The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10

pletsly dropped cut. He's paymaster h tho army now and one of the few former politicians of his race fixed confortahly for life. a
 Ex-Senator Bruce of Mississippi is dead and gone. So is Langston of Virginia. Fred Douglas of the District of Columbia who got more money out of the Government than any negro who ever lived, by holding lucrative offices, is also In his grave. Ex-Gov- ernor Pinchback of Louisiana pfacti- cally makes his home in Washington, but no longer has any pull with the negro race. He has sufficient money Tor his needs and wae years ago kneck- ed out politically in the Pelican State. The North Carolina, South Carolina. Texas. Tennessee, Virginia. Alabama, 'Fiorfda and Kentucky negroes havesall been compelled to not only, take back seats in political movements. but their interest is so diminished that they do
 not even come around when the white men are fixing up the plans for con-
 ducting q national contest. Lyons is the last of his crowd. Indications are that wh en the Georgians select a new committeeman next year at the Ma
 tional Convention. he. too, will have to give wayteha white man.
 It has been some years since the ne-
 groes had member of Congress- They
 went out of fashion with George
 Washington Murray of South Carolina.
 Murray broke Into the House through { contest. The Republican majority turned out Col. William Elliott of the old Charleston district to give the
 black man the place. This was done. of course for political effect in ohio New Jersey, Illinois. Indiana, New York and other States in which the negro
 vote Is factor at elections. Murray
 Is so black that when there was full attendance of the members of the House and he was in his seat, he looked like
 a huckleberry in a pan of milk.
 Politicians. as a rule, do not think that the mere location of the conven-
 tion will give any Republican candi-
 date an advantage when the delegates begin to vote. If it Is held in Chicago, St. LcGis or Kansas City, and there is spirited contest between Taft, Hughes, Cannon, Fairbanks and Knox,
 in the event President Roosevelt comes
 out with even more positive state-
 ment that he must not be nominated, the politicians do not see how local
 sentiment can infiuenee the result.
 A Gridiren Dinner.
 In the evening of the day on which
 the Republican Committee will con- clude it's sessions here the first dinner
 of the season will be given at the Will
 lard Hotel by the Grfdiron Club. Sew eral members of the committee are to
 be guests of the club on that occasion. And nearly all the Republican Presi-
 dential candidates will also attend Secretary. Taft, now on an Oriental trip has changed his route. and he
 might possibly be on hand. Governor
 Hughes is invited. and he signified to a number of friends that he would ac- cept- By coming here then Ait could not be said he was hobnobbing Eth the National Committeeman ip his 6wn Interest, because by the hour the din- ner commences the committee will have long since settled tle convention loca= tion: and the Governor will probably not reach Washington until late in the afternoon.
 December promises to be a lively month in Washington. In addition to the events mentioned, Congress meets the flrst Monday. Shortly afterwards there will be held the National Water ways Convention, and any number Of organizations that will have important matters before Congress during the winter will assemble here to work up
 sentiment in favor of their proJects