Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-06-20
DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS IN THE
CONVENTION.

DEPRIVED OF RIGHTS IN THE
CONVENTION.
Their general claim is that they
were absolutely deprived OF all right
60 participate in the convention
which named the elegates-at-large
60 the Chicago Convention. where
fore, being en- "a decided majority.
they organized a separate convcn-
tion and named the delegates who
viii demand seats in the Chicago
gathering.
10 is "A red-hot document that has
been prepared by these delegates.
and 1t spares neither Taft nor Pres
ident Roosevelt himself ia its sum
ming up of the indignities that have
been heaped upon the Republican Ne
gro in the South at the hands OF HIS
own party.
Referring 90 the North Carolina
bosses who came with badges of
national .ofiice and instructed for
Tart, because Roosevelt wanted him"
the appeal says:
Traitors and usurpers have ira
duced the mission OF the grand old
Republican Party-in the shape OF
the lily white Office holding bril-
gade. These men. after receiving
Negro votes-making the Negro stem
ping stones into high positions OF
honor and trust-haye kicked him
out OF the primary conventions and
party councils, indorsed the revised
southern constitutions and jim Crow
ism.
In TACT. these political montebanks
IN their exclusion and degradation
OF the Negro. have put TO shame ev-
cry other political organization in
INC world, In hostile antipathv 10 tho
truest and best ally OF the Republi-
can Party And as sure las God
rules in Heaven the Party" must do
one OF TWO things-it must dissolve
user from that graft. greed and
obstruction OF It's vital principles bv
ol1clal lngrates. or it must free the
Negro from any further allegiance
90 tho party.
men follows an extraordinary Ar
tack upon the President bimsolr
Nhlch is Indicative OF spirit ON mo
part OF the Negro which LOOKS b,N
yohd the Chicago convention to ac-
non az the polls. SAYS the aDpoal.
ms uniaithfulness 10 "a true and
patriotic people has found lodge
nleht ia the highest Office of tho ma
uoh' ana whose Inconsistency thor.
uhWarranted by the Constitution and
statutory law OF the Republic and
whose arts stand out in bold relief
win not a parallel in the civUizad
kingdoms Of the world
here' President desiring 10 nan
uer 10 sentiment OF racial nrefu-
uIOS 'hat ms own personal popularity,
ana political preferament NAV fol
40" IN the wake OF his fawning. tbat
nc uhsheaths his Executive swov-l
ana Durles IL 10 the hilt into fbe
DIatest and best disciplined regiment
OF Negro soldiers In America ana
HaS opened a sore I'm the uoliticoI
heal '''"' VIII not
Notwithstanding he has plasterod
over the cut his Tylers. and be no.
placed IL. ""eIe ne
ana when Senator Foraker has
se-n q poor and helpless race VET
rue ana faithful, writhing ana stag
Serihs under that fatal wound. he
I,is come forth with a measure for
OOIsress 10 remove the foul knife
but our President-ours only ba-
cause the Negro saved his life AZ
San Juan Hill, and subsequently, g.
iected him to the high position he
holds to-day-is he who deaed Con-
gross with his big veto club of anv
measure removing his Executive lave
IN from the wounds OF a defenceIess
people. 'eSS
And, further. the President has on
deavored 10 choke down the threats
or the American people his big Sec
rotary, VINO has justified him I'm ev-
erything he has done to the race
And this Secretary, too, being So
lected by the President and pushed
forward by all of the power at the
command of that high office-know-
ing, al the same time, that he (Sec-
rotary Taft) indorses the revised
southern Constitutions. Jim Crowism
and the Lily White" propaganda in
the South, which is synonymous Of
mob violence and base ingratitude
This petition for the rights of the
Negro. as represented by the alleged
Irregular convention, composed of
whites and blacks. closes with this
fervent appeal to the national dele
gates:
These petitioners rejecting the
sentiments of 100000 Afro-Amer-
lean souls, together with millions of
liberty loving people everywhere
pray, urge and beseech the great
Republican Party to meet at Chica-
go on the j 9th of Iunp m r,uroa a.