The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-24
"sTAND PATe IS
REPUBLICAN HiBcLETH
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has not been able TO enforce the Grim
nal law against O single trust. what
progress with such an antitrust plank
as that inserted In the republican
platforms
There IS a plank in the platform in
fay-r of such legislation and super
vision as viii prevent the future over
issue of stocks and bonds by interstate
carriers chat is good but coupled with
the advocacy of pooling arrangement
which makes a large concession to the
railroads without eXacting any security
to the public for the convention voted
down an amendment proposed by Sena-
tor La Follette's followers authorizing
an enlargement Of the powers of the IN
terstate commerce commission
Taffy for the Negroes.
THE negro comes in for his quad
rennial quota Of tafiy He is reminded
that the republican party gave him his
! freedom and citizenship and in this
there is the implied warning that he
must not use his citizenship against
the party that gave il to him lt boasts
! that he must look to that party for his
/ political rights and his progress In in
telligence industry, etc The republi-
I NNIA party Adn AtlAut UOlllltuA fdlAA0i
out Of the negro fer quarter of a cen
/ tury In many close states it has won
Its election by the negro vote and in
the states where It has had power Il
| has never treated the negro any better
than he has been treated by the demo
Gratis. In other words, in the northern
states, the democrats, without receiv
/ ing any support from the negro vote
I f,.f.. 30. ]. q hr
/ furnished q large part of the money
10 provide the education of which the
ItepUblican platform boasts And yet
in each recurring campaign, the repub
can leaders have attempted t. appeal
to the prejudice Of the negro by parad
/ ing before him the restrictions placed
upon suffrage in some Of the southern
states. They have been in control OF
tAe government with the exception oi
IA few years, for nearly half century
and they have controlled the courts as
iwel as the tber branches Of the gov
eminent II the democrats have done
Ianyhing that they ought not to have
done, why have not the republicans
prevented it2
Just at Voting Time.
why is Il that the republican lead
CTS are RniN HDiltIAiOuA dbOhl lAt tbl
ored man when voting time comes
The republican platform says "W'
condemn all devices which cave foi
their real aim his (the negro's) dis
Reinstatement for reasons of colo
lalone as unfair, un-American, and re
lpugnant 20 the supreme law CT tn,
land How can these things be repug
nant to the supreme law OF the Ian,
when the republican supreme court il
supposed TO stand guard over the su
lpreme law of the land? There i
lscarcely a republican platform tha
does not approach the negro with tn,
assGmption that his only interest is il
the suffrage laws OF the south. A re
publican discusses economic question:
before a colored audience and yet th'
negro is interested in every economi
lquestion that affects the white man.
With most of the neghOes raising
? cotton and scarcely any employed il
7 factories a high tariff would be har'
to justify before a negro audience
1T is an insult to his intelligence
as Wei as to his patriotism to sugges
as teh republican leaders constantl
do, that he thinks OF no question ca
cept those that arise between tn
races