The log cabin Democrat., 1912-07-30
BULL MOOSE IN
 CONVENTION TODAY MASS MEETING IS HELD
BY BOLTING FACTION, CAUSED BY FAILURE TO ELIMINATE
 NEGRO FROM PARTY.

Little ROCK, July 30.-The Bull Moose is rampant in Little Rock this week. The state convention called by J. A. Conner, A. S. Fowler, w. S. Holt and others, representing nearly every county, meets July 30 to select delegates to the national convention in Chicago next Monday, August 5. To the Democrats the most interest ing feature of this political side-show IS the split in the ranks of the third party itself over the negro question, which promised to spread from the counties to the state convention. It IS the old question of lilly whitism," which has been potent cause of division among the Republicans for years. The negro, holding the bal | ance of power, has always won out. In the present crisis, the negroes are divided, the majority of them going with the Roosevelt faction, and now minority of that faction would purge the new third party of the Senegam- bian element.
 The split was accented in the Pu- iaski county convention, when a prop osition to exclude the negro was vot- ed down, 36 to 27, the negroes them selves casting 20 votes. The lily white faction then bolted and held separate convention.
 At the mass meeting of young men at the Kempner theater last night to protest against the action of the Bull Moose leaders in bringing ne- groes into the new party some rather harsh terms were applied to the busy gentlemen at present organizing the new party. These leaders were de- nounced, and resolutions were passed urging the new party to eliminate the negro entirely from it's councils The leaders were referred to as self i5h, domineering office seekers
 Clyde Page was selected as, chair man of the meeting and Kirby Boers- tier as secretary.
 Bruce Cox, the first man called on to speak, declared that he supported Roosevelt as matter of choice and not because he had been repudiated by the Republican party, as Messrs. Holt and Fowler had been. He charg- ed that some of the leaders were seeking to dominate the organization, the same as those men in the Repub- lican party who had sent them out in the cold. He said that he would not accept seat in the convention if he had to go in with negroes. The ques- tion of how many votes the party re- ceived, he declared, was not so inn portant as whether it was organized as white mans party.
 "The reason they are trying to push the negro down our throats is not because outside pressure has been brought to bear on them, as has been the case, but because they, themselves want the negro" said Mir. Cox. If they want the negro and are willing to run the party on the rocks, do not care to be allied with that kind of organization and will not be-"
 The following resolutions present ed by J. B. Cox were adopted unani- mously:
 Resolved, That it is the sense of this body that the time. has come when those advocating the organiza- ton of new party along progress sive lines should let it be known that they deplore the efforts of few dis gruntled and repudiated politicians of the old Republican party to die tate the policies of the new progress sive party in Arkansas, and to make of it simply fraction of the old Re- publican party.
 "We demand fair representation of Democrats in the councils of the new party and desire to go on rec ord as demanding this representation if the party is to draw recruits from all men, regardless of past party af- filiations.
 "We believe that it has been dem onstrated by 50 years of past history that no party which takes to its bos- om the negro and strives to foist him into positions of honor regardless of his merits, but simply as a represent ative of his class, can ever hope to thrive in this state.
 We believe further in the protec- tion of the negro in all his rights to acquire property and to be protected