The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-06-22
WILL NEVER SUPPORT TAFT.
Or President Brownsville" Roose
welt, They Declare.

Negroes OF Ohio held large and
I significant meeting az Columbus last
week IN Dunbar Theatre. Among the
ldeclarations made are these: That
the president willfully. Intentionally
and deliberately misrepresented Will
flied and illegally treated our soldiers
that he used the power of office 10
hinder and embarass Senator Foraker
in his efforts to secure Justice for the
soldiers as an enemy OF our race and
because he had said that he was
proud that three of his maternal un,
lcles fought under the stars and bars
OF the Confederate States, which
fought 70 retain slaves.
That Secretary Taft endorsed the
action of the president and his Green's
b0ro speech and elsewhere advocating
negro disfranchisemnt in the South.
ern states.
Senator j. 3. Foraker was commend-
ed for having ieopardized his politi-
cal future by championing the cause
OF the discharged soldiers and his
course IN postponing a vote ON the
Foraker bill untl December An APP
peal TO negro voters is set out IN the
following resolution. which was adopt
ca
Resolved. That we hereby pledge
ourselves TO oppose any man or SET
Of men for political office from the
president down, who does not favor
the restoring to the ranks of the army
the soldiers discharged without hon
or. under the executive order of The
president And we pledge ourselves
TO support no man, either black or
white, ia county or state politics, who
does not stand sQuarely upon the
platform of Senator Foraker in his
! fight for Justice for our fellow ciii-
2ens. disgraced through the action Oi
President Roosevelt
Resolved, further, shat we hereby
give our unqualified enforcement and
lsupport 90 Senator Joseph Benson
Foraker for President OF the United
States. and we urge the Republican
lvoters of ihe United States and dele
gateg 10 the national republican con
lvenD0n at Chicago, TO stand with s
lin support of Senator Froaker, the
lpeerless Ohio statesman and cham
lpion OF human rights and human lib9r
lty.p
Ex-Representahye Harry c. Smith
lof Cleveland, the speaker OF the even
ing, said Senator Foraker had PAL,
out over $1,000 from his own pockri
ia The Brownsville tight Mr. Smith
said that he had taken a hand In de
feating Theodore Burton for mayor oi
/ lCleyeland because he had declared foi
the elimination from public life 1I
Senator Foraker The democrats o
the South had dislranchised the Negrl
AT the polls and now ROoseveltraf
republicans In that section were dis
franchisine him az the primaries bl
holding "lily-White' conventions if
the Southern states 10 elect delegates
10 the national convention, chat no,
! black republicans az tbe South hat
sent couiesting delegates TO ChicaS,
and II the republican party was snl
! la party of manhood suffrage the "lilY
lWhlte' delegates would be put out o
the convention and Tufts condidacl
} Killed
Mr. smith said that Ohio woul,
never be carried either by Taft %
Roosevelt. neither. he declared, woul'
Illinois Indiana. West Virginia, Deia
ware, New Jersey New York, Nilsson,
land other heretofore republican
states Either Foraker or sOmebod
Foraker would name would be nom
lna;ed al iioago. Taft In his Greens
boro speech had condoned disfrar
chisement, and in his Lexington
speech he had practically indorsel
ithe Jim crow car,
- negro quartet from the @. S. y
club sang several selections am
closed me evening with Taft Wi
Never Guide the Ship of State