Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-05-15
Says Tail msb Are Trying 10 HOOD
wink tho Negro Voters.
CITES OHIO PLATFORM IS Instance
Arraiens Republican Leaders On .
Change Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
Party Is No Longer the Friend OF
the Negro Voters.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. May 14-ln
communication addressed TO Senator
Gallinger. Gov. Pordan. and the other
delegates from New hampshire to the
Republican national convention al
Chicago. former United States Senator
William f. Chanler. replying to re-
cent articles in a New York news
PAPER ON political mistakes. says:
The New York Tribune. noticing
my claim that Republican caucus
or convention which adopts as It's
fundamental principal the pOpOslts
ion that no colored man. even II regu
larly chosen. shall be admitted to Its
membership. says l am political
humorist 1t is true at least that am
a political philosopher and perceive
some humOr pervading even the
trouble of the ridiculous blunders
which are sometimes made and are
now being made.
Points to Taft Dangers"
Seriously, and to serious Republi-
cana, call renewed attention to the
dangers which will attend the nomi-
nation OF Secretary Taft: They were
classified as seven in number when |
was ready to submit them to the New
HAMPSHIRE convention of April 2l.
bu, | rafrained when ii became appar.
cnt that the resolution of preference
for Taft would be laid on the table
as it was by vote of 700 to %, or
thereabOuts.
The seven reasons still remain
and have grown stronger as the facts
appear. They are:
The hostility to Taft of the negro
voters.
The misconduct OF Federal Of
ficeholders.
The vast expenditures of Taft
money.
The local trouble in Ohio.
THE abandonment of the antitrust
and anti-pooling laws.
The hostility of the labor organt
zaticns.
The combination OF Taft supporters
with the race track gamblers In New
York against Gov. Hughes.
Party's Plans Changed
Let me now amplify only two OF
the above reasons: the first and fifth;
in this letter. the flrst-the negro
question. The President once, in
happier days, told me that he had de-
cided that there must be compete
change in the men and the plans OF
the Republican organization OF the
South. RelentlessIy has his purpose
been pursued. Negroes are excluded
from the Republican caucnses and
conventions.
The recognized Republican party
in the South has become nothing more
than a few white ofiiceholders ana
referees, with a few more whites ex-
Meeting Office or Federal patronage.
given color by a handful Of hired
negroes. The Democrats have driven
thseolored people from the polls.
while this administration has driven
them from Republican caucuses and
conventions. p
coIored Freemen's sirthright.
The Republican party has abandon
ed the fifteenth amendment. which IS
the birthright of the freedman OF the
negro race. and this adminis.ratio mas
condoned the crime and contaminated
II by driving them out Of the Repubii-
can marty and the United States army.
The Republican party of Horace
Greeley and Wh;telaw Reid no longer
exists and the colored voters. North
and South. no longer owe allegiance
, TO the party which ventures still to
call itself Republican. The lilly
white party is a monstrosity unless