The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1908-10-31
THE sUNpApER AND Mr.. TAFT

The Sunpaper is a mighty 600,
barometer for the Colored Amer;car
to take note OF. Il out Herods Hero,
in rs antipstlS towards the Nero
and - rule there Is no paper pub
lished in the South that has less regarc
Tor the Negro and his right than Ia,
the Sunpaper. Whenever Il puts M
sign board and points the way II Is ,
good thing for the Negro to take tn.
other road, If there is one, and II ther.
IS no other road for him to take ther
take to the tall timbers as fast as his
legs viii carry him.
The Sunpaper is foS Mr.. Taft and
against Mr.. Bryan. Now Mr.. Taft Is
the nominee for President on the Re
publican ticket, and Mr.. Bryan IS the
nominee for President on the Demo-
cratic ticket The Sunpaper is a Demo-
cratic paper of the most violent type.
As a rule it is yitrolic against the
Negro, and no matter how good he
may be, seldom has a good word for
him. So much for this.
In its issue of Monday a week ago
it has this to say in reference to Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. Taft We quote:
The claim that Mr.. Tafes election
would jeopardize white supremacy in
the South is the veriest absurdity. We
have had twelve years of Republican
administration at Washington-four
years of Mckinley and eight of Roose-
velt-and not a single line has been
struck from the statute book of any
Southern State. Mr.. Taft virtually
recognized, in two speeches two years
ago in North Carolina and Kentucky,
the necessity of the Southern suffrage
arrangement and there is absolutely
not the slightest reason to fear that he
would favor any interference with To-
cal government In the South. In fact,
the South has more to fear in this d.
reetion from an alliance with the radi-
cal Negroes who are supporting Mr..
Bryan and whose avowed purpose is,
IN their own language, ito wipe out the |
color line" What reasons they have
for supposing that they can do this
letter through Mr.. Bryan than through |
Mr.. Taft we do not undertake to say
ust now but evidently they have their
'Wn reasons or they would not be
iound supporting the candidate of a
'arty to which they have hitherto been
hostile-The Afro-Ameri- 4
an Ledger, Baltimore, Nd. Oct "A.
oo&
The Sunpaper referred to in the
boVe article is the Sun of Baltimore,
nd It will be recalled that Shortly
fter Col Bryan was nominated by the
1enyer convention, the Sun wanted
i'm to state IN plain black and white
neither or not be would appoint
'olored men to Offices in the South or !
the North, IN case he was elected
resident"
Col. Bryan refused to answer these
uesdons one way or the other, then
le Sun blted his nomination and
rev its support to Taft.
And as brother Murphy apply says: c
Here we have the whole thing-in S
nutshell The Sun is for Taft be- +
use of his speeches and because the a
titude of the Republican Presidents G
= the past twelve years, and It is q
ainst Bryan because it believes there "
less danger to local conditions in y
E South with Mr.. Taft in the White Pl
ouse than with Mr.. Bryan there. Or "
other words, Mr.. Taft recognizes d
: conditions In the South and is not q;
ely to interfere in any way with Ia
m. This the Sun believes from the M
eeches Of Mr.. Taft made in North G
rolipa and Kentucky, two years ago. OF
again the South has more to expect in
m Republican President in having W
own way With the Negro than from IN
Democratic President, especially Sc
en- that Democratic President would Iht
Mr.. Bryan" he
I would be refreshing indeed IL the %
gro Republican editors, would fll up oe
ne of their worthless space with the "1
icle containing the views Of the Bal -
lore Sun, and at the same time let 70
N remember that al of the Negro g
ing newspapers IN the South, the Va
cago Tribune, and Hearst's Chicago va
Ieriean and several other Copper 80 81
d sheets in the North, are fighting nl'
. Bryan, in favor of VIM. H Taft
ditor. m,
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