Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-09-10

raised by the followers of Mr.. Parker in
the democratic party, takes it's origin from
the administration of Thomas Jefferson
that eminent apostle of human liberty and
father of the democratic party in the DAYS
Of It's purity. Indeed untn the late Mr.
Mckinley was compelled by the exigencies
of a foreign war TO acquire the Philfpnjne
and other islands of the sea, all precedent
inclusive of the Louisiana purchase ae-
quirement of Texas and other territory
from Mexico. were established by demo-
cratic administration"
After reviewing other national issues
Mr.. Turner says: .-
p The achievements of the administration
OF President Roosevelt for the promotion OF
prosperity and peace of our nation are too
far-reaching to he discussed at iongth IN o .
letter of this character. Important mani
fold reasons do exist, however emitting
Roosevelt and Fairbanks to the vote Of
every negro man in the republic So long
democratic statesmen insist that the
manhood rights Of the negro Is the para
mount political issue to be discussed. voted
upon and settled co-equally with the tariff
the finance. expansion, ETC., that class can
have no political choice but to cling to the
republican party and Its manifest desti-
MES. 7'+'- "'''''-''"i -"
. I'm this connection I am reminded Of an
expression laid down a truism by the
late Frederick Douglas. He said: For the
American negro the republican party is
the political ship, and all outside it is the
w
purposes of Providence which reserved this
continent SO long unknown and brought
the Cauca sian @hither brought also the
negro to these shores. That the Mayfower
landed the pilgrim fathers on Plymouth
Rock and the Dutch landed the first twenty
human souls in AFFECT slavery at James
town, Va, in one and the same year Is an
historic fact. l make here no inquiry as to
whether or not the black mans toll was
amply requited during the two and one
half centuries of his senslayement, least Il
be suspected OF sulien and malicious recof
Negro Workingman.
1T Is competent, however. to point to the
fact that the negro was workingman,
that from the beginning until this present
day, in the strictest-sense, a toiler among
the masses. that bis labor, was essential.
that he felledi the forests, redeemed the
swamps, built the towns and cities. titled
the soil, harvested the fields and made the
south to blossom like rose' Dating the
germ of the black mans legal life from the
incident beneath the apple tree at Apo
of the two races, may 1t not be fair to as
sumo that under the succeeding environ
ments as they nnfolded themselves the eau
casian might not have attained to as much
of self and race culture as the negro has
already Accomplishment
I'm all the tortuous evolutions of the CEN
turtles there is no group of incidents from
the cave life of the savage to the magma
charter showing more rapid and perma-
nent progress than that of the American
negro from the date mentioned above Civil
lization is not a days growth. Time was
when the Aryan dwelt In cave and cavern
and subsisted upon root and herb, and the
span separating him from the pinnacle Of
our own day is measured by aeons of time.
What we have has to sr, come to us by long
sioner upon the past. Modern society is a
composite, often favoring one segment
thereof to the hindrance of another. That
instant the bounden segments were freed
The human family is one vast ocean. each
drop or integral. part of which must. per-
force. in time and space reach i'll mean