The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-04
Tomorrow is Roosevelt
Day Over in Chicago

~ when the provisional national COM
mittee met at O'clock In the presi
Dental suite at the Congress- hotel,
where Colonel Roosevelt stopped
when here at the republican conver
TONS
Contests from five states were pre-
sented Georgia and Ohio having dele.
gates disputes in addition to the trio
OF Alabama, mississippi and Florida.
The Georgia contestants did not ap-
pear and their opponents the regulars.
were seated on the temporary roll,
without prejudice to any future action
the convention credentials COMMITTEES
may take.
Consideration of the Ohio case was
postponed. none OF the Ohioans hav-
ing arrived. The first and second
Ohio districts are disputed. rival dele
cations fighting for four seats. These
districts are in Cincinnati. Whether
the national progressive party shall
be lilly white in the south was
squareiy raised in the Mississippi oon-
test Seats OF the ten Mississippi
selected at pure white convention
were disputed by a delegation who
| held a separate convention.
Provisional Committeeman B. E.
Frije OF Mississippi, frankly admitted
that he called progressive conven-
| ton for white citizens only. He said
4 fifty delegates attended and selected
the delegates whose seats were dis
puted,
4 Perry Howard. Jackson attorney.
4 put the negro question fatty before
the provisions committee. He also
made a covert threat that the
negroes would desert the pro
gressive movement II "disfran-
Ichised as he called 1t. by the
seating OF the lily whites" to the ex-
clusion of all delegates from the
black and tam convention.
"The white men held their conven-
J tion, denying us admittance,' said
Howard. "Then we held our conven-
: ton and now ask for recognition by
, seats In the national convention. We
4 were disfranchised by the convention
) held under authority of the party. It
q lis unfair and unjust. Are you going
j to read us 5000 progressive negroes
Tout of the new party? II you deny
e. us our rights, tell you your party
q will never endure. Are you going to
r. disfranchise u.s. because we are black
a whom Lincoln enfranchised."
# Senator Dixon suggested that the
progressive movement in the south
"a should be led by white men, but With
r out discriminating against the negro.
"But we are satisfied to follow IN
!, the lead OF the white man. II we are
!. only allowed to- Howard retorted
. "Here we are read clear out dis
= :, franchised. without voice at all. IN
:. the state convention, or here II ycu
: rule against us. If we're turned down
= it's all over can tell you.
N Committeeman Frije, an ex-demo
W crat, Aatly declared 1t was useless 70
q. lead any other than a lilly white
10 fight in Mississippi. The white men
r. will refuse to have anything TO do
with the progressive movement unless
:. they lead the way" said Fri1e-
=. Almost parallel case was present
IN ed in the Florida contest, five negroes
y and one white man being black ans
v tam contestants for six seats.
a. Provisional Committeeman II. L
Anderson admitted that negroes wer'
I'M excluded from the Florida state con
ic yention. He said white and red caral
,t. of admission were given out for tn'
9 convention; that the negro "progres
nj a,vesy all got red cards and that suci
q cards were not recognized by TN
~ doorkeepers. He said the white mel
ba got white cards and were admitted
,r. There were eighty-six delegates in TN
g. .1ily white" convention.
of G. H. Aston, colored attorney Q
To- Tampa, and H. C. Groves, the whit
en- contestant, said, when the negroe
IN were denied admission to the "reg'
se. lar. convention called by Anderson
We thew held ''blaok and tam conveI
ar lion. composed of 100 negroes an
two white men, selecting the six col
on testing delegates. There are oni
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