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who values his job. will do some tall
hustling for Taft, rather than get the
hook through 'perniciuos inactivity. "
There are now nineteen Negro
printers in the Government Printing
Office Under the last Democratic
administration, Public Printer Bene-
dict cleaned out all but one. Want to
give them another chance with the
official "Snickersnee?"
Democracy is welded to disfran-
chisement, lynching, jim-crowism,
peonage and ostracism-and dares not
ask for a divorce. We cannot recog-
nize this family in our social set.
We shall make a serious blunder if
we permit the Supreme Court to pass
under the control of justices who
acknowledge party fellowship with
John Sharp Williams, Hoke Smith,
Jim Griggs, and Ed Carmack, who
argue in season and out of season
that giving the Negro his citizenship
was a mistake -Four years of Bryan
in the White House would be likely
to find theRepublican majority on the
Supreme Bench reversed.
Bishop Walters, and Preacher Cor
rothers and Waldron are eloquently
silent on West Virginia's Democratic
jim-crow plankS, and the insult Geor-
gia offers in adopting a disfranchising
amndment in the midst of a campaign.
The trend of popular sentiment is
distinctly Taftward.
The political grafters and chronic
blood-suckers got left this year.
Chairman Hitchcock and his aids
know their business.
There may be a resignation of two
in certain Washington churches, un-
less all signs fail
Preacher COrrothers gave it out
that he would answer Mr.. Taft's at
tack on his veracity' last Sunday
night. Instead of answering" Mr..
Taft, the Reverend gentleman worked
of lot of platitudes about the kitchen
girl being as as good as the school
teacher and the man in the trench
being as worthy of respect as the
Ofice-holder propositions that no
body of any sense makes any effort to
deny. Preacher Corrothers shows up
strong when fighting men of straw,
but when the real slugging comes off,
he turns out to be simply an "artful
dodger. " The people have counted ten
on Brother CorrotherS and he is
down and out"
The Negro Democratic campaign
of denunciation, Misrepresentation
and evasion has failed. The stalwart
Republicans have carried on a cam
paign of education, and are about TO
reap their legitimate reward.
The Indianapolis Freeman has lost
its grip. The inane news" sent in
by Democratic hirelings and the aw-
full gap on the editorial page, to say
nothing of the yawning chasm where
the stage department used to be and
the cribbed sporting matter, all Sug-
gest that the sometime child of Coop
ers journalistic fancy has seen bet
ter days Manager Knox should
wake up, forget his grievances, and
be a journalist-not an avenger OF
imaginary personal wrongs.
The final big rally of the colored
Taft and Sherman forces at head
quarters Wednesday night, left no
no doubt in anyone's mind that the
brother is loyal to the old party.
The speeches of Rev. G. w. Lee, H
A. Clark, DR.. c. H. Marshall, J. L.
James, Col Robert H. Key and S. E.
Jones, made the welkin ring. Oscar
ID. Morris presided, but made little
effort to restrain the enthusiasm
which bubbled over at the slightest
provocation. The District Republi