The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-16
BY Prominent CoIored Minis
ter Showing the Error of
Such q Position.
oBy the Rev, 9. v. ". Jenl.ina-l


CBy the Rev. G. ". W. Jeniins-l
The antf-Taft Negro draws his con-
illusions without a premise. That
any Negro should object to support
ing Judge William H. Taft. the ma
| tional candidate OF the Republican
party, portrays at once his Ignorance
h or the responsibility OF ONCE, and
respeetibHIty and obedience to SUI
periors, and his inBratitude for good
bestowed, as also It shows that he Is
n not acquainted with the fitness OF
letters, and that he bases his argu-
ment on no tangible ground to con-
vince any Negro that the anti-Taft
Negro has just ground for attempt
II ing to bolt the national ticket and
teach others SO to do: he has no
premises to draw his conclusions
from. Because Judge Taft was
OF the United States ordered him to
execute his orders In the discharge
of the Negro soldiers who It Is al
|fleged blew up Brownsville and for
| whom there has been no proof to
l show they did. not blow up Browns
vile Now. because Judge Taft exc
cuted the Presidents orders after
| having held them up as long as he
could, he Is therefore an enemy to the
what reflections upon the presumed
Intelligence of the Negroes sense of
military discipline, that when no
one will come forward and tell who
did the shooting. the President must
violate the laws and ruin discipline
and destroy police duty and let these
II Negroes 20 free. Just because these
anti-Taft gentlemen thought-no. I
believe the President the fearless
Header of men, had simply a deep
| sense of duty, rather than a feeling
of prejudice against the Negro. when
/ he discharged them, in which Judge
Taft had no share. Let the Negro
study the history of military dignt-
Il ~, and he will ind men having the
heads of their sons stricken from
/ their shoulders to uphold the coun-
II try's safety and preserve discipline.
| Titus Manlins nigh have been burn
ing with Indignation the insult OF the
H Latin general, yet he had no right
| to disregard the dignity of the con-
/ suiate and Commander in Chief and
thus destroy military discipline, ana
these Negro soldiers had no more
right to violate military discipline
than had This young Roman soldier
| His death was lesson to the Ro-
mans; that any disobedience meant
/ death. and thus the discharge of the
| Negro soldiers is a good example Tor
/ the future to others who may be
1 tempted to do the same thing.
!, No matter who did the shooting, II
was done. and somebody did 1t thar
/ was on the ground, or near the
h ground where it was done. Some
H bodv has not regarded the dignity OF
/ the consulate. the dignity of the com
Il nonweaIth, and the pride of the sec
1 retaI-y of war, in the Brownsville AZ
| fair and the disregarded discipline
l and seems to point to the people WIZ
were on the ground or nearest TO
the ground. There Is no question as
10 who were on the grounds acting as
notice force. or who were supposed
to be acting as soldiers and here was
committed the disregard.
The command of the President was
disobeyed and his expectations OF
their good conduct as soldiers, were
blasted. The President had hopes
that the Negro soldiers would acquit
themselves with such dignity and
military magnamity that the
brownsville people would regret
having made objections to the com
/ ingN of the Negro soldiers to Browns
vile, and he told them that he was
certain their conduct would dtsap-
point the prejudice and pre-tudg-
ment of them, and 10, and behold,
all or this was violated by something
else, other than meeting tne FEeSl-
dents expectations.
Military discipline was destroyed,
an example of disobedIence had been
set up, and the President must sac
rifice these innocent men, In which
he said that 1t was hard that the in
norent must suffer with the guilty,
or he must sacrifice the honor of
the whole country or one hundred
and sixty-eight men? Judge ye."
Now Judge Taft must violate the
edict of the President of the United
States, and refuse to execute the or
ders, just because the soldiers said
! they were not guilty, and because
few other people felt Just then like
they wanted to have those poor brave
Negroe soldiers retained. and just be-
cause they were Negroes. Oh, how
some men pitied them Just then, be-
fore the convention at Chicago. All.
the day of pity has fed and gone,
and men must not stand for admir-
alton.
/ There Is no truer indication OF the
Republican party being the Negroes
friend, that it wishes him
to stand for admiration of such
men as President Roosevelt. Judge
Taft and many others who stand for
Negroes manhood, and II possible.
an ideal manhood. The Negro must
not be carried of by the windy elo-
quence OF men such as belong to the
Negro Independence League of this
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