New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
NEGROES STAND BY TAFT
National Organization Urges
Concentration of Vote.
OFFICERS ALL CLERGYMEN
Roosevelt Denounced for In
sulting Colored People OF
the South in Platform.

| leading members Of the Natonai
United Colored Republican Clubs and TO
ut,caI League of the country met IN
| Mount Gilead Baptist Church. in East
132d street yesterday. to recommend
| Presidential candidate to the negro voters
NJ the country AS preamble to their
resolution indorsing President Ial' ue
negroes declared that many Inducements
had been put forth TO influence their race
to secede from the regular Repuphcd''
party. the party which broke asunder
the letters that bound the race In human
servitude."
Asserting that the Republican party
has been. and is the bone and SINE" Oh
the country's prosperity, and believing
that a concentration OF the political forces
of the negro race will assure the success
OF the Republican party at the polls men.
November this resolution was passeu
unanimously:
Resolved. That this organization Ply I
itself on record for Hon. Nlli'ano 49,,
Taft, and that 1t put 1oTth e'e''
10 insure his election
Another resolution was passed caIii"s
for 2 ratification meeting 70 be heid Oh
Monday. October %, at the nun"
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church' AT
12sth street and Lenox avenue, Tor the
nurposa Of lndorsing the entire Repuoi'-
can ,Icket and that a committee ne APP
nointed to prepare campaign literature
20 he sent 10 every negro voter In the
co,rtrv urging his support for President
Taft.
The Rev Or. Simon r W. Drew pres,
dent OF the william Mckinley Norman
and Industrial School OF Alexandra, va
and a friend Of President Taft. presided
He said:
Nevor I'm the history OF the American
people was this country In such an w,
Icar. Looking over the political IeId' w
find that the Republican parry "as -.
ganzed in 1856 for the freedom .,cnaeJ DE- in in
cmancipating 100000 by the st iOef ,p Ss
Abraham Ilncoln's pen. since lSoo III
race has grown to l2UOV, mahlhs W
most marvellous progress OF any rave o'
earth. -, ~, oil IN
"a mower 10 disfranchlse. humiliate ana
burn az the the stake the negroes III ti'e
South The new party. called tne -
gresSiye party, AT It's COW tHLlOi. ''''' -.
Chicago August ). 1912, kicked the negro
ON and slammed the dOof In his race IL
Unattended that the Northern negro was
dtted for A seat I'm the convention, "alle
the Southern negro was not. Such acts
rot only reflect upon the Southern negro
hut they are an Insult 10 every member
~ the race in the United states. our
mothers. our fathers, our grahunotheIs
ana our grandfathers are In the south
The following officers were elected
The Rev. Or. Drew, president and or
panizer; vlce-presdents, the Rev. W.
Trims. Of Brooklyn; the Rev o. VI. Nor
rls OF Massachusetts; the Rev. Junius
Gray. OF Maryland: the Rev +: W.
Fischer. OF Rhode Island; the Rev j. II.
Dennis, Of Connecticut: the Rev. G. W.
Drew, OF Ohio; the Rev. John Buckner'
of West Virginia; tho Rev. J. II. Brooks
Of Illinois; the Rev. Howard Vaughn, OF
the District Of Columbia; the Rev. j. II.
Dixon. OF Indiana: the Rev. G.. W. Cof-
zee. OF Pennsylvania; the Rev. y. ;.
Epps. OF New York. treasurer; the Rev.
=. +. Jackson. OF New Jersey, secretary.
the Rev. =. G. James, OF New York. cor
responding secretary. The advisory board
includes the Rev. @. II. Simms and the
Rev. Granville Hunt. Of New York.