Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1904-07-29
THE NEGRO THE SUFFERER.

Every time the negro question is
touched by the So called friends of the
colored race, the Republican politician,
the negro suffers, not the white man.
The negroes can appropriately pray to
be delivered from their friends. Take
the Chicago incident: during the
progress Of the convention a little
colored girl and white boy were car
ried to the platform, and placed side
by side in front OF the thousands
gathered in the great hall Small
United States flags were placed in
their hands, and they were told to
wave them, which they did, while the
audience shouted and cheered. Presi-
dent Roosevelt, the chief magistrate OF
this nation, invited Booker II. Wash
ington, negro, TO the White House.
10 confer on question of business.
While in conference dinner was an
nounced, and the President politely
and cordially invited his colored caller
TO dinner, The invitation was accept
ed, and Mr.. Roosevelt, with his family
and "Prof. Washington" sat down TO
the same table, and partook OF the
meal together. What was the re-
suit OF these two Incidents? To saw
nothing OF the intentions OF those who
thrust the children forward ut Chicago.
or OF the President in dining at Wash
lngton-separate and apart from the
purposes desired to be accomplished in
both cases, the result has been the
injury OF the negro race The children
at Chicago were perhaps too young to
be effected one way or the other, but
the effect upon the colored race was
evil. The race represented by the
white child was not lowered or de-
graded to the level OF the negro. The
race, represented by the colored child
was not, by this one single act, elevat-
ed to the level OF the whites. Booker
Washington arose from the dinner
table in the White House, at which he
should have had more sense than 70
have taken seat, smaller man and
more OF negro in the eyes of the
people, than when he sat down.
The effect OF the two children one
white and one colored standing side by
side before National Political Con.
vent!on, at which President and Vice.
President were nominated, is seen in
the utterance OF the negro, Henry
Baker, quoted in our last issue as
taken from the Washington Post. He
said:
"Let not my colored brethren forget
that scene in the Republican Conyen.
ton when beautiful white girl wae
placed upon the stage and by her side
negro boy. They then placed flags
IN their hands and allowed them r.
lead IN the cheering, thus making the
nrst and grandest example Of the
equality OF the races that history re.
cords. In the Democratic Convention
there was not single colored man II
was In word and in deed a white mans
convention of a white mans party
All hail to Roosevelt who has given
tne poor negro so much to encourage
MIN to persist in his political and
social rights"
Here Is the evil. False. futile hopes
held out Of social equality. Every
white man who Witnessed the scene
and every white man and woman who
hears OF 1t, now. henceforth and for
ever, viii feel less friendly toward the
negro in spite Of themselves. A num-
oei Vi prominent Republicans, present
In Chicago, though not having the
courage to come out AMI saw 80
publicly, have said privately that the
incident was nauseating and disgust
lag. And SO, the negro suffers at the
hands OF supposed frieLds, and the
South freezes and solidifies into ada
mant still more and more adamantine
aid the "problem" darkens and deep.
ems, and the negro millennium is retard-
cd a thousand years
These Incidents, the appointment of