The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-20
,o= roo@-=m Of the Nzeso VOTER THIS YEAR.


It IS rare Ihns he negro vote to be classified
an unhrowa Quantity in a national campaign saws
the Macon News but the situation is such this wear
that the negro voters in spite of themselves
Theodo-e Roosevelt their fondly cherished second
l--.~ol, turned mis- on the race in the South
in the delusive hope of creating Bull Moose party
among the white voters OF this section and President
Taft long ago recognized the futty of the negro in
politics down here and denied them the quota of patron
age that Mr.. Roosevelt had allowed them
Hence, between Roosevelt and Taft the coored
ccnungent has little choice, but the material thing is
that they will have divide up no matter to which
side the individuals may incline AS long as there
was solid republican party you couldn't lose our
Brother in Black But with the party divided asks
Ike the old darky who did like the idea of being
blown up at sea, Where you at?"
So far as the southern states are concerned il will
not affect results how the VOTE but at the North
where, though small in numbers they have well-nigh
held the balance of power some Of the re sblican
states had they fit exercise it, they can
not fail to disspae their hitherto sondfed strength
against the democratic ticket whether they divide
up between the republican segments or vote for one
sodly against the other, OF them cast their
votes for the democratic nominee as sign of protest
against the indelity insincery of both the wings
of the old party.
The Boston Globe collates the following as to the
number and location of the negroes in the United
States:
In continental United States each of the four main
races Of the world is largely represented as follows
S7s per cent white or Caucasian 11G per cent Black
negro or African O3 per cent red or Indian and %
Per cent yellow Monaghan. These percentages were
established in 1900 probably are about the same
now
The lie cent OF colored population found in 1900
Ss3S994 blacks negroes or Africans Near
ly nine tenths-S97 per cen-of the negroes in CONT
mental United States in the southern (Sou&
Atlantic and South CentraD states and three-tenths-
314 per cent-in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama"
Turning TO the North the Globe says:
The numbers in New England are small being: In
Massachusetts 1892 Connecticut 1926 Rhode Island
$685. Maine 1919 Vermont S16 New Hampshire 662
Passing westward find New York with 99232 Penn
sylvana 156,S45 Ohio 96901 Indiana $685. Illinois
5O7S Iowa 1863 Michigan 1886, Montana 1888,
California O45 Nebraska 6269 Figures for other wes-
tern states very small"
The Globe further says:
In the northern the negro population is scat
tered and small Only about one in five of that popu-
ation will be found on the voting list The negro is
not therefore, as yet a potent factor in elections"
One in five" of any population is about all that can
be found the voting list, when the voting pop
ulation be relied solidly one way it
never by any negligible factor But as we
have said the colored this year Nobody
wants him in the lump and it would be well for him to
divide and vote his Judgment dictates for the
best public interests like other independent voters
he may come to count for in politics in the I
future than he has ever done in the past