The Washington bee., 1907-01-19

che -h7frmanship OF the National he-
..p,-7r Committee. 1t took you some
'rs 10 make up your mind to resign.
,-.rerrbeIess YOU have committed the
-, and v1r will endeavor to lay the
,,F,;-7I wires for your chief for the
rsv+ contest OF course l give you
credit for having great political fore
,lcrght and Judgment, but, Mr.. Cortel-
r,r fhrrc is nothing that you can do
that Mil bring back ten millions of the
a,bar black allies TO your way of
.l,,llr9 You of course will do all
-,r ran 10 nominate Roosevelt dele
rr4s 10 the next National Republican
r,cr.rrfor. You will no doubt sue
,.sd m elecaug many, but not enough
to control the next Republican conven-
nom While it is true that you have
--s,grrd the chairmanship of the COM
ri,tee YOU still have your hands on
,be political key and you hope to use
10 an advantage. Believe me when
saw that IT Is too late. The American
arool. have enough of Rooseveltism.
They wish the time was ripe now TO
name HI, successor. You will have hun
dreds TO come and tell YOU that they are
for the Administration. but how can
v0u believe them IN face of the almost
universal uprising against IT,. The very
men il names for office, in their very
hearts there is a feeling of resent
ment and dissatisfaction You may think
strange that I address you this letter.
Well ] viii tell you. Although you
have resigned the Craftsmanship of the
National Republican Committee, which
was the political head of the Admins
ratou YOU have been transferred to
greater political machine, whereby you
wl be in closer touch with your chief.
! regard you as a young Napoleon in
politics. None comes finer than your
distinguished self Your acts are so
fine that they cannot be discerned by
your political opponents. There is no
way that your chief can redeem himself
with the American people, no matter
what he does. He ma say and declare
until he becomes blind that Companies
A. B and { of the Twenty-ffth Infantry
were not dismissed on account of their
color and to satisfy the prejudices Of
the South We are all thoroughly con-
vIu,ad and our minds are made up as
to what wc shall do in the future. The
political machinery of the Administra-
ton may succeed in nominating its man
but you know the American people do
he c.cr-ing They are determined to
defeat any man named by the present
Administration.
You are aware that the President has
lroiessyl great friendship for the col
orcd Americans. which has been moth
ing more than sham He has undone
everything that the late President Nc
hmLy inaagurated. Colored postmas-
tiers and many other colored officials
whom President Mckinley appointed
have been removed to satisfy Southern
Prejudice This door-of-hope policy of
which you have heard so much IS now
thing of the past. Now, tell me, what
has .he President to go before the
country on' The graft policy is play
cd out Many Of the victims are dead,
and many have been declared innocent
The day of reaction will come sooner
OF later Now if you expect 10 depend
On coLored bishops in the A. NJ. E
church OF the A. NJ. Z. Church Zion,
you will depend on broken pillars. If
you expect your present officeholders 10
come from under cover and defend the
present Administration It will be polit-
lea. suicide for them. And especially
il you expect to use them in the fu-
-'e don't ask any of them to come
"on under cover and defend the ac-
IONS of the President Any colored
man who does it will be branded a
rli,or.
Senator Iilman, while I don't be-
-l'e IN him, made a truthful statement
ii his speech Saturday, that President
N'-se'e.t had made martyrs of the in
roleat dismissed Twenty-ffth Infantry.
"~' could have advised the President
10 commit such a blunder? Not sat
s-s1 with the dismissal of innocent
~''' he now directs that every col
.''4 soldier be transferred to the Phil
EP~'5s' Well, we shall have enough
-'sIo voters left in the United States
W osieat any man he may name, not
outstanding the transfer of all the
'~,.'ea troops to another country.
-'l'- Oorte-y0u, the colored citizens
ave sense enough to know that this
i, ,,-'''--''stFatlon is against them. ] am
wv sIlnHed to know that there are
Il 's Northern Democrats friendly to
~ oo.oTed man and believe in them,
,S,,at ~ cont believe in the policy of the
,,, -.~. You viii find, also, that the
. ..''l voter has learned some sense
''' The last presidential election