The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1908-09-04


men live together they are divided
into creeds and beliefs. The major
ity or stronger division controlling the ,
actions of that people.
The people Of the United States !
united in Gen. Washington, who had
successfully fought their battles, and
unanimously made him President Of
the nation.
The latter part of Washington's
second administration, the leaders
were divided on the question whether
central government should pay the
war debt, or each state make its own
settlement; or whether there should
be one national government; or wheth-
er there should be several govern
ments-each state its own sovereign.
Thomas Jefferson became the founder
of the Democratic party in his ad
vocacy of States rights, and was de-
feated for election to the presidency
by John Adams; however, becoming
President by the vote of the House Of
Representatives the people giving to
his opponent, the nefarious Aaron
Burr, as many electoral votes.
The advent of Jefferson by such
questionable method, the head Of the
government, marked the beginning of
an era Of 40 years of democratic con-
troll Of the nation. During which time,
; history will show that with the eX-
ception of the Louisiana Purchase
an act outside of the confessed policy
Of the democrats-there was no legis-
lative action worthy of craftsmanship,
but a constant quarrel and turmoil
over the question Of slavery.
The question given for your consid-
Grafton this evening is: whether the
Negro Should Vote for William H. Taft
or William J. Bryan in the National
Election?" Or, shall the Negro sup
port the Democratic party, which has
reluctantly yielded to the onslaughts
of the Republican party in its efforts
to save the nation and make the Ne
gro an American citizen-equal to any
other American citizen before the law
, and in his pursuits Of liberty and hap
piness.
There is no personality in this IS
sue. Bryan stands for democracy with
: its fallacies and heresies-visionary
schemes which pander to prejudlces
and passions of men, while William
Taft stands for that same principle for
t which Attucks paid his life on Bunker
l HILL thousands Of our men and wom-
: en- sacrificed at Fort Pillow and ebony
2 yeomanry in uniformed blue carried
: to victory over the ramparts Of Alus
!, tee and Negley the same flag Wash
r ington carried across the Delaware
!. These two Williams are only standard
t bearers, and we are here this even
S ing to ask: Under which banner viii
i you march? Not only as American
Y citizens; but Negro American citizens
{ Fifty-four years ago the Republican
l. party came into existence, dedicated
t to the great principle that all men are
and ought to be free and equal. Tha
= 1t was time for the onward march o
" slavery to cease In 1860 It electet
. Abraham Lincoln President owe
. . Stephen A. Douglas, the father Of tn
Il Missouri Compromise, which decree,
= = that negro human flesh and blood an,
~ soul were his masters chattel an
Z bound to him with Promethian chains
N in free as we'll as in slave territory
d. and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill dnclare
T. that each State should decide the que'
+ tion Of slavery for itself.
e With a Supreme Court composed G
70 Roger B. Taney, Of Maryland, who's
memory lives to name the man VIII
ot dragged the ermine Of Justice into III
holy dust, Wayne, Of Georgia Catrol
IN of Tennessee, Daniel, Of Virgini;
n. Campbell, Of Alabama-all hailin
H. from slavelholding States-there wa
m nothing to be expected more than sue
d. a decision as was given in the Dire
as Scott case-an affirmation by the n;
m tion's highest tribunal Of the crime {
Mt slavery. In such time as this, tn
Grand Old Republican Party came int
-. power with Abraham Lincoln carryin
%. that same standard that has been hel
no aloft by Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Harr
w w son, Mckinley, Theodore Roosevelt
Nv and now placed in the hands Of tn
~ ~ next President-William Fl. Taft,
90 Ohio
io Ie The Negro cannot be a Democrs
no .Is With the announcement Of the N.Y.
p' ads Of Democrats. for that for whiC
10; his heart most desireth, and like 81
I'll omon's books, there Is no end-oflt
as they distinctly enumerate the conc
on tion. only white men can vote. The
hold out the olive branch and Il
eu weet.scented invitation to the Po
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