The Washington times., 1908-06-15
THIRD-TERN GHOST
ALARMS TAFT MEN
Uncle Joe" Defes Prece-
dent to Fight Anti-In-
junction Plank.
NEGROES THREATEN
TO KILL TRAITORS
Bitter in Condemnation of Taft and
RooSevelt-Booker Washington
Called Enemy TO Race.

called Enemy 10 Race.
CHICAGO, June l5.-'They ars the
most nervous lot Of sure-thing men 7
ever saw"
This expression, apropos OF the Taft
managers. made today by an ally
leader. possesses elements OF truth.
Notwithstanding their claim to more
than 100 votes for their candidate on
the first ballot. the Taftites today are
riding as careful a race as though they
expected a neck and neck finish
Everywhere IL is conceded that the
much mOoted question or the Vice
Presidency probably VIII be settled BY
tlye-minute long distance telephone
conversation with Washington. How IL
will De settled is the matter OF least
concern to the Taft people today. Lets
settle the matter OF the Presidency
FIRST" is the stock answer 70 all ouss-
tions.
ThiTd-Tem Ghost Survives.
All efforts TO lay rhe ghost Of the
third term proposition. up 10 this hour.
have failed. This particular spook
seems TO survive with feline persistency.
The TAFT men laugh at il, Sut the
! laughs are STACEY, mirthless enorts.
The cartoonists are making ths bogey
| their chief standby, and the correspond
ents are finding in It their best friend
Next IN interest today Is tEe Sight
/ over The antI-injunction plank Speaker
| Cannon is comforting with a bunch OF
stalwaEts. up 10 whom he has put the
such plank in the platform
Uncle Joe's precedent-defying stunt OF
dashing into a convention city, when
| he etmself is q candidate for the Presi-
/ Dental nomination. was the subject OF
much comment. Early today IT was re-
ported that so determined is he that
| the plank being fought for by his old
| enemy. Samuel Gompers, shall not be
PLACED in the platform, that he VIII 20
/ personally before the committee on reso-
luton. 81 necessary. in order to head
| Il Of.
Negroes Are Aroused.
The situation arising from the dis
satisfaction Of the coIored voters is
| becoming more portentous. It is doubt
| I'll If the negro vote ever has been 50
/ rebeIlious as at the present time. Fer
| vent "amens" are being sounded today
| BY hundreds Of Chicago negroes 10 the
| sentiments preached on Sunday at the
! Bethel African NJ. Z. Church. when ne
gro political orators demanded blood
/ shed as Il revenge in event OF the nom
\ ination OF Taft through the activity
Of the race delegations,
/ What we must have is a Ku Klux
l Khan" declared II. G. Cress. rabid
! anti-Taft negro. and every black man
/ in the nation who Is loyal TO his race
] must De a member Traitors and race
/ betrayers must be punished with death.
| The fate Of the Negro race for the next
| hundred generations is at stake.
| These negro TAFT boosters are earn
| ing their bread by boosting for Taft,
continued Cress They have been sent
from All over the country 10 sell out
their brothers. But Wen show these
! traitors that II we're sold out II will
be with our lives.
The white friends OF the negro race
are dead. We must fgnt for ourselves
! now"
Roosevelt Is Scored
The Rev. ]. n. WaIdon. of Washing
ton. president of the National Negro
| Political League, urged negro women
all over the land 10 pray for the defeat
Of Roosevelt and Taft.
Wen pray and We III rush the steam
roller engineers INTO hell ne said i
hate RooseveIt's dec ption, his spirit
/ of revenge. and his IaWIessness. RoOse-
Welt hates both his black and his white
| brother. Booker T. Washington Is the
greatest enemy the race ever had. His
hobnobbing with the President didn't
do him any good.
n gniH hack
| into slavery by a little handful OF
money-making Taft negroes. Roosevelt
| has made the race the laughing stock
of the world, simply because some poor
negro stole a pig when he was hungry.
yet Roosevelt says nothing when Jhs
railroads steal the country
South Still in Slavery.
The Rev {. /. Gillian, pastor OF the
biggest negro church in Cleveland. pic
tured conditions in Mississippi and de-
clared that the negro Of the South was
still IN slavery
This 'steam-rOlleT,' he said. lis
| manned by men whose hands are
stained by the blood OF our countrymen
in Mississippi"
| Negro delegates unseated by the COM
| mittee on credentials are today seri-
| ously agitating a bolt and the forma-
zion Of a new party, with J. 3. Foraker
as its candidate for the Presidency.
The wrath Of the negroes was in
creased when the report was circulated
that orders had passed down the line
to the national committee TO remove
the only negro member. Judson W
Lyons, the representative from Geor-
gia.
Hosts Are Arriving.
Chicago. the city OF thousand
gates" made good It's name today
when the real invading army OF Re-
publican hosts marched in. Train load