Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-19
THE BROTHER IN BLACK AT
CHICAGO.

leaders of the Republican party, such
men as Senator Root for instance, TO
realize that their candidate. Taft, de-
pends entirely on the negro delegates
/ from the South, representing nothing
/ but their offices, or their hopes OF
/ Offices, with no moral or material or
political standing in the communities
from whence they came. To feel that
man rallies comes from the ignorant,
vicious, boodle-seeking negroes of this
section, must be a bitter dose TO
them to swallow Yet it is a fact
that is apparent to the world as a
whole.
The negro is cutting a bigger figure
at Chicago than he has cut in any re-
cent convention of the Republican
party. He has always been regarded
in the party and out of it as strictly
there for the dough" as purchasable
and as to be watched closely, even
after he had sold, for fear the goods
would be delivered elsewhere. His
conduct in former years has been
nasty party scandal This year he
promises to furnish an even greater
scandal, judging from the charges
that are already afioat of the use Of
money with the negro delegates as the
recipient of the brides.
The special correspondent sent by
, the Baltimore Sun draws a vivid pic
ture of the conditions existing 1T
Chicago. 1t is a qualification to
know that no such conditions have
ever existed, or can ever exist, at
Democratic convention. The Repub-
iican party is welcome to the negro,
with all the venality his presence in
its national councils means. But here
is pen picture of things as they are
in the G. o. p:
"A vast majority of the Southern
contestants are negroes. The whole
. contesting delegation from Virginia is
Of the black race. Most of the Flor
idans and more than half of the Lou
isians in the contest list are colored.
while perhaps two-thirds of the Mis-
sissippi dissenters are of the same
, class. But few of the Georgians, AL
abamans and North Caroiinians are
negroes and there are no negroes
among the Tennesseans.
aside from the black contestants,
there are already of prominent" col
, ored politicians, some of whom came
to advise with one or the other of the
campaign managers about how to in
fuence their fellow-citiZens. These arc
) of the class than hang around the
Headquarters by the hour and who
f engage in long confidential converse
tons with the white politicians. TheS
can always he found in the centre o!
any conference prd can ALWAYS he de
i PENDED iron to talk voluably if given
the chance.
i Down at the committee rooms q
the Coliseum there is a different type
y of negro. Most of them are contest
ants or their attorneys" and they
!, appeared awed at the ceremony an(
circumstance attending the hearing
A few will take a hand in any con
} venient argument, but for the mos
part thew sin off into the corners ant
r remain there for hours, watching the
crowds come in and go.
v National committeeman saw thai
the conduct of the negroes before thai
: body is most amusing. Many of the
colored contestants have from time tt
time faced a jury of - men, but new
err before a jury of 53 Stage fright
r sei2es most of them when they try &c
, argue their cases or give testimony
and until this wears off the darkies
cannot make themselves understood
They either hegin and talk like lightn-
ing or else find it impossible to talk
, at all.
occasionally during the hearings
l the negroes ripped loose and 'cussed'
S each other out in open meeting. They
= have passed the lie and repassed il
Thew have shaken their fists in each
others faces and forgotten the solemn
presence in which they sat have
S threatened violence. The Mississippi
/ negroes actually went at each other
T and when called down by the chair
man SUSPENDED hostilities until they
were outside the committee room
Then they precipitated a near riot
One negro contestant from Florida
was asked who paid his expenses to
Chicago He replied that 'de church
es raised jackpot. boss, and sent me
5 up heah. That's how Use able to APP
peah befo' you gentlemen of de jury
at is the pompous negro politician
! who loafs around the headquarters
and hotel Hobbies, however, who
makes himself conspicuous. He is
the one who delights to put his arms
. intimately around the white brother
and engage in whispered converse
ton He is the one who smokes big
cigars without removing the bands,
who orders his drinks like he owns
the whole bar and who always refers
to Colonel Roosevelt as Teddy or
President Taft as William Howard
HE is tolerated, of course not be-
cause he is liked, but because the pol
iticians never know for sure whether
or not me can Fix" delegate or
turn a trick that needs turning"