The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-10-19
A BULL MOOSE OF ANOTHER COLOR

A BULL MOOSE OF ANOTHER COLOR
Our bull moose friends are going
forth among the democrats of the
state, giving them the glad hand and
the fair promise, and distributing
much progressive literature. There is,
however, another line OF literature
they are handing out, and this does not
fall into the hands of any democrat
except by mistake. Chas. f. Jones,
the wide-awake contributing editor of
Dixie, has found a bunch OF this stuff
in the way he finds many other things
that he publishes to the extreme dis
comfort of various INSCRIPTIONS par
ties, and describes 1t as follows:
Mr.. Anderson is in touch with Roose-
velts national headquarters and he
sent to Chicago for literature to dis
tribute among the white democratic
voters of the state. Pleasant Holt gave
him a list of democratic voters and
Anderson and Holt are working har-
moniously together to send out this
literature to the white men OF Florida.
Among the literature was Theodore
Roosevelt's confession of Faith"
-"Hiram Johnson, the Machine Smash
err" "why Americans Who Stand for
Onward Christian Soldiers" and lot
OF other bull moose stuff showing that
Roosevelt as a progressive is just the
reverse Of Roosevelt as president.
But there was other literature which
the bull moose headquarters sent to
Florida which is being secreted by
some of the Florida bull mooses. Some
of these have fallen into my possession,
and 1t fully sustains charges that the
bull moose favors the negro and ne
groes will get Npstoffices and federal
jobs in the South IL Roosevelt should
be elected president.
Among this bull moose literature is
the Progressive Bulletin" a paper
published weekly by the hundreds of
thousands and sent broadcast through
out the country by the bull moose man
ager in Chicago. From one of these
bulletins / clip the following para
graphs which appear under a 24-point
heading four columns wide-"The Bull
Moose Party and the Negro"
"John Moseley, a colored man, has
been nominated for presidential elector
on the bull moose ticket in the state of
Illinois,"
"Forty-eight colored men were dele
gates to the bull moose state conven-
ton at Columbus, Ohio. Thirty of
these colored delegates came from
Hamilton county, which happens to be
the home county of President Taft.
After counting the colored delegates,
Mr.. Henry Taylor, of Cleveland, said,
Tt is the largest number of negroes
that ever sat in political convention
in Ohio. 1 guess that answers the at
titude OF the progressive party toward
the negro"
over twenty colored men were dele
gates to the recent state bull moose
convention which met at Syracuse and
nominated Hon. Oscar s. Straus for
governor Of New York. The colored
delegates took no active part in the
proceedings of the convention. Sew
eral colored delegates made speeches
and one of them seconded the nomi-
nation OF Straus for governor. Through
the influences of the colored delegates,
two important planks affecting the
colored people were put into the plat
form. One plank put the party on re-
cord as denounclng race discrimina-
ton in cafes and places of public
amusement, while the other plank fav
ors the enlistment of a colored regi-
ment in the National Guard of the
state OF New York.
cat a recent meeting OF the New
York state committee the following
named gentlemen were elected as MEM
bers OF that body: John r. Gleed. New
York county; II. L. Scott, Erie: Rev w.
H. Byrd, Monroe, and DR.. G. =. Nc
Clendon. Westchester. All Of them are
negroes. This is the largest represen-
tation that the colored people of New
York ever had on the state committee
OF political party. For over twenty
years there has been but one colored
man on the republican state commit"
tee"
with but three exceptions all of the
negro presidential appointees in Wash
ington were appointed by Col. Roose-
Welt while he was president. Almost
all of the colored governmental en-
ployees in the city of Washington
who are now holding positions either
came in or were retained in office
while Roosevelt was president. Even
Cyrus Field Adams. the negro assist
ant register of the treasury, who re-
Gently compiled a republican campaign
book for negroes, in which he erron-
eously gives the Taft administration
credit for all the negro appointments,
was himself holding the same office
Adams got out a similar campaign
book i'm 1908, giving Roosevelt credit
for the same negro appointments which
he now gives Taft credit for in his new
book"
''Dr. S. G. Ebert, of Delaware, is a
bull moose. He is one of the wealth.
lest colored men in this state. His
residence Is one of the finest owned by
any colored man in this country"
Theodore Roosevelt has endorsed this
Progressive Bulletin" and hundreds
OF thousands of them are being sent
out
/ appeal to southern men-to decent
white men from every state who have
made Florida their adopted home, to
study closely the above paragraphs.
Mr. Roosevelt endorses the platform
which denounces race discrimination
in cafes and places Of public amuse-
ment He says that your wives and
daughters are none too good to sit