The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-27
FOR BLACK VOTERS Candidate Higgins tsNegrO
 Audience. WOoDFORD ALSO SPEAKS Attacks South for the Lynch
 ing Evil. says Democrats sheald See that ths Consultation Is Extended to the yellow .aa si.ek ssl.n.s
 at Home.

New York. Oct 26.--Lieutenant Gov ernor Higgins, Republican, candidate for Governor of New York, spoke here to- night at a mass meeting held at Coop- CT Union. under the auspices of the CoIored Republican Club of the City of New York. The large auditorium was filled with an audience composed almost entirely of negroes. a large pro portion of them being women.
 Charles w. Anderson, President oi the club, presided and introduced the Republican candidate for Governor as the first speaker.
 MT. Higgins said:
 "sIpce Abraham Lincoln. the great emancipator. freed the slave and the Republican party placed the ballot in his hands and made him a citizen. the Democratic party in the South, first. by terror and violence. then by fraud and strategy. and finally by forms of law. has sought to reduce the negro to political serfdom.
 Roosevelt Hated in the South.
 President Roosevelt Is hated South of the Mason and Dixon line because he judges a man by qualities of heart and brain that go to make up real man hood and refuses to close the door oC hope to him because of the color of the skin.
 "our Democratic friends apply the constitution to the wards of the nation beyond the seas and deny its guaran- tees to the black citizens of the United States.
 Tn the Congressional election of 1909. in the State of Mississippi, the to- tai vote cast in the district that sent John Sharp Williams. the Democratic leader. to the House of Representatives was i.433 In the same election. in the Ninth Congressional District in the city of New York, nearly 10000 votes were cast for Representatives in Congress "The Democratic party counts the negro representation, but denies him the right to participate in the choice of his reprasentatives
 White suffrage is being tMablished throughout the solid South so that the whites exercise greater political power than. in slavery days. This is unjust ] not only to the negro who loses his
 vote In the South, but also to the voter | in the North, whose vote Is relatively 1 reduced in weight"
 General woodford Speaks. Other speakers were Gen. Steward L. | Woodford and Ernest NJ. Lyons. Minis- l ter to Liberia.
 On the Philipine question, General Woodford said that the Democratic | party was not tn position to criticize | the treatment of the Philipinos in view of the lynchfag of the negroes in the Democratic States of the South | South.
 The old principle the law applies here." he said. that he who goes into a court of equity should go with clean | hands. The Democratic party express es it's desire to help the yellow skin- | ned band in the Philippines. but 1t is incumbent that 1t should first demon 1 strate it's sincerity. its ability and its honesty by doing justice by the yell lew skinned and black skinned men right here at our own door. Let the Democrats first put out the fire of lynehinR. Let them see that yell lew men and black men at home have the protection of the constitution. Judge Parker would find 1t little difficult to extend the protection of the constitution to the yellow people across the Pacific when his own party refuses justice to the negroes at home"