The sun., 1908-05-17
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"a addressed TO Senator dalllnger, Coy.
E az dan and hesSther' aeleGsstas from Now
|fxpspshire to the Republican national
|Il,onyention at Chicago ex-United States
{1etaator william f. Chamber. replying TO
4 FScant articles IN New Yolsk newspsper9
HI political mistakes, says;
II f'rbe New York Tribune. noticing my
S n5aisn that Republican caucus or con-
Nention which adopts az, ~ fnndanental
i HIxinciple the proposition that no coiored
tSAn, even II regularly chosen. shall be adj
tSHtfed TO It's membership. says J am
E6Iltical humorist.
1T ID true at least that, am q pchheh
|3philoSopher and perceite some nuinor
bsrvadine even the troubles OF politics.
11ltt ths evident h,nnor does not obviate
B}ha inevitable consequence ~ the 1aiguioue
tyltnders which are sometinesnmado ana
lse now being made
& sSeYiously and to serious Republicans
"a call renewed attention to the dangers
Which viii attend the nOfninatien$of Seossr,
Sry Taft They we're classified as seven
q number when I was ready TO submit
MEM TO the New Hampshire convention
I&f April II, but refrained when 1t became
Rpparent that the resolution Of preference
! |for Taft would be laid on the table. an 1t
&]&6cn was, by a vote of 100 to rs or there
about y
M sThe seven reasons still remain and have
2irown stronger as the facts appeaS, eFirst,y
ffiae hostility to Taft of the coloTed voterss
1H0oond, the misconduct of the Federal
otIiceholders; third. the vast expenditure
~ Taft money; fourth. the local troubles
IN Ohio; fifth, the abandonntsht or the anti
frust and anti-pooling laws; sixth, the hos
IStility of the labor organizations, and sev-
&fth, tte combination Of Taft supporters
3!1sifh the racetrack gamblers in New YORK
egninst Gov. Hughes.
-Let me now amplify only two OF the
abcyo reasons-the first and the ffth--in
f1thisf letter. the first. ths negro question.
B1,he President once in happier days told
q i1ne that he had decided that there must
h 4be q complete change in the men and the
H. .fplans OF the Republican organization at
I {hsi South Relentlessly has his purpose
!. keen pursued. The colored people are ext
\ {cluded from the Republican cauc,isas and
5conventions because they are not white.
|',fhs recognized RepdblicaF partyfat the
< {&outh has become nothing more than
lew white officeholders and refefses. with
"a few more whites expecting Office or Fed
eSrai patronage given color by a handful OF
hired negroes. -
AThe Democrats have driveh the colored
aseople from the polls, while this Admins
Etration has driven them from Republican
}saucuses and conventions. The Republi-
xan party has abandoned the Fifteenth
SXfnendment which is the splendid birth
1}eht of the freedmen of the colored race,
this ad dHg4Essss sss sGasSnsa ssss hs sas
|sut Of the Republican party and the United
|3tates Army The Republican party OF
bHorace Greeley and Whitelaw Reid no
kdnger exists. and the colored voters, North
f}anu South. no longer owe allegiance to the
.<trarty which ventures still TO call itself He
&tSnblfcan The Lily White party is mon
'FEarosity unless 1t becomes "a wing OF the
tj,resent partisan Democracy.
4 s Nor may we expect that this monstrosity
t>silI pass away on March next. Secretary
Yhft is pledged to permit the negro vote 70
be suppressed. ~
" eThe Ohio convention which presented
A hirn for the Presidential nomination adopted
+ 4 resolution as follows: 'Belieptng as Ne
de- that this marvellous progress IN intelf-
i isiice, industry and good citizenship has
8arned the respect and encouragement OF
3<{ke nation and those legislative ehactmsnts
&kat have for their real aim his disfraz-
|ithisement for reasons Of color alone are
Hnfair, un-American and repugnant TO the
action OF representaIlb6 ihscnhefess and
Is electoral college IN all States Of this
|Aion where white and colored SihsenS. ara
tfrsnchised, to the end thai !ias,s ne Four,
he United States may be enforced accord
ME- TO it's letter and spirit.s =,
THE above resolutiea ~ ne lessa deadly
Fkl6cause il is a deceHful trick; 1t V ike
tAe clatse IN the New York Constitpmnon
coupled with the law which the Legislature
passed reiterating the prohibition but PRO-
Fidipg that there shall be-nd, penalty FOR
me crime except that the man whq 81 loses {, e g
2lnnder the system Of bookmaking and re-
b cover the money. To destroy this cunning
Sssasion of the Constitution Coy Hughes
4 MAS taken up arms against the gamblers
snd the Taft men who seek 70 continue tne
YNEAfnbling and to destroy the Governor as Q
P5 presidential candidate.
B Mark the like plausible trickery OF the
Ohio resolution. It praises tie oQloEed
Dyran md condemns his disffunctiisef 5nt.
/.1XnGn uOeS IL ueClhre piitO iHit VIII hSAN. "
leaforce the Fifteenth Amendment, which
'rliarantees him the right Of sufSrage2 By
i5c means. It only says that the Fourteenth
Amendment shall be enforced and that
representation in Congress and IN, :. the
EIAlSptpral college shall be reduced where
3iite and colored citizens are disfranohtsed.
What good will this procedure do the
fIisfranchised colored peopief IL 8key are
&}(li6franohised what do they care whether
fths Northern States protect themselves
8 &fainst the unfair power the Southern
~ hites will continue to retain by treason
oi the existenoe of the oolored voters who
f fSxe driven from the polls by violence and
" Southern notification. In destruction
~ the Fifteenth Amendment. (which pledges
a fho nations faith that they shall be al
Ks lowed to vote and that Congress will pass
III |2we to enforce their right OF suffrage?
M & Out upon such false pretence as the
o Ohio resolution! It is o white mans reso-
lutjon and dMahssaas.&s4tlse -henefe Of the
/ lblored citizens, whose progress In intelli-
4 x8ncs, industry and good citizenship 1t 80
4 highly but so deceptiyely praises.
no have this frank and fair the Taft
fnanAgers should have added TO their reso-
: a Ii1tion the words But II will beinepnve
n fbf the Republican party TO enforce The
nd hall In