The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1916-10-26
AN ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY
BY Advisory COMMITTEE
Especial to the Rlade.)

as Advisory to the Republican Ma
tional Committee, having met this
day in New York City and desiring
to express to the Colored voters of the
country the necessity for supporting
the Republican party candidates for
President, Vice-President, Senate
and House of Representatives, ad-
dresses this letter to the 100000 Col
ored voters and the thousands o. po-
tential voters whose duty it is to
register in order that they may per-
form their duty to the country in this
National crisis.
This is the Presidential year. The
time has come to hold the Wilson Ad-
ministration and the Democratic par
ty to a "strict accountability" Are
you ready for the fight? Or do you
desire four years more of what the
New York World calls the Jim Grow
Government at Washington? No
campaign since that for the second
election of Abraham Lincoln has been
more vital to the liberty and happi-
ness of the 100000 of Colored citi-
zens than is the present campaign
for the election of Charles Evans
Hughes for President, and a Repub-
lican Congress.
| Four years ago a considerable num-
Der of the race helped elect a Demo
| cratic president. This was done I'M
der fair promises and just treatment,
mot grudgingly given but in gem
erous fashion" The result has shown
the experiment to have been the ut
most political folly and race-suicide,
| and has shown that the Democratic
! party can not be trusted to deal fair
ly with our race in this country. The
votes of the men of color for the
| Democratic candidates for President
were obtained by fine phrases and
| false pretenses. No sooner had the
| Democratic Administration come in
to power than Mr.. Wilson and his adj
visors entered upon a policy to elimi-
nate all Colored citizens from repre-
| sentation in the Federal Government.
The offices of Assistant Attorney
General, Recorder of Deeds, Register
of the U. S. Treasury, Auditor of
the Navy, Minister to Hayti, Collec-
torship of Internal Revenue in New
York, Florida and Hawaii were va
Gated and filled by white Democrats.
There were no deserving Colored
Democrats to be found in the coun-
try. Not only did the Administra-
ton proceed to denote in and elimi-
nate the Negro from the Civil Ser
vice of the United States by scores,
| and to segregate those remaining in
the service, but also to make impos-
sible further appointments by requir-
ing the race of the applicant to be
shown by his photograph.
The reason assigned by the Admin
istration for its policies has been that
Southern people would not stand for
Presidential appointments of Ne
groes to office" and that segregation
was for the benefit of humanity" The
Administration was ''too proud to
fight" Mexico but did not hesitate to
conquer the Black Republics of Hay
ii and Santo Domingo, and has prac-
tically established protectorates over
them There was one policy of In
ternational justice for Mexico and
another towards the Negro Republics
to the south of US. The president has
expressed himself as in sympathy
with the "enslaved men and women
of Mexico" but has found no words
of sympathy for the Colored citizens
of America. The New Freedom
does not include the Negro. "Hu-
mainly" for which the President has
expressed such great love, does not
include the Colored race. The Pres
ident said in a notable address, that
the man who seeks to divide man
from man, group from group, and in
terest from interest is striking at the
/ very HGdIt OI -AiI6LlCd. NO man mas
done so much since Emancipation to
so separate and divide the Nations
into groups, and to eliminate the Col
ored Race rs a representative group
of Americans, as has the President
himself
Colored men. we must arise Those
who vote adm those entitled to vote
must strike for their liberties This
Is a campaign for the restoration of
the rights, privileges and immunities
that we have heretofore enjoyed un-
der the Republican Administration
of the National Government. Four
years more of President Wilson win
mean our complete elimination from
American politics. We submit that
the man who is ready to die for his
country at Carrizal, is fit to serve
his country at Washington; and that