The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-08-20
NEGROES Of
FLORIDA ARE
FOR BRYAN
Lake City Negro Preacher
Says His Race is Lining
Up For Nebraskan.

A Lake City dispatch TO the Jack
/ sonviIIe Metropolis says: Rev. G. B.
Wilson. pastor Of Mount Pisgah Arr
can Methodist church on Sunday ad-
dressed his congregation, consisting
of 500 parisioners. from the subject.
What shall the hardest be-" and
paid a glowing tribute to the Rev. J
Milton WaldrOn. of Washington. y. c
and commended TIE work that is b"
ing done in the national campaign b.
the leaders of the cOlOred race. He
said. in part, that the recent articles
in the evening Metropolis have caused
very wide comment upon the stand
that WaldrOn aas taken in supporting
the election Of W. !. Bryan. the demo
cratic candidate for president
MY personal knowledge" said he,
land experience with Dr.. WaldrOl in
political campaigns in the city Of
Jacksonville, where l was associated
with him as one of the pastors of that
city for two years, makes me regard
him as one of the most wide-awale,
energetic preachers in the race. He
is a model Christian and a deep think
er, and is deeply interested in tde he
grO's future political career in Amer
lea
Many of you have asked me TO give
my opinion regarding Mr. Waldron
and his campaign. Rev. F. H. Robin
son. an English clergyman. once said
that political science was the highest
education that the human mind could
attain. but such an education cannot
be appreciated by that class of negro
men who will thank God each day
that they are not like Mr.. WaldrOn-
The politician Is unlike the states
man: he Will pipe any tune to which
the people will dance. while the object
of the statesman is to promote great
policies for the good OF all the PEG
pie Like Mr. WaIdTon, I think well
of Mr.. Bryan's policies. ] regard him
as one of the greatest statesmen on
the face of the earth Three times
has the republican national cOnven-
ton laid equal rights planks to catch
our votes, and neither time has the
speakers gavcI in congress driven a
nail in that equal rights plank
Mr. Bryan and the democratic par
". for the first time since 1865, have
laid an equal rights plank. ! believe
that every man at Denver. Colo. who
voted for that plank was Just as sin
Cere as the imDTeguable walls of Gil
braltar- The many unkept promises
made my people by the republican
party causes me to believe that they
are insincere. The election of Mr.
Bryan. says Mr. Waldron. means the
salvation of the race in politics. /
believe il is true. ] believe that if he
is elected. and the negroes assist in
his election. that the harvest will be
great: that every southern state will
keep its pledge. and that the Iegisla-
lures will so amend their COnStitu-
tons as to give all the American citi-
Zens equal rights The federal gov
eminent cannot prevent any state
from enacting laws TO regulate inter
nal affairs
Our leaders have often led our peo-
pie TO antagonize the white man. on
whose farm he lives. or whose house
he rents. with a cry that i am a re-
publican because the republican par
" set the negro free If that be true
we have long since paid the debt.
More than eight millions of our peO-
pie live in states where demOcracy
rules. Christ said, Whoever wOUi-
have friends must first show himSe!'
friendly and If the negro shows him
self friendly 10 the white people
among whom ne lives he will havt
friends among them I was born IL
the south lived in the north, and. like
Mr. Waldron. as a negro l have more
confidence in the friendship of tho
southern white men than I have in the
northern white men, with all Of their
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