The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-07-22
In Line FOR BRYAN

,EGRo AMERICAN POLITICAL
LEAGUE QUITS REPUBLICANS
Ehe Organization Ha. Membership
of OO.0OO-Democrats Will Get
Three-Fourtlls of Negro Vote.
A special correspondent to the
Herald from Washing
ton says closely following the state
ment of President Gompers that the
American Federation. of Labor would
support Bryan for the presidency.
the Negro American Political League,
with headquarters in Washington
has stated positively that it Will sup
port the Democratic nominee. The
decision, according to the statement
of Rev. J. Milton Waldron, president
of the league, is not so much be-
cause of desire to see the Demo-
Gratis successful, as it is because OF
desire to see William Howard
Taft, the creature of Theodore Roose-
welt. defeated. The league president
sent the following telegram to Mr.
Bryan:
Hon. William J. Bryan,
Fairview, Lincoln, Neb.
Eve congratulate you upon your
nomination to the presidency by the
representatives Of the American peo-
ple-not by the hirelings OF ooss
and we predict your election next
November by handsome majority.
Judging from assurances given US
by our people throughout the North
and West, you will receive seventy
FIVE per cent of the colored vote.
fSisned) u. Milton Waldron, D. D.
president of the National Negro
American Political League.
The organization Of which Dr.
Waldron is president is said to have
an afiliation of 100000 members
including the membership proper
and those of other organizations at
i hliated with it. The affillatlon OF
the other organizations was affect
ed after the nomination of Taft by
the Republicans at Chicago on June
18th. At a conference of those who
were in Chicago for participation II
the councils of the Republican party
a committee. consisting of J. Miltor
Waldron, D. D., Of Ohio, George w
Gaines. D. D. of Illinois. VIM. Nun
ro Trotter. D. D., of Massachusetts
and Bishop Walters. Of New YORK
was appointed and authorized to de-
eide upon the best method to defea
Taft. The conference had previous
ly voted unanimously not to sup
port Taft. The league has opened
headquarters in Chicago, and VII
start a newspaper next week to work
against Taft.
In a statement the reasons for the
action of The league in fighting Taft
the president says:
1--WE went TO Chicago with the
avowed purpose of heartily support
ing the Republican party should i
return to the principals upon Whlcl
| it was founded. But when on reach
ing Chicago. we found that more
than two-thirds of the delegates t
the convention we're Office holder:
appointed by President RooseVeI
and pledged to carry on his polio!
of destroying all those who oppose
him whether they were good mer
or bad. in the right or in the wrong
and when we learned from state
ments repeatedly made by Mr.. Roose
velt's representatives at the conVen
ton that he had decided to recognize
the Lilly White" faction of the party
with the avowed purpose of eventual
Ilv eliminating the negro from poll
tics in the South, in the hope o
building up there a strong RepuDil
.an organization. and when no effort:
on our part or on the part of the olc
line white Republicans could induce
ar. Roosevelt's delegates to pledge
the party to reinstate the dlschargee
negro soldiers who are innocent ol
participation of the shooting up Of
brownsville. we decided, after re-
heated and lengthy conferences witt
,,ore than two hundred representa-
tives assembled in Chicago from al
parts of America. to oppose WIN al
our might and main the election O.
William H. Taft to the presloencS
of the United States.
As the Chicago convention thre"
considerable sop to the American
Federation of Labor and to the ne
groes it is significant that potn o.
these elements have come out square
" for the Democatic ticket.