo-
cratic part.' do not wislt .'s associa-
tion in politics but only hope to n.se
M in vud to disgruntle him against the
republican part in order that they
may without benefit to iim be ele-
vated i'tto power it dcos not need
the declaration from the lU'inoerat.V
party that it is a white ninn'n party
to convince the Negro .with an
brains that hi.; interest and tnlure
welfare and that of Ills tace. lie in
the hands of the republican party.
In Uncle Sam's Service.
Under the klndl fostering care of
the republican party tha: wiped the
stain of slavery from the Stars and
Stripes with the blood of statesmen
the colored race has esTablished a
world's record in the progress of
civilization and enightened aggressive
citizenship. Today colore; men and
women to the number of r.!7S are
occupying positions in tin- government
service under republican administra-
tion and draw in the aggregate the
sum of $So:2:;." annually from the
public treasury. They are to be
found in every position Trom that of
common laborer to that oi envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary. Their salaries range front 1500
to 10000 a year the latter t.um being
1 aid to our colored envoy extraordi-
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
Haiti.
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Old Lady:--Stop your cackling I dont see a THING.
from democratic sources. V. .1. Bryan
in his speech at X w 'i ork IDOri said.
"The white m:.. in the scuta lias
di. rikiiciiiried the Nc.4ro in helf-nro-
Perhaps few colored people are i tctt.vm; and thiru i.s iut a republican
a war? that lite numuor or .-iro-Atnerleuns
in the service of the gov-
ernment exclusive of the armv and
navy has moro tnan doubled in the
last four years under republican
administration. Their aggregate pay
has hern increased from $P.000.0()0 in
1H01 to more tlnn ?S.)il0.00;j in 19U8.
Plsnk In Republican Platform.
The present republican platform
contains tills plank:
"The repuHhnn party mis been for
morn than flltv yeary th- consistent
frit nl i the American Me. ro. It gave.
him freed nt and citizenship. It wrote." j'.Jtli congress said:
into tV? e;"-an'.c law the declarations j' "Seme of the Negroes are so Jiear
Oat pn claim his civil and political aldii to the monkey that sclent! are
rtgnis. :mvi n ncncvo.i totiay nun his sun iookiuj
notewo. t.'i.' progress in Intelligence i
iudut. - . nn good oltizetiE-ip has
in the north wlu would not nave done
the same thing under the sa.no clr-
ciitr.stancojf. The waite men oi' the
seiuh are determined that the Xegro
shall be disfranchised c-or. where It
is necessary to prevent lite recur-
rence of the hrrror3 of 'carpet-bag
i tile." '
i-toke Smith who was a member of
C e eland .' e.i'dnet and who :s at
piestnt governor of (ieirg:.isa:;:
'1 favor the elimination of the Xegro
from poliriea and if 1 am erected I
will urge this with all tnv luwer."
.senator rillman in a speech in the
for the missing iv'ri
j
earned t" n-Tpeot and encourago-
inent ot the nation.
"We (. ujjkI justice for all men
without i ; 'fd to race or colnr; we
declare ( n"e more and without re-
strvatlrn. t' r the enforcement In let-
tr and in spirit of the Tilth 14th and
loth amendments to the constitution
which were designed for ine protec-
tion and advancement of LTic Negro
and we condemn all devices that have
for their real aim his disfranchise-
ment for reason. of 'm1 alone as
unfair un-American and repugnant
to the supreme law of Hie land."
Th Hon. William 11. Tuft In a
sppee.li in Plymouth church Mrooklyn
recently said:
"What the Xegro and Ms friends
demand Is equality of enforcement of
the law under the constitution."
' Democratic Hypocr; ' " i
With defeat staring it Kj- '
without a real virile issue nxin.'
embodied In the "Peerless One' i
mocracy is struggling to win In nils
I present campaign with the Xegro
vote in the north and witbou the Xe-
groe vote in the south. This seems
to bo the erowni'tg climax of politl-
t e:il idiocy. The Negro disfranchised
in the South by tho democratic party
i.s expected tot lick the hand that
nuke him execute an about-face
tmrvement and aid the democrats In
swinging republican states of tho
north into tho hands of his rientocratic
oppressor.?! From the days of its
birth the democratic partv has not
only halted its boasted nomocracy at
the color lino but has bragged about
It. There is not a la won the statute
J books today for the benefit and pro-
i tectlon of the Xegro thai was not
placed thero by Republicans m spite
World's Record of Progress.
I'ndea the republican policies the
i Negro race has nourished as no race
j ever flourished before in the history
i of the world. The illltc:acy of the
I race at the time of cninucipak:ou was '
; almost complete. When the census
of 1S0O waj taken it showed that tnls
j illiteracy had been reduced to aaout
II per cent. Italy today has 118 per
I cent of illiteracy; Spain (.6 per cent
' and Portugal 70 per cent. These are
' all white countries with centuries of
j civilization behind . them. There are
10000 Xegro students in higher instl-
! unions of learning pursuing all
branches from trade to classical and
clentliie courses. Forty thousand
I colored youths have graduated from
secondary institutions of le.arn:tig and
I ?i000 front colleges.
' The race has developed IlO.ono tea"h-
ers. 1G.00O clergymen I TOO physicians
and surgeens I.uOO law.e;v. and 400
'journalists and litenirv people it lias
1 200 Institutions for higher education
r" thOyUnlted States. In 100 J :: owned
j j$(y amounting to $: 100000000.
"sJ .Moo the farm property belonging
to Negroes was valued at $200000000.
it operates 740715 farm. and owns
1S7.707 farniB or about 2." iter cent of
' the total.
This is not a bad sltowln ; for a
race which the democrats declare to
be unlit for citizenship. The instincts
of self-preservation demand that the
American Xegro vote Tor Tuft and
Sherman and a continuance of the re-
publican policies.
and that a great wrong has been done
hint in holding him reni.onsl do for
the discharge of the soldiers (.1 Com-
panies It C and 1) of tN j."itli Regi-
ment of the United Ltate- Infantry.
'1 ne latest and most piiamnottL con
vert to this conclusion is tJilchriat
Stewart of Xew York. It will be re
mentbered that it was Gilchrist
Stewart who as a merauer of tho
Constitutional league stsirtod the
Brownsville agitation; that it was
through ills instrumentality that a do
tective was sent to Brownsville to in
vestlgate the affair. It was Gllchirst
Stewart who went through the coun-
try delivering speeches and collecting
funds for the defense of the sol-
diers; and it was he who ; iter pre-
pared all the evidence for Senator
Forakor which was presented to the
senatorial committee investigating
the Brownsville affair.the
hat
Democrats Hate Negroer.
Contrast these kindly sentiments of the opposition of the democrat
or republicans with the following i
That the Xegro is showing a ro-
1 markable ability to recover his sober
judgment under tho most trying cir-
cumstances and reach a conclusion
' moro inharmony with his best intor-
j ests is shown by the way they aro
coming to the support of the ropubli-
can ticket. They are beginning to
j realize that after all Judge William
II. Tart is one of their best friends
Tho announcement is Mh?
national renublican hcadu'i .
Gilchrist Stewart will take ui&iiwnnp
for .ludge William II. 'art. Charles
II. Keating assistant director of the
speakers' bureau of tito national head-
quarters at Xew York advised Senator
Dlson that he lias "accepted the ten-
der of Mr. Stewart's services and" as-
signed him to West Virginia and Ken
tucky. Senator Dixon will probably
mako engagements for hint in Illinois
Indiana and Kansas. Inasmuch as
Mr. Stowart has offered his services
gratuitously tho republican managers
have concluded to u$e him and aro in
clined to bollevo that tho Brownsville
Incident is likoly to prove of little
conseqaence In the futuic so far as
tho Xegro is concerned.
Wo call upon Air. Bryan to tqU
the Xegroes of this country what his
attitude is and will be toward tho
Xegro so far as his civil and political
rights are concerned.
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