The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05
NEGRO VOTE WANTED
 BY REPUb[I(AI IS Claim They Did Justice to the
 Negro Race NEGRO CAMPAIGN ISSUE Campaign Book Shows That the Gov ernment Employs Thousands of Negroes-Some Draw Im-
 mense Salaries
NEGRO CAMPAIGN ISSUE
BY wArrERsoN sTEALEY

Washington, September 4.-(Special') Anneal for the negro vote Is made in the republican campaign text DOCK mainly on the ground that the party in power has shown Justice" to the negro by appointing him to, federal offices.
 They disclose for the first time the extent to which negroes have been given government preferment.
 There are nearly 15,000 negroes em- ploved by the government at salaries aggregating $S,255,761. Eleven or them are officials of the diplomatic ana con su1ar service; Il are officers or the Tinted States army; nearly 5000 are employed in the postal service. Ne"i ly half of the negro employees are III the departmental service in washing ion Jobs are held by 576S of whom 7os are in the treasury department 571 in the government printing olnce and 421 in the department of the ln- terior.
 White employees in the government service here are not surprised as 'o the extent the negro has been si'eh government office, but they "onoei that the standpat campaign manage should so boldly advertise the fact ana eaunt if in the face of the white res idents of the country. That literally thousands of negroes had been given office was common knowledge to any visitor to the federal departments Tn Washington but the exact number was not before obtainable and the fact that seven pages of the campaign DOCK are devoted 10 the enumeration of negro employees, making the employment one of the minor issues of the campaieh Il or at least endeavoring to do so, m dicates the extremity to which the re- actionaries have been forced In thelr struggle to retain party majority in the House of Representatives III the Sixty-third Congress.
 That the republicans regard the ne- gro as an issue Is apparent from close scrutiny of the campaign book. In the enumeration of issues there are stated to he the 'record' of the Sixty-flrst Con grass the tariff, and the defense or the administration of President Ia1t. "There will of course be minor Issues of a general nature" says the 1ore- word. Then in the order named the volume deals with the republican rec ord in Congress, the tariff and the Taft administration and immediately after the defense of the national admins tration comes the seven-page chapter entitled "Our Colored Citizens in which the party brags of its record in the appOintment of negroes.
 The negro minister of Haytf received s1O,O0O a year; the negro minister to Liberia. s5O0O. Negroes have several consular posts at $3o00 and 5000.
 In Washington negroes hold the of fees of. register of the treasury, as sistant register of the treasury, audi tor for the navy department and oth- CT important and remunerative places.
 w. D. Johnson, Kentucky negro, is special agent of the interior depart ment The collectors of customs at numerous cities, especially in the south, are negroes. In the army negroes hold Il commissioned offices, from lieuten- ant colonel (retired) at $3375 and ma jor at S36O0 to lieutenant at $2000.
 There are many clerks at salaries of s1500 and better; the messengers en- ployed at smaller wages are almost in numerable, except In the republican text book.
 And throughout 1t all 1t is charged the democrats have in every way tried to oppose the negros progress. The bill introduced by Representative J. Thom- as Heflin of Alabama to provide Jim crow" cars in Washington is cited as proof of the democrats enmity and the statement that al1s the republicans present voted against the bill when it was presented for passage Is called proof of their love of the negro. Lack of education for the negro in the dem ocratic south" and the better educa- tional facilities afforded him in the republican north" are cited, too. as proof that republicans love and cherish the negro. Altogether the charact of the text book on negroes is very startling.