Phoenix tribune., 1919-03-08
BOLD WRITER Scores PRESIDENT WILSON
Great Opportunity for Republicans
To Do Justice to Black Americans

About fifty three amendments added
sttution fthe United Thirteenth which the Negro
the Fourteenth which made him citizen the Fifteenth which
made discrimination against amendments do
not mention the Negro opposed legislation therefore
we do not mention classes We made which
the of all parties happened
be the party Immediately affected and he also happened
inspiration and occasion of this legislation Just when
an evil condition society make law
tcular condition only but remedy prevent
ditions
The Republican party laws and for fifty years they
have claimed the suffrage of oored gratitude
for this good legislation fact however these laws
insured freedom and citizenship and civil rights all Americans
even to the who made the amendments
Besides the Republican party did for the Negro
Negro has done for the whole couy
the Union, according to Abraham Lincoln the
of the Union forces Black United States when mill
ions of white trying their to destroy it,
This is what the right citizenship
which the Republican party acknowledged The party refused
to be SO base to rob them of what they had earned by
sweat and blood The oed years United
States before he 100000 strong to defend it.
As passed the forgot their differ
they ough but the friends freedom forgot
service of the they South which
insists like the Germans that it simply 'ovr and
not conquered took advantage of the friendship push
the Negro far back toward anebeum conditions possible
This has been done by persistent rights
and by restricting the Negroes right every way legal and
illegal
The North only glad get 'Negro ques
possible and the South pretended pu
tics would eventually get question out of politics
This false phiosophy when Negro politics.
Negro in politics. for when the Negro question: the
nal question is how keep him When the Negro slave
he certainly out of politics" But bigger question
then than he has been We might make formula
that the Negro question politics proportion Negro
nnjusy pushed Of politics When the
for the presidency time Negro question
That cannot happen where the Negro is
When the Negro given his political
terms the other
tied for hen until will ques
on of how maintain justify special for the Negro
With no special status there would be special question That
exactly what the Fifteenth Amendment Right and truth
the solution of all question That is cear-so clear!
Now, social matters different rather admit the mental
adrotness of the fellow who always tries to mix in social calls
bells and tea parties with the consideration the Negroes
political and civil rights But do admire that fellows honesty
must choose his friends chums There is differ
ence between rights and privileges Every should have the
right be the friend and associate any other
have that privilege all of his choosing AS whether
has such privilege should depend partly other and
other things 1t the question of law settle the question right
not of privilege.
Let us speak plainly be understood When the Republican
party power quietly allowed the OF
his right and happiness
hope vain hope that thereby white Republican party would
in the South Any old ignorant Negro who Southern
people could have told the Republican leaders better But
would not be todhey had learn by experience Claude
ktchn John Sharp Williams Josephus Daniels and Woodrow
Wilson have supplied the they have shown that the Solid
South not to be broken by such attack of kindness
This untaihfun of the Republicans the Negro both
the Negro and the North peculiar very unfair
First the Negro made the basis of representation
without having voice the selection
Southern states would lose half their representation Congress
but for their Negroes who do Woodrow Wilson could
have been elected 1916 but for the nonvong population
which the Democratic South its weight the electoral college
And this unfair to the North the democratic part the
country when spelled with little d present white
vote in the South times powerful than white mans
vote in the North
The Republican party sacrificed Negro the
gained nothing The Republican should now notify Mr.
and