Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-11-05
TRYING TO H0LD
NEGRO VOTE
Republican Leaders Making Strenuous
Efforts to Prevent Dessrtion
to Democrats.

Washington, Nov. 5.-The tendency
OF many negroes to give up their life.
long habit OF voting the republican
ticket and vote for democrats this
time has alarmed the republican man
ayers. The negro vote Is a big factor
In close states, like Ohio, Indiana and
New York. But when Jack johnson.
the worlds champion pugiIist, starts
to making democratic speeches in New
York and the Afro-American Independ-
ent Political League begins making a
campaign against republican candi.
dates all over the country. the man.
ayers get to work to hold the colored
vote
In the republican campaign text
book the number of negroes appointed
to office by republican presidents was
given prominence even to the extent
Of giving the names. Since then Presi.
dent Taft has put his foot down fiat.
II Is intimated from the White House
on the plans for the reorganization of
the republican party throughout the
South on white mans basis by elm
mating the negro.
~ PiNoioShi ids also dllOWe0 IL
TO be understood that he intends to
appoint TO the department Of justice as
assistant attorney general William Fl.
Lewis, colored lawyer OF Boston.
now assistant United States district
attorney there. This comes upon tbe
heels of the appointment of Whitfield
colored. as collector of Gus
toms at Georgetown, d. c., the port Of
Officials close to the president saw
that no protests merely on the ground
OF Lewis color will be considered. II
Is the presidents intention in making
this appointment to elevate the stand.
ard OF negro officeholders, his friends
say. Mr.. Taft, at the request of South
ern democrats in 1900, refrained from
reappointing DIR. William ID. Crum as
collector at Charleston,-S. c., giving
the place to white man He then
appointed Crum minister to Liberia.
Mr. Taft has In recent months filled
The Georgetown collectorship with a
negro appointee, selected another col
pred man for registrar of the treasury
N place of Registrar Vernon. and now
intends to elevate colored lawyer to
one Of the highest positions in the de-
partment of justice, a place second
only to that OF the attorney general.
President Taft has not been espe-
sially popular with the black race. His
attitude toward the negroes in the
brownsville case. as disclosed In the
speeches OF former Senator Foraker.
sroused the opposition of negroes
throughout the country. Another thing
hat has been worrying the republic
IN campaign managers, especially in
indiana and Ohio, where there is a
arge negro vote, Is the refusal of
prominent members Of the race to
irge their followers to go to the polls
md vote the republican ticket.
The Afro-American Independent Po-
itical League. which Rev. DIR. ]. Mil
on Waldron, of Washington. and other
negroes have formed, has
been urging negroes everywhere to
vote for democratic candidates, and
his threatens TO do damage to repub-
lean candidates in many districts. Re-
publican managers have appealed to
he president to do all he can before
election to indicate that the admins
ration Is to be 'friendlier" toward the
black race.