The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-28
and vote against endorsement of the administration and Mir. Secretary Taft"

and vote against enforcement of the administration and Mr. Secretary Taft
 Bisksp AIstech's Rem.rks Clear.
 Bishop Aistock. In opening tho meet ing reminded his hearers that they 'had been for many years the eats paw of the Republican Party" He besought them to face about and as- sort their Independence. He said they had stuck to the Republicans very much to their injury at times, but they kept in alliance with them Tn the hope that ultimately they would as a race Eet some of their deserts.
 The speaker charged the President with catering to their votes for his second term of office and then at the first real opportunity of showing jus tice to the race--referring to the Brownsville affair--he had turned up- on them and kicked them in the mouth. He made a defense of the preachers taking part in politics and said religion should not be nnisjudged when ''it came to a matter of speaking for the rights Of humans"
 The charge that has been circulated throughout the city that the meeting last night had been called for the pur- pose of aliyins with the Lily White Republicans was denied In vigorous tSIIu4 uy 0l6H0V AAbGOtR AAS A~e~N~~~ ed that 1t was an assembIage for pro- nouncing the rights of the negro race and that 1t was to be an opportunity for that race to speak their rights as men irrespective of party.
 The speaker declared that he had had an offer of $30 "to speak in behalf of the interests of a certain wing of the Republican party" but that he had refused such an offer and would not accept the offer for ten times the money.
 Railing against the domination or the negro vote by the Republicans, Bishop AIstork charged that the party 'beiieves they have patent right on the negroes" He was willing. he said. to assert that here was plenty of proof of such stae of affairs and that he had never seen tool yielded to such great advantage and with such ease as have the Republicans used the negroes franchises.
 Dares Roosevelt.
 Tn concluding his speech, the Bishop said. in visible excitement. that he would dare Theodore Roosevelt to put his name again before the people for President He characterized the candidacy of Mir. Taft as piece or monumental audacity." 'an Insult to American chiyaify."
 The other speecneS were very mucti of the same temper and meaning of the chairman Of the meeting. Bishop Alstork had declared that he was in Washington when Senator Foraker was on the floor of the Senate battling for the rights of negroes as humans and that he had desire then to so to the senstor and put his arms about him.
 Rev. E. P. Mayo stood almost as staunchly for the Ohio Senator who conducted his unrelenting defense or the negro soldiers who were discharged from the army on account of the ai- legged shooting up of Brownsville He Furthermore said that the President deliberately turned his back on the negro when he knew that they had never been given fair trial.
 It was Rev. Mayo who made the statement. which met with some ap- plause. that the negro voter would do better to 'vote for ". J. Bryan than for either Mfr Taft or any other choice of the President"
 The meeting which began about 2 o'clock lasted until near the midnight hour when adjournment was peaee- ably taken.