The Washington bee., 1908-11-07
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= Iatt on the stump IS a winner.
The South is part of the Union
although it is the black sheep of the
, fold.
:, To the man-without-a-job: If YOU
have no work now, do you think the
election Of Bryan will help you to get
work?
The sound business men of this
country will never permit the un-
stable Bryan to become President.
| President Roosevelt guessed so
we'll on Taft's nomination that every
body is inclined to trust his Judgment
on his election. He saysGTaft will
get goo electoral votes. Let us see
how much we can do to make the
Presidents estimate correct.
Every Negro in the South entitled
to a vote, should be sure to get it into
the box. 1t will help to swell Taft's
popular plurality even if it brings no
electoral vote.
The capture of Tennessee and Ken
tucky would not surprise us a bit. Mr..
Napier says Tennessee is at the
mourners' bench, ready for conver-
sion, and Lawyer Albert S. White is
of the opinion that Kentucky has
come to hate the sins that made her
mourn, and is willing to come over on
the Lords side
Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the
talented elocutionist, says the colored
women should interest themselves in
seeing that their husbands and bro
theirs and SONS get out and vote the
ticket early, for it is the women who
| suffer most when there are industrial
depressions and money is scarce.
Miss Davis says that women who
want comfortable homes. clothing for
the children, a full larder and an am
| ply supplied coal bin should see to it
that as many votes are cast for Taft
and Sherman as their potent influence
can control. The Republican party is
the friend of labor and a pIentitude
of labor makes cheerful fresides.
Democratic success will put an end
to the activity of the Interstate Com
mefce Col1missiou IN pushing the rail
roads up to obedience to the law re-
quiring equal accommodations for
both races in the South. The "jim-
crow" car will be a fixture Be warm
ed in time
The department clerk who is too
stingy to dig down in his jeans and
go home to vote for the administra-
ton that gives him his bread and
meat-or is scared to show his colors,
which is infinitely worse-should be
lousted His place should be filled by
patriot, who, seeing his duty has the
courage to do it like a man.
Mr.. Bryan is showing the white
feather and paving the way toward
defeat by charging that Republicans
are going to buy the election. Judge
Taft smiles a genial smile and says:
I'm going to be elected ~ Will you
follow a hearse or a band wagon?
A cabinet made up of Tillmans,
EardaInans and DixOns may be ex-
pected if you let Bryan slip into the
White House. The South is the mas
ter of the Democratic party.
The lifelong friends of Judge
Gibbs are just sorry for the old man
that's all. Whittier's 'IchabOd' has
simply found a new application.
Now that the Southern press is
abusing Judge Taft because he is
standing squarely on the platform de-
claring for equality of American citi-
zenship, the Negroes Glove him for
the enemies he has made
The Negroes in the United States
Army, including eleven officers, draw
in salaries $500, 368-a little less than
million dollars The Democratic
policy of eliminating the Negro en-
tirely from the Army would mean
loss of that much money, besides the
loss of honors, opportunities and help
full training that army life would offer
the race. Can we afford to take such
dangerous risks as a vote for Bryan
would entail? Not by jugful
Negroes who stand back from the
fight because of the protection" that
the civil service law is supposed to
guarantee. will find that the Demo-
cratic inter yfetation does not supply
protection" to Negro clerks, messen-
GERS nrinters OreSSmen etc Needy