The Washington bee., 1911-11-04

fight in South Jersey i caused by
some handful of disgruntled Republi-
cans who have lett their party and
have gone over to the cause of De
mOcraCy. They have extended you an
invitation to join them; but fearing
that you would not stomach the thing
as plain, naked, deiiled Democrats, |
they hope TO lure you into their nets
by calling themselves Fusionists. But
am so entrenched in Republicanism,
when there is no apparent cause for
dissatisfaction whatever, that Dem
.oCrdt under any other name would
smell as bad and be as vile. You
know far better than | do what ad-
.vantages you have enjoyed here under
Republican rule; and you are perfect
" aware of the fact that Atlantic
City pays more salary to her cOlOred
teachers than IS paid to all the other
colored teachers through South Jer-
sey You know you have colored
men in very nearly every department
of the city, and you know It has come
TO you under Republican admlnlstra-
tions. Then on the other hand you
| are aware of the fact that some seven
years ago there was a petition sent to
| your City Council asking that that
| body pass an ordinance prohibiting
| Negroes from bathing at certain
lplaces on your great and magnificent
Ibeach. You know it was a Repubh-
can Council that killed the measure.
lFurthcr than this, you know that
! Governor Wilson has already appoint
ed as Judge Of Your District Court
a Democrat from the State of North
! Carolina, who now calls himself a
| Iersevman. And he has also appoint
ed another southern man as Judge OF
lyOur Circuit Court When he wished
Especial investigations of the affairs OF
Atlantic County he appointed a SON
tin-law of Ben Tillman as foreman OF
Iyour elisOred grand jury. You are too
familiar with the great amount OF das-
hardly tricks resOrted to in the South
Hand 20 deprive your brethren there
lof their vote for me to recite 1t here.
! But who can tell what IS the meaning
! of the Southern sentiment here? And
lWhO can say what is the nj Ultimate aim
of the Wilson Democrats in your
State?"
The cry of the Fusionists here is
THAT the city is ruined by contractor
Icouncilmen and that you COlOred men
should help the FusiOnists to get the
city out of the grasp of contract evil.
But they have shown you no benehts
YOU will derive from assisting to put
the contracts in their grasp. Some OF
the same white men who now ask
your vote. are the same fellows who
signed the petition to keep you and
your daughters from bathing on the
lbeach. God in His all-wisdOm made
the sea large enough for every one
to bathe without any one becoming
contaminated. But is it not strange
that these fellows should ask youl
support for their affrontery OF the
lpast?
Would you see your thirty police
men turned from the force? WOulC
YOU see colOred men dismissed iron
/ the payrolls OF the city departments
i If so. you will vote for Fusionlst
/ Iwho have never assisted you. Blu
i Iif you would not, then you will vOt'
i for the men who have always pTOvel
i lyour friends and placed the cOlOre'
/ men there. You are so far removed
/ from the ten million dollar contact
i that are so gagging to the Fuslonists
Il that it will take Tightening spec
j thirty years to get you within the ZOn
lof the plums and graft COnnecte
ltherewith. To my mind If that /
lal1. thev have advanced no reasO
,flwhy YOU should desert the party an
4 follow Democrats. They could hav
= discussed matters Of vital interest t
: lvou. They could have had a plank 1
!, their platform promising a reduct1o
>, of rents and an increase for the wage
:, of YOU men as hotel employees Thes
! thev have ignored, but they are til
:" questions in which you are mostl
- concerned"
4 After giving a brief outline of til
- IDropress of the party, the part take
= Ibv colored men, the editor took Il
i Negro appointments under Republ
h can administrations. He did not az
r wise that the Negro vote must ne
rs Iessarily always he solid, but eNpreSse
~, himself as doubtful if they could ev'
- lafford to fuse with Democrats. tt
,-- editor then read a portion OF Pres
- dent Taft's address, delivered to Il
colorcd Republicans of CaGforn
which was printed in his paper, II
Pee He was loudly cheered and a
* plauded
NV In conclusion Lawyer Chase pa
At excellent ribute to the brilliant a
- dress OF DR.. p. L. Hawkins, who
,is ! taking an active part in the campaig
&C. He also made special mention Of Il
to pleasure 1t gave him to meet the &C
nd Iored men in the legal profession: al
how pleased he was to see two your
ss lc0lored men, Lawyers Isaac II. NJ
1 ter. who is in charge of the campais
/ affairs so far as related to the &C
/ ored voters, and James A. IIghtfOC
/ both graduates Of Howard Universit
with suite of law Offices connect,
with the ablest white attorney of Ne
! Jersey, the Hon. Judge ]. Cranda
ex-iudge of the Circuit Court. T
4 also deplored the seeming lack
] some particular man as the recogniz
! leader, and implored the voters
J push the young men forward, The
! were about three hundred or mo
/ white men in the audience.
LAST WEEK OF CAMPAIGN
Recorder H. Lincoln Johnson al
Hon. Harry Cummings to Speak
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