The Washington bee., 1907-09-28

crats all ought to go
If / can see straight, the national Ad-
ministration has hit the Negroes one of
the hardest blows possible, and it should
be resented. Wishing you success, l am
Yours respectfully,
l. w. Spencer,
No. / West Sixteenth Street.
NEGROES RESENTING PRESI-
DENTS STAND.
Organisation Formed to Defedf the Ef-
forts OF RoOSe0ch
From the Times
Operating from Washington some Ne
groes have formed an organization which
has the avowed purpose of defeating the
Presidential candidacy of Secretary OF
War Taft and of Wrestling party control
from the Roosevelt element at the next
Republican National Convention.
Treatment of the colored soldiers by
the present Administration is the issue.
w. Calvin Chase, a Negro attorney, and
be In session for three days, but lasted
editor of The Bee, is the leader of this
movement.
"The time has come for the Negro to
assert his power in politics, and TO that
end an organized endeavor has begun,
such as has never been undertaken in
this country before said he in a state
ment today. Appointment Of Negroes
to Federal positions by President Roose-
welt will have no effect on the result
Senator Foraker has shown himself 10
be our friend, and the Negroes oWe it to
themselves to assist the Senator ia every
way, and to effect a rebuke of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the Secretary of
! War"
Chase stated thar if the convention
did not hearken to the cry Of the Ne
gro. The Bee will flock to the Demo
cratic party and carry the organized vote
OF the race with it, In Pennsylvania
they are to support KnoN, in Ohio they
will support Tom Johnson, and vigor-
ousIy fight Taft and Burton; in Indiana
they are for Fairbanks. in Illinois for
Cannon. and in Missouri they Will at
tempt to defeat Senator Warner's efforts
10 swing the delegation for Taft
! NEGROES AGAINST ROOSEVELT
| 4 Leader Says They viii Obey .4H of
F0rakerS ORDERS
Special to the New York Times
Washington. Sept y. - The Negro
voters here are planning an attack upon
| President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft
which they believe will demonstrate their
power and also appeal to the Negro vote
throughout the country, in the selection
of the delegates from the District Of Co
lumbia to the Republican National Con-
yention next year
W. Calvin Chase, the editor OF Ne
gro newspaper. is engineering the scheme
10 administer a rebuke to Roosevelt and
TAFT for their action IN the Browns
! VILE affair by sending to the next Re
publican Convention two delegates from
the District Of Columbia who will stead
: fasrly oppose the Roosevelt programme
, and support the antagonists Of the ROose-
, welt policies
Two-thirds Of the Republican vote in
the District Of Columbia is colorcd, SC
the race has the power TO carry out the
programme of sending one colored man
and one white man. as usual
- The Administration had Booker I
Washington working busily to head of
the adoption Of a resolution condemn
/. ing Taft and Roosevelt by a colorec
Baptist Conference which has just clos
ed here Washington succeeded IN fore
ing a compromise whereby Senator For
aker was indorsed with a reference il
the resolutions to the Administration.
The appointment Of colored chaplain
: to the rank of major is interesting, anC
: is regarded as a blow aimed by Secretary
Taft at the head of Mayor Tom John
son of Cleveland
The President and Taft are worried
lest the colored vote OF Cleveland be cas-
aaain~t CougreSsmanBurton in the pend
ING mayoralty contest,
In discussing the plans Of the Negoe'
Chase said tonight:
In Illinois the negroes will supper
- the election of Cannon delegates; in In
diana they viii be for Fairbanks, and I
PENNSYLVANIA for Knox. Everywhere n
rational politics they will implicitly ODE,
the orders OF Senator For2ker
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