Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-08-13

Democratic Governor in the South
has endorsed just such policy and
President Taft would have Demo
cratic authority for the support OF
snch a law
There should not be any objection
TO this by anybody in this country
for the law when passed would not
interfere with states rights. An anti
Negro Supreme Court Of the United
States even If the law specified 9th
erwise would construe it 10 apply
only TO the District of Columbia and
the territories and that il was not
applicable TO the states and this
would leave the whole question just
where it started, so that we are really
of the oWnion that these colored men
az Atlantic City must have "limbered
mp" I'm their resentment towards
President William H. Taft and az
cordingly placed just one plank i'm
their platform upon which ne could
stand with both feet and be reason
ably certain OF remaining there.
He was Kind enough TO endorse
DR. Booker r. Washington semi
Centennial Emancipation proposition
by declaring that il was a good thing
and should Dee held i'm 1913 and then
refusing TO do anything else than
recommend 90 the congress 20 APP
point O commission to ascertain
whether or not both be and DR.. Wash
inston were mistaken. The lower
branch OF congress refused TO do
any such thing and the result is that
the event has been paralyzed and
enough life is left in the movement
90 lead the racial doctors. upon the
assurance OF President Taft and his
leaders that "a galvanic political bait
terry property applied at the next ses-
sion of congress Will resuscitate the
movement and enable the managers
90 put 30 on the congressional track
again
In the meantime. valuable mo-
ments are being lost and the two
organizations led by DR. Washington
OF Alabama and Prof r. r. Wright
OF Georgia are marking time. We do
not see Prof. ". p. b. On Bots name
mentioned ina The list of officers and
We are wondering as 20 the cause of
this. u may De that he eliminated
himself as q matter of policy and it
may Doe that Dice is Disguised with the
whole business. His name should
appear some where ou that program
and WITH lis consent or without it.
he should have been drafted into
service.
BE chat as Il may. it lis evident
that President Taft had no friends
in that meeting at Atlantic city. or
81 he had any there. they did not
succeed i'm getting representation
upon thar committee that drafted the
platform AS q further evidence OF
this fact just read this plank.
o. The restoration of the dis
charged Brownsville soldiers.
Now this Is Joker" so far as
President Taft is concerned and 10
lis a bac6-handed lick az HIS chief an.
tagonist. eX-President Roosevelt
Certainly IL should be q bugle call
20 every colored voter in the United
States. The injustice of the findings
OF that Court 20 which the matter
was referred is only surpassed by
the recent brutal slaughter OF limo
cent colored people in Texas. Joking
aside. We are of the opinion that the
action OF the colored leaders az At
lantic CITY will rank with the best
efforts of any oppressed people TO
relieve themselves of onerous condi-
tions that have ever been recorded
since the dawn OF the Nineteenth
Century Certainly such an address
TO the public will show that these
men deserve success if they do not
obtain it.