The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1906-10-25
Republicans Urge Brother in Black
to Line Up Solid to Save the
Party from Defeat-Negro Pic
ture Book to Catch the llliterate
and Ignorant of the Race.

The frOntlSplece Is q picture OF ROOSe-
welt, Lincoln and Fairbanks, while in
heroic size, occupying a full page is a
likeness of Hon. Robert Smalls' (cOl-
ored), "collector of customs OF the
port of Beaufort, S. c." Sandwich
ed in With Speaker Cannon and men,
bers of the Cabinet are full page like
nesses OF "Hon. John Fl. Devreaux"
(colored) collector of customs, Port
of Savannah, Ca" and "Hon. W. T.
Vernon" (black), "of Kansas, Regis
ter OF the U. S. Treasury"
This appeal OF the Republican party
to an ignorant race, must OF neces-
sity attract wide attention in the
campaign. Nothing that Senator
Tillman or any Southerner has said
will compare with it. The "supple-
ment should be read by every South
ern man, because it is inconceivable
how a Southern white man could en-
thuse over the g. 0. p. after read
ing through the slobber that is thus
addressed to the black man of the
country with the object of corralling
at the polls all the ignorant and vi
ciOus in the race.
SPECIMEN EXTRACTS.
Here are a few choice excerpts:
THE grand old party, the colored
man friend
"Rally to the cause of your race
"MiliOns of souls in the Southland
appeal to the colored voters in the
Northern, Eastern and Western
States to vote for the Republican
candidates for Congress-.
''lt was the party that gave him
the freedom Of the ballot, which
clothed him with the armor ofcitizen-
ship and gave him a powerful and
unrestricted voice in the affairs of the
Nation; it was the Republican party
that appointed eolored citizens to
offices OF honor and trust, and pro-
NOTED colored privates in the United
States army to be commissioned Of
ficers; it was by legislation enacted
by Republican Congresses and ap-
proved by Republican Presidents,
that IT,. avs which have been bene-
fetal to us have been recorded in the
statutes, over the persistent opposi-
ton of the Democratic party"
And finally the negroes are urged
to rally to the Republican party as
the negroes did, who participated in
the Civil and other wars. Here is the
exact language:
Orally to Roosevelt and the Repub-
lican candidate OF your district Raj
ly to the cause of your race with the
vigor and determination that Crispus
Attacks displayed in Revolutionary
days; that your grandfathers and
fathers exhibited with Sherman on
his march from Atlanta to the Sea;
with Sheridan through the bloody
valley of the Shenandoah; with Nc
kinley at Antietam; with the Union
forces at Fort Pillow, Fort Wagner,
Milliken's Bend, Petersburg, Seven
Pines, Olustee, and many other en-
gagements for the freedom of the
colored man and preservation of the
Union, and with Roosevelt the hero
of the Spanish-American War, in a
foreign cline against q foreign foe,
for the glory of the flag, the integrity
of the Nation, and the alienation OF
the condition of oppressed human
ity."
The cover contains fulsome tri-
butte to President Roosevelt, who is
called "the apostle of the Square
Deal Doctrine" and 'all men up, rath-
er than some men down."
ROOSEVELT THE ovERsHADOwINGI ISSUE
The statement is frankly made that
the object of the supplement" is to
appeal directly to the colored voters
in close States and districts. With
this chief purpose in view, the bro
chure presents President Roosevelt
as the overseadowing issue of the
campaign. The first chapter OF the
little book treats of the President as
1.-THE worlds peace-maker," and the
champion" and after dwelling on
the services of the President to the
world in general and this country in
particular, the editors republish his
letter to Representative Watson, of
Indiana, setting forth why the nation
should return Republican House on
non-partisan grounds. Elaborate
extracts from Speaker Cannon's
speech OF acceptance also are publish
ed, as are also extracts from various
utterances of Secretary Taft, includ-
ing his Greensboro speech.
Then begins the recital of what the
Republican party has done for the
negro. 1t begins at the civil war and
runs as follows:
Prom a chattel, the victim of op-
preston struggled until the sunlight
OF freedom, brought about the ter
mination of the Civil War in favor of
the Union, forced its penetrating rays
into the hearts of four million de-
scendants of African blood, guarantee
ing to them beyond peradventure,
the opportunity to acquire the pre-
requisites of civilization and the DO
litical equality of men which will in
evitably prevail.
1.-The rapid progress of the colored
race through the aid of the Republi-
can party excels the material, edu-
cational and moral advancement of
any race in the annals of history. 1t
was through the efforts of the Repub-
Gcan party that the colored man was
given the right to exercise the highest
and most sacred duty that one could
discharge in behalf of his country,
and that was the right to defend it
from the attacks of its enimies."
APPEAL FOR SOLID NEGRO VOTE.
The appeal to the negro to stand in
solid phalanx for the Republican
party says, among other things:
Awaken to the cries and help to
save the House. Millions OF souls in
the Southland appeal to the colored
voters in the Northern, Eastern and
Western States to vote for the Repub-
lican candidates for the House OF
Representatives,, in their respective
Congressional districts, and strength
en- the arm of the President in his ef-