The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-17
MOVEMENT DEMANDS EQUALITY
ENDORSE THE SOCIALIST PLATFORM

Chickasha, Okla, oct. 1G.-"Where
as the colored race of Oklahoma, con
sisting of about Is or 20 per cent oi
the entire population of this state
have Loyalty supported the republican
party and its principles, and, with the
exception of the Hon, Joe McNeal and
the Hon. Bird Mcclure, have never
received any social or political recog
milton from the republicans; There
fore. be It resolved that we hereby
endorse the platforms put out by our
socialist brothers and recommend that
al the colored people Of Oklahoma
vote the socialist ticket"
This clause from the resolutions
adopted yesterday by the new state
organization of negroes points out the
chief advocates Of social intercourse
with negroes in Oklahoma, McNeal,
republican nominee for governor, and
Mcclure, republican nominee for CON
gress in the First district; yet their
loyalty has proven treacherous and
they are catalogued with the some
what less noted person, Republican
| State Chairman James A. Harris of
| WAGNER.
I'VE stand for a nationwide reyo-
luton in politics said negro leader
| today. The sentiment has been go
| ing on for some time in many states,
but no colored organization hereto
| fore has had the courage to break
away. ! predict that within the next
three weeks there will be similar res
! oIutlons passed in many states. The
negro is tired of being called the tool
| of republican bosses. He has sold
| his political birthright to that party
since the civil war, His vote and his
| liberty have been bartered as was
! his person before the emancipation.
! That state of affairs has made the
negro question one of the greatest I'm.
| pOrtance in the nation, and 1t has dis
graced the negro race in the eyes OF
the world. Every step that we have
| taken In industrial and educational
advancement has been counterbalanced
! by the unscrupulous work of the re-
! publican party in making of the ne
/ 10 "a, u.it In nnlif-
ical campaigns rather than as an AM
erican citizen. The mess of pottage
has been exhausted and the negro
must turn to the only tine friend he
has ever had, the socialist party.
Condition at Mpsktq gee.
Jim Fore, the chief republican pol
itician of Muskogee county, has
brought the negro into deeper disgrace
by appealing to the question of equal
ity. He has driven hundreds OF self.
respecting white men from the repub-
lican party this year, simply for the
sake of winning n political victory
anu WIN Nv lONt W NihANfNl lOl llip
negro race. am from Nuskogee
and | hope that every negro IN that
county will vote the socialist ticket.
Niger. niger cry the white folks.
Principles and real issues are forgot
ten.
THE only thing have heard for
weeks was "nigger, niger said Joe
MCNeal at FL Reno. The most dis
graceful thing that coIld have been
spoken by a man running Tor cover
nor, for he could not have expected
anything else from the 3emoc>ats. Jim
Harris expected 10 ge' o .l'ldr head
from us at ChicSasia and we handed
him lemon Mcclure is the kind OF
a man who would pet the negroes be-
fore election and ignore their demands
to become ministers TO Dacomy after
election"
Following are the resolutions ad-
opted at the meeting Friday:
The Resolutions.
The negro was seized in Africa and
brought to this country for mcrcenary
purposes by white men whose consci-
ences We're so elastic as to be stretch
ed to cover the legitimate accretion of
honest labor and for nearly three
centuries he was placed upon the auc-
ton block by the side of dumb brutes
and sold to the highest bidder, thus
serving the government as n source
OF revenue. The civil strife through
Gods will came to his rescue. Two
hundred thousand negroes fought and
fifty thousand We're slain. The ground
Is holy where they fought, holy where
they lie; thanks be to God that by
their blood their liberty was bought,
Dec Is, 1865; freedom was declared
July 2S, 1865, citizenship was granted,
and on the thirteenth day OF March,