The Washington bee., 1912-01-13
NATIONAL BUREAU OF DE-
MOCRACY.
January 10, 1912.
To Editor Of The Bee:

entv percent of the intellectual class
believe that the time has come Tor
the Negroes TO divide their vote be
tween the two great parties.
1t is strange 10 the thoughtful Ne
gro why If Is that the New York Age
and other newspapers whO are under
the control OF Federal office holders
keep up a perpetual howl about Rep
resentative Clark, OF Florida, and
other Democratic Representative
from the Jar South, who introduce
measures designed to humIliate the
Negro and which are never heard of
after their introduction, and when the
/ President of the United States by his
] color discriminating policy has put
out Of office every reputable Negro
| in twelve States. and his declared
repeatedly that he Will not appoint a
| Negro to anv Office in the South
which was Objectionable to The white
people.
1t is the consensus OF opinion OF
! ninety out OF every hundred sane
and educated Negroes who have
| conversed with that the Taft Lily
| White Movement in the South, elm
| mating the COlOrcd man from the
counsels Of the party and denying TO
| him the right to hold office under
| Federal supervision Is the most dam
| nable outrage ever put against the
| American black man.
! The worse enemies the Negroes
have in the Southland are not the
Democrats, but the hypocritical Re
publicans.
The attempt on the part OF the
/ IL Il Il. 1 1
vote in line for Republican supremacy
| upon the plea that if the Democrats
get absolute control OF the govern
ment they will abrogate the amend
ments comforting citizenship upon
| the Negro, is vain, foolish and un-
worthy of attention. This same old
| lie has been used 10 deceive and to
| corrupt the Negro vote for the last
| thirty years IF the Democrats de
sire TO inflict any greater punishment
upon the Negro for his political ig-
noranCe than they have, they are at
| liberty to do so, so far as this gov
| ernmcnt Is concerned, for there hasn't
! been an honest effort made on the
part of a Republican President, Con
gress or Supreme Court to secure to
the Negro his full tiedgcd rights as
a citizen in thirty-tIvc years, Press
dent Grant excepted.
1t is also believed by thousands Of
trained and thoughtful Negroes that
ninety per cent of the causes which
led to all OF the abuses and discrimi-
mating laws enacted against the col
ored man OF the South Is due To his
blind and unyielding devotion to the
Republican party. The party has
been the recipient and the Negro the
loser.
No State nor section OF this Union
can or would attempt to pass meas
ure after measure discriminating or
taking away the rights OF any of it,
citizens if there was the disposition
on the part OF the Executive or Con
gresS of the Nation to interfere.
The Republican party has written
in their platform a declaration pledg-
ing themselves to see that the pro
visions of the thirteenth, fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments are en-
forced; but these pledges were only
made to deceive the coiored man, and
after election they are never heard
Of Is it possible that the forty thou
sand Negro ministers. thirty-thrce
I
thousand seven hundred Negro law
yers and doctors and the millions of
Negroes throughout this country who
| have had the advantage OF the school
iroom are going to allow themselves
I to be led by such treachery any
: further?
' 1t would not be right to hold any
r one or group OF men responsible fOr
the conditions Of the present, for al
1 races have had their successes anC
= | failures; but the future Is before Us
; and what are we going to do:
There are three million and some
= thousand men in this country of vot
ing age (colored), and over nint
: hundred thousand OF them live III the
L North. East and West, and it IS with
| in their power to deCiGc as TO whether
| the Negro shall be given man.
chance. and 1912 affords the oppor
tunity.
1t would be a splendid thing io
the leaders of the Negro race to mak'
! a study of the men who are to b,
presented for their suffrage. There T.
! the Hon William IT. TAFT who stand
for Negro iufcriority and the FIRST c1>
| ecutIye to openly set the seal OF TIN
| government upon race discrimination
. There is the Hon. Champ Clark Who
has spent sixteen years I'm the Hall
of Congress. and who at mo- time b,
. word or deed has done anything
which was designed to humiliate or t.
crush a colored man, but on tn
other hand has coutendcd with thos
q who differ with him that black ma
; should be treated As any other ma
/ purely upon his merits
Coming to the leaders IH the Hall
of Congress It Is the general opuio
:, that the Hon James T. LIoy,
=; chairman of the Congressional Com
= mittee of the Democratic party, an
n also chairman Of the Committee O
n, Patronage. Is one of the fai-est am
D. most friendly toward the coIored ma
ID who ever occupied the ab0vc-namc
er position.
IT. In my next article we propose
tn show that under the TAFT Administri
y ton race discrimination has been pJ
IN into active operation i'm nearly all d
al the departments of the g0yernmcn
'e. and a remedy for the redemption
nd the same VIII be discussed.
m Respectfully,