The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-09-11
NEGROES URGED AGAINST TAFT
FOR PRESIDENT.
President Denounced As False
Friend to the Nesroes-Jlm Grow
Laws and Other Things Con.
demned at Boston.

general public.
A highly laudatory account OF the
doinss OF the conference IL given in
some OF the eastern newspapers
The three subjects over which the
Niagara Movement" went into con
vulsions were Jim Crow cars in the
South" the Atlanta massacre. d"
the Brownsville AFFAIR"
incidentally the conference threw
few fits over Roosevelt's and Taft's
"perfdity to the black race" and
calls on 100000 free black voters of
the North to cast their votes against
the Roosevelt dictatorship"
A few gems which certain re.
publican papers are carrying to their
readers in the North which will be
read with calmer judgment and less
Indignation in the South where the
negro problem is an open book, are
as follows:
ut is only by conversation with
colore dpeople from the South" says
the report in the New York Evening
Post. for instance. that one under.
stands the workings of the Jim
Crow law. The interstate commerce
commission declares for separation,
with similar accom- modations,' but
while the cars are controlled and
run by white people similar accom-
modatiohs are not likely to be Sc
cured. The colored race is set apart
and the conductor learns TO count
the Jim Crow section as a place for
rough people.
The legal rights committee after
carefully reviewing this years leg.
islative decisions directly affecting
the negro. ended with the belief that
the law will never permit a color
or misfortune that God has fastened
upon man from his birth to be
punished by the law unless the mis-.
fortune leads to some contagion or
criminal act; nor while he is sane
and honest can he have fewer privi-
leges than his more fortunate brother
The law is tender rather than hard,
toward the infirmities, and II to be
born black Is a misfortune then the
law should lessen rather than In.
crease the burden of the black mans
life"
Don't blindly follow the republi.
can party was said by one man
after another at these meetings. The
treatment OF the negro soldiers at
Brownsville, doubtless has had much
to do with the preaching OF this
doctrine. While Foraker's name was
wildly cheered, the republicanism OF
the White House was hissed. To
those who know the devotion OF the
negroes to President Roosevelt in
1904 there was something pathetic
in this statement OF his name. In
that campaign had you gone into
the t6nements on San Juan Hill,
as the West Sixtieth street belt is
called, you would have seen in every
home a picture of the president, and
have found a loyal black man or
woman to look upon II and say,
He's our friend The Brownsville
injustice has changed all OF this,
but many of the Niagara men real
ize that there has been gain in
the destroying OF an allegiance to a
man or a party that was sentimental
rather than intelligent"
The meeting ended with the fol-
lowing address to the country:
For the third time the Niagara
movement in annual meeting appeals
to the world. and especially to Am
erica. This has been year OF
wrong and discrimination. There sits
today in the governors chair OF a
sovereign southern commonwealth a
man stained with the blood OF In
nocent black workingmen who fell
In the Atlanta massacre, and whose
unavenged deaths cry to God for
justice. What answer does Georgia
return? The fundamental disfran-
chisement OF her citizens, and with
the echo OF her fell attack on dem
ocracy sound the eager voices OF a
great tribunal dedicated to industrial
freedom which has in unseemingly
haste scurried to uphold social slay'
cry and the vicious Jim Crow car.
And why not? Has not the man in
the White House set them an ex-
ample by bowng before the brown
and armed dignity of Japan and
staggering roughshod over the help
less black regiment whose bravery
made him famous? With such ex'
amples why should not the lawless
and the vicious of the land take cour-