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POOcENEI AND THE SOUTH
ROOSEVELT AND THE SOUTH
HnrnerS WeeklV.

Harpers Weekly.
From Birmingham, Alabama, by As
ISOLATED Press:
Twenty-four delegates, each with a
half vote, were elected to the Chicago
Progressive Convention at the State
convention of National Progressives
here The convention was constitut-
ed by one hundred and fifty white men,
who after a spirited debate ignored
the seventeen negroes who had enter
ed the hall. The negro-Progressives
met and elected a full contesting del
egation to go to Chicago convention.
From Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
/ Oklahoma Progressives formally
launched the new party in this State
yesterday at convention which selec-
ted twenty delegates to the Chicago
grant negroes representation in the
State Committee was tabled.
This is truly reprehensibe! Fancy
such an out-of-date old bother as the
race question thus outrageously bob
bling up again in the path of our brand
new party of strictly contemporaneous
righteousness! And look at the is
sue they are raising for our temporary
chairman-for our Mr.. Dixon! Can't
they see that they are forcing him al
so to rule on that same old question
OF allowing contested delegations to
vote on one another's case?
And us all ready and willing to
break the solid South! Why, that was
one of the finest things on the pro-
gramme! 1t was in the original an
nouncements. That was one of the
main reasons why we decided not to
call ourselves Republican any longer
We know how Southerners felt about
that name. Why, here's our old friend
John M. Parker, of New Orleans, who
has stood out against 1t all these
years, and came right over the min
ute we dropped it. And here we are
up against the same old snag. It's
Crum and Booker T. and Indianola all
over again. Why can't these people
see that progress and righteousness
with these old reactionary problems
like the tariff and the race question
Consists in triumphantly gittin'
away?
Truly, 1t is disappointing. For was
1t not proved conclusively, when we
was in charge of the Republi-
can party and the Southern question.
that there simply wasn't any way for
that party, as such, to get by the color
line? Didn't we try both ways-frst
the Lily Whites and then.
when the North opened that inconsid
crate fire in the rear, firmly announc-
Ing that the Door of Hope was open to
The colored brother-at the same time
closing the door of the Indianolo post.
office and intrrenching Crum behind
hat of the Charleston custom-house?
Yes, It is exasperating. In that sen.
iment, at least, we can all agree with
he Bull-Moosers. For our own part,
+ anything on earth could persuade
his journal to welcome a Bull Moose
'arty it would be the hope that it
night indeed do what the Republican
'arty has so long failed to do. orS
rive the South a respectable party of
opposition. Since the recent Republi-
AN convention nobody. surely, needs
o be told what that would mean to
he whole country. It is, too, quite
that a new party might
lelp. But a new name alone will not
10 the business. There is a new pol.
cy also, and of new men. Even
lew name will not sweeten the old
'olicy of alternately cajoling andbrib.
ng and befooling the colored brother.
Tor will it commend to the Southern
lectorates such veterans and masters
# the old pie-counter methods as, say,
Joe" Thompson, of Alabama, and