The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-19
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES
ARMY.
PLAY FOR BLACK VOTE
Roosevelt and Foraker Make Cats
Paw Of colorcd Race---Admin-sa
lstration Trying to Over
come Prejudice Aroused

NaShiiStoH, Sept To- Inc StitS
which the administration Is placin
upon the negro vote OF Ohio, In tn
fight to land the Republican pres
Dental nomination for Secretary Tai
and to win the black vote OF Cleve
land for Representative Burton In hi
contest for the mayoralty against Ton
Johnson. Democrat, has just been II
lustrated by an unprecedented an,
somewhat sensational, stroke of exc
cutiye policy. For the first time II
the history of the United States army
the title of major has been conferred
upon a negro. The beneficiary of this
unprecedented promotion is the Rev
w T. Anderson, of Cleveland, for ten
years captain In the Tenth cavalry
negro regiment.
1t became known today that the an.
pointment was made at the request OF
George Meyers of Cleveland, for years
lieutenant of Mark Hanna, and
whose especial assignment was look
ing after the "cullud brother" from
the South In national conventions,
and Ralph Tyler, the Columbus negro,
recently appointed auditor of the
navy.
AS stated the appointment of An.
derson as major was to accomplish
two fold purpose, viz, to ingratiate
the candidacy Of Representative Bur
ton for mayor Of Cleveland and to
avert the threatened stampede of ne
gro delegates from Taft in the Repub
lican national convention. The may
oraity election In Cleveland will In
measure be a test of administration
strength In that city. and to push Rep
resentative Burton through is task
to which the administration is devo-
ting its chief energy There rs large
negro vote In Cleveland. and upon
George Meyers, who wanted Ander-
son promoted, the administration
counts for material aid. The negro
Tyler Is expected to keep large
number of negroes in line for Taft,
notwithstanding the great Foraker
wave now enveioping negroes all over
the country.
In the campaign which has been |
planned by negro agitators against
the Roosevelt administration the Dis |
trict of Columbia is to take the lead |
II is promised that two anti.adminis |
tration delegates, one of whom will |
be white and the other negro, shall |
60 to the national convention to be
voted against any candidate whom
the administration may indorse. One
of the men already agreed upon is w
Alvin Chase lawyer and editor of the
rantankerous negro publication, the
Bee Behind it all, of course, is
Joseph Benson Foraker
Approximately there are 10000 ne
gro voters in the district. one-third
of the total vote and two-thirds of the
Republican strength
Ever since the Brownsville order
the negro paper has been clamoring
for such action on the part of Afro
Americans" as would show the poll
ticians that the race could not be dis
eliminated against with impunity. It
has been equally hostile to the presi-
dent and his secretary of war. The
plan now devised for the Southern
states is an early primary and the
adoption of resolutions demanding
that the negroes of the nation rise In
their might and rebuke Roosevelt,
Taft is to be denounced as the crea.
ture of Roosevelt, whose nomination
10 the presidency will be menace to
the political well being of the black
race
The same political Influences be.
hind the anti-Taft movement endea-
vored at the negro Baptist conference .
which has just concluded its session ,
here to have anti-Roosevelt resold- /.
tIons adopted. Booker Washington :
came on to Washington to prevent ,
this action, and with the aid Of con- ,
seryative Influences in the negro ,
-anks succeeded in forcing COM ,
promise. The resolutions ignored the ,
but exhibited the yir-
ues of Foraker. $
Il is OF course surmised that the in
iuences behind the negro movement !
ire those which have always been 3
lostile to the president. II presever- 4
"a in It viii precipitste contests in I
nearly all the Southern states. The 1
,lans of the negro leaders provide n
hat with a declaration on the part of !
he District of Columbia negroes .
,arly in the winter the negroes Of o
;eorgia. Mississippi. Alabama South
md North Carolina. Texas and other
southern states shall make similar de-
nands on the party. Where the party
machinery is in the hands Of the Lily 5
Whites the negroes propose to hold ;
heir own conventions and select their \
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