The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-06-22
4 NATIONAL DISGRACE.

gates are the centeI ia
tween the contending republican rae
tions is only another argument IN Ia
vor of excluding that race from politl
cal mower and activity. Not only If
II is a disgrace to the party thai
controls the government of this great
country, but it is a spectacle tha'
must be viewed with shame by the
people of the whole nation.
On the eve of the republican con-
vention a special dispatch from the
cago to the New York Hrald said:
"a scandal of national proportions
is developing rapidly here as result
of the tactics which managers or the
third term candidates campaign are
employing to get the negro delegates
from the south. No such lavish and
open display of money has ever been
seen at a national convention. Ne
groes of prominence from all parts
of the country, physicians, lawyers
and even preachers, are being
brought here for the specific purpose
of working among the delegates In
the effort to swing them into line
for the third term candidate.
THAT certain interests have an
unlimited fund for the controlling
of the southern delegates became ap-
parent three days ago. Negroes who
came here with just enough money
;; to pay their expenses and get home
again suddenly began to display sums
of money away out of proportion to
their positions. Three negroes dis
played one thousand dollar bank
note each, and when asked where
they got it smiled. Others proudly
have boosted of large sums, and
there has been an unprecedented era
of prosperity among certain clique
of negroes for several days.
80 much talk has been caused by
this free use of money, however, and
so much doubt engendered in the
minds of those who furnished it as
to the efficiency and wisdom of this
process that new tactics have
been adopted. The negro colony in
this city is a fairly prosperous one.
| They live in a good section of the
city in substantial homes and are SO
far more abundantly endowed with
the good things of life than their
brethren of the south that they have
been seized by the managers of the
third term candidates campaign as
powerful object lesson to the south
erners of how they are being depriV-
ed of what they are entitled to in
life. Within the last few days much
money has been scattered in the To-
cal negro colony. 1t has enabled
men and women to dress better, to
improve their homes, and what is far
more significant to entertain preten-
tiously. The visiting delegates have
been invited to the colony and there
treated in lavish manner. Certain
influential negroes have not hesitated
to mingle advice on the duty of the
delegates with their hospitality. The
southern negroes have not failed to
be impressed by all that they have
seen, but as they are an intelligent
lot it is scarcely conceivable that
they are not aware how the stage has
been set for them"
All this is not only having it tenn
porary effect of debauching those i'm
mediately concerned, but will neces-
sarily have a more far-reaching eff
feet on the members of the race at
the south and will go far to make
the presidency in future mere mat
ter of barter and sale with the south
ern negroes holding the balance of
power subject to the highest bidder If
they are not shut out from participa-
ton in future contests.
AS the Macon News says, ''it is a
curious illustration of the Hypocrisy
of Col. Roosevelt that in the very act
of denouncing the Taft managers for
using the southern negroes who cut
no figure in the election to overcome
the republican celebrates at the
north he and his managers are up
to their necks in the scramble to
suborn these same negro delegates
and seduce them to vote for him in
violation of their Instructions. This
is in accordance with his accustomed
logic that instrumentalities that are
| bad when opposed to him become
good the moment they align them
| selves on his side