The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-03
TEDDY BARS NEGRO FROM
 CONTROL IN THE SOUTH
Roosevelt Leader Says Progressive Movement Must Stand By Colored Man in the North-His Answer to
 Those Who Would Make It. White Mans Party

was no real Republican party. Fin ally, in the convention at Chicago last June, the breakup of the Republican party was forced by those rotten bor- ough delegates from the south. In the primary states of the north the stant1ally as their white neighbors voted. But in the southern states where there was no real Republican party, and where colored men, or whites, selected purely by colored men, were sent to the convention, rep resenting nothing but their own greed for money or office the majority was overwhelmingly anti-progressive. Sew en-eighths of the colored men from these rotten borough districts upheld by their votes the fraudulent actions of the men who in that convention defed and betrayed the will of the mass of the plain people of the party.
 A Prostftuted Sentiment.
 -sThe loss of instant representation by southern colored delegates is due to the fact that the sentiment of the southern negro collectively has been prestituted by dishonest professional politicians both white and black, and the machinery does not exist (and can never be created as long as present political conditions are continuedl which can secure what a future of real justice will undoubtedly develop, namely, the right of political express sion by the negro who shows thai he possesses the intelligence, integrity and self-respect,. which justify such right of political expression in his white neighbor.
 We &ace certain actual facts, sad and unpleasant facts, but facts which must be faced if we are to dwell in the world of realities and not of shams, and if we are to try to make things better by deeds and not merely to delude ourselves by empty words It would be much more than useless to try to build up the progressive party in these southern states where there ig no real Republican party, by appealing to the negroes or to the men who in the past have derived their sole standing from leading and manipulating the negroes.
 "An that could possibly result from such action would be to create an- other lmpotent little corrupt faction of would-be officeholders, of delegates whose expenses to convention had to be paid, and whose votes sometimes had to be bought.
 1T earnestly believe that by ap- pea11ng to the best white men in the south, the men of justice and of vision as we'll as of strength and leadership, and by frankly putting the n1ove- ment in their hands from the outset VIZ -SIiH1l create S1IuaL1On Dy which the co1ofed man of the south will ul- timately get Justice as it is not possi- ble for them to get justice if we are to continue and perpetuate the present conditions. The men to whom we appeal are the men who have stood for securing the colored man in his rights before the law. and they can do for him what neither the northern white man nor the eolored men them selves can do. Our only wise course from the standpoint of the coIored man himself is to follow the course that we are following toward him in the north. and to follow the course we are following toward him in the South.'