The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1918-08-31
THE UNITED STATES SENATORSHP
CONTEST IN ILLINOIS AND THE NEGRO
BRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE SERIOUS OR
CRITICAL PRESENT POLITICAL SITUA-
TON BY BEAUREGARD F. MOSELEY.

sires. Such an investigation has dis'
closed ahat the formation Of the Re
publican Party itself can be traced back
to the ancestry Of the candidate known
as the Loyalist candidate in this con-
test, the Hon. Medill Mccormick, for
It was his grandfather, Joseph Aedill,
as owner and editor of the Daily For
ester of Cleveland, who, after the defeat
of General Winfield Scott in 1851, advo-
Gated the formation and organization of
the Republican party of today, and sub
sequently, so we are informed by An
drea Is History of Chicago, as the editor
and proprietor of the Chicago Tribune,
discovered and brought from compare
tive obscurity the lamented and never
to-be-forgotten Abraham Lincoln, and
largely through this influence Lincoln
was nominated and elected President Of
the United States. This is a matter Of
history.
Nor has the Negroes investigation
stopped here. The present Constitution
with its just and humane provisions,
protecting the Negro people from pro-
scription and segregation in the public
schools and institutions Of the state, and
the sane provisions whereby minority
in the legislature is Sc
cured and through which Negro men
have represented their group for many,
many years in this state as members Of
he legislature, is largely the work and
Of Joseph Medill, the grand
,ather of the Hon. Medin Mccormick.
For this and the further fact that
he Negro peoples record of loyalty
rom Bunker Hill to Carizal, Mexico,
will not permit him to warm up to or
advocate the election or advancement Of
my man charged with disloyalty. His
Ions and brothers are fighting in the
in Europe to destroy Kaiserism
md greatly mistake the temper and
disposition Of the Negro people at home
( their devotion to the flag and country
viii not kill the ambitions Of pro-Ger-
mans at the ballot box in September and
November. The Negro voter, with an
Instained record for loyalty to his eOun-
~, should not be led sstray at this time.
Ie cannot AFFORD it, and the grand ovs-
ion given Mr.. Mccormick at the, otivet
BAPTIST Chautauqua by the 1000 or more
,olorel people who came out to hear
i'm is proof positive that they can be
expended upon to put this lOyalist eandi-
ate over the top September IL next.
Beauregard T. Moseley,
so East Thirty-third st.
Last Monday morning the Chicago
ribune contained q short interview with
Ir. Moseley, in which he stated that
he Colored people m Illinois would
ever vote in favor of nominating q
nited States Senator who has openly
cen charged with being disloyal.
hours after his interview
ppeared in the paper mentioned above
oil. Theodore Roosevelt, one Of the
orld's foremost citizens and greatest
proclaimed II aloud to the
vilized world at Springfield, IL, that
, greater calamity could fan upon the
,ople Of Illinois, the home Of Lincoln,
rant and Logan, than to have q Dis
yalist to represent them in the United
:ates Senate, thus showing that the
inds of Mr.. Moseley and Col. Roosevelt
ere running in the same channel and
at Mr.. Moseley was just twenty-tour
,urs ahead Of the former President Of
e United states.-Editor.