New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-08
PEE PEN OF OYSTER BAY
Protest from Colored Voter on T. p. s
Negro Policy.

SlF. Inc pen OF oyster Day - Dr.
mightier than the sword OF Armageddon?
/ OF tho sword. tomorrow must relate. but
/ OF the pen, 7 and all may now say
word.
/ Colonel Roosevelt may not have written
! one letter too many. but this latest mis-
/ siye. addressed % a son Of Uncle Remus
and his rabbits. has opened the eyes or
hall million voters scattered over the
I free states. voters who had been led car
/ tive into the cOloners camp. Yesterday
I men OF color thought they discerned IN
Theodore Roosevelt the personihcation Of
/ the very proper leader IN the great cause
Of social Justice" To-day they behold
/ him stripped Of hts rooes-thc patron oil
/ the art Of demagozy. the yindlctive genius
I IN the great cause OF personal aggrandlze-
ment
/ Behold, The loud leader Of social jus-
/ tice" chag-ined nnd vengeance bent. re-
Wondering that against ca1olery. against
argument. against the power Of promises
and against the dazzling sight OF ready
money Southern colored men. IN the
main. refused at Chicago to violate their
/ instructions, but supported President
Z Taft. as I felt then they should not have
done, but a. 7 now confess they were
wise n doing turns upon the race
with subtle speech and peremptory rea-
soui1g reads them out or his party, and
makes them. without sign or Sigh, the
/ trace chains on hts chariot OF IRE.
Colored men. a. we all know. have con-
+ tended with much IN the past. They
I q ID 2 fnfr7
( on a limo OF color. They have success
/ fully resisted al attempts 20 divide them
~ into warning educational factions Re
'Iglous fanatics have not disrupted them.
and political apostates have found them
az imponetrable as walls Of stone. And
now they are face % face with Theodore
Roosevelt. who comes 70 divide them az
-unueth tho lines o. the map. But the
"Battler fo- the Lori vii lose. H. VIII
ind that colored men IL tho North are
az zealous o. the rights and privileges
and political dignity or colored men in
the South as they themselves have ever
been. Tor we are al soas ot the south
. There T. the unseen cord OF mcmory run
hing from Boston 20 Galveston, and from
Na- Orleans % Ca.c4go ana o. - the
Golden Gate. upon which ETHIOPIA plays
hey song OF hope t. every mother sOA
% Us
The greatest % s.ategrner tlssie often
with o.. ways o. lngrGutuda. But Colo
ns Roosevelt tus-'as 20 his fall. for his
iese-tl0l of Southern colored men who
stood with him az the last national con-
ventol b.. the Jasest iugrattude. u1de-
eerv~d b. L. friends but long predicted
ag h.e f9.s H9warG and Banks 90 M
sfss.ppt who stood with him a. chic
ago. Levy and Andrews. az south Caro-
Ina who stood with him AZ chicago.
Fucker and his follower - Georgia.
" no stood With hiw NJ chicago. the Viz
si.,4ns. who went - war IL his name.
these men. and al ,ho rest when they
are told thar they ma have no choice
IN tine formation ant direction o. Colonel
Roosevelt party because OF the color
asslg red their checks Co. th4t Power pas,
auding out. men q color IN the North
make reply sor thosr their speeches
brethren IN the South ", s1v % Mr.
Roosevelt and 90 an that l' these mer
arc not ~ % lie sigh, - ST. In his
Southern conventions and help direct
las party. those ~ re hero arr TOO base
90 stand ir the ballot booth ard help
fashion he crown Of Elorr. Tor We arr
such as they. o. thei- blood. their hopes.
thoir so-~ovs and their trtumrhs.
Theodore Roosevelt shall not crown rs
above the stately waters OF the Hudson
and cruelty Us by the weeping branches
OF the Borrowing South. Men here. men
there also. nor trick % speech nor glitter
u gold can change single soul worth
changing.
Deeds above words actions above
promises. this has LONG been n familiar
preachment Of the colonera. - when he
talks Of choosing his Southern lenders
from among those friendly % co'ored
men. and believers n the rights o. man,
We are prepared fo- him His published
list Of Southern leaders is distinguished
upon two points, by an insane desire OF
each OF them 20 hold public ONCE. out a.
which they have been kept by the red
neck element IN the Democratic party.
and b. the deeper designs against the
rise and equality OF colored men For
example. the Georgia negro who f. con-
/
Harris and his rabbits is constituted
with his brain il his feet. and Is N for
Ben Davi-'s skull yard
The colonel's dissertation upon the pre-
emlnence OF education and moral suasion
"a problem solving forces IS empty elo-
quence. ~ 10 be printed IN red on the
horns Of tho bull moose Coored men
have read from the same history that
taught him. and they know that the end
% all political parties since political par
ties were "a safeguarding tho funda-
mental rights OF man, establishing equal
itv under the law. affordlng equal In
dustrfal opportunities and planting the
spirit OF human brotherhood everywhere
through the earth These things are be-
yond the plans OF education. and IN
contemplated by the ressonings Of moral
suasion. except as parties appeal 20 the
sense OF justice IN men.
When the colonel announces that he Is
for Justice In the North, where justice Is.
but for continuance OF injustice where
that evil-eyed goddess has reigned since
the adoption Of our Constitution. colorcd
men bid farewell 20 every fear, wipe
their weeping eyes and leave the battler
/ TO numb~r without them his hosts. even
from Dan 20 Beersheba Again w0 turn
TO the banner upon which IT, printed the
battle cry OF Frederick Douglass the
| Great: The Republican party Is the
/ snip; all else the sea"
! ROSCOE CONKLING SIMMONS.
New York. Aug. 3. 1872
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