The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-06-20

contestants Known to be antagnOis-
TIC TO the administration, will not be
recognized. Now, it looks to me that
II the colored brother does not bind
up his wounds and>~hobble onto the
t-band-wagon, with such garce as be
can command, there WIN be nothing
doing for our people when the next
installment Of political rations is
passed aroundx The thing doesn't
look good toSthe, ais: It stands" - ;.
eft Is no use talking" my friend
went on, growing voluble as. he ap-
preached his climax. Theodore
country, and the Fellow who can
beat him out, hasn't been born yet.
| He is Today the best vote-getter, the
Tpatty has, and / shall be badly fool
ed individual IL he isn't nominated
next summer for his second elective
term. y He can get it without the
asking; he will never admit that he
Will run again, If nominated, but I
don't. believe he will decline If the
convention nominates him and 'ad-
lonf go without awaiting his answer.
| Roosevelt isn't q bad man, and he is
! not the anet6y OF the Negro. The
Brownsville matter was tactical
blunder, but@,A natural one, all things
onsiderea: He accepted the report
and RECOMMENDATION of his trusted
| officers, :jnst tas, he has doneHin, a
thousand other cases, and as he is
compelled. to1do. as he could not
examip ation. ( The President was
nhtslhd>, by, Darlington, Blocksom, ct
all and it is upon their harrow
shoulders the blame should really
rest. 49, The final decision is not up
to- Roosevelt yet, and we will be only
/ fair If. we suspend judgment in the
| matter, until the returns are all in.
| am satisfied that at the psycholog
cal moment, Teddy" Roosevelt will
come forward with a ringing state
ment on the situation that will cleo
| trify the country, and make every
Negro as rampant. for Roosevelt as
when the gospel OF the door of
hope first fell upon the ambient
air. l have never joined in the hue
and-cry against the President | am
waiting. BUT that is not what /
started out to say.
Roosevelt will dominate the Ma
tiQnal ConYention. If heA doesn't
| want or will not. accept the nominal
ton, 1T will ~goi to Taft, Fairbanks,
cannon, Knox, or Hughes, or who
ever Is most satisfactory to him. The
hurrah for Foraker. speaks we'll for
the Negroes nigh sense of gratitude,
but twill avail nothing. Nobody
| but<the colored people are seriously
1 bowling. for F'oraker-able man that
he Island it stands to reason that q
race that will have a mere hadful of
! delegate votes in the National Con-
| i
handing h1mout the plum, as against
well-organtzed, all-powerful ad-
lministration machine. That is the
word with the bark on it, and we
might as well look the facts squarely
in the face. The agitators may yell
until they are ~hedrse, and howl I'M
I'll the COWS come home about whom
they will support and whom they
will "scrateA,"| but the fact re-
mains, the Negro vote will be cast,
I practically in it's entirety, for the
Republlcan nominee, no matter who
he 15--tn eelf-defense if for no loftier
reason. The other party, nationally
speaking, does not invite a division
Of the Negro vote, and offers it no
encouragement to come over and
help elect its candidates. The Negro
vote will be >spHd1y Republican, not
for whatXat~ expects to get, but for
what 1t wishes to avoid"
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| Bryan is the strongest candidate
1.-The Democrats have in stock, and
deSpite| the handicap that the sup
port pr the Southern rebels of the
lTillmah, Vardamap and Hoax Smith
stripe are to him, the eloquent Ne
EbraskanTs viii make good run, and
~ WILL take some tall campaigning
to keep Our haJd on the reins at the
White House and at thegCapitol.
| Now is'the time" concluded my
philosophic informant, "for the Ne
gro - think we'll and choose wisely
whom he will serve. Chasing rain
comes round If we want to play
this game Of politics to win, we want
to indulge in more shrewd leaps to-
ward the J dealer and spend Sless
itinne in blowing OF hot air."
AS my. plain-spoken companion
ran for. his = car. the wonder swept
through my mind: "Are these burn
ing words the concensus Of opinion
Eof the thinking members of the race
throughout the country? Are they