Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-03
Candidate ForPresidency on Ma
tional Liberty Ticket Pre-
pairing Acceptance Letter
ATTITUDE ON coLoRED VOTE
Basis of the Creed of lowa's Lone Can
didate, For the Presidency Is That
Constitution Should Be Upheld. and
Men Should Not Be Deprived Of Their
Rights On Account of Their Color.
to rimes-Republfcan.

Special to Times republican,.
Des Moines, Sept. 2.-Last but by nc
means Of least Importance the lone
Iowa candidate for the presidency
George Edwin Taylor. will present IN
due time in the form Of a letter of &C
ceptance his Views on political matters
and the reasons why he and his party
should receive the support of the col
,ored people of the United States in the
coming election. Mr.. Taylor has been
duty notified of his nomination and his
acceptance letter is in course of pre-
paration. AS the candidate for presi-
dency on the national liberty party, Mr..
Taylor and his associates believe that
they may hold the balance of power
which will decide who shall be presi-
dent. The letter Of acceptance Will
therefore be an address to the Amerl-
can people carefully worded ana OF
great Importance.
The national liberal party. composed
wholly of negroes, assembled IN 81
Louis July 5, and adopted platform
of principles. Mr.. Taylor Will enlarge
upon this statement; but more espec-
tally will he deal with the attitude OF
political parties toward the colored
vote of the country and with dfsfran-
chisement in the south. He VIII con-
denim the movement for disfranchlse-
1nent as utterly unconstitutional and
revolutionary. He will arraign the
southern states for their attitude but
will not attempt to deny that there is
some excuse for them. But he will
be especially severe on the republican
party and the present administration
He will point out that the republicans
without any real excuse, are preparing
to Join the democrats of the south in
the movement.
Mr.. Taylor believes that the consti-N
tuition should be upheld no matter
what happens and that men should not
be deprived of their rights on account
of color. But he also believes that the
republicans have set out ON a policy
which is virtually that of acquiescing
In the Acknowledgement of negroes in
the south, and that all they are go
Ing to ask in return for this is that
the southern democrats shall agree to
q policy of reducing the congressional
representation in congress and the
electoral college. This, then, is a
scheme to barter away principles in re-
turn for the right to perpetuate the
republican party in spite of the major
ity of the people. This plan of Pres
ident Roosevelt and his associates is
denounced. as nercenarys and corrupt
ty.
Candidate Taylor, in his letter of ac-
ceptance, will also devote some atten-
ton to the Philippine problem and will
indicate that in the Philippines the plan
OF President Roosevelt appears to be
to disfranchise and refuse citizen
ship to millions of dark color and for
the sole reason that they are Of in
ferior race. In general he will go in
to the question of wide deviation on
the part of the American nation from
the ideals Of the founders and will urge
the voters to insist on strict adherence
to the constitution here and every
where.
AS Mr.. Taylor is man of fine pres
ence and forcible speaker he will go
on the stump and make a vigorous
campaign, devoting himself largely to
the states along the border where the
colored population Is large and where
general change in the negro vote
might turn the entire election. He be-
lieves the time has come for the neg
roes to get together and vote as
unit and thus be in position to die
tate terms to the parties. He is pre-
pared to devote himself to the work
from this time on.
The career of George Taylor has
been interesting. Son of a slave he
was taken in early life to Wisconsin
where he received a good education.
He entered the newspaper business as
an employee Of Brick" Pomeroy at La
Crosse, and rose to the position Of city
editor of the Democrat. He after
wards edited an evening paper and
was half owner, and it was paper of
general circulation. He came to Iowa
engaged in publishing a newspaper at
Oskaloosa. then managed coal mine
at Abba, turned to farming and now
lives in Ottumwa.
He took part in the labor movement
in Wisconsin and was a delegate from
that state to convention which or
6dulHSu luS uIlISQl TABOR party. Twelve
years ago he was selected by a repub-
lican state convention as an alternate
delegate at large to the national con-
vention at Minneapolis. He had join
ed with other prominent negroes in a
to demand certain things in
the party platform, and at Minneapo-
lis he went before the resolutions COM
mittee. He was pledged to do all he
could to defeat Harrison's renomina.
ton and he virtually walked out Of the
convention and became a boiler.
In 1898 Mr.. Taylor was selected as
an alternate district delegate to the
democratic national convention Later
he assisted in forming the national de-
negro league and has been
its president four years.
But he has long regarded himself as
Independent in politics and not tied up
with any party. This year he has
done very little political work until he
became the nominee of this new party
for the presidency. His letter will be
out in a few days.
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