The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-16
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Brownsville AFFAIR has not made him
violate a single sentence or word OF
Promise: the vitupcrations ana 4the
poisonous venom which have been dis
CHARGED from Negro pu1pits by some
of the Would-be big Negroes OF this
country. and Negroes. too. who have
big heads rather than big brains and
hearts. where Is that man that said
herats, who inquiries where q tie man
who said, Shut the door OF hope to
no uaan?'' This inquiry Is imply the
way OF a political statesman. saying
that the President said, he did not.
he could not. Such thing Is impos-
sfbIe with Theodore Roosevelt. and
also with the matchless Judge Taft.
There is a vast difference in a man
closing the door himself and hav-
Ing somebody to close It against
him.
Judge Taft says he will be Presi-
dent, and as well as 1 know him. he
win be President: he Will carry out
the Roosevelt policy Just as far as It
viii benent the people, and that is the
thing this country needs, and no peo-
pie need It more than the Negro, To
know Judge Taft you must study him
as man, and you cannot study men
like a financial corporation or a ship
subsidy. You must study him as a man
and then get the real Judge Taft as
he Is and not what some Negroes
and the hopeless Democratic party
say of him. You must study him
from the man side. am certain
that the more you study this mag
nificen character and Christian gentle
man, the more you shall see the folly
OF taking issue against the great
hearted William II. Taft have
studied him and am still studying
him, because he bears studying, and
like good book, the more you turn
its pages, the more you get interested
in its subject. Judge Taft Is not one
gentlemen whe become drunken with
his own verbosity-he is the whole
man. He is transparent in his char
acter. Study him deeply he will bear
the search light, and the more light
you turn on him. and the more you
study him and look at his steps as he
goes forward in the work OF this
great American Republic, you will
see the carriage of a master In the
affairs of life. look into his Jolly and
well-rounded face, and you will catch
the expression OF a brother In right
affairs, and just foe when in the
wrong. Look into the keen flash OF
his eye, and the determined sparks to
do things will appear. You also see
the busy whirl of ten millions
wheels of American Industries grind
ing out millions of dollars that can
not be ground out unless he is elect
ed President and still there are a mil
lion more men going to work with
their full dinner pail, leaving meal
and oil behind them in their homes.
The name OF such a man as VIII
liam H. Taft will triumph and endure
as long as liberty shall have an abid=,
ing place upon the earth. Judge
Taft Is the hoThe-Ioving man, the man
of the people and the people VIII
elect him President. He has a high
standard and he lives up to 1t; he Is
the man of the hour: the man thar
this nation needs, and the man that
this nation Will have. Now my
friends to whom speak, will You
be Influenced by a few Negroes who
have an ambition to be notorious,
and nothing else can be said ofthem
1 know you will not now. VIII you
turn against Judge Taft because ne
obeyed the mandates of the Powers
that be. and thus complying with his
oath. and I pray you viii not, and
most all I pray that you VIII not
turn against the grand party, the
child of Providence, that he belongs
to? You have nothing to gain by
mean white men wish you to pur-
sue.
Not one word of promise Is held
out to you in the Democratict plat
form. Not one word OF sympathy Is
expressed. Well, the truth is. that
YOU are not mentioned In that thing
they call platform. On the other
hand the Republican party is neither
ashamed nor afraid to speak words OF
cheer and kindness and to declare
its adhereance to the enforcement OF
tho fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments, and Judge Taft being too
great to trample upon a worm or
trcnble in the presence of kings, fs
broad enough to say that he stands
upon the platform, and upon every
principle that his party stands upon.
Therefore. let every Negro in the land
stand for him, and with him. and
vote for him and the whole RePubli-
c. w. w. JENKINS.