The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-26
F. Q. P. CAMPAIGN BOOK
ISSUED BY CHAIRMAN CORTELfoo
 OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
vThe Problem of Our Colored Popuia- tion" Is Considered, and statis-
 ties Show Number of Me- ' Rroes at Pie Counter.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado Building,

Colorado Building,
 Washington, Aug. 25.
 The $50 pages of the Republican campaign book which has just been giv- en to the public by Chairman Corteiyou of the Republican National Committee as a correct rule of faith and practice. has eight pages devoted to a bio Eraphy of President Roosevelt. It has an equal number of pages for The Problem of Our Colored Citizens"
 This particularly specious article be- gins with quotations from the Four teenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution authorizing these parts of the fundamental law as 'the recorded judgment and will of the nation which "crystalizes the patri- otism and the sacrifices of a million heroes who fought for liberty and union." To go without the question, 1t may not be untimely to remark that this Republican gospel for 1904 has no verse devoted to the refusal to grant to the Porto Ricans the right of trial by jury, nor does 1t refer with custom ary self-laudation to that part of the bill of rights which is not observed in the government of the Filipinos.
 After much verbose reference to the policy of President Roosevelt, 1t de- claPes that the Republican Party has always aided the negro, that the Dem ocratic Party has always retarded him. Then 1t goes into the history of eman- cipation, much after the style of the bloody shirt wavers of thirty years ago, vaunting much and anon dissemb- ling sorrow over Democratic iniquities toward the black race. Then the book launches into the history of emancipa ton in a purely partisan way, regard less of fact. claiming all the glory and credit of that work, and, as usual ig- noring the services of the loyal Dem ocrats of the North who aided in the preservation of the union. The appeal to the negro closes with a review of the services of the negro regiment at San Juan, praise which has been given as freely and with, perhaps, less self seeking. by every Southern newspaper, and then the negro is told that by reason of this bravery the colored cit izeE has his reward in that there are now two regiments in which he may enlist Fit Thomas, Ky, and Jefferson Barracks. Mo, are mentioned as the re- cruiting places.
 Then the book, under sub-heading 'SThe Proposed Investigation of Viola tIons of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ConstItution," with much ingenu- ity of phrase. explains that the repre- sentation of the Southern States In the Congress and in the electoral college may be cut 0OWn, anu thO hNBAO may he disRranchised without any further protest. This plank in the platform, evidently the child of Henry Cabot Lodge. has been referred to by prom inent negroes as the stand and sur render" plank. Democrats and liberal Republicans and Independents see in 1t the purpose to cripple the south's political influence and thus to effect in a measure that which MT. Lodge de- sired to do wholesale when he evolved the force bill from his gigantic and magnanimous brain in 1890.
 Those parts of the constitutions of the States of Mississippi. Louisiana. North Carolina, Massachu3ettes Con- necticut and California. which restrict the electoral franchise ore reprinted. The so-called grandfather clause" of the Louisiana and North Carolina con- stituttons is taken to task and an att tempt Is made to show that this pro- vision amounts to denying or abridg ing the right to vote ''on account of