The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-15
SUPPORTS r QOSEV EFT
"a 3. MOST PRoMlNE GAMER
IcAN DEMOCRAT COMES
BACK IN THE FOLD.


Hon. j.. Milton Turner of st. Louis,
Mo-, ex-Minister to Liberia, Advises
Voters Of the RACE Regarding the
Proper Course. for Then--High
Grounds: Taken. = 5=s,@ @s@ s
i Hon. J. Milton Tuner, one of the best
known Afro American Democrats in the
country and prominent lawyer III ST.,
Louis. has written an open%letter to Hon.
Judson w. Lyons. Register OF the. Treas
vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks in No
ven,ber. Mr.. Turner believes that the
o-American voters OF, the United
States should support Roosevelt ana
.''This conviction" he says, docs not
arise out of abstract incidents such as
those pertaining in. the present admins
tration to Messrs., Booker Washington,
Crun. etc, but from loftier,. and more
potent reasons" Continuing he says;
1.-The objections of the Democratic par
tx to the election of Mr. Roosevelt are SO
exceedingly personal as to become alto,
,gether vague and essential and with
out significance as matters OF states
: After reviewing national issues Mr..
Turner says: ~. ~.
important manifold reasons do exist,
however, emitting Roosevelt and Fair
banks to the vote Of every Afro American
ST ,lg enpu insist that the manhood
rights of the Afro-American is the para
mount political issue to be discussed.
voted upon and settled co-eaually with Wit
the tariff, the finance, expansion. etc,
that class can have no political choice put
to cling to the Republican party and its
manifest destinies.
I'm this connection 1 am reminded of
an expression laid down as a truism by
the late Frederick Douglass, He said:
For the Afro-American the Republican
party is the political ship and an outs Slsae
same wise purposes Of Providence which
reserved this continent so long unknown
and brought the Caucasian hither brought
Mayhower landed the pilgrim fathers on
Plymouth Rock and the Dutch landed the
first twenty human souls in abject slavery
at Jamestown. Va, in one ana the same
inquiry as to whether or not the black
mans toll was amply requited during the
two and One-half centuries OF his enslaFe-
ment lest I be suspected OF Sullen ana
malicious recollections.
Afro. American Workingman.
1T is competent, however, to point to
the fact that the AfroAmerican was a
workingman. that from the beginning un-r
til this present day, in the strictest sense,
a toiler among the masses: that his labor
was essential. that he felled the forests,
redeemed the swamps. built the towns
and cities, titled the soil. harvested the
fields and made the south to blossom IKE
a rose Dating the germ of the Afro
Americans legal life from the incident be-
meath the apple tree at Appomattox. ana
reversing the relative positions OF the two
under the succeeding environments as
they unfolded themselves the Caucasian
might not have attained to as much OF
self and race culture as thc Atro-An'er'ca''
has already accomplished! ,
I'm all the tortuous evolutlons OF the
centuries there is no group OF 1ncloenls
from 1.-The cave life of the savage TO the
Magma Charta showing more rapid ana
permanent progress than that of the Afro
American from the date mentioned anoEe.
Civilization is not Il days growth. lime
was when the Aryan dwelt in cave ana
cavern and subsisted upon root ana hern.
and the span separating him from the
pinnacle of our own day is measured py
aeons OF time. What we have has to
thus society is pensioner upon the past.
Modern society is a composite often taV-
oring one segment thereof to the Mn
drance Of another. That instant tne
bOunden segmentS were freed they nave
leupt forward at prodigious pace Inc
human family is one vast ocean, each
drop or integral rart Of which must, per-
force in time and space reach It's mean
>ieyel This Constant ebb and flow Of the
human tides have spe1t themselves mto
history and have become Weided to thg
framework of the world. Puollclsis alo
statesmen marvel at the wonderful pace
with which Japan has leapt from feudal-
ism to modern civilization. Let US not
overlook the marvellous transtormatlOn OF
the Afro-Amercan under less ausplclous
conditions, amounting, in some cases, to
absolute persecution.
Right TO Intelligence.
MANY pretenses are set up bE moss
n 1,ai from the night of ignorance to
the light of intellectually. They talk of
the Afro: Americans inordnate desire 1or
social eqi'aity The anSwe TIC, TO t Gnd vagT i
vine purpose fixes the rule OF ASSOCIATION 9.t;on
throughout nature by the law OF af1lnltles.
No human prejudices nor human leglSia-
ton can define promote deter. establish
nor dis-establish the fixed and divine pur-
POSES of God Almighty. If there have
been social encroachments between ne
races, they have not arisen out OF tile
Afro Americans social intrusions. An
other absurd pretense is that it is appre-
hended that the Afro American will pc
come dominant in government: Inc poo
the black man has his home and abiding
place would contradict this pretense We're
it not a fact that the glamor Of political
preferment no longer allures. II 1t ever
did so. the Afro American to the exclu-
sion of the essential qualifications for
Some years ago leading Afro Ameri,
cans, viewing with alarm the well-defned
intention of southern statesmen to so
qualify the suffrage in former. slave states
as to eliminate the Afro American vote,
determined to divide that vote among the
two great parties. Throughout two ca IN
raigns they followed the banner OF M
Bryan down to defeat. More than 25o.oo0
Afro Americans in various states Eoteu
for, Mr.. Bryan. Few Il them were Demo ,3
licans." All voted that ticket in the vain
endeavor to modify the intense teenng
against the ir suffrage in the southern
states Ordinarily that movement Would
have tended to assYage Rre'"a,ces ID
The principal reply made to TINS move
r,ent We're those frantic ~holoeausts, more
degrading, to white: men than pu ms nrng
bones alone remain to horrify our recol-
lection. The action of these 100000 voters
was useful only to demonstrate the depths
of those unreasoning prejudices: FOR ex
amp1e Senator Tillman. whose nome !
believe is at Charleston. s: e.. a city OF
about IS. 900 human souls. 10000 Of whom
are white, the remainder. being Afro
Americans with almost ts SIM simlla # n sn,4
Carolina. said in his public speeches that
unless the majority submits to condl-
ton amounting to serfdom at the hands
Of the minority, that mn n wGnlo 'aAe
Conditions in the South. -. |
,Mr. John Sharp Williams Of the eighth |
district Of the state of Mississippi has
reached his present eminence IN tn ne
American Congress upon less than l:5OO
trict containing 100000 American citizens, !
the majority being Wrongfully ad1sfran-
chised by the operation OF unfair provl-
sions in the constitution OF that state ;
governor Of the state Of Mississippi upon !
4 platform whose leading plank promises
to restrict the school privileges OF. Afro
American children to the amount Of taxes
y IN,