Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-06
AOLO|NG MEETINGS NIGHTLY
ACTIVITY IN POLITICAL CLUBS
OF BOTH PARTIES.
Feeney Urges Labor to Support Taft.
Auditor Tyler Speaks of the
Colored Vote.

Political meetings are being held every
evening by the local organizations repre-
senting the two big parties. The special
effort is to get voters to go home on
election day and appeals are being made
to that end in behalf Of both candidates.
Before an audience of republicans at the
headquarters of the League of Republican
Clubs on 18th street northwest, last night,
Bryan and the democratic party were as
sailed from the standpoint Of labor by
j. L. Feeney. president of the Bookbind-
ers Union. The occasion was meeting
of the Taft and Sherman Club.
Feeney Supports Taft.
Il regret very much to be placed in the
position of opposing my friends in the
labor movement" said Mr. Feeney, land
especially the president of the American
Federation of Labor. President Gompers
is an honest man-an upright, fair and
just man. He believes he is right in OPP
posing the republican party, but l have
the same right to think as 1 do when 1
say that Judge Taft and the republican
platform are the best assets laboring
men can have today.
In the Fifty-third Congress the demo-
cratic party had the House and the Senate
and Grover Cleveland was President.
William ]. Bryan was member of that
Congress, and in all his term he never
introduced bill in the interest of labor
Every measure the American Federation
of Labor desired was introduced in that
Congress, including the anti-injunction
bill. the eight-hour bill and about ten or
twelve other measures that would benefit
labor. They We're all referred to COM
mittees and that was the last of them
Il want to vote in the interest of la
Dor and am not advocating the election
OF Judge Taft as republican. but
am advocating his election in the inter-
est OF the people who are affiliated with
me in the organized labor movement.
Il believe Judge Taft. if elected Presi-
dent, will be friendly to our cause
Other speakers were Francis Scott Kew
Smith, Maj. Gen. Andrew S. Burt. U.SA
retired; Chester Donaldson United States
consul in Costa Rica. and Ralph w. Ty-
Ter. colored. auditor for the Navy Depart
ment.
Tyler on the Negro Vote.
Mr.. Tyler spoke of the negro vote.
Said he in the course of his speech:
The only negro votes that Mr.. Taft
will not get will be those which the
democratic party has bought and paid the
cash for. and these constitute a very
small job lot that was marked 'unde-
sirable' by the republican party because
Of their contemplate venality.
'Ref1ecting on the democratic party's
past. with its awful trail of ku-kluxism,
lynchings. peonage. arson and disfran-
chising laws. depend upon 1t that when
the ballots begin to fall into the ballot
boxes on November there will be a long
line of sturdy. honest. Industrious, loyal
negro citizens, exercising the right of suf
frage granted by the republican party.
casting their ballots for Taft for Presi-
dent and for the continuation of the
Roosevelt policies. which mean more for
my race than any other people"
Republican Clubs Program.
A program for the next few DAYS has
been mapped out for the week by Henry