The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-26
COLORED VOTERS
URGED TO BOLT
Negro Minister Declares They
Must Stand by Their White
Friends in South.
INDEPENDENT COURSE BEST
DR.. Milton Waldron Finds That
Blind Faith in G.. O. ?. Disiran-
chiscd Negro in South.

The coiored man must renounce the
husaboo OF allegiance TO the Pepuh
lean party and learn TO vote for. the
pcst man, seardless Of party if he
hopes 10 keep the franchise and be
come real citizen. according 10 Rev
Miltor Waldron. =. d. pastor OF the
Sniioh Baptist Church, Of WashinEton
u c. Who addressed the Dunbar Lit.
orary and Historical Society at tho
Third street African Methodist Episco-
pal Church last night
pr. Waldron as president OF the Ma
tiolal Negro Political League headed
INC movement Of colored men ~ the
North and West when a large number
of them bolted from the Republican
party TO vote for Bryan and Kern AS
the National Independent Political
Lea cue. TINS organization still works
colored man. DR.. Waldron pointed out
that the negroes in the Southern States
are opposing their best friends He
said:
4 believe in the white people Of
the South. They arc. as a class, our
best friends in everything except pol
tics. They viii do business with us
Is no other white men viii: they help
us build our churches and school
houses bury our dead and care for our
sick and aged ones. They employ us
hy millions and aid us in buying our
=
he white bankers of the South readily
lend us money. cash our checks and
the merchants sell US their goods on
time. They defend us when in trouble
ana sEmpa;hize with us when in dis
tress. Wky should We remain the DO
liiical enemies OF these people?
lrFcn Them to Be Independent.
am not advising our people as q
race 10 become Democrats but to be
independent in politics and divide their
votes with every existing party which
stands for equal rights and opportuni-
ties for all the people
believe the Observation-Disclosures of
our people in most of the Southern
states is more largely due to their
want of wisdom in the use Of the fran
chise than 10 any other thing. or all
other things combined The white
people OF The South tried for many
years TO get the colored pepole to vote
with them. but try as they might
they did not succeed; so they decided
they would put the negro voter out OF
business. since he was determined. all
the time and everywhere 10 be their
political enemy. do not saw that this
was right. but ! do mean 10 say the
coiored man brought upon himself his
own observation-disclosures by being Re
publican all the time and in all cleo
tons
Il am glad 20 say our people are
learning the force of these facts. and.
under the leadership of the National
Independent Political League between
100000 and 100000 of them voted with
the Democratic party in the last CON
Gressional and presidential election
And, according to the testimony of tho
candidates themselves. the independent
oolored vote materially aided in chang
ing a score of seats in Congress from
the Republican to the Democratic side.
Commcnds President Wilson.
The colored people of this country
lave nothing TO fear at the hands OF
President Woodrow Wilson Repre-
sentatives of the race called upon him
several times before his election and
held conferences with him concerning
the attitude he would take toward the
colored man In case he was elected.
MIR. Wilson's manly, straightforward
Tearing, his evident sincerity his great
learning, his political insight and his
transparent honesty, as we'll as his as
surance that he intended to treat every
President, Ill greatly impressed and
treasured the representatives OF our
race.
Notwithstanding that DISTINGUISHING
amendments have been added to the
Constitutions OF most Southern States
the fact still remains that In every one
Of these Southern States thousands of
colored men could secure the right to
vote If they would 1t is also true thai
several of these amendments have ex-
PRED, or Will expire in the near future,
by limitation. We need to remember,
MS people that in a republic the bal.
lot is the most powerful weapon for
defense that any citizen can command,
and ii is the duty of every colored man
to do all in his power to fit himself
for the exercise OF that power"