Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-11
Negro Orators Denounce Re-
publican Nominee.
INDEPENDENCE is URGED
President Roosevelt Stigmatized as a
Dictator.
TROOPS DEFENDED
Bryan and Kern Endorsed at Meet
ing of the National Negro Ameri-
can Political League.

The nomination of Bryan and Kern was.
Endorsed last night by the National Negro
American Political League at a meeting
of that organization in True Reformers
Hall at 18th and U streets northwest In
addition to the formal ratification speeches
there was a burst of political oratory, in
which Judge Taft was criticised severely.
as well as the republican party, for what
the speakers termed rank unfairness to-
ward the negroes of America. Speeches
were made by Dr. S. L. Corrothers and
Rev. ]. Milton Waldron. the president of
the league.
In opening the meeting DR.. Corrothers
charged the republican party with having
duped the negroes for forty years. He
asserted that the republicans had received
the negro vote and had pretended to be
the friends of the colored man. and in re-
turn for their support had disenfranchised
the race in several states and had in
other ways forfeited the support of the
colored man.
1T might be we'll for us to remember"
declared Dr. Corrothers, that for forty
years there has been a growing dissatis-
faction among the thoughtful negroes of
this country at the treatment received at
the hands of the republican party. Mr.
Taft, the choice of the republicans, has
declared many times that he was practi-
cally a lilly white republican, and you
know what that means. He has gone on
record as a champion of the Jim crow
movement and the Observation-Disclosures of
the negro
Dictator" and "His Tool"
THE republican party, which some of
them have been following blindly for
forty years. is headed practically by
dictator, who would control the Senate
and House, and the entire country. and, as
this is contrary to the Constitution. 1. for
one, am going to vote against the man
whom 1 consider his tool, William H.
Taft.
Mr.. Taft has practically Endorsed
Roosevelts action in the matter of dis
charging the negro soldiers at Browns
vile, and that. together with the lilly
white movement of the south. makes 1t
the negro. 1t has been said that the negro
cannot support the democratic party
without sacrificing his honor, but re-
member, neither the negro nor the demo-
crat is under any obligations to each
other. We have been taught to believe
that the democrats are our enemies, and
they know that it has been negro votes
that have kept them out of power"
Political Independence Urged.
negro of the southern states make peace
with his white neighbor. and that together
they should vote down the republican
party. He also urged that the negro
make himself politically independent and
declared that neither party would respect
the colored man as long as he could be
used as a convenience on election day and
his vote made an article Of bargain and
sale.
The millions of good white people In
this country will recognize the 100000
negro voters in this country as force to
be reckoned with if we will cease to be
the slaves of one political party and exer-
else our freedom. If the negroes vote
solidly for Bryan in November they will
administer a death blow to southern dis
reimbursement and 'jim-crowism.
'As an evidence of the hypocritical po-
sition of the republican party l will men
ton that the republicans of this city who
have always professed a great love for
us are going to hold a ratification meeting
next Saturday at Marshall Hall, where no
negro is allowed and are going there on a
boat on which no negro is permitted ex-
cept in mental capacity. There is friend
ship for you
DR.. Corrothers also asserted that Will
liam II. Taft was untitled for the presi-
dency on account of his lack of Christian
belief.
Brownsville Soldiers Defended.
Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron followed
DR.. Corrothers and was interrupted sew
eral times in his speech by republican
members of the league who persisted in
asking questions. They were told that
their queries would be ANSWERED. at the
close of the meeting.
DR.. Waldron took up the Brownsville af-
fair and condemned Mr.. Taft for having
stood for the outcome of it. The
speakers defense of the dismissed colored
men was cheered at great length.
The republican party of today is not
what it was in the time of Lincoln, and it
has no claim On the negro, and the negro
owes it nothing" he asserted
DR.. Waldron read what he termed the
negros indictment of William Howard