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THE BROAD AX The Democratic Party And the Negro The Anti-Slavery or Free SoilMovement was Led by Democrats. Their Principles Became the Corner Stone of the Republican Party in 1856 and 1860. Vol. 1X The Democ And the The Anti-S SoilMoveme Democrats. Their Principle Corner Ston lican Party Before proceeding it may not be out of place to state for the benefit of those who perused our last article on the "Democratic Party and the Negro" that if they desire any further light or information as to how Thomas Jefferson abhorred the institution of slavery, as to how he labored to stop the further importation of slaves into this country, as to how he came within one vote in the House of Burgesses of having slavery abolished from Virginia, as to how he drew up the plan of government for all the Northwest Territory, which excluded slavery, as to how he expended $20,000 intrusted to his care by Louis Kosciusko, the brilliant Polish patriot, for educating colored children, as to what he thought of the Intellectual capacity of the Negro we would most respectfully refer them to the second and third volumes of Bancsoft's history of the United States: John T. Morse's Life of Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Jefferson's well known "Notes on Virginia." Our authority on Alexander Hamilton and his devotion to the institution of slavery and aristocratic form of government which took root in the south is United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's life of that great apostle of federalism, and as Chief Justice Roger B. Taney firmly believed in the Hamiltonian idea of the inequally of man—hence his decision in the "Dred Scott" case that "the Negro has no rights which white men are bound to respect, and that Congress did not have the moral right to exclude slavery from the territories belonging to the United States." With these preliminary remarks we will proceed. In the far distant future the unreading, the unthinking and the unreasoning Negro may acquire the art of reading the history of the political parties of the past with his eyes and not with his prejudices, if so he will learn that the only three men to run for President on the Anti-Slavery or the Free Soil ticket were Democrats, namely James G. Birney of Kentucky, who liberated his slaves before running for President in 1844; the second was ex-President Martin Van Buren, who made the race in 1848, and the third was John P. Hale, who ran in 1852, who was later on appointed minister to Russia by Abraham Lincoln. That Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, William H. Seward, Abraham Lincoln and all the other great leaders of the Whig party warmly supported Zachariah Taylor who was a Louisiana planter and the owner of three hundred slaves, who was the last slave holder to be thus honored by either political party. On the other hand Samuel J. Tilden, David Wilmot, author of the "Wilmot proviso," John P. Hale, John Van Buren, Benjamin F. Butler of New York, Joshua Leavitt, the great abolitionist, Preston King, James W. Nye, David Dudley Field, William Cullen Bryant, United States Senator John A. Dix, who exclaimed while a member of James Buchanan's cabinet, "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot," James Ward the Negro minister and eloquent orator, joined hands with those illustrious Democrats. He --- was the first colored man to be honored with a seat on the platform of any political convention in America, and last, but by no means the least, the immoral Charles Sumner, who was elected to the United States Senate by Free Soil Democrats and not by the Republican party, raised his voice in behalf of Martin Van Buren. The Free Soil Democrats met in convention in the city of Buffalo, New York, August 9, 1848, Joshua R. Giddings presided; Benjamin F. Butler drew up and read the resolutions of that convention. He said that they had assembled "to secure free soil for a free people," and remembering the example of our forefathers in the first declaration of independence they now putting their trust in God, planted themselves on the national platform of freedom; they proposed no interference with slavery in the states where it then existed, but its prohibition in the territories then free, for Congress, has no more power to make a slave than to make a king, "there shall be no more slave states and no more slave territory." At the close were these soul-inspiring and memorable words: "We inscribe upon our banner free soil, free speech, free labor and free men, and under it we will fight ever until a triumphant victory shall reward our exertions." Ex-President Martin Van Buren in his short letter of acceptance declared that " the exclusion of slavery from the territories was an object sacred in the sight of heaven, the accomplishment of which is due to the memories of the great and just men long since, we trust, made perfect in its court." In a burst of eloquence Charles Sumner exclaimed he was not asking or urging his friends to vote "for the Van Buren of 1838, but he desired them to vote for the Van Buren of today, the veteran statesman, sagacious, determined, experienced, who, at an age when most men are rejoicing to put off their armors, girds himself anew and enters the arena as one of the greatest champions of freedom." That great political battle came to a close by electing Zachariah Taylor, President, and Millard Fillmore, vice President of the United States, and the long coveted prize was snatched from Lewis Cass. 291,263 votes were recorded in favor of Martin Van Buren, that great and patriotic statesman, who was contending for free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men. He failed, however, to receive one electoral vote, but he and his followers stood firm, and they blazed the way for the armies which were to follow, and whose voices were only faintly heard in the great whirlwind of 1848; but in 1852 they became clear and more distinct and they could be plainly heard in the midst of all the excitement which prevailed during the fierce political struggle of that year. Frederick Douglass marched under the banner of John P. Hale, and the Free Soil Democrats in 1852, while Abraham Lincoln marched to defeat with the Whig party, which became extinct after it had enacted the fugitive slave law. In looking back over the past it must be admitted by all candid and fair-minded men that James (Continued on last page.) M. H. Mr. Rogers was born in Glasgow, Ky., on April 16, 1854. His father was the late Judge John G. Rogers, who served the people of this county so well as a Circuit Court Judge for seventeen years up to the time of his death. Mr. Rogers has lived in Cook County since 1857 and for the greater part of the last seventeen years has made his home at Western Springs and Riverside, suburbs of Chicago on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, in this county. He was educated in the public schools of Chicago, the University of Chicago, and graduated from Yale College in 1876. He was admitted to the Bar in 1878 and entered in the general practice of law in partnership with Samuel P. McConnell, later one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of this county. In 1896 Mr. Rogers formed a partnership for the gegneral practice of law, with Senator Joseph P. Mahoney, under the firm name of Rogers & Mahoney, which relation still exists. He was at one time attorney for the Citizens' Association and filled later, successively, the offices of City Prosecuting Attorney, Assistant City Attorney and Assistant United States District Attorney, and in 1889 he was appointed Master in Chancery of the Circuit Court, which office he still holds. The duties of this office being judicial in their character have given him a training and experience which especially fits him for the higher position for which he is now a candidate. He was one of the founders of the Iroquois Club and is a present member thereof, and is also a member of the University Club, the Riverside Golf Club, the Chicago Real Estate Board, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Law Club, the Chicago, Illinois and American Bar Associations and the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi. At a judicial primary held by the entire bar of Cook County several years ago, Mr. Rogers received the highest number of votes of all the candidates, there being about twenty-five in number. Out of a total vote of 1,346 he received 1,222 votes. In May, 1902, the Democratic Advisory Committee, composed of leading lawyers, judges and citizens, recommended him to the Democratic County convention as worthy of nomination for judge of the Circuit or Superior courts. Just prior to the judicial election in June, 1903: "The Law Register" said: "In the discharge of his duties as Master in Chancery, for the past thirteen years, he has won a reputation for gentlemanly courtesy, fairness, ability, honesty and strict devotion to duty unequalled, and has in every way dem- onstrated that he possesses, in a high degree, the qualifications necessary to make an admirable judge," and "the election of Mr. Rogers to the bench will be no experiment, and the people will surely be benefited. "The Inter Ocean" declared Mr. Rogers to be a lawyer "of prominence and ability." "The Evening Journal" said: "His reputation is of the highest order among his fellow members (of the bar)" and "it is said he has shown himself well qualified for judicial honors." "The Record Herald" said: "George Mills Rogers is spoken of as highly as any candidate for the bench, and is said to have shown himself amply fitted to assume a judicial position," and "is known as a lawyer of good judgment and unusual ability." "The Chicago Tribune" declared Mr. Rogers to be one of the candidates "most deserving of support." "The Daily News" said: "Mr. Rogers' experience for a great many years as Master in Chancery, not only because of the period of time, but because of the amount of work he has done, together with the eminently satisfactory way in which he has administered the duties of his office, makes him well qualified for the position of judge. The bar recognizes Mr. Rogers as an able lawyer and a close student who has been very careful in the preparation of his opinions in cases which have been submitted to him." "The Chicago Chronicle" declared him to be one of the candidates "best qualified by experience, knowledge of the law and temperament for the position to which he aspires" and "is well and favorably known as a lawyer and a citizen," and "the local bench will be materially strengthened by his election." "The Abendpost" said: "George M. Rogers, for thirteen years assistant judge, would be well suited for the office in every respect." Similar endorsements were also given Mr. Rogers by the other leading Chicago Newspapers. In June, 1903, he was elected judge of the Circuit Court of this county by a very large majority, receivinf more votes than several of the present sitting judges who were elected at the same time. A few months later the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois set aside the act of the Legislature creating the judgeship to which he was elected, and therefore he was prevented from serving the people. Re-elect Mr. Rogers, by placing a X in front of his name. Hon. Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, the well known Republican spellbinder, is in the city, the guest of his friend, Dr. Geo. C. Hall. George R. Koester Who Assisted to Mob and Lynch Two Innocent Colored Men. Appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for South Carolina by President Roosevelt. It will be recalled by those who make the slightest pretensions to keep abreast of the times that in the latter part of November, 1901, Colonel E. A. Webster, Internal Revenue Collector for South Carolina, very suddenly took his departure for the world beyond this vale of tears, and four or five honorable men who had never assisted to mob and lynch innocent colored men besought President Roosevelt to bestow the position upon one of them, but President Roosevelt turned a deaf ear to all their entreaties, and he very curtly informed all the applicants that "he had decided to select George R. Koester, a Negro-hating Democrat to succeed Colonel Webster. Then a mighty protest went up from the throats of all the leading Afro-Americans residing in that state, for they remembered that only a short while before that time George R. Koester openly boasted of "having fired the first shot at an Afro-American who had been strung to a tree by a mob of lynchers, citizens of Columbia, S. C." At that time the President was in full possession of all the facts respecting Keoster's mobbing and lynching record, and with the further fact that his reputation was very shady. "The Columbia South Carolina State" of November 12, 1901, contained a full account of George R. Koester's connection with the killing of two Negroes by the names of Thompson and Preston. It appears that Koester fired the first shot into Thompson's body; that he was the leader of the red-handed gang of murderers who rode twenty miles in order to capture Preston; it was three o'clock in the morning when Koester and his midnight assassins arrived at Preston's home, and "they induced him to get up and come outside as one of his friends was in trouble, and wanted to consult with him," and after they had succeeded in laying hands on Preston, Koester was the first to suggest that he be dealt with the same as Thompson, and Koester was the first highly civilized Christian to fire shots into Preston's dangling body who was followed by more than one hundred Christian savages. Thompson and Preston after being horribly tortured, died declaring that they were both innocent of any wrong doing, and it was proven that they were not With this bloody record before him, President Roosevelt could not be induced not to appoint George Koester Internal Revenue Collector for South Carolina, and again it may not be out of place to ask what becomes of his boasted claim that he is unwilling to "close the door of hope to the Negro?" To all intents and purposes he is ever ready to elevate men to office who are always ready not only to "close the door of hope to the Afro-American," but are also eager to assist to mob and lynch him. Aside from appointing Koester, the Negro-hating Democrat to office, President Roosevelt has kicked many white and colored Republicans out of office in the south, and selected Democrats instead thereof. In South Carolina he removed a colored Republican postmaster who was a first class official, and appointed a white Democrat in his place. In Mississippi President Roosevelt dismissed the white Republican United States District Attorney and named Robert C. Lee, a Democrat to succeed him, and at the same time he chose Edgar S. Wilson, also a Democrat, as United States Marshal for Mississippi, in that same state the Rough Riding President who insulted every Negro who claims to be full or race pride when No.52 R. Koester ted to Mob and to Innocent Col ector of Internal for South Carolina t Roosevelt. he declared "that the colored troops could not or would not fight unless they were officered by white men," appointed Isaiah T. Montgomery Receiver of Public Money at Jackson, Miss., who was the only colored delegate in the last constitutional convention of that state and as such he voted first, last and all the time in favor of Disfranchising the Negroes of Mississippi. Another case where President Roosevelt was indirectly in favor of closing the "door of hope" to almost a million Negroes. Let us also refer to the case of Mrs. Minnie Cox, the colored postmistress at Indianola, Miss., in the light of cold reason, it is true President Roosevelt closed up the office at that point after Mrs. Cox had relinquished her duties in connection with it, for the reason that she had been led to believe that some of the whites objected to her serving in such a capacity. There were, however, many other colored persons in that state who were perfectly willing to risk their lives in order to practice with that same little postoffice, the President, however, would not consider the applications of any colored persons, no matter how capable they were, and he yielded to race prejudice by selecting a white Democrat by the name of Martin for the place. Our point or contention is that if it is true that " the Republican party is the ship to the Negro, and all else is the sea," then the President retreated at the first blast from the horn of race prejudice when he refused to appoint another Negro to succeed Mrs. Cox. In that instance the President's "door of hope policy" was blown to the wind and the Negro was left hanging high and dry. It is our honest opinion that the President lacked the backbone to discharge his duty in that particular instance, for whenever a German, an Irishman, a colored person or an individual of any race is chosen to fill a federal office it is the sworn duty of the President as commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy to protect such officials in the discharge of their duties even if the military arm of the government has to be called into service for the purpose of doing so. As before stated President Roosevelt was not equal to the occasion and he permitted race prejudice to score a great victory over him. Many other Democrats have been elevated to office in the south by President Roosevelt, while the Negro who has fought, bled and died for the G. O. Lily White party for lo these many years, has been forced to stand aside and made to feel that he belongs to the inferior or backward races. Among the most eminent Democrats who have within the past few years been honored with high and important positions are Colonel John S. Mosby, of Confederate Guerrilla fame, who is connected with the department of justice, and Hon. Luke Wright, of Tennessee, who is at the present time serving as Governor of the Philippine Islands. Governor Wright is not in favor of "bestowing the blessings of civilization upon the inferior or the backward races," for he contends that "they cannot understand or enjoy these blessings which might prove a deadly poison to them." He places the colored race in the same class with the inferior or backward races. In conclusion no Democratic President could inflict any greater insults or punishment upon the Negro than these; is it for these things that every Negro must be branded as an enemy and a traitor to his race who falls to holler and shout for President Roosevelt? I will not provide any text content. Will promulgate and at all times uphold the true principles of Democracy, but Catholics, Protestants, Priests, Indelia, Farmers, Single Taxes, Republics, Ennights of Labor, or any one else can have their say, so long as their language is proper and responsibility is fixed. The Broad Ax is a newspaper whose platform is broad enough for all, ever claiming the editorial right to speak its own mind. Local communications will receive attention. Write only on one side of the paper. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. One Year..... $2.00 Six Months..... 1.00 Advertising rates made known on application. Address all communications to THE BROAD AX 8040 Armour Avenue, Chicago. JULIUS F. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Entered at the Post Office at Chicago. III., as Second-class Matter. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Refuses to Interfere In Behalf of the White Soldier Who Married a Colored Woman. John T. Smith, a (white) private in the hospital corps at Fort Mott, N. J., recently went back on all the so-called lovely white ladies, and he married a pretty colored lady, and the chances are that he will be discharged from the army for doing so for the "good of the service." Private Smith, who, as a free American citizen, thought he had the right to marry the lady he dearly loved, regardless of her color, appealed to President Roosevelt to save him from race prejudice, but the president has turned him down cold, and Smith will be kicked out of the army for turning down the white girls and for marrying in among the "Niggers" and putting himself on terms of social equality with them. 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Against that profound observation of President Roosevelt may be placed the declaration in the Democratic platform and that of John Sharp Williams, the leader of the Democrats in the House, on the subject about which Mr. Roosevelt arrogates supreme authority. Williams thus defined the Democratic idea on the tariff, which Judge Parker approved: "The Democratic tariff idea, like everything else Democratic, is founded as nearly as possible upon the principle of 'equality of opportunities and equality of burdens.' This same principle extended to other matters of anticipated legislation will give you what Democracy means, or ought to mean, with regard to them. It stands for equality of charges by railroads and transportation companies, with destruction of the power of secret rebate or open discrimination, whether against corporations or localities. 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Blaine's "Twenty Years in Congress," Cooper's history of the "Political Parties and Their Platforms," George W. Julian's "Political Recollections," James Freeman Clark's history of the "Anti-Slavery Movement," and similar works, they will learn that Thomas Jefferson, the father of true Democracy, was the first President of the United States to dine with a Negro in the White House; that Benjamin Banneka, astronomer, mathmematician, author and publisher of one of the first almanacs in America, who could master the arts and the sciences and could speak five different languages, who assisted the commissioners to survey and map out the District of Columbia, was the Negro whom Mr. Jefferson invited by letter to come and enjoy his hospitality at the White House; that Mr. Banneka accepted the invitation, and he broke bread with the first Democratic President; that on his return to his home near Baltimore, Md., he, according to his promise, sent Mr. Jefferson a copy of his almanac, and a letter pleading for better treatment of the people of African descent in the United States. That Mr. Jefferson prized the almanac so highly that he sent it to Monsieur de Cordorat, secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic Society. That the original letters which passed between those distinguished men are still in a high state of preservation. The small-bore politicians—those who are expending much of their energy and precious time in condemning President Roosevelt for informally lunching with a colored man in the White House, must from necessity condemn Thomas Jefferson for doing the same thing, and they and the Negro will also learn that the slavery question did not assume a national aspect until 1835 or 1840. That the leaders of the Federal party, which in time merged into the Whig party, which was finally absorbed or swallowed up by the Republican party, did not regard slavery as an immoral institution. That the Democratic party, under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, at that time, and for many years thereafter, contained more able leaders and statesmen who were bitterly opposed to the advancement of slavery than any other political party. It was Thomas Jefferson who declared while speaking against the continuance of slavery in the Continental Congress that "The chief characteristic of this age, as it was the chief characteristic of Plato's, is the struggle for what we call the rights of man. In other times the thing insisted on was that men should do what was right as something due to a higher authority. Now demand is for what is called their rights as something due to themselves, and among these is a right to liberty, meaning the utmost possible freedom of every man consistent with the freedom of others and the abolition of evry kind of authority of one man over another. It is with this view that we intend to introduce popular suffrage, that we give every one a vote, or aim at giving it, as the highest political perfection." In conclusion he declared "That nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that the Negro shall be free!" George Mason, a Virginian, and one of the great fathers of the Democratic party, followed Thomas Jefferson, and during the course of his speech he exclaimed that "more than four centuries before the Christian era Alcidamas a pupil of Gorgias, taught I. that the gods had sent forth all men free." Mr. Mason was very bitterly opposed to slavery. He called the traffic "infernal slavery"; he went on "discourages enterprises of every description, it will bring the judgment of heaven on a country, as nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must and will be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects Providence punishes national sins by national calamities." Richard Henry Lee, who was one of Virginia's noblest and most valiant sons, and who was born and rocked in the cradle of Democracy, solemnly declared "That all men by nature are created equal; that kings and rulers have but delegated authority, which the people may resume; are the revolutionary principles of Arisotle and Plato, of Livy and Cicero, of Sydney Harrington and Locke, of nature and eternal reason." He deprecated the fact that the leaders of the Federal party were in favor of forcing slavery upon the people residing in the colonies. He continued that it is a violation of the equal rights of men, created like ourselves in the image of God; Christianity." Thus he spoke in conclusion by introducing into Europe the truest principles of universal benevolence and brotherly love, happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts, and by agreeing to this duty pay a proper regard to our true interests and to the dictates of justice and humanity." That all the Democratic Presidents, from Thomas Jefferson down to and including James Buchanan, never hesitated in affixing their signatures to all bills admitting new States and Territories into the Union whose constitutions excluded slavery. That the Democratic party never nationalized slavery; that the "Eugitive Slave Law" was a Whig and not a Democratic measure; that the Democratic form of government as advocated and expounded by Thomas Jefferson became firmly rooted in the minds of the people residing north of the Mason and Dixon line, while the Hamiltonian, or the monocratic, or the aristocratic, idea of government, which fostered and cherished the institution of slavery, became firmly implanted in the minds of the people residing south of the line mentioned; that more than a billion dollars was expended, and almost a million lives were sacrificed, in order to partially shoot Alexander Hamilton's governmental principles out of the minds of the people; that the former slave-holders in the South, and their sympathizers in the North, were not Democrats; that they aligned themselves with the Democratic party simply to perpetuate the institution of slavery, which had expanded under the wings of the Whig party which was dominant in the South for many years prior to 1860. Those who have for many years contended that the Democratic party was always in favor of oppressing the Negro, and that it has always been rightly known as being opposed to his advancement in all things—that it never was in favor of conferring citizenship rights upon him—will further learn that Andrew Jackson assisted to secure the right of suffrage for free Negroes in Tennessee in 1795; that the Democratic party of Alabama gave the Negro the right to vote in that State; that Martin Van Buren, who later was elected President of the United States by the Democratic party, presided over the Democratic State Convention of New York which gave the Negroes the right of suffrage, and a General Assembly purely Democratic concurred or ratified the action of the convention by permitting every colored person owning $200 to become voters; that the Democratic party of Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts enacted similar laws and clothed the Negro with his citizenship rights. Lastly, that Martin Van Buren assumed the duties as President of the United States March 4, 1837, and Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky, who was lawfully married to a colored woman and the father of three or four mulatto children, was sworn in as Vice-President; and if Mr. Van Buren had passed on over into the next world before he retired from the Presidency, the colored lady, Mrs. Vice-President Johnson, whose husband was not ashamed to own her as his loving wife—the mother of his children—would have become mistress of the White House. (To be Continued.) MUCH IN NEED OF NEW DEAL Frauds and Scandals Enough to Condemn the Republican Administration. No such general apathy in the ranks of the G. O. P. has been since it commenced business, the old Hanna machine is sulking and nothing but "boodle" and lots of it will bring back the old enthusiasm. The "workers" have been sq accustomed to being well paid that they will not turn a hand until the cash is forthcoming. Now the trusts are responding liberally, there will soon be more ginger injected into the campaign, but even cash will not produce the harmony that Hanna inspired. Some workers loved Hanna, some feared him, but Cortelyou they don't know and do not care for. The republican elephant is lumbering along, but lack of harmony among his new keepers is worrying the "critter" woefully. Meanwhile, the democrats are united and confident. The postal frauds and the punishment of those who have been indicted appear to be lost sight of in other campaign issues. The Roosevelt administration evidently has postponed the trial of the cases so that the public will forget the scandal. The refusal of the republicans in congress to allow an investigation showed they feared the exposure of more frauds if the democratic demand for a congressional investigation was acceded to. That very fact should lead to the election of a democratic majority to the next congress, so that congress may do its duty as the grand inquest of the nation. Beyond the postal frauds there are other scandals that need investigation. The interior department has land frauds that much surpass the postal frauds, as far as the amount involved is at stake, yet but little attempt has been made to punish the land robbers and the department refuses to make public what it has discovered. A political party is seldom bold enough or honest enough to fully investigate the wrongdoing of its own partisans and the safety of republican institutions is best conserved by a change of administration to look into the way of doing things of its predecessor. The honest republican voter must wish to cleanse all the departments of the government of grafters, to reduce taxation, to stop extravagance and curb the trusts. He may even believe the trusts should be continued to sell cheaper abroad than here, rather than disturb the sacred tariff, but he must wish to stop the general trend toward universal grafting. How can he expect reform unless he elects reformers? The republicans from President down declare they will continue in the same rut they have been running in and are appealing to the voters to confirm them in power and take their word for it that everything is honest and prosperous. Even if an honest republican is elected to congress the machine at Washington will overawe and browbeat him and arrange to defeat his renomination if he shows a spark of independence. To effect reform there must be a new deal. President Roosevelt is going on a hunting trip with Buffalo Bill after the campaign is ended. Why wait until the campaign is ended? A wild west tour ought to be a splendid campaign document—with some people.—Utica Observer. The first national republican platform in 1856 denounced the "twin relic of barbarism—slavery and polygamy." Now the republican party has an alliance with slavery in the Sulus and is trying to carry Utah and Idaho by an alliance with polygamy.—N. Y. World. The desirability of voting for the democratic national, county, congressional and legislative nominees, as well as for the democratic state ticket, is daily impressing independents and disgusted republicans, as the best way to effect reforms in government, all along the line.—Albany Argus. RJOSEVELT'S LATEST BREAK Gives tho Congress of Arts and Science o New Name For Imperialism. In further emphasis of his imperialistic tendencies, President Roosevelt, who has hitherto during the campaign been kept well muzzled by his managers, broke loose in Washington on Sept. 27th, when he received at the White House about seventy-five members of the International Congress of Arts and Science. In the course of a brief address made to them Mr. Roosevelt said: "Perhaps the happiest feature of our modern life is the steadily increasing recognition of the fact that it must be a world life; that no nation can hope for the fullest development if it confines itself exclusively within its own boundaries." Teddy evidently lent his big stick to George Bruce Cortelyou for use on the corporations. Senator Ben Tillman Waved the Red Flag of Race Hatred and Lawlesness at the Stock Yards and Made Many Votes for the Republicans. The Democrats of Joliet Would Not Allow Him to Speak in That City. nigger is as good as the white." In all candor and seriousness Sen One of the Socialists demanded to ator Tilliman and his kind should for Senator Ben Tillman, who is half devil and half beast, arrived at the Sherman House Thursday morning from the swamps of South Carolina. In an interview with him which appeared in the "Evening News" of that date, (Pitchfork) Tillman, who is a red-handed anarchist, and it is more dangerous to permit him to run at large than it is to hug a mad dog or a rattlesnake to your breast, declared "that the race issue is the incomparably paramount issue in this country, to my mind and I shall talk plainly about it on the platform. Up north here you are getting to have lynchings. I imagine that the doctrine of equality will not especially appeal to the the stockyards workers whose places were taken by colored men, as I have been informed, while they were out on a strike." "Will you state your opinion of the race issue's importance on the stump?" "I shall speak plainly. Of course, down South we have always had this question. "Yes, we keep the colored man under restraint down there. We have too. We want to live. If you, here, in Illinois, had as many colored men as we have in porportion to the white race issue's importance on the We are outnumbered and we are always on the qui vive. Personally, I never expect to see a week go by without some lynching horror. On that same Thursday evening Ben Tillman, who should be swung up by the neck to a telegraph pole until he is dead, for the many brutal assaults he has made on the colored race, attempted to speak in the stockyards district at West Forty-eighth and Honore streets, but the hall was full of Socialists, and they fired so many questions at him it caused him to lose his temper, and he shrieked and howled at his questioners like a one-eyed mad bull, ex-Alderman Michael McInerney, who will have his own troubles before he is elected to the State Senate from the Fourth Senatorial district, threw himself into the breach and endeavored to save the night for old Ben, but he was unable to do so, and the former heavy-weight Alderman, who has always been able in the past to silence his noisy associates in the City Council, and the rabble at all political meetings where rough-and-tumble fights and knocking down and dragging out were in order, gave up the ghost in disgust, and retired to his corner in the ring. As the meeting progressed the Socialists stood their ground, and anarchistic Ben, whose chief argument on all occasions is, "Would you leu your daughter marry a nigger?" lost his nerve, and became so bewildered and, as usual, he went off half-cocked on the race question. He acted like a raving maniac when he referred to the fact that "a little black boy and a little white girl appeared on the platform at the Republican National Convention and waved flags." "On the last analysis," he bellowed out, "that exhibition meant nothing more than that the President of the United States will wield all his power, all his influence, for the equality of the races. It meant that when that boy was brought into juxtaposition with a white girl the only inference is that President Roosevelt is ready for social equality and stands also for the amalgamation of the races. It meant that when that boy got old enough he might marry that white girl and raise a breed of mulattoes." "I ain't got much senatorial dignity," he exclaimed, as he grasped the card which was handed to him by some of the Socialists, which contained a few of the many cutting questions propounded to him, and after glaring at it, he shouted: "Great God! That card has Socialism on one side and social equality, amalgamation, misegenation, hell and damnation, on the other side. You want to thrust upon us the doctrine that the nigger is as good as the white." One of the Socialists demanded to know "why is it that in the South you kill every child labor bill, where Democrats are in control?" Like an ignorant bully or bluffer he ordered his questioner to shut up! Then he whiningly stated that "he must be given time to learn the conditions in his State." Here old prize-fighting Ben admitted that he was not familiar with the affairs in his State, where seemingly the majority of the whites are wild savages; nevertheless, he has the brass and the affrontery to come up North and instruct its people how to boss the "niggers." "Do Negroes run the cotton mills?" he was asked. "No," he cried out, "they haven't sense enough!" Then he wanted to know "who got the niggers here in your strike?" The response came from all parts of the hall, "The capitalists!" "Then it was the niggers that whipped you into line. They were the club with which your brains were beaten out, if you ever had any!" shouted the South Carolina anarchist, who wanted to know which of the "capitalists were Democrats?" "All of them!" exclaimed the Socialists. The last and the hottest question fired at Ben was, "Whose nigger are you, anyway?" That question floored Ben, and he completely lost his bearings. He was unable to cuss or say one word for a few minutes, and throughout the meeting he answered the last question by his actions, for he clearly demonstrated the fact that he is the very coarsest type of "nigger," for he is unable to discuss grave and important questions without dragging the Negro into the discussion; while, on the other hand, there are many colored men who can intelligently elaborate on all the governmental affairs without insulting the Irish, or any other race of people. Tillman hurt the cause of Democracy by coming to Chicago, and made many votes for the Republicans. He was brought here simply at the behest of some of the leaders of the strike and a few cheap skate local politicians, who were anxious to get even with the colored men for taking the places of the "strikers." Ben was billed to speak at Joliet Saturday evening, but, be it said to the everlasting credit of the leading Democrats of that city, they would not permit him to do so, for they did not want a wild-eyed anarchist to come among them and wave the red flag of race hatred and lawlessness. stir up racial strife, and drive voters away from the Democratic party. Only a few months ago the Irish were up in arms in all parts of this country over the fact that many theatrical companies delighted to burlesque and hold the typical Irishman up to ridicule, scorn and contempt: they contended that all the Irish were lowered in the estimation of the civilized world by such performances: they were highly insulted because some one named a monkey in Lincoln Park "Miss Dooley," and nothing would suit them but to change the name of the monkey, although the Irish have no patent on the name "Miss Dooley," for there are some colored people by the name of Dooley; but the members of this same sensitive race who were responsible for bringing Ben Tillman here to deliver his tirade against the Negro entertain the idea that he did not say one thing which would cause any colored person to feel that he had been offended or insulted in the slightest degree; but if Tillman had been a colored man and had referred to the Irish like he did to the Negro he would have been murdered in cold blood before he could have escaped from the hall. Therefore, it is unfair for the managers or the leaders of the Democratic party to pay Tillman's expenses to enable him to travel over the country with no other object but to insult and abuse the Negro, and if they will persist in doing so, then the Negro will be justified in whacking him over his brainless head with the jawbone of an ass. n of men. So he may be ever refrain from having anything to say respecting "social equality, amalgamation, or the mixing of the races in the South," when we take into consideration the fact that 90 per cent. of all the bastard children born to Negro women in the South are the offspring of white men; that many of those so-called white gentlemen will stand for hours in dark alleys and at back doors of log cabins in order to kiss and embrace their colored female lovers, but if a colored man happens to look at a white female strumpet those same white men who spend much of their time with repulsive colored women, are ready to mob and lynch him, which is further proof that whenever any race of people sink so low in the scale of civilization that they experience not the slightest compunction in buying and selling their own flesh and blood, they are amply prepared for the commission of any and all crimes! SELF-CONVICTION OF ODELL His Perversion of People's Money Very Like Republican Practice at Washington. In his attempts to make satisfactory answer to the charges of perversion of the public moneys, made by the Democratic Attorney-General of New York, Governor-Chairman Odell not only handicaps the man whom he has put up to be his successor, but convicts himself. The New York Sun is not the only Republican newspaper to bear out this statement. The Pittsburg Dispatch, not a New York journal, it is true, but one of the most powerful of the Republican organs of Pennsylvania, is amazed at the weakness and shame-facedness of the Governor-Chairman's answer. "The controversy," says the Dispatch, "has resulted in betraying the Governor himself into the highest official endorsement of irregular methods in dealing with public funds ever made. It also includes the peculiar political quality of an astute political manager committing an action which identifies his leading State candidate with the flagrant irregularity endorsed by the Governor. "The Governor-Chairman, in his reply to Mr. Cunneen's charge that the Canal Board, acting under the Governor-Chairman's direction, had perverted $16,000 of the people's money, by allowing the payment of that sum to favored contractors for work falsely alleged to have been done by them, makes no denial of the payment, but says: "That certain money was due for losses which had occurred by reason of the failure of the State to permit the contractor to continue his work. This is often done in business matters, and it certainly was not improper for the Canal Board to view it from this standpoint." Such a confession as that has shocked even a Pennsylvania Republican organ. "The feature of this avowal," says the Dispatch, "that will impress itself most forcibly on thoughtful minds, is the remarkable principle asserted by an eminent public man concerning the transaction of public business. On account of indefinite, unspecified and unproved claims on the part of a contractor it is proper for a public board to vote him money on a separate claim proved to be fictitious and fraudulent! And the public man declaring this method to be 'not improper' is the Governor of the most populous and wealthiest State of the Union" BRYAN ANSWERS ROOSEVELT. President's Charge Against Wilson Tariff Act Proved Unfounded and Absurd. William J. Bryan, in the Commouer, quotes from Mr. Roosevelt's letter of acceptance as follows: "It is but ten years since the last attempt was made by means of lowering the tariff to prevent some people from prospering too much. The attempt was entirely successful. The tariff of that year (1894) was among the causes which in that year and for some time afterwards effectually prevented anybody from prospering too much and labor from prospering at all." This statement is in line with the declaration in the Republican National platform for 1904 that "a Democratic tariff has always been followed by business adversity; a Republican tariff by business prosperity." Mr. Bryan then proceeds to show that neither the statement of Mr. Roosevelt, nor the declaration in the Republican platform is justified by history. "As a matter of fact," says Mr. Bryan, "every panic during the last thirty years originated under Republican rule and developed under Republican legislation. "The gold panics which gave history 'black Friday' occurred during the month of September, 1869, when the Republican party was in power. "The great panic marked by the failure of Jay Cook & Co. occurred in September, 1873. Then the Republican party was in power and eleven months prior to the time of that panic the Republican party had been re-elected to power. "It is true the Wilson bill was passed ten years ago. That was in 1894. But that panic did not originate, in 1894; it did not originate in 1893; it began long prior to the Presidential election of 1892. That panic originated and reached its worst under that famous tariff law known as the McKinley bill." According to Consul Daigoro Goh, the Japanese child calls its father "Gempu," which means "strict father," while it addresses its mother as "Jibo," that is, "benevolent mother." Mr. Goh quotes a Japanese lad who classified the Japanese father as one among the "four fearful things of the world," these four terrors being "earthquake, thunder, conflagration and father." CHIPS. Miss Eva Clemons is visiting Mrs. Ida Clark at 6652 Hartwell ave. Mrs. Edward Lynch, 137 51st St., left for St. Louis last Thursday. Miss Fannie Wilson will soon move with the family to 21st and Prairie ave. St. Marks church will miss her. Four room cottage in rear of 5316 LaSalle st., at $8 per month, for rent by Albert B. George, 5145 Armour ave. Attorney Charles C. Buell, is waging a succe sful campaign as an independent candidate in the First District. Mrs. America Brown, 5121 Armour ave., is improving rapidly at Provident hospital. Ex-Senator T. T. Allain has been seen hustling about our down town streets. Mrs. Mamie Lewis Griffin has removed from 5149 Grove ave. to 4026 Cottage Grove ave., with her mother. Robert Jackson, the Chicago Negro poet, has had printed a new sheet of verses which he dedicates to his friend Dr. Wm. H. Johnson, of Albany, N. Y. Mrs. Mary F. Green, 5054 Armour ave., is under the doctor's care as the result of being bitten by her pet dog, which went mad one day last week. W. White, 4928 State street, is spending two weeks in visiting with his relatives and friends in Indianapolis, Ind. I hate to hear a man bragging about being self-made. A fat hog is selfmade—made so by rooting the smaller hogs away from the trough.—Appeal to Reason. Justice Theodore C. Mayer still socks it to the criminals and the vicious element brought before him in his court at the East Chicago ave. police station. About 100 Evanston voters, led by Mr. John R. Auter, came in on a special train last Wednesday evening to attend the political meeting at the Institutional church. Justice J. J. Hennessey, police magistrate at the Englewood station, is of the opinion that Judge Alton B. Parker will be the next President of the United States. Because the Negro families in Mountain Home, Idaho, sent their children to the public school twenty-five masked men have driven all the colored people from the town. A white man at Frairs Point, Miss., was lately sentenced to the penitentiary for life for assaulting a young colored girl. The jury was composed of white men. P. J. McShane, Ex-Alderman M. McInerney and former State Senator M. J. Butler, are at it hot and strong in the Fourth Senatorial District fight and many believe that McShane will be the winner. Sunday afternoon an open air meeting will be held at 52d and Morgan streets. Al. F. Gorman, formerly Supervisor for the Town of Lake, who is doing some good work for the cause of Democracy, will preside. Michael Woods, candidate for County Commissioner, is very popular with all the railroad men throughout this city and county and they will assist to roll up a big majority for him on the day of the election. Mr. C. E. Doswell, the 51st St. barber, had the time of his life on a jury in Judge Abbott's court last week; he was in the famous Grennell case, and rendered a verdict for $40,000 against the West Chicago Street Railway Co. Richard Van Colt son of Postmaster Van Colt of New York has been arrested charged with colonizing Republican voters. This would seem that Republicans understand how to practice fraud on the honest voters. Out of the thirty-nine candidates for the civil service examination held recently in San Antonio, twenty-seven were Negroes. Mr. Fred Wannemaker, special government agent, says that civil service in the south is being left to the black race. Oscar F. Mayer, candidate for President of the board of County Commissioners is one of the most popular German-Americans in Cook county, and there are many Afro-Americans in this city who will work and vote for him. Governor Albert B. Cummings, of Iowa, and all the Lilly White Republican orators, claim that "If God Almighty does not know any more about Judge Alton B. Parker than the people he will be eternally lost and damned." Nevertheless, the Judge seems to be worrying his Rpublican brethren. Judge Philip Stein was highly endorsed by the Bar Association, at its meeting this week for re-election as one of the judges of the Superior Court. Judge Stein, being free from race prejudice and fair in all his decisions in the past, is a guarantee that he will make a home run on Tuesday, November 8. Mrs. D. E. Tyler, 3426 Dearborn St. gave a red and green luncheon in honor of Mrs. A. Anderson, Mrs. L. Moor, and Mrs. Davis. The tables were beautifully set in two colors and a very enjoyable time was spent. Those present were Mrs. R. Jefferson, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mrs. R. Pees, Mrs. Hardie and Mrs. Nora Taylor. Congressman James Rainwater Mann was such a white-livered coward, that he walked out of the House of Representatives and refused to vote for the colored Republican in the Lever-Danzler election contest, yet Jim Mann looks down with scorn and contempt on every Negro who is unfavorable to his candidacy. Miss Kate Shaw, 4942 Armour Ave. gave a birthday party Friday, Oct. 14. The house was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and plants. Dancing and card playing. Refreshments were served. Among those present were: Miss Frances Watkins, Mr. Ray M. Hardie, Mr. Bill Haskins. The guests departed at a late hour thanking their young hostess for the pleasant evening. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE NEGRO. (Continued from 1st page.) G. Birney, ex-President Martin Van Buren, and John P. Hale, who were steadfast Democrats, whose devotion to their country was greater than to the.r party, were far in advance of the great multitude which slowly and finally followed in their footsteps. Their political creed or principles respecting the slavery question became the corner-stone of the Republican party in 1856 and 1860 (see section 4 of platform) that the Republican party believed in the doctrine of state rights and that each state had the right to regulate its own domestic institutions; that the first three vice Presidents nominated by the Republican party were Democrats, namely: William L. Dayton, Hanniabal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, that the leaders of the Republican party did not plunge this country into a bloody war on account of the great amount of love which they entertained for the Negro that in calling for seventy-five thousand men to put down the rebellion, Abraham Lincoln let it be known that "he only wanted white men and that colored men need not apply;" that even after the great Republican party was firmly entrenched in all branches of this government it was willing to enforce the Fugitiec Slave Law, and perpetuate slavery in the Republic by amending the constitution for that purpose, so that no state could interfere with slavery, until every state in the Union, by its individual state action, would consent to its abolishment. That the war records at Washington show that more than "six hundred thousand Democrats fought on the side of the Union, that many of the greatest generals in the Northern army were Democrats; that Edwin M. Stanton, President Lincoln's Seceretary of War was a life long Democrat. Furthermore the war lasted almost two years before the Negro was permitted to fight for his own freedom, that for a long time while fighting to save the Union he only received six dollars and a half per month and rations, while the white soldiers received $13 per month and rations; that President Lincoln was fearful that if "he ramed the Negroes, in less than ten days the guns would all be back in the hands of the rebels;" that his Emancipation Proclamation did not effect the status of the slaves residing in the states and parts of states which were loyal to the Union; that such slaves did not acquire their freedom until after the adoption of the Thirteenth amendment, which was formulated by Lyman Trumbull, who was born and raised under the wings of Domocracy, and who died in the same faith; that it did not become a part of the organic law of the land, until two years, eleven months and eighteen days after the promulgation of President Lincoln's second proclamation; that the three amendments could not have been placed on the statute books of this land without the votes of many Democratic members of Congress; that the Fugitive Slave Law could not be repealed without their support; that the Thirteenth amendment was rejected by the Republican Legislature of Ohio and ratified by a Legislature composed of Democrats. (To be Continued.) CHATS BY THE WAY. Republicans are claiming all the credit for the rural free delivery system. The first step taken for the establishment of the system was by Democrats in the House of Representatives. The Republicans deserve chiefly discredit, for when the system was fairly started they used it as a means of filching from the people. The only instance yet furnished in which the Administration has yet shown itself reluctant to spend the people's money is out of the fund of $500,-000 appropriated by Congress for the prosecution of the trusts. There is still $450,000 of the sum unexpended and available. --- One of President Roosevelt's attemptel justifications of the pension order is its popularity, as he supposes. No doubt, indeed, it is popular among its beneficiaries who control a great many votes, but is it the part of a statesman to attempt to justify a questionable act by the measure of its popularity? His defiance of the opposition on that ground is a reflection upon the integrity of the whole American people. The New York Tribune says "there was no need for Mr. Roosevelt to write anything" on "the notorious denial of the rights of negroes and nullification of the Constitution in the Southern States," because "his position is well known." Yes, his position is well known, so notoriously well known and so utterly indefensible that even he was baffled for words to square himself. --- "What has the Administration done to the trusts?" asks the Memphis Commercial. "Address your communication to Mr. G. C. Cortelyou, care Republican National Committee," replies the Washington Post. --- Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, former United States Senator from West Virginia: "There is no question in my mind that West Virginia will cast her electoral vote for Judge Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis. The campaign is a hot one on both sides, but all the indications point to Democratic success at the polls next month. I believe our majority will be from 12,000 to 20,000." --- Ere the earth had covered the form of the martyred President whom he succeeded Mr. Roosevelt said that he would wish only to serve out the unexpired term. Now he not only wants election, but it is unmistakable that, if he wins in November, he will want re-election. The signs are luminous that the trusts have bought him this time, but, O trusts, will he stay bought? --- The New York Evening Sun pokes fun at your Uncle Henry Gassaway Davis for using large words. As though the Sun were the only earthly mental entity familiar with the use of polysyllables. It is common talk, a common joke, in Wall Street, how complete has been the surrender of the Administration to the corporations and the trusts. The late Secretary of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau of corporations to secure "publicity in the interest of the public," has been busy delivering the goods. --- Cortelyou used to be a "trust buster." Now he is a trust truster. "We intend in the future to carry on the Government in the same way that we have carried it on in the past" says President Roosevelt in his acceptance letter. It is the same kind of defiance that is uttered by the footpad, armed with a bludgeon or "big stick," as he stands over his prostrate victim whom he has robbed. --- Chairman Corteelyou, when Secretary of Commerce, had a bureau of publicity under him. It was there that, coming into contact with the great corporations, he seemed to be impressed with the value of secrecy. He is using it in this campaign in his fat frying processes. --- Congressman William R. Hearst, President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, has come back from the West and taken a firm grasp upon the helm of the organization. He has issued a stirring address to members urging them to "special activity and untiring energy from now until the closing of the polls." --- Where was Henry Cabot Lodge when the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor issued its recent report of the result of certain investigations? Among the replies to questions sent out seventy-seven merchants agreed that the trusts had raised prices, and the unsatisfactory condition of living was due wholly or in part to "the existing tariff." --- It has been more than a year and a half since the creation of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with its bureau of corporations, was established to open the books of the trusts "in the interest of the public." Chairman Cortelyou was in charge more than a year, but the books have never been opened. The public has not seen a page-not a line of them. Robert H. Stevenson, of New Jersey, says: "During the past three weeks I have traveled over the States of Illinois and Indiana, and it is my honest judgment that the electoral votes of both States will be cast for Judge Parker and Mr. Davis. I met hundreds of independents and Republicans who announced their intention of voting the Democratic ticket. I am an independent in politics myself. I voted for McKinley in 1896 and 1900, but this time I shall vote for the ticket which stands for constitutional government—Parker and Davis." Visitor-What is that horrible grinding noise I heard this morning about eight? Flatdweller-The folks in the flat below had toast for breakfast.-Baltimore American. Joseph A. O'Donnell Henry D. 4 O'Donnell & Cogh n Attorneys at Law Phone 264 Main Metropolitan Block N. W. Cor. LaSalle & Randolph S. s. Chicago DEVINE & O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS AT LAW SUITE 318-320 REAPER BLOCK Clark and Washington Sta A. D. GASH Attorney at Law, 84-86 La Salle Street, Chicago. Suite 615 o 619. 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