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The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
TAFT AND THE NEGRO
VOTE.

William II. TAFT will be the
next President of the United
States. No intelligent cOlored
man doubts thatTaft vii be elect
ed. Yet it is deliberately prOpos-
ed by a few misguided colored
men, that colored men shall vote
for Bryan, whose electoral votes
will come almost entirely from
the South, the old Confederate
states where the Negro is dis
franchised, lynched, often with
horrible tortures, and treated on
the whole as cruelty as in the
days of slavery,
The Northern colored man is
called upon to put these lynchers
and burners and Negro-haters in
to power at Washington, with the
authority of the Federal govern
ment behind them, and the army
and navy of the United States at
their command. He is called upon
by professed friends, who are his
real enemies, to sever himself
from the National Republican
party and join the Bryan Dem
ocracy whose chief, William
J. Bryan, has sought to justify
the Southern Democratic policy
OF denying the suffrage to col
Ored Americans.
What good could be accom-
plished by such a course it is inn
possible to perceive, although it
is easy to see that much evil
might follow. The Republican
party would be relieved from any
further obligation to the colored
men. The Democratic party, it
is certain, would not change its
stripes any more than the leop-
ard its skin, but, or the contrary,
would regard the coIored man as
having approved, by his vote in
the North, Democratic oppression
and disfranchisement Of his race
in the South.
The colored man having de-
serted the party which has al
ways been his friend, would be
left without any friend, unless
willing to fawn upon the South
ern white man as a spaniel fawns
upon its master.
1t is no wonder that leaders of
the Negro race, who look to the
future as we'll as to the past, and
who know that the Republican
party offers to the colored man
his only prospect of political,
social and intellectual advance
ment, protest firmly against the
proposal to hand over the race to
be dragged again in shackles at
the chariot wheels of Democracy.
The colored man will share, as
every citizen will share, in the
benefits of good government un-
der William H. Taft, who says
that to him the black American
is the same as the white Ameri-
can, and it WIN make no differ
ence in Mr.. Taft's attitude to-
ward the colored man, whether
the latter had voted for. him or
not But it would make a differ
enCe in the attitude of the Re-
publican party, and II would go
down in history as an act of base
ness the perfdy of which would
be equalled only by its folly.
We have confidence. however,
that the cOlored race will prove
itself worthy of all that the Re-
publican party has done for it by |
helping to elect as President one
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
Votes OF THE CAMPAIGN
By T. Thomas Fortune.

Nv / SlND VI III AANlI Z01AJAN.
By T. Thomas Fortune.
The way of the Democratic trans
gressor is hard, but it is of his own
making.
In his Yale address last year Sec
retary TAFT, speaking on the subject
of lynch law, said: Nothing can be
more detrimental to the public inter
est than for any part of the people to
take the law into their own hands.
What has Mr.. Bryan said on the sub
Jet of lynch law? Does not his 81
lence carry with it the sanction which
he gave Southern disfranchisement of
the Afro-American people in his
Cooper Union speech? Even so.
DR.. Booker T. Washington, who is
rated as the biggest personal asset the
Afro-American people have in fee
simple, began on October 5, a trip
through the State of Mississippi, il
the interest of the Negro Business
League of that State. While other
people are talking politics DR.. Wash
ington will hav to look wis and talk
about other things than politics while
he is in Mississippi. James K. Varda-
man and John Sharp Williams, of
high Democratic degree and vocifer-
ous voice, have fixed it that way for
him. More: In order that he and
his party may travel as people, and
not as beasts, prescribed, in labelled
coaches. DR.. Washington was COM
PEELED to arrange for special coach
for himself and his party. That is
the way that the Democratic party
ordains for men the size and color of
Booker 7. Washington. Such con-
dition of affairs does not exist in any
Republican State.
The Democratic party, which has
always been the party of Satan, does
not believe that righteousness exalt-
eth a nation, but sin is reproach to
any people" Acting on this informa-
ton and belief, the American people
have kept the Democratic party out of
power in the nation, for the most part
ever since it revealed itself on the
slavery issue as the real agent of Sa-
tan.
The United States exported manu-
features in 1875, of the value of$Io2,-
100000; in 1907, of $4,000, 600, an
increase in thirty-two years of 625
per cent That is the way the Re
publican protective tariff policy works
plenty of everything for home use
and vast volume of surplus produc-
ton to sell to other countries. Presi-
dent Cleveland's Free Trade Message
in 1887, paralyzed the manufacturing
industry of the country and filled all
of the large cities of the North and
West with soup houses, provided by
public and private charity. A Repub-
lican Protective Tariff and abundance
of all things are better than Demo
cratic Free Trade and free soup
houses all over the land.
In his letter of acceptance Secre-
tary Taft said: Il believe that equal
justice to all men and the fair and
impartial enforcement of these (the
thirteenth. fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments) are in keeping with the
real American spirit of fair play"
What did William Jennings Bryan
say on the same subject in his letter
of acceptance? Nothing. That is the
Democratic way.
Mr.. Sherman said in his letter OF
acceptance: "The Republican party
believe in the equality of all men be-
fore the law. AS nation our duty
compels that by every Constitutional
and reasonable means the material and
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
SPECULATIONS.

of Ohio.
SPECULATIONS.
1t will require 247 electoral
votes to choose a president this
year. The list OF states which
the Republicans claim absolutely
certain shows 238 votes. or nine
short of election. In these 238
votes are included all the Eastern
states together with California,
Oregon, Washington, Illinois,
Michigan, Wyoming, Iowa, Kan
sas and the two Dakotas.
There are AZ votes conceded
to Mr.. Bryan, and all these are
from Southern states except Ne
vada. So in addition to these
states, he will have to get 100
votes elsewhere before he can be
elected.
It happens that in the list OF
doubtful states there are only 81
votes, so if Mr.. Bryan gets them
all, he will have to get 10 votes
from the states that are claimed
absolutely for Taft.
So the situation as gathered
from these figures, which the best
judges regard as fair-Judge Taft
reeds only nine votes, while there
are not enough of the doubtful by
Ie to elect Mr.. Bryan. So these
estimates are mighty awry if
there is any chance for him.
OF course the old estimates will
hardly do for this year, since there
is much changing from one side
tc the other, but the chances are
that these changes will not Sc
riously disturb the totals.
Now when it is seen that Ohio,
Indiana, Minnesota, Colorado,
Wisconsin, Idaho, and Montana
are put in the doubtful column,
III this calculation, and that Mr..
Bryan must get all these and 10
more from the states set down as
certain for Taft, it looks as if his
chances for election are very slim.
Giving Judge Taft the 238 votes
conceded as absolutely certain he
will have to get but 9 more votes
to be elected. Ohio, for the sake
of being conservative has been
placed in the doubtful list. Now
il Judge Taft gets Ohio, along
with the 238 votes absolutely
certain for him he is elected. And
no man, outside of such as are
confined in an insane asylum can
claim Ohio for Bryan.
But, even should he lose Ohio
there is Indiana, Minnesota, Col
orado, Idaho and Montana to
draw on, either one of which is
sufficient to elect Judge Taft.
The truth of the matter is that
not even the sane Democrats be-
lieve that Bryan can be elected
His party managers are claiming
his election exultingly, but their
claims are like the boy who went
through a graveyard whistling on
dark night, simply to keep up
his courage,
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
HERE'S TO THE AGE.

The strenousness Of the pol
itical campaign we regret caused
The Bee to overlook congratulate
ing the New York Age, in our
last issue, on attaining its twenty
first year. We take this oppor-
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

Gen. Robert Smalls, Collector
OF Customs at Beaufort, s. c., is
telling some OF the fine points
about the. election law now in op-
Grafton in his State. Under its
provisions the Negro vote has
been reduced to a negligible guam
tity, and men OF the highest
learning and ample means are
contemptuously turned down
when applying for registration.
He pleads with all earnestness to
the Northern Negro to help his
brethren in the South by rebuk-
ing the party that makes tits
outrageous system of fraud and
pillage the cornerstone of its
faith.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
BEE LINERS.

The editor of the Baltimore
Afro-American Ledger needs a
dose Of salts. He is complaining
of the shortcomings of the Re
publican party, and ignoring the
meanness of the Democratic par
ty. The next president is bound
to be either Taft or Bryan. If
he cannot support Taft, as be-
tween the two, how is the con-
dition of the Negro to be better
ed by indirectly aiding Bryan,
tactily Condoning Jim Crow cars
and winking at disfranchisement
and in Maryland, too!
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

Hon. James c. Napier's genial per-
sonality will be felt in the Tennessee
campaign as soon as the condition of
his health permits him to leave for
home Mr.. Napier is a power among
his people,and was among the earliest
and most aggressive champions of the
nomination of Judge Taft. The
Ohioan is deservedly popular among
the real workers of the Negro race;
and the rank and file of the party
is anxious to get busy, under the
leadership of such clean and capable
men as Mr.. Napier and his colleagues.
The report is that Col. VIM. F.
Tucker, son-in-law of Mrs. John A
Logan, is improving but his recovery
is doubtful.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
Mr.. TAFT TO THE NEGROES.
He VIII Treat Black Americans Ex-
actly as if They Were White
Americans.

In the clear, frank, unequivocal
style that characterfizes every utter
ance. William H. Taft told delega-
ton of Negroes from the Baptist
Conference in Cincinnati his exact
position in regard to the race. He
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

OF the best men ever nominated
for that office since the Union
was formed-William H. Taft,
Of Ohio.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

A colored woman in Montgom-
cry, Ala, a delegate to State
Baptist Convention, was pushed
off a street car the other day,
beaten by the conductor and an
other white tough, and finally ar
rested and fined for disorderly
conduct - all because she at
tempted to get into the car ahead
of white woman. This is the
State from which Hehin halls.
and it is this condition of things
he would foist upon the good peo-
pie of Washington if his party
is ever allowed to hold sway in
the halls OF Congress.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24
HOTEL MACEO-

When visiting New York City,
stop at the Hotel Maceo, 2I3 West
53rd. Street, corner Broadway.
Steam heated. Telephone, Boz
Columbus.
B. F. Thomas, Prop.
Read The Bee.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

Taft is to make a Southern
tour - not to chase rainbows"
but to indicate to the South that
he will not be a sectional presi-
dent. He knows the Bourbon
South is standing in its own light
commercially, politically and NOR
ally, in permitting its narrow
prejudices against the Negro to
deny it the progress and devel-
opment that is within its reach,
and is courageous enough to go
down there and tell the leaders
the whole truth. He will carry
no States, of course, because they
are chained to their idols and
will not bulge; but Taft's visit
will serve the purpose of show
ing them the manner of man he
is. He is much too broad for
the Southern BourbOns' liking.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

President Roosevelt is deter
mined that the law requiring dis
eliminating railroads to furnish
equal accommodations to white
and colored passengers shall be
obeyed to the letter. The Iron
Mountain Railroad has had to
pay a fine of $4,000 for disobev-
ing the law, and the Interstate
Commerce Commission has
brought suit against the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railroad in Tennessee court.
praying for an injunction to pre-
vent further delay in complying
with the Presidents orders. 9th
er roads are in imminent danger
of the Big Stick" These pro-
ceedings will be abandoned, and
the race will be left to the old
order of things forever if Bryan
is elected.
The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

Read The Bee.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
B|LLEk DIES
TOMORROW

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June IL
Herman Billek, Bohemian fortune
teller and convicted murderer of
Mary Vrzal and four other mem
bers of the Vrzal family, hangs to-
morrow according to a decision of
the supreme court handed down
today.
Billek appealed on the ground
that the sentencing court failed to
ask him if he had anything to say.
The supreme court holds this con-
tentiOn has no merit.
The governor and pardon board
has already refused pardon.
Billek had pathetic converse
ton with his mother in Cleveland
over the telephone and nearly col
lapsed. Father O'Callahan is max
ing whirlwind speaking tour of
the city in an effort to save
Billek. When Billek's wife left the
cell today he said:
well. woman, guess it is all
over l see only the moose, but l
go to the scaffold bravely. Cheer
up"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
JONES SEES
SURE THING

NORTH YAKIMA, June 11-Con-
gresham w. l.. Jones, who has ar
rived here from Washington, ID.
c., has great faith in the outcome
of the September primaries. Il
have not bit of doubt that the
popular vote will be cast for me
at the September primaries" he
said. II am so confident of that,
that l wish the primaries were to-
morrow instead OF three months
away Assurances | have received
from the prominent men of nearly
every county make me sanguine as
to the outcome. would be perfect
ly willing to have the vote taken
tomorrow. | expect to remain in
the state until November. | have
several engagements this month,
and after that l will spend time in
various parts of the state until aft
err the primaries
Mr.. Jones says that Taft is Ger
tain of nomination and election,
and that sentiment for the vice
presidency is divided between
Fairbanks and Hughes, the belief
being that New York should have
the call and that Hughes will not
resist a general demand.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
WHERE ARE THE
TIGER CATS?

The Tacoma baseball team Is
still marooned in Missoula, unable
to reach Spokane on account of
washouts along the line There is
no prospect of them getting out to-
day, either. Manager George
Shredder has received a telegram
from Capt. Mike Lynch suggesting
airships. If there were any to be
had Shredder would try them.
I'm that anxious to see my team
take the conceit out of the Indians
that I'll charter an airship If
there's one to be had" he says.
And meanwhile Manager Eddie
Quinn, of the Indians, continues to
scowl and cuss. Now there isn't
the least bit of Jew about Eddie,
still. he likes to count money about
as well as counterfeiter. And
there's whole lot of loose money
around now that Eddie should be
counting at the baseball ticket win
dow.
Just when Tacoma will get here
Is as much question today as it
was a week ago. Yesterday there
were various rumors that the
Tigers were wading and would
manage to get to a point on the
railroad where they would have I'M
interrupted travel But there's
nothing doing. All the travel is
taken up.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11

ON WARPATH

1.-THE street committee Is COM
posed of pack Of FOOLS" declared
Contractor Lillienthal this morn
ing with relation to a statement by
Councilman Mohr in the council
Tuesday night that the street COM
mittee after investigating a COM
plant had decided that the Summit
boulevard wall was not built &C
cording to specifications. People OF
the vicinity complained that the
wall had been built of smaller
sized stones than the specifications
stipulated.
Contractor Lillienthal stormej
around some this morning and said
that just because he was the big
gest contractor in town it was a
habit of singing him out and &C
cusing him of all sorts of misde-
meanors. He did not state at any
time, however, that he was not the
contractor who built the alleged
faulty wall The records in the
board OF works shows that Mr.. Lii
lienthal took the contract. Coun-
Gilman Mohr also said he was the
contractor. Mr.. Lillienthal lie
clares that his work was done ac
cording to the specifications in ey-
cry particular.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
FRIENDS
ARE STILL WAITING
FOR OlNO'S PLACE

fitness and motives back of his re-
moval, the mayor exclusively o.
the city council?
The council is acting clearly
within it's charter rights, while the
mayor and his friends are trying to
overlap them.
There Is no question but that
ONO could have been eliminated
long ago had the matter been taken
up in IT, proper spirit. No man
clinIf to a place where he is not
wanted unless certain that he is be-
ing crowded out by unfair means
and under unjust conditions. In
the latter case he sticks as long as
he can in defense of his standing.
That is what ONO is doing at the
present time. He is showing the
mayors crowd that something
more than insinuation and express
sions of personal dislike are neces-
sary to dislodge him And the
mayor Is making a pitiful mess Of
trying to overcome this defense.
The whole question revolves, not
on whether ONO ought or ought
not to be dismissed, but whether
Mayor Moore and his littlebehind
the curtain coterie, or the city
council shall have the ruling voice
in the government of this city.
The sooner the mayor and the
public recognize this situation in
all it's significance the sooner will
the present tangled state OF affairs
at the city hall be Strengthened out
and something be accomplished for
the public good.
Mayor Moore's administration
will have enough to explain in the
expenditure of the bridge bond is
sue, a matter of far more import
ance to the public than the per-
sonal qualifications of ONO. Cor
bailey or any other particular
friend Of the administration.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
SCANDAL SHAKESCITY
FIRE Department
One Fireman Has Disappeared as
Result of Young Girls Ruin.

Glen Clark, a fireman of No. 9
station, is missing AMI his flight
from the city several days ago has
heightened the opinion that he is
guilty of debauching young girl I'M
der the statutory age. In May the
police took the girl in custody and
turned her over to Probation Of
fcer Rihard. Mrs. Rihard CLEANED
the girls story from her.
She stated that she was wild, but
never did wrong until she got in
with a lot of firemen. AS the re-
suit of her confession, Constable
Murphy arrested Glen Clark of sta
tion No. 8, and w. G. Hansbrauch
and G. M. Walcott of No. 5. The
charge, until corroborative EVIL
dence Of q more serious charge,
was that Of contributing to the de-
linquency OF juvenile.
Each fireman was allowed his
freedom on his own recognizance.
For several days the sheriff's Office
worked on the case. Then Clark, 1t
was rumored, was selling his be-
longings preparatory to leaving
town.
This awakened the prosecuting
attorney and an effort was made to
apprehend Clark. He could not be
found, so In order to bring mat
ters to head at once Justice
Stocker, who was In Walla Walla,
was telegraphed to allow a change
of venue in his court, where the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11

Taft leaders are jubilant ovef
final assurance of victory. 1t is
generally believed Taft will cap
ture the entire state delegations
from Tennessee, Texas and Vir-
ginia.
When Taft men were seated
from the first district of South
Carolina, Taft boomers announced
that they had positively pie lged
489 delegates with their names on
the temporary roll.
A contest in the fifth district of
South Carolina followed and was
disposed of in quick order, giving
the desired two more, making the
491, which is the number neces-
sary for nomination.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
ANOTHER KICK ON
HERMAN Az.

There Is another protest coming
up over the Improvement of Kier-
nan av. Residents between Post
and Washington have been inform
ed that the street is to be filed
eight inches. They have already
laid out their yards, and in many
cases lawns. according to the pres
ent street grade.
A change in the street means
that they must now go to the ad-
ditional expense of filling the yards
and lawns again Or remain below
the street Level.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11

preliminary hearing was to have
been brought, to Justice Hinkle.
Justice Stocker complied. In the
meantime Clark had disappeared.
A few days ago the fire commits
sioners met and discharged him
from the force for leaving his post
Of duty without permission of his
superiors. Since that time he has
not been heard of.
Deputy Prosecutor Lee this
morning said that he believes
Clark's fight to be an evidence Of
guilt. On account of lack of cor
roborative evidence, the cases
against Hansbrauch and Walcott
will be dismissed in a few days.
Every effort is to be made to re-
capture Clark 1t is claimed that
he met the girl while he was en-
ployed at No. station and accom-
plishei her ruin. 1t is also alleged
that while her mother believed she
was visiting with friends she was
staying In the ONO block with
Clark Through Clark, 1t Is also
alleged, she made the acquaintance
of other men.
Both Hansbrauch and WalcOtt
deny that they had anything to do
with the girl.
1t is rumored that other mem
bers of the department have been
implicated, but no evidence Of this
has been furnished by the officials.
Every effort has been made by the
officials to keep the matter quiet.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11

ed the suffering child bravely;
doctors cost money"
But a doctor was necessary and
the doctor came. The little girl
questioned him closely as to the
probable cost of his services be-
fore she was willing to have the
wound attended to. Even when as
sured that 1t wouldn't cost much
she exhibited a desire to take
chances on what treatment the
neighbors could give her. rather
than increase the burden of ex-
pense her parents were already
called upon to meet Their worry
in keeping up household expenses
in the face of discouraging condi-
tons We're constantly uppermost in
spite Of her own sufferings.
The injury Is painful but not dan
gerous unless attended by compli-
cations.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
NURSE F0lLS
kIDNAP PLOT

ALBANY. June 11.-A daring
plot to defeat the anti-race track
bills was frustrated by nurse,
who blocked four men in an effort
to kidnap Sen. Foelker, whose vote
gave the needed majority that won
the victory for Gov. Hughes. The
kidnapers called at Foelker's home
and one said he was doctor. Foel
ker was i'll in bed. They said they
came to take him to the senate.
The nurse delayed them while a
message was sent to Foelker's
friends. The regular physician ar
rived and the kidnapers escaped.
Foelker was then removed to the
capitol, supported to seat and
sank down. out was able to cast
the deciding vote.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-06-11
VICTORY FOR
HUGHES

ALBANY. June 1.-THE senate
today passed the antirace track
gambling bill, making bookmaking
punishable by year in jail, with
no alternative fine.
The vote was 26 to Is. Senator
Foelker, Of Brooklyn. was brought
here seriously i'll. He was able to
take his seat and cast his vote for
the measure.
The other bill, which completes
Gov. Hughes anti-racing legisla-
ton, putting an end to the sport
in the Empire state. is expected to
be passed by the same vote.
This is a great victory for
Hughes.