The Washington bee., 1908-10-03
At The Nations CAPITOL

CAMPAIGN IN GOOD SHAPE.
Negroes aHited for the Nat:oma!
Ticket - Bishops, Editors, Teachers
and TOilers for Taft and Sherman.
Hitchcock, Crane, Ward and Oula-
han Getting Results - President
Roosevelt Putting Ginger" into
the Fight - Judge Taft Rebuts
Critics. by Flat-footed Declaration
for War Amendments - No Apa-
thy Now to be Feared - What
Ralph Tyler Has Done for Race
Keep faithful Watchmen on Guard
Look Out for Supreme Court -
WaldroniteS on the Run - Baptists
and Methodists in Conference
Pledge Support to Taft and Sher-
man - Lewis Douglass and Archi-
tect Landlord Dead. Notes of the
Capital.
The coming of President Roosevelt
has infused new life into what has
seemed to be an apathetic campaign.
There will be "somthing doing" from
now on-and then some. The leaders
black and white, are pleased over the
daily evidences of harmony among
the colored voters and the growing
the candidacy of Judge Taft. Last
spring there were Taft men, Foraker
men, Fairbanks men, Cannon men
Hughes men-but they are now stand
ing as one solid phalanx for Taft,
and they are anxious to do every
thing in their power to make him win.
The Foraker National League. the
promoter-in-Chief Of the Foraker can
didacy for the nomination at Chicago,
is in line for the ticket and has open
ed headquarters in this city, with Oil
yer Randolph, a right young NLississ-
ippi lawyer, in charge. He viii be
backed up by Bishop E. w. Hampton
as chairman of the advisory commit
tee and by Roscoe Conkling SIM
mons, editor Of the New York Ma
tional Review, as chairman of the
publicity committee. Ratification meet
ings are being held weekly by the
various clubs here, whose members
represent many of the debatable
states.
Arrangements are being made to
have everybody go home and vote for
the ticket, and their is a gratifying
readiness on the part of hundreds to
dig down in their pockets for the nee
essary railroad fare. Ministers of
positive influence are preaching ser
mons on Sundays and the Washington
Correspondents, to a man. are for
Taft and Sherman, and the encourag-
ing reports they are sending out, are
moulding sentiment favorable to the
ticket in many quarters where hostil-
ity formerly reigned,
The one discOrdant note is sounded
by an unknown scribe who sends out
weekly tale of woe to the Boston
Guardian; but,happily, the animus IS
so we'll understood that its dismal
tone has no depressing effect Upon
our healthy-minded people.
Now that the truth is coming out,
the colored people are rallying to
Judge Taft in a manner that must
warm the cookies of his heart. His
Cincinnati speech has had wide cir-
culation and its unequivOcal stand for
Negro advancement along all lines,
Tor the higher as we'll as the indus
trial education, for equality at the bal
lot box and for a mans chance in the
battle of life, have destroyed the bone
and sinew of the objections raised
by the Waldronites. The policy Of
Misrepresentation and bomba5t pur-
sued with unscrupulous persistence
by them, has been exposed by the
friends of Mr.. Taft, and from now on
they are without a cause. Their
stock in trade has not been the hearty
support of Mr. Bryan, for he took
the wind out of their sails by his en-
dorsement Of disfranchisement in
New York and the failure of''Marse"
Henry Watterson's open door" COM
pleted their downfall. They have re-
sorted, then, to abuse and falsehood
concerning Judge Tafts record on
the Negro question, and, by the
frank confession Of one Of their trust
ed leaders, have been using the
Brownsville episode merely as a rally
ing cry to lure their followers into the
Democratic party, at so much per