The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
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 Dick Oulahan. who Is head of the New York Suns Washington bureau. but who has leave of absence while he Is helping to elect Taft. is the suppos- cd head of the literary bureau In New York. Dick has his rooms on the same floor with Hitchcock One day recent Dick to see Hitchcock about an im- portans matter.
 For hours the. chairman had his doors locked, Knocks would not be answered The phone connection was cut off. SO the great and mysterious one could not be reached in that way. oulahan Is said to have waited all evening he learned to hfs dismay that Hitchcock had suddenly left for Chica- go to confer with some men. Wire messages failed to reach him. Long distance appeals by phone also were unavailing. Finally In desperation Dick hopped on train himself and went out to Chicago He just had to see Hitchcock. Upon arriving there the disappointing discovery was made that Hitchcock had just left for Cin- cfnnaft for a conference with Candi- date Taft. On to Cincinnati sped Dick only to And after reaching that city that Hitchcock was on his way to New York. Eventually he trapped him. It happened to be time when Hitchcock was not in conference.
 Out in neikhbcring Maryland vil- lage there is negro Taft Club, or rather 1t was Taft Club until the other day At any rate it was organ ized as such. This Is but one of a number gotten up because so many of the negroes are threatening to either vote outright for Bryan or remain away from the polls. This particular club now in mind has membership of about sixty. A Taft and Sherman rally was arranged.
 Negroes Are Angry.
 Since the date was fixed for the meeting President Roosevelt adminis- tered the terrible roasting to Senator Foraker. This made the negroes out in the Maryland village mad as hor- nets They. as we'll as most of the negroes in the United States, look up- on Foraker as their Moses. He appears to be more to them than Lincoln, Grant and Sumner were in former genera tions to the. older blacks. The chair man of the meeting had a shock when he went to the gathering. He made the horrible discovery that on account of the Roosevelt attack upon Foraker forty-seven of the fifty-three negroes present had signed a paper signifying their intention of voting for a reso- liition endorsing Bryan for President. The chairman. became panicky and de- clined to call the meeting to order. The chairman holds small govern mant position here.
 There is stiil a very wide differ ef1ce of opinion as to what percent age 0f the negro vote of the country will bolt the nomination of Taft. Rev. pr. Corrothers, the Methodist preach CT of Washington, who has been fight ing Roosevelt. and Taft so savsgefy for the past year and is pastor of the big, Gilbraith Negro Methodist church. savs that Ae is In receipt of a letter from a prominent negro editor of H. lfnois. who assures him beyond any doubt that fully seyen-fentfs of the negroes of that State are violently opposed to Taft. They cannot pos- sibly be brought into line declares this editor,
 The writer within the past month has looked over a half dozen of the leading negro newspapers that are cd itorialiy urging in the strongest terms the voters of their race to not only oppose Taft but In order to make his defeat certain they ought to have no
 
 editorials as Q rule are quite well written. and the tone of them all is about as savage as possible. The news columns of these papers also bristie with items showing that there Is gem eral dissatisfaction. The Democratic managers are not making any syste- matic efforts to capture the negro vote in large numbers. They seem to think that if the negroes are really disgruntied they will break away from the Republicans without being coaxed. Then, too. they have an idea that to interfere might do more harm than good. I...
 The Democratic idea is to let the Republican managers handle the ne- groes 1t being we'll known that the disaffection is at least serious enough to give the Republicans much concern in the doubtful States and in the close Congressional districts.