Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-10-16

pCORlC Ill TO yV0lS Va JSVoVNh h0S OG0W
greater than that Of any other race,
similarly environed, recorded in his
tory. A great deal OF this progress
should be credited to the republican
party.
There were more than $4,000 Afro
American private soldiers In the
lSpanish-A American war. They served
under Afro American officers commis-
stoned by republican president--Wil-
liam Mckinley. Il
The election Of Taft and Sherman
means continued prosperity for all the
people.
Tillman has boasted in the United
States senate that the democrats OF
South Carolina have butchered black
men for attempting to vote.
A vote for Taft is a vote to sustain
the principles of human liberty for
which he stands
The Afro-American has everything to
gain by the triumph of the republican
party-the party which stands for free
dom nd human rights.
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Party principles have not changed.
The democratic party is the same to-
day as 1t was before the war, so far 8
as the Afro-American is concerned.
The election Of Bryan can bring no
possible good TO the Afro-American.
Better let we'll enough alone and vote
for Taft.
| Under the Roosevelt administration
there are nearly $4,000 Afro-Americans
in the public service Of the country and
they receive about $S,000,00O in sal
aries.
The Afro American people know too
we'll what democratic success means
to be beguiled by the smooth talk If
the democratic spellbinders.
The Afro-Americans will never turn
from the republican party and go over
to the democrats who are disfranchis-
ing and jimcrowing the people Of their
race in the south.
There are 5l2 o-American en-
ployes in the Chicago postoAfce, draw
ing annual salaries aggregating in
round numbers S40O, 900.
| Mr.. James A. Cobb, appointed as
sistant district attorney for the district
of Columbia, prepares cases for pros
ecution under the pure food law and #
has charge of forfeited bonds cases.
Hon. Miffn w. Gibbs was elected
CITY Judge of Little Rock. Ark, by the y
republicans of that city in 1873, and N
was the first man Of the race TO be 50 y
honored.
In the Houston, Texas, postoffice
there are 81 Afro American employees &
whose salaries aggregate $4,000 an
nually.
There are 80 colored employees in the
Montgomery Alabama, postoffice who
draw salaries aggregating $4,000 an
nually.
Twelve Afro o-Americans employed in
the St. Paul, Mimi, postofflce are paid
salaries amounting to $4,000 annually.
All of the letter carriers at the Mus
kogee, Oklahoma, postofflce are col
ored men. They draw salaries amount
ing to SlO,26O annually.
There are Is Afro-Americans in the
internal revenue service lat Louisville,
Ky.., whose salaries aggregate Sf6,50O
per year.,
The IA Afro-American employees in
the Kansas City, Kansas, postoffice
draw SO, 400 in salaries annually.
Fifteen Afro-American employees in a
the Columbus, Ohio, postohfce are paid
salaries aggregating Sl3,500 annually
w. H. Lewis, Esq, assistant district
attorney at Boston, Mass, has charge
of the naturalization cases. He is an
Afro American lawyer honored by the
republican party. IN.
The total force Of the Mobile, Ala.
postofice consists of 80 clerksl6 4
Afro Americans and II whites. The
80 carriers are all colored. The Afro
american employees receive annually
$4,000. 3s
S. l.. Williams, Esq.,. special assist
ant distric attorney at Chicago, has
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Williams is colored man.
In the postofflce and federal build
ing at Jackson, Miss, there are 18
Afro American employees whose annual
pay aggregates Sll,560. sss
At the Galveston, Texas, postofice
there are l3 colored employees whose
annual compensation amounts TO Sl0,-
900.
Mr.. H. H. Garner entered the postal
service at Little Rock in 1890 when he N
was appointed letter carrier. The force
then consisted of nine carriers. Mr..
Garner was recently made superintend- u
ent of carriers. The present force \
consists Of IS regular carriers, thirty
one being Americans. There are
also eight substitutes, four white ana
four colored.
Fifty Years Blacksmith.
Samuel Worlev Of Hixburr. Va. has