The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-22
NEGRO VOTE WILL
 NUT FOOL PEOPLE
Are Expected to Support Re-
 publican Nominee
VIEW OF E. W. HEWLETT
Many Senators To Be Chosen This Year Have Strong Opposition At Home-Democrats May Sue
 ceed Republicans.

Washington, March 21.-(Special.)-T so-called alienation of the negro vote at the coming presidential election has mis- | led few democrats. While the anti Roosevelt and anti-Taft advocates have been declaring that the nomination of 1 Taft would mean the loss of the negro vote on account of the Brownsville out ! rage" every democrat knows that who ever is nominated, whether it be Taft, 1 he will get practically every negro vote | in the country.
 | Emanuel W. Hewlett, a local negro lawyer, states the case exactly from a l negro standpoint.
 l He says:
 T am unable to agree with the many l prominent men of my race who advise the colored people of the country to op- l pose at the polls the nominee of the re- l publican party at Chicago if that per- son happens to be Secretary Taft or any other man who has the hearty sup | port of the President. We must stand l solidly for the nominee of the Chicago l convention regardless of the man. The l republican party of today may not be | the republican party of Garrison, Phil 1 lips, Lincoln, Grant and Alonzo Taft, who when Attorney General under Grant 1 rendered the opinion that induced Grant | to station troops in the south to protect the negro, still 1t is the only party that holds out any hope to the negro. and I l predict that the south will by its acts l of injustice toward him soon force the | republican party back to its moorings. 1 We may all have our preferences when I we go to the convention, but when it has l spoken we should bury all differences and act as one man for the success of the nominee.
 "The republican party is making a grave mistake in attempting to elmi- ! nate Senator Foraker in Ohio. He Is | one of the ablest men in public life to- day, and his elimination would be a se- we're blow not only in Ohio. but the coun- | try at large.
 Tt is not the supremacy of the negro | that the democrats of the south fear. neither is 1t the ignorant negro, the worthless negro, nor social equality, but the intelligent north: not negro domina- tion, but the supremacy of the republican party. They have exercised violence and | fraud of all kinds, are breaking the laws, tramplng on the constitution, and in most i of the southern states have disfranchised the negro and are treating him unfairly l in the courts, thereby accomplishing by fraud, intimidation and unconstitutional methods what they failed to accomplish when they gave their lives to destroy the Union. Every negro vote withheld 1 or cast for any other party than the re- publican is really a vote cast for the
 
 | for the negro in that party?"
 Have Opposition.
 Eighteen republican senators must sub init their claims for reelection to legis- latures that will be chosen this year. Most of them either will succeed them selves or be succeeded by other repub- licans, in all likelihood. But it is said that not In many years have so many senators had serious opposition in their own party, to their return
 The list begins with the venerable Ali son Of Iowa. Governor Cummins demands his seat and the race is neck-and-neck Iowa people say the factional fight in that state, which has been growing more bit ter for a dozen years, has now reached the extreme. which seriously threatens placing the state in the democratic col umn. Last election Governor Cummins won by only a little more than 2O,OO0, while the state has gone republican in recent years by much as 12000o
 One of the shrewdest politicians in the Iowa delegation gave 1t as his judgment that the next senator from Iowa would be a democrat. He said that whichever side won in this years fight, the other would knife the winner and give the dem ocrats the legislature.
 Ankeny's Chances.
 Ankeny of Washington has strong oppo-
 
 gon, in whose case, again, the possibility of democrat winning is regarded as serious, Governor Chamberlain being the likely man in such event. Senator For aker's situation fin Ohio Is so well known | as to need only reference. The Churchill faction in New Hampshire is actively on the trail of Senator Gallinger, trying 10 make combination to down him, and 1t | has the support of the national admins tration. which has been trying to help the Churchill crowd.
 Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota faces a close fight within his own party. He is charged at home with being a cor poration senator though curiously enough | Washington has regarded him as decld- edly of the progressive class, his rec ord here Kttredge of South Dakota IS another man whose toga is sought by the chief executive of his state. Governor Crawford Is making a great campaign in the state.
 He was nominated two years ago against the opposition of Kittredge, whose faction was overwhelmingly defeated; but in fight to preserve his own seat, Kit tredge is thought to be somewhat stronger than he was two years ago. Chances are thought to be rather in favor of Gov ernor Crawford getting the seat.
 Platt Is Undecided.
 Senator Piatt of New York has said re- l CSltly, dSheu WHetHef ne expected to be a candidate for another term, that he had not decided what he would do. However, there is no expectation that he will be factor in the Empire state sit- uation.
 The polygamy question is being revived in Utah, and with vigor which suggests that that state Is likely to develop into something like a permanent condition of church and anti-church politics. with the republicans allied with the Mormons. The opposition to Shoot is gaining ground, according to recent reports, and repub- licans in the state are much worried.
 Many of them declare that the senator ought either to resign from his position as an apostle of the Mormon church or else to withdraw himself from the sem atorial fight. Apparently he proposes to do neither, and the outlook for renewal of the old church fight grows more de- cded week by week.