The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-08-05
THREATS ARE USED
AGAINST NEGROES
By Republican Leaders
and Office-Holders.
NEGRO PREACHERS WARNED
A COlOred Minister'S Strong
Language-AdviSeS His
Race How to Vote.


his theme, What Position Shall the
Colored Vo.er Take in the Present Ma
ticnal Contest" Rev DrJ.Milon Wal
dron, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist
church, of this city, and President
of the National Negro American Polit-
ical League, preached a sermon which
shows that Brownsville is still some
thing of an isue in the District of Co
lumbia, anyway, even though the Cit
liens have 10 votes
Dr. Waldron was very vehement
throughout his sermon, in the course
which he said:
II preach this sermon as protest
against the efforts of certain Govern
ment officials and employees to intimi-
date the pastor of Shiloh Church and
the few other ministers in this city
who are opposed to the party in pow
or because of It's hypocrisy, corrup-
lion and hlgh-handed juggling with
the constitution. Several men in this
city holding positions under the Gov
eTument have recently approached
members of Shiloh and one or two OH
CT churches, who are under them,
and advised that they put a muzzle on
Those preachers Some Of the MEM
bers of rhe churches referred ito under
the inspira. ion of their Government
bosses, have threatened these preach
els with trouble if they did not es-
chew politics in their sermons and
cease their activity against THE par
ty in power.
81 was informed only last night,
whether truthfully or not l cannot
say, thar a list of the members of
Shiloh and OF Galbraith Zion church
who are in the employ Of the Govern
ment is being made up, and that
after the election is over, If the Re-
publican party is successful, these
men are to be dropped from the Gov
eminent pay rolls because they sup
porl preachers who are opposed ITO the
Republican Administration.
Since the Republican party has
deserted from the principles of Lin
coin, Grant and Sumner and became
the tool of corporations, designing
politicians and predatory wealth; and
since it's representatives in Congress
refused 70 pass the Foraker bill for
the restoration of the discharged in
nocent negro soldiers to the army; and
since the Chicago Republican Com
ysl4, ION placed dts seal of approval up
on Lilly Whiteism' in the South; and
since Mr.. Taft, the Presidential can
didsp.e of the Republican par
ty, approves Southern disfranchiSe-
ment of constitutional amendments,
a.d since the Republican party has
failed to make an honest effort during
the past, twelve years to enforce the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
% the Constitution; and since then
hs, under the lead ofPresidentRoose-
welt, determined to eliminate the ne
gro from politics, the Negro Ameri-
can League advises all its members
and all other colored voters to vo,e
for William J. Bryan next November
as the most effective way Of rebuk-
ing theRepublican party and bring
ing b: back to its original principles
and securing for the race justice and
proper recognition at the hands OF
said party '~'-': .'.,.,
Every vote cast by .colored man
foI Bryan is one vote cast Tor the |
manhood and political rights OF the
race and two votes cast against, Will |
lam H. Taft and the Roosevelt poll
oies. Every vote cast by a colored |
man for the Socialist, the Independ-
ence or Prohibition party is one
vote cast against William H. Taft
and the Roosevelt policies.
For 40 yeans the colored man has
voted solidly for one and the same
parry, ard by so doing he has wos
the contempt or that party ana the
hatred of The second strongest polit-
ical party in the country, and then
having been deserted by the Repubh-
cans, he can not reasonably expect
,he Democrats to receive him with
open arms until large majority of
llre race at Least let it be under
stoud they will not always vote the
ticket.
THE Jews and the Irishmen divide
their votes between the various po-
Iitical parties of the country, and in
Ibis way have secured justice and prop
sr recognition at the hands of these
parties. Why should not the negro do
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