Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-05
s. JOE B ROW n
MAKES ADDRESS
oEs MONIES coLoRED ATTORNEY
URGES u NEGROES TO VOTE
REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.
GAME THEM LIBERTY
Tells 81 sssis alton Enacted for Col
Sss9 Hscs ny Grand Old Party
1SisSs Governor Carroll and
congressman Kendall.
rgjng hss colcred brothers to vot'
me- FAiEbt republican ticket. from
A s0xeThor own to township trustees
Jde hi glwn, the learned negro at
t0rH& or pes Moines, addressed {
8largs auGlshce oil tAfro-Americans ii
" haR ssSyfer the Central drug store
3 lastS nighE MI. s. rage was chairman
ofs the eysDang. Attorney Brown, the
speaker cil the evening, was wei
known w His audience, having former
~ resided Tin Ottumwa where he re
ceived MS eGucs ton. Joe Brown is
& the only cploreG boy who ever grad
lated lronk the Ottumwa High school
Hls addretls was one of the best politf
cal speeches delivered during the
campaign He pointed out why the
color 81 bters should vote the repub.
y ncaA Set. TO the grand old party,
ne declaIed the negro was responsible
Tor ~ reedcm from the bondage OF
4 1879 End for the legislation which
nssAs negro 3 citizen and voter.
4 aseoasid the democratic party, and
1870 that it was largely RESPONSE
Do Is condition of the negro race
lhe lne south, where the Afro
a}oeIlcas ID have been deprived of their
w 0I citizenship.
teoln6y Brown highly praised Gov
SynoE 8rroll aud Congressman N. q.
stating that the negro race
. = g better friend than these gentle
He stated that Congressman
MsnuhH had kept his promise by in
98cing bill in congress asking
VIZ ~ the representation Of congress
I IN In the southern states be cut
N.A6Wn, because negroes were not al
0Wed to vote.
ss Short talks we're made by several
sDf the colored ministers of the city and
Nv others. Rev. P. M. Lewis, Rev. M.
|. Gordon and Rev. Benjamin F. Abner
and William Thompson were heard.
Among the candidates present were L.
J. n. Stodghill, e. L. Peterson and DR..
A. w. Slaught.
Attorney Browns Address.
1T is indeed pleasure said Mr.
Brown, for me to be called upon to
return to the county where was
brought up and in which cast my
first vote, to say few words by way
OF reasons why feel that every negro
voter in the county should on next
Tuesday, November g. cast one
straight republican vote, as did upon
the instance above referred to, four
teen years ago. My especial text on
this occasion shall be few potent
reasons why the negroes of Iowa and
especially Of Wapello county should
60 to the polls on the eighth and cast
their straight ballot for the nominees
Of the grand old republican party,
which had it's birth and its ascend
ancy to political prestige in the cleo
ton Of Abraham Lincoln, the martyr
to the canse of the emancipation Of
fifty years ago this month.
Gives Many Reasons.
First, because, as have already
said, the republican party is the child
Of the contest between the north and
the south in which the negro was the
bone Of contention. While we are told
that times have changed, the demo-
Gratis Of today are the democrats of
iffty years ago. note that the states
Ii which the negroes are DISTINGUISHED
and In which they are jimcrowed to-
day, almost the same as fifty years
aEo, are democratic states.
II therefore have come to the con-
sclusion that regardless of what l
might do In municipal campaign or
sven In . state or county campaign,
where there are no federal officers to
be elected, in any election such as
this, as the result of which all the
members of the national house of rep
resentatives and one-third of the mem
bers Of the national senate are to be
chosen, q bad republican is to me bet
ter than good democrat.
Second, because the grand old
republican party is the party that
few years after the emancipation
made the negro citizen by the adop-
tion OF the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States.
This amendment is today being openly
violated In more than half a dozen
states OF the union which, as l have
already said, are every one Of them
democratic states.
Third, because this same grand old
party few years after making the
negro a citizen, passed another, the
fifteenth amendment to the federal
constitution which declares that the
ballot shall not be denied us because
we are black, and notwithstanding
this fact, this amendment as we'll as
the fourteenth is today being openly
violated by the same democratic
states, starting as far south as Missis-
sippi and coming as near to us as the
newly admitted state of Oklahoma.
And right here allow me to remind
my OF you of democratic persuasion
that had it not been for the fact that
Missouri, our nearest neighbor, went
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