The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-09-30

ter Observation-Disclosures. 1000
Total yearly pay Of officers. .$29, 295
Enlisted men in the Ninth and
Tenth Cavalry, Twenty-fourth
and Twenty-fifth Infantry
and their yearly pay in ag-
gregate amounts to. 1915, 12l
Total for officers and men. .$948,416
! The campaign book quotes extracts
from the speeches of acceptance OF
| Taft and Sherman to show that they
stand squarely on the equal justice
plank" and i'm discussing the atti-
, the negro the campaign managers
say:
''Priorto the advent of Abraham Lin
coin and the Republican party about
100000 Afro-Americans were held in
bondage in the Southern States, then,
as now, controlled by the Democrats,
and when the Republican party elect
ed Lincoln President, thus setting the
stamp of disapproval upon the Demo
cratic desires these Democratic
Southern States seeded from
the Union and attempted to set up
Confederacy with human slavery as
the chief cornerstone.
The Republican party determined
that the Confederacy should be de-
stroyed; that the Union should bepre
served; and true to its principles and
in keeping with his own declarations
the Great Emancipator struck the
shackles from the limbs of the bond
man. Following the freedom of the
slaves came their enlistment in the
army and navy, and by this act the
names of 100000 Afro-Americans were
added to the honor roll. The leaders
of the Republican party, feeling that
their work was far from completion,
framed and passed the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments, and the States ratified their
action, thus making slavery impossi-
BILE and confirming the civil and po-
litical rights of the Afro-American
people.
Clothed by the Republican party
with the right to vote, is it surpris-
ing that these newly made citizens
voted with the party which had taken
them from their former position as
mere chattels and made them citizens
of the republic ?"
The campaign book scores the
Southern States for failure to edu-
cate the negro and compares them I'M
favorably with the North as follows
In the. matter of public education
the difference between the two par
ties is marked. In the North, where
the Republicans generally control,
education among the colored people
is widely diffused, while in the Demo-
cratic South the PERCENTAGE of Hitter
acy il very great.
THE Democratic legislators fail to
provide equal school facilities for the
two races, and i'm several States the
facilities, already meagre, have re
Gently been materially reduced. In
Louisiana no Afro-American child re-
| ceived public instruction above the
| fifth grade, and there is a general
movement throughout the Southern
Democratic States to confine the edu-
cation of the Afro-American children
to the lower grades. The movement
to divide the school money between
white and Afro-Amerlcans in proper
ton to their contributions in taxes to
the school fund arises in one Demo-
cratic Southern State after another,
the purpose of which is to perpetuate
Afro-American illiteracy.
That the Democrats i'm general are
in sympathy with the Jim Crow idea
was shown on Washington's birth
day, 1908, whenCongressman Heflin, of
Alabama, introduced an amendment
providing Jim Crow cars for the cap
ital Of the nation. Every Republican
member present voted against the
amendment, while the Democrats
voted for it.
THE platform adopted by the Re
publican party in Chicago contains a
plank which stands squarely and I'M
QuivOcally for all the civil and politi-
cal rights OF the Afro-American peo-
pie"
The campaign book then cites the
various resolutions introduced in re-
cent sessions of Congress providing
for the repeal of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments.
The Republicans in an effort to
emphasize their employment of the
negro, say
''The Library OF Congress is one OF
the great libraries of the world. One
Of the Assistants, Daniel Murray, has
spent several years in research among
the books Of the library, and has been
able to identify approximately 5000
titles Of work by colored authors. nc
many who are wont to beelittle the
literary capacity of the race this will
prove astounding information. Col
ored composers have written more
than 5000 musical compositions
There are AS Afro-American employ
g, 23 OF whom ary employed under
the direct supervision Of the Librari-
an of Congress, and 25 are under the
superintendent of the building. The
aggregate paid them is $4,000"
"One Of the most expert examiners
of The Patent Office il an Afro meri-
can, Harry T.. Baker, OF Mississippi
who draws 81 100 a year. He has
been an examiner 22 years. He has
recently made research OF the office
and has been able to trace more than
1000 patents granted to Afro meri-
cans There are "a number OF high
grade Afro-American clerks in the
Office.
There are 1898 Americans
serving the Government under the
Postoffice Department, and their an
nual salaries aggregate $2,34S,424.
Among these are included postmas v
ers, clerks, letter carriers, rural mail