Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Muskogee, I. T., Friday, November, 16, 1906. Vol 8 Judge Thomas' Vote. We are informed by a watcher that at Precinct 4 Judge John R. Thomas came into the polling place during the last election and asked for an official ballot. He had been a member of congress for 10 years and a judge of the U. S. Court for four years. That he marked his ballot and then without folding it presented it to a clerk of election and said, I guess that is a vote for Hopkins all right, is it not? Now look at the law concerning such conduct. Section 47 of the Conpendium of Election Laws prepared by the districting board reads: "No persons shall show his ballot after it is marked to any person in such a way as to reveal the contents thereof, or the name of the candidate for whom he has marked his vote. "Whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for 5 years. Of course no sane man can excuse such violation of the law. It was done to show and influence the crowd and in utter disregard of the law. It was in keeping with the entire conduct of the six-shooter gang who were determined to rule or ruin the party. If some poor inoffensive colored man had done such a thing, there he would have been hurried off to the U. S. jail without ceremony and refused bail until the following day, as was done in some cases less flagrant. Gentlemen, you are digging your graves about you as fast and deep as you can. The American people demand fair play. Will the District Attorney have Thomas indicted? We shall see. A Potbellied Kissing Brown Bug. Since the political situation has cooled somewhat, some of the leaders in the fight for Jim Crow cars, etc., have pined for excitement and the potbellied disciple of Blacksone has run amuck. A few nights ago he met a lady in the hall of Jones building and immediately potbelly became amorous and grabbed and kissed the lady before she could repel the attack. She screamed and pot vamoosed. A few days later pot felt the fit come on again and grabs a married lady and proceeds to kiss, not once, but twice, and then hubby demurs again demurs. Again Pot meets a young miss at the Mission and the fit comes on a forcibly he does the kiss act. Lastly old pot reaches out and forcibly steals a kiss from an engaged lady and the groom to be heart of the larceny, gets blood in his eye and threatens to remove Pot from the mundane shores if the larceny is repeated. We suggest that Pot be squeeled until another political campaign.—Reporter. J. L. DISNEY, U. S. Clerk, Admits Election Was Stolen. In a conversation with James Miller last Saturday in Muskogee, Mr. J. L Disney, a U. S government clerk in the Dawes Commission, representing Tams Bixby in political matters, admitted that Hopkins stole his election He said that if the election had been had the Saturday preceding the Tuesday of the election Raymond would have won over Hopkins by 800 majority, that the six-shooter crowd clearly saw and admitted this and then set up the plan of allowing the friends of Raymond no judges, no clerks, no poll bookholders, no challengers, but giving them all to Hopkins men. The plan agreed to in secret and carried out was to make every man selected as judge clerk, challenger and poll book holder, pledge himself to vote for Hopkins and then let any man vote who would present himself at the polls whether a legal voter or not, as the Raymond men would have no one to make any challenges. This was done and many men voted who were simply travelling men and had never lived in the Territory a single day. It was also agree dthat Hopkins men should challenge every colored voter unless he was known to be for Hopkins, and if necessary juggle the returns so they would show for Hopkins. This man is in the employ of the United States government. He is a sworn officer of the law and was given his place by Tams Bixby who was a member of the election and districting board. Of course this scheme to steal an election must have had his approval or his confidential clerk never would have told how it was to be done. Just think of such an outrage nominated with a six-shooter and declared elected by fraud and perjury. If that is victory it is very dearly purchased. Every man connected with it will some day be ashamed of his part in it. To steal an election is as bad as to steal a horse or a man's pocketbook. Yes, worse, because he wrongs every man in the state. Such a man is unfit to hold any job. let alone one in the U. S. Government. He is said to want an office of some kind here as soon as the state is organized, and perhaps in the coming city election no decent man can support such a man and the sooner Tams gets rid of him the better for Tams. The Negroes are loyal to the Republican party, but they cannot fight under the leadership of the traitors who through ignorance, mismanagement and duplicity, permitted a Democrat majority where a Republican majority should have been registered. Every Republican candidate in the Indian Territory who was defeated can charge that defeat to the asinine stupidity of Victor Soper, Archer and the Gang under them. It was not the generalship of the Democrats, but the stupidity of our Committee that caused our defeat. The Negro's Here to Stay. Men may talk and legislate, And figure night and day; No matter how they calculate, The negro's here to stay. He may be forced to stand aside, By those who have the sway; His equal rights may be denied, But yet he's here to stay. To Africa he'll never go, For pleasure, love nor pay, So give the son of Ham a show, For he is here to stay. White men argue, talk and plan And clever thoughts convey, As to what they'll do with the black man, But the negro's here to stay. This is a white man's country, here At least that's what they say, But the negro entertains no fear, For he is here to stay. Why not grasp the negro's hand And help him on the way? The white man brought him to this land, And he is here to stay. Whether the negro's rich or poor And whether at work or play, Of one thing we may all be sure The race is here to stay. The negro's blood helped pay the price Of the peace we have today. Breathes there a soul who feels too nice For the negro here to stay. You need not scorn his humble birth And strut by him so gay; For so long as heaven rules the earth The negro's here to stay. So remember the negro in your prayers, If ever you kneel to pray. And he will share your joys and cares. Hon. P. B. Hudson was defeated by 222 votes. He polled 1,089 Republican votes. It was a shame that he lost out, but the losing must be laid at the doors of an incompetent and dishonest politically Territory Executive Committee. Had Grant Victor been as energetic in Hudson's district as he was in the 75th, Hudson, the regular nominee, would have won. The voters know where the blame lies and when another battle is pitched no one will be fool enough to tram with the cusses who threw away a victory for personal gain and to vent personal spleen. No 9 NEGRO CHOSEN CHICAGO JUDGE ted By Republicans. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 7.—Ferdinand L. Barnett, the negro candidate for justice of the Municipal court on the Republican ticket, won out after a most exciting contest. Carnett's total vote was 87,516 and the vote for Justice Charles H. Callahan, his nearest Democratic opponent, was 86,312. This gives Barnette a lead of 1,204 votes.—Ex. What will Tillman, Douglas and the Gang think of this? Had Barnett been a candidate here the whole gang aided and abetted by Negro traitors would have been against him.—Ed. Polluted Society. Springfield is a metropolitan city in many respects and especially along the lines of its human make-up. This city is the dumping place of the United States at large. Women come here from the east, pose as society leaders, etc., and for a time, maintain a dignified state of respectability. But the atmosphere seems to be impregnated with a stench so offensive that even had their intentions been to reform, they could not do so. The fact is they have never mingled in any save the demi-monde society. Some of the young men of this city have been duped by these sirenvoiced adventureses After breaking the ties that made them one, the lowest depths of depravity are indulged in to exist, thus trying to trail in the dirt the name of some honest man. And society smiles on them with a lavishness that is ridiculous. The same is true of the men. Society should be purged. The pimp and the rounder should be made to go, and likewise the would-be adventuress. There are many other things that are being carried on that will be aired in the near future. Ex. The above will be just as true if you drop the name of Springfield and write that of Muskogee. AGENTS WANTED We want energetic hustling agents for this paper and will pay liberly for good work. If you want to make money, write at once to—W. H. Twine. FOR SALE Lot three (3) in block Ninety three, to the city of Muskogee, Indian Territory. size 100x145. Also one of the finest business lots in the town of Panama. Indian Territory, one block from depot. size 25x140. Abstract shows these two pieces of property to be all O. K. and a perfect chain of tiile. Address S. M. Twine. 218 1-2 State St. Pine Bluff. Ark. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR RESTORER, Price, $1,00, retail. 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You I Because of th CHURCH PEW HIS BED. Tramp Finds Rest for His Weary Bones in House of Worship. The janitor of one of Portsmouth's largest churches was given a big surprise Sunday morning as he stepped into the auditorium after opening the big front doors to allow of the usual airing out. He came face to face with a strange and tough-looking man. At first the janitor feared a touch of the chills, but he finally brought himself together and inquired of the man what he had been doing. The fellow said that he had been enjoying a night's rest on the cushions of a pew away down front. Saturday night he was attracted to the church by the singing of the choir during rehearsal. He found the door open, walked in and sat down. The music had that soothing effect and the wanderer fell asleep. He knew nothing more until daylight, when he awoke wondering where he was at. He said that in all his life he had never found a more comfortable bed. The janitor looked about, saw that nothing was disturbed and then allowed the stranger to go.—Portsmouth, N. H., Times. When Is an Old Maid? When does a girl become an old maid? This question, blunt and shorn of delicate innuendo, is now figuring in the somnolent discussion of Philadelphia society. One might say that a girl becomes an old maid when she fails to marry betimes, but that is not the point. What is the exact year that ushers in spinsterhood and closes forever the gates of youth? Of course, this is not a matter in which man has any word to say. No rational wearer of trousers would tempt fate and the scorn of femininity by attempting a suggestion, for any arbitrary dead line would necessarily bring down upon the luckless masculine head a storm of reprobation. It has been left to the women themselves to brave the peril. And they have placed the age at 40 years. Under this ruling a woman is a tender bud until twoscore years have counted their gloomy litany of days and the hair near the scalp begins to whiten. There is more Catartr in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven Catartr to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hail's Catartr Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Jo. Toledo, is the only Constitutional cure on the market. It is. drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulators and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. 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FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE THE COUNTRY HAS NO SUPERIOR Coal, wood and water in abundance; churches and schools convenient; markets easy of access; taxes low; climate the best in the northern temperate zone. Law and order prevails everywhere. For advice and information address the SUPERINTENDENT OF IMMIGRATION, Ottawa, Canada, or any authorized Canadian Government Agent. J. S. CRAWFORD, No. 125 W. Ninth Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Muskogee Cimeter. W. H. TWINE, Editor. MUSKOGEE Americans and Marriage. Carolyn Rapelyea, writing on "American Complexities," in the current number of Ainslee's, speaks especially of the American attitude toward marriage. This she says is one of the chief of our complexities. "No people in the world," remarks the lady, "regard marriage so romantically. Moreover, our ideas of what are to be expected in marriage are essentially unlike foreign ideas. Here, as much as anything else, lies the cause of so many international failures." Miss Rapelyea thinks the number of divorces in America does not necessarily indicate that the number of unfortunate marriages is greater here than elsewhere, but only that our ideas of what is to be endured are different. "But to understand this is difficult, as it is also true that there is a tendency for Americans to regard the marriage ties as less permanently binding than do people in Europe. They are more inclined to break their vows and yet stay married; we to dissolve the marriage if the vows are broken. We do not regard the thing in the same way, and in an international marriage such differences in point of view are exceedingly dangerous. "Viewed superficially, the American character and American social life may seem simple, easy to comprehend, yet they abound in contradictions, are full of complexities. Much that is clearly felt and tacitly recognized has not yet been defined. No wonder that we are a perpetual, though fascinating, puzzle for foreigners. We are sometimes a puzzle even to ourselves." Phonetic Spelling. It is held creditable to spell in the fashion of the lexicographers, but it is really discreditable, if to defy law and order is infamy, says D. W. Howells, in Harper's Magazine. A child is punished if it obeys an instinct and spells phonetically, but it ought to be rewarded, and its instinctive orthography reverently studied in the hope of some hint for the amelioration of the abuse under which we all suffer. The actual English spelling does not spell anything, really; it is a kind of picture writing in which certain groups of letters symbolize certain sounds without representing them. This difference between our spelling and our speech is such that the lexicographer finds his burden divided between orthography and orthoepy, and yet doubled in the failure to show how the printed word shall be spoken. For the literary artist, who wishes to indicate dialect variations, the system is worse than useless; he must frame a convention and trust the reader's intelligence for its acceptance before he can hope to suggest the accents he has in mind. Nothing worse could be said of our spelling than that it does not spell; that is quite enough to condemn it. If it fulfilled its office, one might not repine at its manifold difficulties; but it breaks down at the first step, and at every step. It is a failure which nothing but the immense powers of the race which suffers it could repair. A North Carolina bank cashier fled recently without leaving a shortage in his accounts. It is suspected that he was demented. Moralists agree that a bad man may be reformed, but it is different in the case of an egg. RUNNING SORES ON LIMBS. Little Girl's Obstinate Case of Eczema —Mother Says: "Cuticura Remedies a Household Standby." 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"Sevens" hats are common in Aberdeen, and the professors of our colleges generally wear $7 \%$ to 8 sizes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes $6 \%$ and smaller, or being less than 21 inches in circumference, can never be powerful. Between 19 and 20 inches in circumference heads are invariably weak, and, according to this authority, "no lady should think of marrying a man with a head less than 20 inches in circumference." People with heads under 19 inches are mentally deficient, and with heads under 18 inches "invariably idiotic." --Young Woman. A PUBLIC DUTY. Montpelier, O., Man Feels Compelled to Tell His Experience. Joseph Wilgus, Montpelier, O., says: "I feel it my duty to tell others about Doan's Kidney Pills. Exposure and driving brought kidney trouble on me, and I suffered much from irregular passages of the kidney secretions. Sometimes there was retention Doan's Kidney Pills. 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Most bulbous plants like the baking hot sun of midsummer in order to ripen their bulbs, but the snowdrop thrives best in partial shade. It blooms earlier if it has a chance at the March sun, but is one of the very few that will flower regularly, though less freely, in dense shade and with a northern exposure.—Country Life in America. Catarrh and Headache. Mrs. Z. E. Goforth, 2119 Holly St., Kansas City, writes: "After using a sample bottle and two 25c bottles of Hunt's Lightning Oil I am almost well of Catarrh. It stops my headaches. It is the best medicine I ever saw and I just can't keep house without it." She is right. Makes Son Private Secretary. In appointing his son, Lord Bruce, as his private secretary the earl of Elgin only followed the example of the late William E. Gladstone, who, when he became prime minister in 1889, appointed Herbert Gladstone, then a young man of 20, to a similar position. Try It Once. 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The cause of the trouble may be some drain on the system or it may be mental or physical overwork, sometimes insufficient nutrition due to digestive disturbance. In the latter case there is generally a loss of appetite and a coated tongue as well as general languor and debility. Miss Lula M. Metzger, a stenographer, living at 71 Mill street, Watertown, N.Y., suffered for over a year from general debility. "It was caused by overstudy," she says, "and I had no ambition, didn't want to go anywhere, my food didn't taste good, I was run down, lifeless and listless. I took medicines but they failed to help me. Finally friends recommended Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to my mother and she got some for me. I took them for some time and was entirely cured and have had no return of the trouble." 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Sold by druggists and grocers or write CARBOLIC SOAP CO. NEW YORK CITY. READERS of this paper desiring to buy anything advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. A. N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER COMPANY ENGRAVERS. ELECTROTYPERS AND STEREOTYPERS IF you want to make Money send for my Illustrated Catalogue. Free to you. Bargain House of Chas. Lubrecht, P.O.Box 1164, N.Y.City. W. N. U., MUSKOGEE, NO. 46, 1906. PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK IN THE INTEREST OF THE NEGRO BY CIMETER PUB. CO ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE AT MUSKOGEE, I. T., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER W H. TWINE Editor. R. WOOD. Ass't Editor. E D. NICKENS, Advertising Manager. For Governor of the State of Oklahoma, Hon. John D. Benedict, of Muskogee, I. T. --- The traitor negroes are in bad shape when they hear the lily whites and Dennis that they helped to elect yelling Hip, Hip, Hooray, for Jim Crow Kayrs, and Git out you black raskal. No one envies the biggest negro in the Indian Territory. The Democratic convention held in the opera house named the two candidates that some of our big negro leaders supported and then they play the baby act and say I am sorry. Let's all get together now so I can play the same game over again. The Republicans must stand pat. Stay by their guns. Douglas and the other bolters must either stay in the six-shooter camp or join the Democratic party or come home on the customary probation rule. Traitors must not be put in control of the party. We can win the next battle in a walk, since the traitors are now outside the party limits and there must stay until repentance is sufficient to pardon them of the unpardonable sin that of being traitors. There will be a gathering of the Clans at Guthrie and the remnant of the Republican party will gather up to stalwarts and prepare for battle. The incompetent foolish Ex-Com. of both Territories will have to "Go way back and sit down." It is reported that Tams Bixby and Douglas will put on a gigantic bookbindery and get all the Dawes Commission printing and the state printing for the new state. If this is true, well, a little spells what a great deal means, and the common people can put some things together and "figger out" why some of this politically happened recently. A great many, nearly all of our real friends, white, black and red, condemn us for using strong language sometimes, and they may be right, but we don't feel natural when we fail to call a spade a spade, sometimes the conditions of the case demand that we say durn it or something else, and we say it and even the preachers say Amen. We fought for what we believed and still believe to be right and the losing a few advertisements don't make us change a whit. We can quit business if we must, but it will be with Honor. A negro bank failed recently in North Carolina, and the cause assigned was careless bookkeeping There are some white banks in the same lamentable condition. The negro seems to be keeping up with his white brother. They say we are dead. Maybe so, but we are a well balmed lively corpse as some of the fellows will find out later. Some of our friends, white and black, say we played the game wrong. Well, that may be true from their standpoint, but no one can say we were a quitter. Pat says we raise the race issue. Why, bless your soul, fellow, it's you cussers Doug and the balance of you who did that. Read Dougs resolutions. You must have been asleep or dreaming Have you been hypnotized again? "When the tiger has quenched his thirst in blood and the anaconda has swallowed his prey, they sink to rest and cease to pursue their trembling victims." The Negro cannot succeed without the white people. The white people cannot succeed without the Negro. In this great country we must go hand in hand and all this without the social commingling of the races. Since the Democrats have declared for separate coaches and waiting rooms (we all agree on separate schools) we now ask why don't the law declare for separate Beds? The Negro is willing. Are you, Mr. Democrat Delegate? There is yet plenty of hope for a square deal in the new state. It is not yet a settled fact that Tillmanism and Douglasism shall reign supreme in this country. The Indians, Whites and Negroes who believe in a square deal will not stand for the workings of southern Democracy. The common people will be heard from at the next election. Six-shooters and ballot box stuffers will be a thing of the past. The American people will not stand for them. We are proud of the loyalty of our boys in the 75th district who stood by the Republican party in the first battle in the new state. Many of them made great sacrifices and stood Pat. The result shows that the Republicans of the 75th District stood as a unit against Jim Crow cars, the Demagogues, Popocrats and Negro traitors voted for them. The next battle will decide the question and we say here and now that we will whip h—— out of them. So we thought it would be with the Democratic party, but not so. Drunken with their supposed success in the recent conflict they now propose to saddle upon the Indian and the negro the greatest burden known in the history of American politics. They started out to Jim Crow the negro and now they end up by attempting to Jim Crow the Indian. The Republican party cannot win victories without the Negro voter. The Negro cannot win without the Republican party, then why not get together? We ask our brothers in the doubtful states to keep an eye on this country. We will in the near future doubtless issue an appeal and you can help us fight a battle for justice and right. WEST EAST No. 53 Leaves 7:45 a. m. 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Fields payable October 1st 1906, in the sum of $300 with 8 per cent interest per annum after date and did secure the said note by mortgage with power of sale upon the following realty, viz: Lots One (1), and Nine (9), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Four (284), and Lot One (1), in Block Two Hundred and Eighty Five (285), all in the townsite of Muskogee, Recording District No. 10 in the Western Judicial District, Indian Territory, wherin, upon default of payment of sand note the said mortgagee, Wm. P. Fields was authorized to sell the said real estate upon one month's notice by publication, and make a proper conveyance to the purchaser thereof. The said mortgage was duly recorded in Record of Mortgages 71 at page 34 in the office of Register of Deeds—Clerk of U. S. court—in the City of Muskogee aforesaid. And, whereas the said mortgagors have failed to pay said note, are in default and the said Mortgage has become absolute. Now, therefore, in accordance with the terms of said mortgage the undersigned trustee therein named, will, on Monday, the 3d day of Decembr, 1906, at the hour of One (1) p. m., at the East door of the United States Court building in the City of Muskogee, in the Western District of the said Territory, sell the said real estate at public sale. Dated October 30th 1906. Walrond & Cramer, Attorneys. DOMINOES FREE TO If you'll tell us the number and kind of live stock your papa will ship this year, you'll get a nice set of dominoes. Rice Brothers Commission Merchants. Kansas City Stock Yards." P S—Give papa's name in full. FOR SALE. Lot three (3) in block Ninety three, to the city of Muskogee, Indian Territory. size 100x145. Also one of the finest business lots in the town of Panama, Indian Territory, one block from depot. size 25x140. Abstract shows these two pieces of property to be all O. K. and a perfect chain of tiile. Address S. M. 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The purpose is the repeal of the fifteenth constitutional amendment, or at least partial disfranchisement, of the negro. Our colored population is about 9,000,000, and the disqualification of the enfranchised part of it would be the equivalent or a proportionate increase of the Democratic voting power. But the emancipation of the negro equalized him legally. And the recognition that it did by constitutional enactment was merely confirmatory. The proclamation of emancipation conferred on him citizenship, else it had no validity or significance. Would the men opposed to the fifteenth amendment repeal emancipation? To do that would be quite as sensible and commendable as to repeal the amendment. Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi says that he is a candidate for the national senate chiefly for the purpose of obliterating the last of the fifteenth amendatory article of the fundamental law. We do not hesitate to say that the purpose is an ignoble one. The fifteenth amendment is simply confirmatory of emancipation, and its repeal would be virtually the repeal of emancipation. It is one of the prime factors or great forces involved in the solution of the race problem, and its abrogation would multiply incalculably the difficulties of soltuion. It is an acquisition, and a very considerable acquisition, to our great and beneficent scheme of popular government. Surely, we would not retard the development of that. In its propagation the perpetration is the solution of all political problems whatsoever. In precisely the measure that this country redoubles its powers and disseminates the spirit of popular government the difficulties that beset it will disappear. One of these is the race trouble. But the negro is a native; and anything to the manner born is easily susceptible to prevailing national influences. While the colored people were in bondage the constitution had no force as an emancipatory or popular instrument. It was the prime law of a country that tolerated and fostered slavery. And slavery inevitably associates with it absolutism. You can not possibly divorce the one from the other for in the absence of either neither is existent. Ownership in slavery was absolute, and there was no preventive of the tyrannous propensities of the master except the kindly disposition of human nature. That, of course, we acknowledge. But that does not do away with the fact that absolutism is the concomitant of slavery. And, whether the relationship is that of a man and his servant or of an emperor and his subjects, the condition is the same. So the American people had together at one time a form of absolutism and constitutional government. You readily see the incongruity and inadmissibility of that. Triumph Over Absolutism. One or the other had to go, and the triumph of the republican party was the triumph of the constitution over absolutism right here in the United States. It abolished slavery and enacted the fifteenth amendment and by these two comprehensive and successive strokes of policy did more for the advancement of the cause of popular government than had been done at any previous time since the adoption of the constitution. And the adoption of the constitution certainly was an unexampled proceeding in the sphere of political liberty. So the abolition of slavery and the amending of the fundamental law to give it effect were the greatest achievements in emancipation history either since or before the organization of our national government. Now it is proposed to abolish the constitutional amendment that the abolition of slavery made essential. Would we abolish emancipation and constitutional government? We are not prepared and never will be, for the repeal of the fifteenth amendment. It is invaluable in the promotion of political liberty. There is but one solution with us of the race problem, and that is the solution of the full measure of liberty or emancipation that inevitably emanates from the undefiled and supreme administration of republican government. You can not cure evils by repression. Human nature forbids it. The American people, in fact, face but one paramount issue, and that is the issue of either inequality or preponderance in the matter of government. And this they have faced from the beginning of their nationality. It is the comprehensive issue into which all others merge. History has taught us this. If it had been understood and observed at the beginning of the struggle for national existence and equality, progression would have been smoother in the first half century and our maturity would have come sooner than it did. It is a great truth. But what could a nation do in the way of displaying constitutional power if it advocated and put in operation measures repressive of the liberty of its citizens? It could do nothing, for that which is fundamental in constitutions is emancipatory. And you can not bring out the full force of a constitution by discrimination against a part of the population. The democrats incorporated slavery with the issues that were the foundation of their political supremacy and made large accessions of territory for its extension and propagation. They would have perpetuated slavery and have made it an essential element in the grand evolution of republicanism. You see at once the undefensibility of their position because of the contradiction it involves. The democratic party did positively nothing to promote the sentiment of popularity in politics. And its solution of the race problem was the worst ever. It tried to engraft slavery on republican government, while the two are as unlike as night and day or any other opposites in nature. They are thoroughly irreconcilable. Any movement toward the position of the democrats when in power would inevitably add to the difficulties involved in the solution of the race problem. And the repeal of the fifteenth constitutional amendment would send us straight in that direction. Emancipation was a great stroke in the struggle to perpetuate government by the people, and in a reciprocal sense, the expansion of the capacity of popular government will render emancipation more effective and satisfactory. To that point we have come. Emancipation and all things pertaining to it are national, and even international, in their scope. You can not touch the freedom of the negro and preserve the full measure of universal liberty. The abridgement or denial of the rights of the least assails the whole scheme of enfranchisement. And any infringement there, of course, impairs the power of the people. Merit of Popular Power. Popular power is the synonym of constitutional government. In the measure that you diminish its capacity you narrow the scope and lessen the effectiveness of the constitution. And as the enfranchisement of the negro contributes to or magnifies popular power, which all admit is synonymous with constitutional power, then the abridgement or denial of the right of the negro to the ballot is an assault, and a very serious one, on our cherished form of government. The ballot symbolizes our liberty. It is that which associates people with and makes them supreme in the government. And if it is taken away from the negro the white voter is bound to feel the effect of it. It would lessen the aggregate voting strength, in which the white man is by far the larger participant. The cause of popular government would suffer irreparably by the removal of the negro's franchise. It really seems that nothing could be clearer than the solution of what we term the race problem. It is a part of the great government problem or question, and while we have the mastery of that we will not lack the genius to adjust the differences between the races. The republican party holds the remedy for all racial ills in the hollow of its hand, and it is administering it day by day. It is absurd to say that the colored people are worse off with liberty than they were in bondage. That casts discredit on the government as well as on the negro. His freedom is the creation of the government, and if the latter cannot make good its creative performances it lacks the essential elements of success. But the United States is not open to the charge of incapacity. Of such amplitude are its powers that the suspicion of inefficiency never enters the mind. The American people are qualified to handle every question that naturally arises from the political activities. If the race problem has sprung from emancipation, which is the manifestation of the benign and liberating powers of the nation, certainly its solution does not lie in the diminution of those powers. To diminish them would be to reduce our natural or constitutional stature. And the repeal of the fifteenth amendment would do that, for it was forced by the necessity of the government. We see quite plainly then that there is but one soltuion of the race problem, and that is the cultivation or development of the national sentiment that gave rise to it. The education of the negro is but one of the means available, and that is nothing more than an experiment. You may educate him until he is white in the face, and it will avail nothing if a system of politics in instituted that deprives him of his constitutional rights. To cultivate his mind is to arouse his aspiration. And with his mental faculties stronger and more alert he would resent an infringement of the privileges still more stubbornly. That would be inevitable. Educating the Negro Race. But shall we refuse to instruct and encourage the negro and deny him participation in the benefits of the constitution simply because the problem of his relationship seems to some fraught with difficulty? It is no part of our political belief to withhold enlightenment and narrowly circumscribe enfranchisement. Our system of republican government really does not permit it. You can't deny education and the ballot and at the same time foster and perpetuate constitutional or republican institutions. Then the people individually and collectively in the government must extend to the negro advantages. In that is involved the principles on which republicanism thrives. But the blasting of political liberty is no less involved in the violation of it. The emancipation and enfranchisement of the colored man was accomplished or consummated on purely constitutional principles, and the abrogation of enfranchisement, which crowns and completes emancipation, would be a vital and crushing blow to these principles. It is evident beyond question that in the republican party's solution of the comprehensive governmental problem is to be found the simple and sole solution of the race problem. It is not particularly, as many suppose, in the intellectual and spiritual education o fthe negro. Schools and churches he has and, of course, will continue to have. But the curriculum of schools and the doctrines and association of churches will never smooth away the rough features of his relationship to the great body of whites whose population outnumbers his about eight to one. Only the force of government can do that. And that would be ineffectual if altered or modified in character. If republicanism should be rendered less potential by a change of political parties and the repeal of the fifteenth amendment the difficulties of the race problem would be multiplied a hundredfold. And why? Because it would be reactionary; and whatever reacts from a higher to a lower level is revolutionary. The Negro Must Progress. The colored man, in common with everybody else, must necessarily advance with the nation's growth in power and influence. It is that, and that alone which distinguishes his liberty from his slavery. In nearly three-quarters of a century under the constitution, when a bondman, he didn't move up a peg. He was stationary, isolated, politically and socially dead. The republican party put him into the current of life. Nat- urally, he moves slowly after such long isolation. But he moves. And he does so because his life is a part of the vast current of humanity that broadens and deepens as it flows forever on. When the republican party emancipated the slave population it added so much to the forces of liberty and the constitution. The contribution was direct, instantaneous and complete. It was like the resurrection of a nation. No such miracle had ever been beheld in the political world. The oppressed of other countries are frequently granted privileges such as the Russians are now receiving, but nowhere does history record such a transformation as the colored people of this country underwent when emancipated. Yet we seek the solution of the race problem. That is one of the oddities of life. It is like journeying far for what is beneath one's nose. But we know the kind of people that look abroad for the things at hand. They are not the wise ones. Differences between the white and colored populations of the south sprang up when the latter were liberated. These constitute the basis of the race problem, which has been with us ever since. And what is it? It is simply the resentment that the negro's advancement toward the plane of equality excites. The democrats did not have this feature to contend with. Their politics did not admit of advancement. But the defense of the constitution and the manifestation of its powers thrust it on the republicans. They could not show forth the splendor of constitutional government and deny the negro liberty and the ballot. His emancipation was their opportunity, and they grasped it. Ever since then, with a constancy that distinguishes all great active forces, the republican party has magnified the powers of the constitution. With that it has associated the negro. And that is its solution of the race problem. J. C. TUTT. TO REPUBLICANS: We are anxious to have every Republican in close touch, and working in harmony with the Republican National Congressional Committee in favor of the election of a Republican Congress. The Congressional campaign must be based on the administrative and legislative record of the party, and, that being so, Theodore Roosevelt's personality must be a central figure and his achievements a central thought in the campaign. We desire to maintain the work of this campaign with popular subscriptions of One Dollar each from Republicans. To each subscriber we will send the Republican National Campaign Text Book and all documents issued by the Committee. Help us achieve a great victory. JAMES S. SHERMAN, Chairman. P O. Box 2063, New York. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS