Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-10-23
AFRO.AMERICAN VOTERS
ATTENTION.
OErlOcRATS ATTEMPTING TO
USE NEGRO ELECTORS AS
CATS PAW
Progress Of the Race Under Re-
publican Rule-WOrld Re.
cord Established. F..

miliar with the condition of his bro
Their in the south where democracy 4
In the saddle. He know thst at hear
the leaders of the democratic party dt
not wish his association IN politics
but only nope to use him and to dis
gruntle him against the Republican
party, in order that they may. without
benefit 10 him, be elevated into power
1t does not need the declaration from
the Democratic party. that 1t is
white mans party, to convince the Ne
gro with any brains that his interest
and future welfare and that OF his race
lie in the hands of the Republican
party.
PLANK IN REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM
The present Republican platform
contains This plank:
"The Republican party has been
for more than fifty years the cousis-
tent friend of the American N.gro.
1t gave him freedom and citizenship
1t wrote into the organic law the dec
larations that proclaim his civil and
political rights. and it believes today
that his noteworthy progress in intelli
gence, industry and good citizenship
has earned the respect and encourage
meut of the nation.
"We demand justice for all men.
without regard 10 race or color, we de-
clare once more, and without reserva-
ton, for the enforcement, in lette.
and in spirit, of the 1atb., IA h., and
18th amendments 10 the constitution,
which were designed for the protec-
,tion and advancement of the Negro
and we condem all devices that have
for their real aim his disfra nchisemen,
for reasons of color alone, as unfair.
n-Americau and repugnant to the su
pre- ne law of the land"
The Hon William H. Taft, in a
speech in Plymouth church, Brooklyn
recently said: "What the Negro and
his friends demand is equality of en-
forcement of the law under the Con.
stitution"
DEMOCRATS HATE NEGROES
Contrast these kindly sentiments Of
Republicans with the following from
Democratic sources. w. Y, Bryan in
his speech at New York 1908 said {:
s..The white man of the south has dis
franchised the Negro in self. protection
and there is not Republican in the
north who would not have done the
same thing under the same circum-
stances. The white men of the south
are determined that the Negro shall
be disfranchised every where if it is
ne :cessary, to prevent the recurrence
OF the horrors of carpet bag rule"
Hoke Smith who was . mem Der of
Cleveland's cabinet, and who at pres
emit Governor of Georgia said: Il ia
vor the elimination OF the Negro from
politics and if am elected l will nrge
this with all my power. Senator Til
man, in a speech il the 59th., Congress
said: "Some OF the Negroes are SO
near akin to the monkey that scientists
are Still looking for the missing link"
DEMOCRATIC HYPoCRACY
With defeat starring it in the face,
without real virile issue excep,
those embodied IN the "Peerless One,'
democracy is struggling to win in this
present campaign, with the Oegro vote
In the north, and without the Negro
vote in thd south. This seems to be
the browning climax of political idiocy
The Negro, disfranchised in the south
by the democratic party, is expected
to lick the hand that smites him, exc
cute an about-face movement. and aid
the democrats in swinging Republican
states of the north into the hands of
his democratic oppressors. From the
day of its birth, the democratic party
has not halted its boasted democracy
at the col~r lire. but has Dragged
about it. There is not law on the
statute books today for the benefit
and protection of the Negro that was
not placed there by the Republicans
in spite Of the opposition OF the domo-
Gratis.
WORLDS RECORD OF PROGRESS
Under the Republican policies the
Negro race has fourisbed as no race
ever fiourished before in the history of
the world. The illiteracy of the race
at the time of emancipation was almost
complete. When the census of 1890
was taken. 1t showed that this litter.
acy has been reduced to about "A per
cent. Italy to-day has 80 per cent of
illiteracy; Spain, 68 per cent and Port.
ugal 70 per cent. These are all white
countries with centuries Of civilization
behind them. There are 10000 Negro
students in higher Institutions of learn
ing, pursuing all branches from ira des
to classical and scientific courses.
Forty thousand Colored youths have
from secondary institutions
of learning. and 1000 from colleges
1 The race has developed 10000 teach
ers. IL 00O clergymen; 1,700 physicians
and surgeons; 1000 lawyers; and 400
journalists and literary people 1t
has ECO institutions for higher educa-
lion in the United States. In 1904 it
owned property amounting to SLIGO
900, GOO. In 1900 the farm property be-
onging to Negroes was valued at
D2OO. OCO. 600 II operates 1877. 1877 farms