The Washington bee., 1908-10-24

see. Tn lOlOred people can have nc
common cause with Bryan and his
! followers, for the possible success OF
the Democracy is necessarily based
upon frauds against the ballot box.
with the Negro as the chief sufferer.
| A Democratic president would name
enough justices of the Supreme court
to give that party majority of the
! Court-and then we might see the end
of Negro citizenship, for it might not
be a difficult thing for this tribunal of
| last resort to decide, in a test case,
that the War Amendments were i'm
properly adopted We can trust Mr..
Taft to do the right thing by US and
| hope every colored man in the de-
batable states will cast his vote for
the Republican ticket, as the safest
way to preserve ourselves from DEM
ocratic misrule. There are many ex-
cellent Democrats in the South, but
they are not the controlling factors
and the record of the party does not
commend itself to the Negro's con-
fdence, to put it mildly"
/ "What were your impressions of the
National Negro Business Leagues
Baltimore meeting?
well" replies Col. Rucker, Il
think the recent meeting was a huge
success. That was the third one I
have attended. l saw marked i'm
provement in both the personnel and
in the quality Of the papers presented.
They were both of a high order and
representative of the spirit the race
needs to give it standing among the
worlds foremost business men. In
the nine years of the Leagues ex-
iStence, the business of the race has
increased to a marvellous extent and
it has more than justified the eXpecta-
tionS of its promoters. An increase
of the number of banks from two in
1000 to forty in 1908, directly trace
able to its influence, is a big feather
in the cap of the organization.
The Baltimoreans are a hospitable
people, are they nOt?'
4 should say they are. The treat
ment accorded the League by them
was simply superb, and could not be
improved upon. But that was to be
expected, for the people of that city
never allow themselves to be excelled
in their hospitality, any more than
they do in their business-and here
they acknowledge no rival"
Il presume DR.. Washington has a
right to feel gratihed over the contin-
ued prosperity of the Business Lea
que" ventured your correspondent.
| Yes. DR.. Washington has a first
right to be gratifed with the Leagues
perfect organization,its healthy growth
and steady accession of the most sub
stantial race builders in the land. He
is being praised all over the country
for this one great achievement, and
had he done nothing else in his long
and useful career, he would be en-
titled to the everlasting gratitude of
his people. He has pointed the path
that leads to the power that the world
mosreadily recognizes-the path to-
ward material acquisition and control
of the markets. And, | may add, in
this connection, that any man who
can unite and keep body of cOlored
men together, as he has done in the
work of the National Negro Business
League, deserves the plaudits of the
entire American people.
| The enforced resignation of Treas
I! urer Haskell is proving bitter pill
for the Democrats and has tended to
demoralize their campaign of hypo-
critical reform, while the house-clean-
} ing in the Republican ranks, owing to
their splendid discipline, has been
taken as matter of course, and things
have gone on just as if nothing had
happened While President Poose-
= welt has been dealing body blows 10
Bryan, Judge Taft has gone on in the
even tenor of his way, making strong
speeches at strategic points in the
} Middle West and winning hosts OF
friends everywhere by his irresistible
smile and genial, sympathetic bearing.
= Judge Taft is great, big, sincere
man and the people are taking to him
, more and more as they become better
: acquainted with him. The erStwhile
antipathy of the colored people, due