The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-06-08
NEGRO DELEGATES GET
SHOCK AT CHICAGO
Warm Hands No Longer Extended In
Greeting-Glad Old Days Gone
Have Standing Room Only.

Chicago, June 6.-That manifesto
ton of virtue and self-denial on the
part of the Republican organization
when it cut down the number OF ne
gro delegates from We'll over 100 to
Just 25 has produced most interest
ing and amusing situation in this ma
tional convention of the party
One might fancy offhand that the
patriotic services of the colored dele
gates would have been more in de-
mand at this convention than any eV-
er held. Here are a dozen or more
candidates, all fishing for votes, all
eager to augment their small siren
9Th, all scrambling to make just a
little better showing on the first bal
lot than the other fellow, but not one
of them is making a fuss over the
colored brethren.
White visitors get the same unc-
tuous greeting, the same old glad
hand. The negro visitor gets just as
much standing room as his feet are
entitled to; that's all. Not one OF
the licensed or unlicensed boom pi-
lots has summoned the colored bro
ther to help save the nation.
The whole thing was exemplified
this morning in a corner of the lob
by of the Congress. Seven colored
delegates sat with folded hands up
on the belIhops' bench. They stared
with troubled eyes at the milling
throng of white delegates and waited
for a call that never came. They
couldn't understand it, somehow. 1t
wasn't according to the way the game
had been played, ought to be played.
Somebody had taken the joy out of
life.
In former days the colored dele
gates had elaborate clubrooms pro-
vided for them near Quinn Chapel,
where they could receive Chicago
admirers and strut to their hearts
content. They had more invitations
to meals than they could possibly ac-
cept Automobiles were placed at
their disposal. They received pres
ents of jowelry, of gaudy clothing, of
cash. Nothing was too good for them.
But the wheel has turned for Bill
Bailey. 1t may be a good thing for
Bill and for the Republican party,
but it is a situation that makes it
less pleasant for the once popular
colored man. For the last day or two
they have been trying to locate them
selves. When they first came to
town they drifted to Frank Hitch
cocks headquarters in the Congress
Hotel and stood hopefully in the an
teroom. But somehow Mr.. Hitch
cock was too busy to see them and
none of Hitchcock's lieutenants had
word of cheer to offer. They de-
parted dolefully.
AS had been said, only some of
them went scouting for the tradition
al favors. Perhaps half of the num-
ber, or a little less than half, dis
dained that sort of thing. They are
new kind of colored delegate, of a
tyne not familiar at national ccnven-
tions.
Some are business men with large
interests. There is Church, of Nash
vile, Tenn, who is contesting for a
seat as delegate-at-large. He is
president of a bank and inherited a
third share of the 5 $1,0OO,000 his ia
ther left. G. T. Walker, of Augusta,
Ca, is one of the best known color
ed preachers in the country. He used
to be the pastor Of the Mount Olivet
Baptist Church, in New York city,
which is the largest negro church in
the United States, and when he re-
signed he refused an offer made by
John D. Rockefeller to increase his
salary $1,000 year if he would stay
at Mount Oliyet