The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-11
TELLS HOW BLACK
MEN WERE DITCHED
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OYSTER BAY, n. Y, Aug. 1o,-"Win
or lose, we have put the third party upon
a solid working basis. Whatever ,ne
outcome of the campaign. we start WIN
the conviction that we are heading the
right way"
Inded today to tho Progressive party as
q move for untalnted politics. Admitting
thet the party faced nomcntary crisis
in Chicago over the negro problem the
ex-president observed that tho obstacle
ia cling the leaders had been overcome In
a way TO inspire confidence Tor the tu-
ture-
II felt that the time had come 20 put
a. party In the field that was upsullied
By the taint Of the vicious. selfish type
to Chicago 7 found that we were on the
verge OF the breaking point because OF
the stand had taken.
"I was advised by some Of the sup
who had come with us for our work in
the social and economic phases OF It
that it was wrong TO attempt any de-
cision against the negro. Why they
party that processes 70 stand for equal
rights, that looks to the advancement of
ali people OF the country. 1t is unwiso,
not to say Inconsistent. to say to any
element of the population that II cannot
come in with tho party, 1t Is fatal TO
"To these we'll meaning people I replied
that the new party had to face the
Droblom OF holding out against the type
Of negro who stood for nothing in our
political life but selfish ofNce-seekng.
who fastened himself to party for what
hat s e0nid II ss attempted emu It to shut Sa ont the the
southern negro from our convention we
would be making local issue OF the race
problem. which they considered wrong.
Left To the States.
"They argued that Abraham Lincoln
had made the race issue a national one.
wheroupon I replied, No, you are wrong.
Abraham Lincoln made il local Issue
in refusing to take any stand as to indi-
vidual states: He applied tho broad prin-
what what to do about It. IN exactly the
same words I told them We were to leave
1t to tho southern states, as our party
advanced. to determine what negroes
ought to be allowed To come In and
whom wo were to exclude.
"It WAS no easy matter to convince
them to my way OF thinking. I insisted
that the. matter must be threshed out on
II we failed to purify our party at the
start and let the country know our posi-
tion, maintained that VIC would be
making q fatal mistake.
After serious conferences there in
Chicago those who had opposed mo came
to see that / was right and we took II
BREAK s9et that that threatened was avcrted. Nav. W.
wa have party that, unlike the other
parties. has well-defined attitude for de-
cency IN politics,
.'It may be that the stand we took will
cost us some votes among certain of the
negroes of the south. but we are sure
10 attract to our cause the men who be-
iieya thnt the negro can best be helped
bv putting him on his honor and upon
'.The Democratic and Republican par
u.s are In a false position respecting the
nnoro They did not dare To do what
the Progressive party did and what every
man who loves deceDcy In political life
knows we are striving to attain. -,
,oxad out my theory of what a leader
abould do. Mr. TAFT IS not u Louder. Mr,