The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
THE NEGRO MUST GO.

The lOllOWeGS Vi 'he Jun
are getting things in rather Il pecui-
lar shape for that mighty power
Down here in the wilds of Oklahoma |
the moose must all be lily white ana
only this week the ignorant progress
ives of Arkansas so far forget them
selves as to eliminate the negro wing |
from the party.
Speaking with the greatest ot Sc
riousness. how can Theodore Roose-
welt. with his past history, De true
to himself and not admit the negro
into the councils of the new political
order? How can he be consistent
and refuse to number the negroes
among his friends, his allies and sup
porters? How can he be Iheodore
Rooseyelt and not walk arm in arm
70 the ballot box with the dear col
ored brother?'
can Mr.. Roosevelt, the ambitious
politican, in becoming the pun
moose cease to be the gentleman
"from South Africa After years
of association with the negroes OF the
nation. after years OF clasplnB the
hands of ex-slaves and thelr OH
spring after having appointed nun
dreds and hundreds of the "black
peril" to lucrative offices III past
wears, can he now cease to cater
to that particular brand of vote!
VIII he be content to listen to a lew
.preiudiced whites and leave all the
negro voters in the republican party
for Taft
Heretofore Theodore Roosevelt mas
at least been consistent When he
said that the words of the great
Thomas Jefferson, when he wrote
"all men are created free and equal
conveyed no color distinction--ma
ed out no color line and Included
the ignorant negro with the white
of superior education, training ana
, ability. he stood by his colors and
, i'm bringing the negro into the DOS
, ON sof his family as a social, men
[ tai and a moral equal, he practiced
t what his party preached When he
! in person carved while the mistress
Y of the white house poured the tea
and did the honors of the table and
+ his white butler polished the silver
Q and the chinaware for the negro s't-
n ting within the sanctity of the fam
l. ily circle, he but practiced the teach
ings of the republican party, while
= the bones of those who had died
4 in the revolutionary struggle that tins
S country might live, ratified and crum-
= bled in offended dignity and fallen
e pride.
At that time. because he was the
& republican party, because my doc
= trines and my principles were to be
C carried out to the letter, "all meI
= were created free and equal. A
e that time it did not matter that III,
@ skeleton of he whose pen traced these
v burning words, would shiver in dis
e gust while his pulseless fingers drew
the shroud around his fleshles'
cheeks to hide his shame.
But now, breaking away from the
! republican party, by request it Is
true, Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt ANA hh
followers suddenly realize that the
white vote is THE vote and, sacri
ficing consistency, as he has sacri-
feed everything else, good or bad
upon the altar of his stupendous am
bition. the negro vote is eliminated
or practically SO, from the progress
i've party.
With the attempted formation o
the third party Theodore Roosevelt
at last stands before the voters o
| this land as he really is. Stripped
/ of all pretensionS the American pub
] lie can now view the gentleman IL
1 MS true llSnl-d Colu pioouth' SIN wv
| designing politician-a man WHIT
/. would sacrifice the most sacred o
. party's or friendships ties, MAJ
=. who would sacrifice every nationa
| interest for the advancement of self
Napoleon, whose pose TheoIor'
| Roosevelt apes. was. in his time de
scribed as grand, gloomy and sub
lime Roosevelt may be described
as cold. calculating and unscrupu
lous Evidencing this, one has bu
to follow up his actions since th'
latter part of January Of the presen
year. Trace those actions and tn
man step by step, fom the tim
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