The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-18
AS TO THE RECALL.

Is W HlSieHl 'HeiF TedueCS lntO the :s-
3 lief that IL Colonel Roosevelts re
call proposition should ever b. en-
acted into law. the Negro people
] would suffer.
y AS a case in point, listen to this
illuminating statement from local
PAPER:
rs IDcosc a Southern STAT should
pass \ law disfranchinsing ;he negro
That law would immediate. get into
+ the co.lts and on appeal ~ The SUI
pr"E.e Coz. wo.'u be Laii - he ny
constitutional. iten if :ne light to
recall de- isionS existed, th, accession
or til, cuHTts would be taken before
the people and reversed and the con-
stitutionality Of the law confirmed.
and the Negro would be out Of politics
There is hardly n State in the South
where the entire white vote wou!l no:
be cast for the Negroes disfra lch'so-
ment, and III the South the Negro
would not be counted on recall CT
such decision.'
;. AS supposition, our contempor-
ary's statement goes as far as suppo-
sitions usually go, but what are the
facts? Assuming that by "SupreCe
Court" is meant the Supreme Court
OF the State, there is no need to dc
any supposing. If any Supreme Court
OF q Southern State has declared
DISTINGUISHING law unconstitutional
and no such instance is recalled
: the legislature has forwith remedied
whatever errors there were in the law
and the Negro was thereafter depriv-
- ed of his vote Where appeal vas
taken to the Supreme Court Of the
United States it was deniei On the
ground that it was improperly pre-
sented or for some other reason which
would cloak the real sympathy If hat
tribunal with DISTINGUISHING leSisla-
3 ton. With the examples which &c
have before us it is buncomb, Their,
to suppose that the Negroes civic
rights will be injuriously affected by
the recall if any one of the few re-
III
to disfrdnchise i i'm. 1t is only neces-
sary rDr 4 s.fic OF .:n.'r: Of yo =
in anJ sta to desire E :franchi 49,
ment len " % a or 1;l:ll. 8, and IT,
tanned b. he courts.
This OFF cor temporary l1ows, b;.t
he would Lave il appear y herwise 10
bolster up TIE .Osing met : Ne is max
ing fC President Ttit ait his IT,
white delegations from the Black Bell
in the South and the boss-riddeh
States of the North. He knows that
instead of the ''recall' being injurious
to the Negro as eli; zen, if Colonel
Roosevelt's iCeas On this subject ATE
enacted into law, tho Negro will be
immeasurely benefited. In States
where Workmen's Compensation AcIs,
Children's and Women's Labor Laws
and other measures beneficial to the
masses have been declared unconsti-
tutiCnal, the Negro, along with the
general public, will share whatevc
blessings these Treasures confer. II the
courts decisions could be recalled. TO
say that recall of judicial decisions on
constitutional questions will be 20 our
injury is in line with the campaign
of ratification and deception which
tire Taft adherents are wagiRg evR1v-
where. They have branded every
proposition of Colonel Roosevelt a.
Socialistic and have charged him with
attempting 20 lay impious hands upon
the art E; TIE 'Lvt'3nt Of the go ','"n-
E. irent IN H. .>t'aty Of the re'-'el-
dunn, initiative and recall, but it is
4 the same old story We heard the
same Old argument against the raj,
way rate bill, the conservation IF nat.
ural resources bill, the pure fo)G 81
drug Lii hnl. i. @act, agains; ,vr!!
b. go h.u:c de'iera'! by Colonp! Nn):e
welt, while he occupied the WHIT
|. House, TO make this Governmcr o
: thp "nplc by the people and for ~
PEOPLE.
H.. TIE ,,Gv0,'otn hr''j vcs tina; jus 4
the opposition to these last nam,
failed so will those who are fghtinj
now against the initiative, referendum
and rec all rail 1t believes that tn
people o'e awake to the danger wnic
threat orS Ike Republic from boss rul
and will, at the Chicago convention
z repudiate Mr.. Taft and the men VIII
have used aim as a tool to arcOmplIs
tteir selfish purposes.