The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-15
NOT PROVING VALUABLE
As Political Asse1 to the Republican
 Politicians.

As a Political Assel to the RepubIican
 Politicians.
 Washington Special to the New York
 Evening Post.
 The continued adherence of the vot- ing negroes in the. United States to the Republican party is one Of the strong es. indictments that can be brought against them to support the charge l.ist as race they CC not thInk lor thcm- selves, but are move. about like pawns on chessboard bv astute poll clans. for the negroes which Republicaa lead CTS voice. from time to time try ones patience when the motives that control them are known. The present investi- gation by the Senate committee of the Brownsville affray offers fresh proof of the lack of sincerity of leading men of the party that freed the slaves.
 MT. Roosevelt. has not given up his purpose of appointing a negro to some well-paid Federal office in Ohio. Why? To put Foraker in hoIe. When the first intimation was given that MT. Roosevelt was casting about to find a Federal plum for an Ohio negro a storm of protest descended upon him from all quarters of the State. rne people and the politicians were a unit in express ing their disapproval. It was not the character of the man to be appointed selec. ed. It was the color of the mans skin that gave them concern. No more than the people of Indianola, Missis- sippi or Charleston, s: C., did they
 
 It is creditably reported, and com monly believed in Washington. that the President gave up this idea at the earnest and affrighted solicitation of his son-in-law, Representative Long worth. If current undenied stories are true. MT. Longworth represented to the negro to good job in Cincinnati would mean his Longworths) poll ical ruin. In deference to this appeal and with natural hesitation at being the cause of calamity that might annpal In Mir Roosevelt as both national and domes- tic. the plan was changed.
 Presiden; d Roosevelt It is believed, in Columbus. IS The new %iiy T Senator HFA bicE 9Io from those regions is reported much threatened appointment.
 Washington views these things nakedly Nobody has been innocent had any desire to give recognition to a worthy negro by an appointment in Ohio at this juncture;; discharge of the troops President Roosevelt was commonly held to be the first among the champions of the negro in political life, He was their great were dismissed without honor the ne- groes turned on their one time cham pion. MT. Roosevelt was denounced pit terly by ministers. in their churches and at public meetings. Senator For aker saw his chance and seized it. Now the black people have turned to him as their shepherd When they have served his present purpose will . he turn his back upon them as other pro fessed friends of the race in politics negroes might do well to ask them selves.
 Republican National Conventions are always factors when there is evenly fought contest between the candidates senator Foraker may think that he will have some use for them in 1908. Vice President Fairbanks has not neglected to take steps to have them rally around his standard. If Senator Foraker finds that he is not strong enough elsewhere personal ambitions, hls defense of the discharged soldiers may give a hold upon their brothers in the South that will enable him to deliver their con trol of the Southern delegates to the 1908 Republican Convention. 1t Is ex- pected. will be a factor in determining the result.
 Viewed from this angie, the solidar- ity of the negro in politics is Q source of weakness. instead of strength. His plight in this respect is analogous to which have lost much of their political prestige because of the foreknowledge that they will always go Democratic whoever the candidate or whatever his qualifications.
 So long as the negro remains a do cile unit in the Republican party he , WEI De aL tue lltltS OL d7yll iliE hlt ambitious politicians. who will use hin as a stepping stone to higher things without turning. leaving 1t to success sors to do the same thing. It has come to be that the Republican party is un' der deeper obligations To the negroes in it's ranks than the negroes as 2 class are to the Republican party Whatever has been the case in wal times and when the emancipation proc iamation was signed. the Republican | party of today Is not held together by 1 a common love of great mora princi ! pies The present party is business machine, and worships success as it' | god. It is organized ana conducted tt | win elections, To bring about split in the party is counted the gravest form ! of treason Roosevelt. with all his | striking out at abuses and freedom 1 from control, has almost a morbid feai . on this score. The negro Is used like l any other cog in the machine. Sometimes a man asks for woman $ hand and gets 0 piece of her mind