Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-23
NEGRO BOSSfSAT WHITE HOUSE
 CONFERENCE
African Bishop Keen for RooSe- velt-kansaS Political Ex- horter Is to Manage Cam paign for Black Vote.

WASHINGTON April 22.-Presi- dent Roosevelt held conference to- day with W. T. Vernon. ths negro Register of the Treasury, and with two negro Bishops, Grant and Gaines, of the African Methodist church, the purpose being to launch a campaign among the negroes of the country against the influences which are seek ing to alienate the negro vote from Roosevelt. lss4
 The chief result of the conference was the formal designation of Vernon, who is from Kansas, as campaign manager to corral the black vote.
 The two Bishops are negro leaders in Georgia. They are keen for Roose- TCB. and can do much to extend the IAt gident's political power among the dIrch-going negroes.
 1he vote in the Southern States in tls next National Republican Conven- ton promises to play conspicuous part in the campaign.
 would offset influences.
 The work by Vice President Fair banks and Senator Foraker's spectac- ular espousal of the cause of the ne gro troops in the Brownsville affair have done much to attract the sym pathies and support of the negro vote to these reactionary" candidates.
 In spite of the Booker Washington dinner, President Roosevelt has not been particularly popular among l Southern negroes.
 l The President now realizes that, If 1 possible, the Southern negroes must 1 te enlisted behind him so that their l strength can be counted on for him or for a man of his selection. He l also realizes that he has much to ] overcome.
 ! The Southern negroes, though much more numerous than Northern ! negroes, are not now represented among the Federal negro officehold- CTS at Washington.
 Judson Lyon, Georgia black, was busted as Register of the Treasury, | in favor of Vernon, of Kansas. Political expediency with reference ! to Ohio politics caused the President the other day to give an Ohio negro, Ralph W. Tyler, a S4,000 job here. So that, If the Southern negroes are to be won, the President must fight to get them, and that is what he is seing out to do.
 Vernon is as black as he ace of spades, but bears the reputation of being political exhorter among his race. lg,yii He will be sent out to tell the ne ! groes to put their trust in Roosevelt and keep it there.
 The appointment of Pearl Wright of New Orleans as Commissioner Df In- ternal Revenue, is nothing less than part of the Presidents play to the negroes.
 Wight is the Republican National l Committeeman from Louisiana, and the price of his position here is that ! he shall deliver a Roosevelt delegation from Louisiana
 Wants Hughes Indorsed. President Roosevelt today told some of his confidantes who operate | in New York politics, that he favors | the movement in that Sate to give ] Governor Hughes the New York in. dorsement for the party next year l Hughes now is put forward as the Presidents second choice after Taft for his successor.
 Should Taft fail 10 make headway in ohio, the President then would | turn to Hughes.
 Meanwhile, he wants Republican support in New York for Hughes since a Hughes delegation would
 mean a radical delegation, one that would be amenable to the influence
 of Roosevelt and his wing of the Re publican party.