Lexington weekly news. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 1912-19??, 1912-08-17

Colonel Roosevelt has written n let
| ter on the Negro question In which tae
saws he would eliminate the Negro In
the South for the present at least
while holding on to him in the North
md it has brought oat some yigoro as
comment in and cut of Congress. ne
Colonel is simply ulayinS for votes IN
the South, bat he viii gnaw ME lie
knows ehat a q political factor the NE
gro nas already been largely elIninat-
ed and he is trying to appeal 70 the
prejudiees of the white people of the
South in order. to secure their support.
He will reckon with his host. however
Most of the Southern people, at least,
are wise to the ways OF the giraffe
hing he docs or s1ys. His effort for
social equality by having Booker
Washington dine with him in the " hlte
House: his appointment of Negro
collector at Charleston. :. c., ever the
protest of nearly all of its citizens. and
of a NegreSS as Postmaster in Mis-
sissippi town, disguised the Southern
people and they will not take kindly
to him politically. Because they treat
ed him civill& when he spoke through
the South the Big Buh VI 2ose must Ecr
think he has won them. 1t was but
evidence of their natural poiiteness
holding open the dooe of hope SO long
to the Negro it is TOO late now for the
Colonel to fool anybody by slamming II
in his face. He can't hoodwlnk SOUTH
ern Democrats
We reproduce above what the Lex
ington Herald had to say in it's issue
of August 18th which plainly shows
the attitude and feeling OF the
South towards the Bull Moose. 1t fur
Their shows that the Southern white
man, that is of the better class, though
he be a Democrat, has never reach
ed the point where he would strike
blow at the Negro OF the Southland
that would absolutely cut him off from
all avenues of progress.
If it is a TACT that Mr.. Roosevelt
wrote letter setting forth that the
Progressive party was to be strictly
white mans party. there was absolute
ly nothing else for The comfy to do
other than to obey the boss This
third party is Mr. Rcoseyelt's party
only. started by him when no one else
was even thinking of such a thing.
He is now. and always has been, i'll
full control and is solely responsible
for everything that goes with the par
ty. His own explanation of his atti-
tude towards the Negro, is not by any
means satisfactory and only more fully
shows him as he IS.
The Lexington News, III the begin
ming of the district campaign, after
careful observation of the past his
tory Of both Mr.. Taft and MI. Roose-
Welt, began to support Mr.. Taft, and
las all along earnestly opposed Mr..
Rcos evelt, our contention being that
Mr.. Taft is true friend to the Negro
and a fit man for the head OF the ma
tion while Mr.. Roosevelts Bull Moose
methods, if nothing else, made him
absolutely unfit. Not only that, we
fail 10 see that he ever has in his life |
done anything for the Negro worth
while.
Col. Roosevelt has never placed
Negro where he thought ne would get
0ut alive. In making his appointment
Of the Charleston, S. c., port, and OF
the Mississippi postoffce, over the
protest of the people of those com
could ;,
It that time. son i1dfzef kfe; when
lie ordered those Negroes tothe battle Z
IF San Juan Hill he could not have
bought it safe, or he, too, would have
,een there himself instead of twenty
niles away; when he placed the Ne
-ro soldiers at Brownsville, over the
protest of the Senator from that State,
lie could rot have thought that safe.
nd after the trouble at BROWNSVILLE
e discharged every Negro, guilty OF
lot, conn ected with that regiment, and
promoted the white officers whose
uty it was to know what Negro was
ut Of the barracks on that night, and
pom whose authority he was out IL
be Negro was out, the white man was
for his being out, anG
oosevelt could not have believed ne
-as doing the right thing TO discharge
ne Irresponsible and promote the re
ponsible parties.
so We get this out of his actions n
nat after he had placed the Negro s
very place in his rower TO get rid 3
him, had failed to make a whcle- t
ale slaughter, he with his official u
road axe, made a clean sweep by X
every Negro in the regi- Il