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the name and aspirations Of many hundreds
OF other negro men who are with them and
helping them to run their campaign. SO what
IS the use Of their trying to fool anybody
with their false claim that they are all white
men trying to build up white mans party in
this State! Now, why should they tell you
that only negroes are following me? | have
before me now, as | write this letter to you,
a letter written by Harry StilIweIl Edwards.
to Mr.. w. r. Watson. of Lthonia. Ga. in
which he uses these words The negroes
themselves refuse to follow him. referring to
me by name, and trying to make it appear
that the nerg0es are following him SO there
you are. They tell the whites that they are
all white, and they tell the negroes that all
Of that race with them. So you can take
your choice which to believe.
The Edwards and Johnson crowd try to
make you think Col. Roosevelt is with them.
/ have challenged them to show one line from
HIM to prove that fact, They can't prove it.
II you consider that Col Roosevelt is going
all over the West speaking for Hughes and
Fairbanks and urging every man who hears
his voice or reads his written articles, to vote
the straight Republican ticket-and when YOU
know that Col. Roosevelt IS not supporting
Progressive ticket in any State where he has
been heard, how on earth can Edwards and
his crowd try to make YOU think that the
Col. IS supporting a Progressive ticket in this
ONE State alone out of all the many other
States in the Union. on Judge what a man
stands for by what the man himself does and
says, OF writes. You don't Judge him by wha5
one or two men in the Edwards camp say he
IS doing. The men who followed Col ROose-
welt IN 1912 when he asked them to vote the
Progressive ticket, should follow him now
when he asks them to vote the straight Re-
publican ticket. IF you are for Roosevelt.
then you ought to be for what Roosevelt is
for now And he is for the straight Republic
can ticket and has so stated h><ndreds of times
IN his speeches and letters and interviews.
They try to make you think they have some
sort OF great influence or power because Mr..
Frank Hitchcock is a member of an Advisory
Committee at New York HEADQUARTERS. But
Hitchcock is travelling all over the country
helping every Organization in every State he
visits, to get out big vote for Hughes and
Fairbanks on the Regular Straight Republi-
can ticket. He would not be on the Advisory
Committee if he We're doing anything else
The very reason he was put on the Advisory
Committee was to help the Republican Or
g9njzatiOn in all the States where he travels
No sane man would believe he would be loyal
to all the other States, and then be dislOva in
this State alone. And so far as the Advisory
Committee is concerned. and so far as any
member of the Committee being able to help
Edwards and his crowd let me tell YOU that
L was asked to name two men to 90 on the
Advisory Committee at National Head
quarters and I named two that were put there
on my recommendations. So YOU can see we
are not without friends on that Committee /
have shown you already that the Chairman of
the National Committee and every active
member of that Committee, and the Executive
Committee is supporting our Regular State
Organization. and that they approve only
the Straight Republican ticket put ont by our