The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-02-14

Apsa n ttts44si ar!6y -. w ttII
EsnHAtion. and NE hs sDs isg Ssen 1SldS to Get
tout and hustle f0r. 6st ouit bern deles d
tgates, With whom XntH here a few
days ago the frie9 $sof +, y t,frbanks
Thought the Wee ~ TsAideat Was the
candy kid. ItsShssa ssStarned ,ip that
\ Foraker has as miSeEh S4f thu affection
of the Southern HAp4AIicans as Fair
I banks, who runs q sp0W THIRD in this
regard, for 4 eslie EhSM has used the
great patronage OF Treasury De-
pertinent in NO ,sifiySway, Sixteen
months away It. $ts SE the prelimi;
Enaries OF the .nexss NASionaI Conven-
lon' are betn heldsflgAt now. e ...,
I y How The, SstRat8 SF FeeIs.st ,-@,
T.. AS to how the 5SsAataEs iii Congress
regard the contest ping gadFIt can
! pc SAID that they are eIdmp partial see
ling that two S1f ithAi rSamme ediate as.
sociates are aspir zone or whom
presides over their iberatioIls and
the other, their IeaderSSIn debates. In
| In New York last Saturday, 4one of
j the most Widely kndWMB Senator's had
this. to say Of. the tsl tAasiDn: Z =
] ."At the present B nplsSRnt it's all
Edrifting towards I tbkhks and Fora
ker, but whether tait thaSScould be 4Iec-
itel, or not is An3tha story Hut all
talk OF Roosevelt T hAs Ceased UP to
a, month ago naRy eph blieans be
lieved that the SibRasion might. get
into such a tangle hdtS the only sat
isfactory outcofnet H be the Rresi-
dents renominat dn at ali this has
departed, and now AAs sfavoritA sons
In: sight beside Eat 8snks Of Etl lana
| are Taft of OhiH UfSker at IN Ohio,
Shaw Of Iowa and HHnon' Of TIionis..
I Foraker is a very sSr0AE inandsn His
State, but sonetfIheHSI think his
health Is not as robust 40 it might be-"
So there what tn Senate thinks
Of what the country issSnp tn&sexcite-
ment about. ThsEs haAs been HR cons
test for nominatiop 3aince 1885, and!
one next year will eams like R4 Hhower
| Of rain on a. hot day. The Country,
wants to see as4agtitg and nEht 1t
1Will assuredly see, SandsA hot one, d,
y The Ralanae Power. r.
The New York Sun ubserves::sS Poll
| tical mathematicians point OUT that IN
fConnecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indi-
| ana, New Jersey, New YoEk1 Ohio,
| pennsylvania and TNHegt Virginia the
Negroes holds. the Si&rce OK power
| between the two pld les and could
II ,resentfu1 ovefzetha BRO WnaVllle al
! fa1r, turn. these States over TO the
4 ,Den1erats In th8Hs kfes dSAtiai year
Or 1909. 4 s,&l . d: s$5 M s5f B3
\ led S tfcfan'
1 70 observe ia srafurE nat not yet and
EuoI soon 90, t4et poLit eal anastefS un-
derstand3 the Negro VoteEs.& They are
resentfui enough all right about this
brownsville affair. but not enough to
turn their states over to" the Demo
Gratis. The Negroes cant vote that
| way, and dare not DO SO, now. Ihe
| Democrats do not want him at. this
| late. day. The Negroes In the South
were d1slnfranch1sed not so imuch De-'
! cause OF their ignorance, as Tor their
political stupidity. The l. RepuDlican
Party could 60 long way on a pad
horse, before the Negroes would feel
! outraged enough 10 turn IN the Demo-
Gratis. he gets Dut Httle from MS own
party; ne would get less from the
Democrats. ... g..
| - The Rockefeller A11ft.
| Last week John -; ttocketeiier gave
an addltlonal $3z,OOo'oV0 10 the Cen
eral Educat1on board. TWO years age
he gave this organization $1O,OO0,OOO
To De appiled to the needsoI tnesmalier
| colleges:I rms ne" iuno Is, 10 DE aP'
p!led scili i.to tne smailer colieses, poth
olacK ana WhlCe' anu -especlaily ~
the 're!1ef or colleges ZOE women. IL
IS giving away no secret 10 recora
that Negro was as 1nstrumentai III
| urging MT. Rockete4er 70 an interest
IN the work or the General ha9ca.
tionai board, whose nIst Presaoent
was the late iamented Wiiam II bala,
! win, as any othef lholVl9ual 1orce ~
education. Ihe "onoer 1, Gas ceen az
along why booker l, "hshIne'on Ii mas s
not oeen gwen plaCe on Tue oUalu.
VI course, MS interests Wn1ch W. gre IiloIe
VI the negro ne 1eeis' "lti1bre plopeilg
icokeo alVsr Wy "oUeII y. sosoen '1nu ~
Ut: II. D. fIlssell, oi thG .l aaa"pton n LIZ ~
stlCute, not 10 menn.on thusn h -; s,;ando
have added dignity in Mr.. Washing