Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-28
APPEAL TO C0loREO VOTERS
GEN. BURT ADVISES AGAINST
FALSE LEADERS.
Extols Taft and Describes His Work
in the Philippines-Meet-
ing at Brentwood.

A big republican rally Of the Taft and
Sherman clubs was held at Brentwood.
Md. last night. Gen. Andrew S. Burt
spoke to the audience. which was COM
posed largely of colored men. and made
an eloquent plea for the republican presi-
Dental ticket. The town hail. where the
meeting was held. was filled to overflow
ing and many were unable to get inside.
Gen. Burt reviewed the history of the
republican party from its organization to
the present. declaring It to be the party
of peace, progress and prosperity, whose
beneficent policies had made the nation a
world power" Step by step he traced the
great legislative enactments during the
last forty years proposed by the repub-
lican party and declared that 1t was due
to those wise and just laws that the ma
ton had grown SO great.
In speaking of Judge Taft he said. in
part: His whole career has been one
continuous and uninterrupted preparation
for the presidency.
''He was a reporter on a Cincinnati
newspaper. He studied law and became
the assistant prosecuting attorney for the
county. He was appointed collector Of in
ternal revenue. He became assistant
county solicitor. whose sole purpose In
taking that Office was to assist in reform
movement in Cincinnati which was entire
y
the superior court of Ohio and as solicitor
general of the United States he establish
ed his eminence In the legal profession.
In the Philippines.
"As governor of the Philippine Islands
and Secretary Of War he has had to do
with large, perplexing and knotty prob
lens, but has proven equal to every
mergency.
II, myself. have lived in the Philippine
Islands. / was in command of troops
there. and had the very best Of oppor-
tunities for becoming acquainted with the
various hostile and warning peoples there.
From my own observation | can testify
that rarely in the annals OF colonial ad-
ministration has any governor been call
ed upon to face such unpromising condi-
tions as confronted Judge Taft when he
was sent there. But out of the chaos he
brought order. Accessible at all times to
all men who had right to see him. he
heard their stories and ruled with rigorous
justice.
THE Filipinos learned to love him. and
when he left the islands to take up the
duties of the Secretary of War he was
given an ovation by the Filipino people
unprecedented In the east.
He has been in charge of the construc-
ton work on the Panama canal and has
pushed that tremendous undertaking for
out corruption, but to enable the Amer
lean people to see with almost certainty
the completion Of that enterprise during
the next seven or eight years, and we
hope under his administration.
Warning to Colored Voters.
able. honest and incorruptible. l
sincerely believe him to be the best equip
ped man in the republic to fill the high
position to which the people are certainly
going to call him.
Let me say to the colored men of the
country. do not be deceived and misled
by a false leadership. Your destiny Is in
separately bound up with that of the re-
publican party. The democratic party
offers you nothing. neither in its platform
nor in its promises. The republican
party destroyed slavery. 1t wrote the war
amendments In the organic law of the
land. which is your bill of rights and in
the Chicago platform 1t still adheres to its
tradition of human rights. universal suf-
frage and uplift for all men of all colors
and races"
Other speakers were w. H. H. Hart,
James w. Poe and H. A. Clark.