The Appeal

WHY AFRO-AMERICANS SHOULD SUPPORT ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS A SPLENDID SYMPOSIUM OF PROMINENT MEN OF THE RACE WHO GIVE THEIR REASONS IN THESE PARAGRAPHS. HON. ARCHIBALD H. GRINKE Ex-Consul to Santo Domingo, Author of "Life of Charles Summer." To the Editor of The Appeal: I would support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The South has insisted on making the Afro-American the leading issue in this presidential campaign. The Northern wing of the Democratic party has hope of winning the presidency of the doubtful states, and in sunny doubtful Congressional districts with the Republican party. It has therefore tried hard to raise some other issue, to switch the Southern wing from the Democratic to the one, better suited to carry the party to victory next November. But the Southern Democracy will not be deflected from its course, from its one idea and issue. And the Southern Democrats will not be lasting Afro-American, the everlasting Afro-American to be Jom-Crowed politically, industrially, educationally, religiously; Jim-Crowed in every conceivable way as a man, as a laborer, as a Southie and in the nation likewise. The Northern wing of the party says "Let us make the tariff the issue this year." The South answers, "The Ngro is the issue," spelling Negro It is a small group that will or lose this election, and on no other, the Northern wing of the party to the contrary notwithstanding." And as the South dominates this year the councils of the Democratic party, the Southern is in reality the party issue that party in this presidential canvass. This then is the situation in a nutshell, the situation which confronts the Afro-American voters of the North. The Afro-American voters in the North are in defense of their manhood rights, in defense of their constitutional rights as American citizens to strike the South hard, to sit, as straight and crushing a blow to the South, and to thank God, the Afro-American voters of Massachusetts, the new man will defend his own mark. month in a united vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Archibald H. Grimke. Boston, Mass., October, 1804. REV. W. T. VERNON, A. M., D. D. President of the Western University, Quindaro, Kan. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The general prosperity of the country, under the party of which they are leaders is apparent to all. Any patriotic citizen, loving his country as does the Afro-Americans will desire the same. This can best be secured by the return to power of the party under whose administration the country is always prosperous rather than by placing in power the Democratic party under whose administration the try always succeeds in reverses, failures, and industrial stagnation paralyzing our life. Again—Judge Parker's belated telegram, eight years overdue, is an admission of the rightfulness of the views of the Republican party on the money question, which views gave finance to the country, which the Republican party should receive indorsement upon the election of Roosevelt. Tearbanks. And above all gratitude, duty, a regard for the future safety and happiness of our race throughout the country should all imply an attitude to support the people and Fairbanks, and should be elected because the triumph of the Democratic party means continued and extended disfranchisement, and degradation of the race, the triumph of the Southern senate, the triumph of North and the moral effect of such in its last analysis means the retard of the race for a time man can estimate. I cannot but believe that my race, seeing the will work and vote, will be for the election of the Republican candidates. T. V. Wernon, Ououndaro, Kan., October, 1904. HON. GEORGE H. WHITE Ex-Member of Congress, Attorney at Law at Washington. To the Editor of The Appeal: In reply to your inquiry "Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks," permit me to say, that the Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The Republican party, because these candidates are anachronistic for American industries, for equality before the law for all American citizens, irrespective of race or previous condition of servitude. They should support Mr. Roosevelt because he has declared, and lived up to his declaration, that he hopes should not be clashed against any man account of his color or racial He should be supported because he is positive, courageous, honest and strenuous—and a known quantity; in contra-distinction from his opponent who is silent, rabid and quantity; and above all, sourrounded, largely controlled by, and if elected must owe his elevation to, the solid South which is opposed to the Afro-American's civil, political, and in many instances, material rights, and new rights. He will humiliate, curtail and derate his manhood and to make him feel that he is an alien and a stranger in the land of his nativity. Mr. Roosevelt and Senator Fair- THE APPEAL. banks should be elected and of course, supported by the race, because they are the head of and stand for that political party which has passed every law looking to the enfranchisement of the race. The president has ever been passed either in the states or nation. We should support Mr. Roosevelt because the election of his opponent would be a menace to our future and would, in my opinion, bring about oppressive prescriptions under which our Southern brethren are now living. We would- support them because there is absolutely no room on the Democratic platform for a self-respecting Afro-American citizen to stand, in the light of the prescriptive lariations of the leaders of that party. George H. White. Washington, D. C. October, 1904. Attorney at Law, Dean College of Law, Louisville, Ky. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The present campaign in many regions has focused on the importance in the history of the Republic. Wrapped up in its outcome are problems of the most far reaching significance to all. This campaign will not only exclude whether we are to have a Nation of Nationals, but another question which reaches down to the very corner stone of all government: Shall the Federal Constitution be the law South as well as North and shall equally be the laws of the citizens or by only a part of the citizens? In a splendid outburst of eloquence, Frederick Douglass once asked the question: "What does it profit a Nation or be clouds, if it is false the great trusts committed to it?" The question as to whether the Afro-American shall be secure in the civil and political rights vouchsafed by the Constitution would all other questions. President Roosevelt will not close the door of hope to the worthy Aro American and the African American voter of the race should support him. Albert S. White. HON J. T. SETTLE Attorney at Law and Noted Orator, Memphis, Tenn. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Ramadan? (Tuesday, Feb. 24) Every man in the United States who has one drop of Negro blood in his veins, who is loyal to, and not ashamed of that blood, should be aware that they are the representatives of that party which gave us freedom, made us citizens and then gave us the ballot with those constitutional rights. Because they represent a party which has never whenever and wherever in power, made unjust and oppressive laws against them, and the body politic. While the Democratic party, whenever and wherever in power has made our Constitutional rights a nullity and our citizenship a farce. Because they represent the only party that forms a body politic enough for every event and race to stand. Their defeat means the success of a party on whose platform the Negro has no place, who are opposed, educated, educated, and who have chose every avenue to distinction to him, and eternally bar him from the higher walks of life, and take from the Constitution the 14th and 15th editions of the platform of the Republican party as is broad as humanity; and Roosevelt and Fairbanks cover the entire platform. Josiah T. Settle, Memphis, Teen., October, 1904. S. P. PEAKER, ESQ. Prominent Worker in the Interest of the Race in Connecticut. To the Editor of The Appeal. In reply to your question, "Why Afro-Americans Should Support Roosevelt and Fairbanks?" I have to say that while the question is interesting, the answer is so apparent that it would seem a waste of time and space in making reply to do more than to refer to the present, attitude of the two great political parties on the so-called race problem. If Judge Parker should be elected president, he would be dominated by the South, which is the body and strength of the Democratic party of the country, and with the Morgan, Tillman, Vardaman coterie in the Southern states at the helm, the door of hope of Afro-Americans seeking relief from inhuman, oppressive conditions in the South, would indefinitely closed. To elect Theodore Roosevelt president of the United States is to elect a man who has declared himself upon the question of human liberty, in language which he has declared it is irrevocable. Mr. Roosevelt has said: "If I could be absolutely assured of my election as President by turning my back on the principles of human liberty as enunciated by Abraham Lincoln, I could be capable of doing it and unit for president if I were capable of doing it." S. P. Peaker. New Hayen, Conn., October, 1904. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1904. Afro-Americans Solid for the Republican Ticket. THEODORE ROOSEVELT President of the United States----And Will be Again Nov. 8th. 8. LAING WILLIAMS, ESG. Attorney at Law, Chicago, Treasurer, The Brotherhood Insurance Co. To the Editor of The Appeal. Why Afro-Americans Should Vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Against the power against Roosevelt and Fairbanks would be to approve every disfranchisement law and other race discriminating measures passed by the Southern wing of the Democratic party. Second, because to vote against Roosevelt is a sacrifice, the power for unclef of Tillman, and every other reactionary politician in the Southern democracy. THE President of the Un Third, because Roosevelt stands for the wide open door of opportunity for all men and his opponents for the open door for only some men. Some meaning and force to the war amendments; his opponents believe either in repealing such amendments or nullifying the liberty-giving spirit that brought them into being. For the merit of all men, his opponents stand for the merit of only some men. Sixth, with Roosevelt, character is everything, with his opponents, color is everything. Seventh, with Roosevelt the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence must be a vital part of all our national policies, with his opponents, the Golden Rule is a thing of brass and the Declaration of Independence means nothing for colored men. Finally Afro-Americans must either vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks, or vote against themselves and their posterity. S. Laing Williams. Chicago, Ill, October, 1904. President Capital Savings Bank, Little Rock, Ark., ExJudge. To the Editor of The Appeal. Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks— Because they represent in a distinctive manner the principles and needs of human freedom, political equality, and the righteousness of a free ballot and a fair count for every citizen of the republic. Because they are opposed by the representatives of a party, who fought four years for the purpose of destroying the Union and perpetuating slavery and are even now in portions of the South maintaining a temporary language which is but slavery expected. Defective Page Because as loyal citizens, we take pride in the achievements and prowess of American statesmanship abroad, and the heretofore unequaled material developments at home under the leatherback of the Democratic party as exemplified by its Titans and Vardamans, is a stench in the noirtris of decent Americans and a disgust to the national conscience. Because of Roosevelt's breadth of sympathy for the poor and oppressed as expressed in his own words, he is more than some men down" and his interest in industrial education and its chief promoter, Booker T. Washington. HEODORE ROOSEVELT United States----And Will What's the matter with Teddy? He's all right! Mifflin W. Gibbs. Little Rock, Ark., October, 1904'. HON HARRY S. CUMMINGS Attorney at Law, Ex-Member Balti- more Common Council. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Ro- mania? 1. Because they are the candidates of the Republican party. More than fifty years ago a band of liberty loving patrons met at Jackson, Michigan, to protest the political organization ever formed in any country. Its watchword was then and is now "Liberty to All Mankind." Its early struggles resulted in the emancipation of slaves and into the Constitution such measures as would make perpetual his freedom and secure to him his civil and political rights and today the Republican party stands as the protector of the Afro-American people. 2. The Afro-American should vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks because both of these candidates represent in their careers the true spirit of our constitution. He is also a noble person; only asks that he be given a man's chance and he will prove his capacity and ability. For this fairplay for all American citizens, there is no stronger advocate than Theodore Roosevelt, who is the American citizen, who believes that merit not color, ability not nationality should be the standards by which Americans should be judged. The patriotic career of Fairbanks is the best of all his sterling Republicanism all combine to make him a fit person to preside over the U. S. Senate of which he has been a useful member. Harry S. Cummings. Baltimore, Md., October, 1904. VOTE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET J JAMES H. GUY, ESQ. Attorney at Law, Topeka, Kansas. Organizer National 'Afro-American Council. To the Editor of The Appeal. Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Because they are the exponents of the true principles and doctrines of Republicanism, principles that stand against the principles that favor a free and untrammeled suffrage, and equal political rights to all. Because their election will insure the prosperity in the commercial and financial world, a pros LT be Again Nov. 8th. perity upon which depends the happiness and comfort of the American people. Because their election will demonstrate the fact that the people of this country are in favor of law and order and are opposed to the doctrines advocated by Vardaman and the triumphibles of the Southern Democracy. James H. Guy. Topeka, Kansas, October, 1904. WALTER M. FARMER, ESQ. Prominent Attorney at Law, St. Louis Missouri—Nat'l Seal I, U. B. F. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Aro-Americas should support Russell's plan. There has not been a National Campaign in the last 40 years fought with so much interest to the Afro-American of this country as the one now in progress. Although the Democratic party failed to win the presidential by express declaration in its National Platform, the Afro-American, nevertheless would be the greatest sufferer through Mr. Parker's election. I know nothing of Mr. Parker's individual views as to the Afro-American's nevertheless would be the fair treatment as a man, but having witnessed the proceedings of the National Democratic Convention, heard the speeches, and noted the men who controlled its deliberations and directed its sentiment. I am convinced that Mr. Parker's campaign was the Afro-American of this country but deep humiliation, base injustice and a gloomy future. Distranchishment of the race in the South is not all that such men as John Sharp, Williams, Tillman, Vardaman, and others are demanding for the cry of "White man's government" means that the Afro-American should not be allowed to participate in the affairs of government that he should not be allowed to vote or hold official positions under the Constitution, that the citizenship guaranteed us by the 14th amendment to the Con ```markdown ``` stitution shall be taken away. Our condition in that event would be incomparable. The Indian is the wizard of the Nation and as such is entitled to the care and protection of his guardian. The Afro-American would not even be the wizard of the Nation, the alien is compelled by internal pressure and can claim the protection of his country when his rights are denied or infringed. The Afro-American without citizenship is "A man without a Country." It seems to me that these considerations alone, are sufficient to prompt every Afro-American in this country to do all in his power to bring about the defeat of Mr. Parker and his party and the election of Mr. Roosevelt to the presidency. Walter M. Farmer, St. Louis Mo., October, 1904. T. B. MORTON, ESQ. Afro-American State Council, San Francisco, California. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. We should support President Roosevelt because his patriotism cannot be challenged and his greatest interest and most earnest thoughts are of the citizenship of this country, especially the nation which is now in the making, which will control, the government in the future. He opposes plutocracy in government and government by mob rule, and declares that a republic of freemen to be one in which every man is entitled to equal encouragement, opportunity and protection. Theodore is in a class all by himself in constant sympathetic working touch with men in all conditions of Because the entire history, political, statutory, legislative and judicial of the Democratic party, in the Nation, and in all of the states, from the adoption of the Constitution to the present Jim Crow times, shows that their chief contention and the Aro-American has been being and to deny him the enjoyment of his rights as a citizen and as a man. T. B. Morton, San Francisco, California, October, 1904. RT. REV, J. W. HOOD, D. L. LL, D. Bishop of the A. M. E. Z. Church, Fayetteville, N. C. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt, Falkbanks. 1. Because they represent the world's best sentiment and the highest and holiest aim of humanity. They represent righteousness; justice, the equality of rights, hope and a fair opportunity for all, regardless of life in life. They represent peace on earth and good will towards men. 2. The Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks because their leading opponents represent the opposite sentiment. They represent the sentiment which caused the violent slave wars and Dr. David Dudley and is responsible for all the degrading legislation enacted against the Afro-American during the past fifty years. They represent the sentiment which if possible would turn back the tide of human progress and restore slavery in its worst form, as has already been done in some places. I could give many, many reasons but the foregoing are sufficient. J. W. Hood. Fayetteville, N. C. October, 1904. T. THOS. FORTUNE, ESQ. Editor New York Age=Author, Pub- To The Editor of The Annual: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt, Falkhanks. I favor the election of Theodore Roosevelt to be President because he stands for that makes for strength, for justice, for prosperity and for righteousness in the nation. T. Thomas Fortune. New York, October, 1904. BISHOP ABRAHAM GRANT Presiding Bishop and President of Financial Board 5th Episcopal Dist. A. M. E. To the Editor of The Appeal: Referring to your request that I write a short communication on sub-committee should Support Roosevelt and Fairbanks," I hey to say that they should support the candidates named for the same reasons that all other citizens in the United States should do so. Considering them from all points of view, and most evident, and best prepared persons for the office for which they have been nominated now before the American people. Aro-Americans in particular should support them because at this time we need persons at the helm of state in whom there is no question as to the nature of all people under the American flag. This nation has a standing in the estimation of foreign countries, such as it has, never enjoyed heretofore, and that standing and the role it plays in the present administration, and if the country will appreciate valuable service and its own prosperity they should continue President Reeve as chief magistrate of the nation and the banks as the second man in the government. A. Grant. Indianapolis, Ind., October, 1904. $2.40 PER YEAR. AIRBANKS PARAGRAPHS. REV. E. C. MORRIS, President National Baptist Convention With Over 3,000,000 Members. To the Editor of The Appeal Referring to the subject, "Why Afro-Americans Should Support Roosevelt and Fairbanks," would say, that to my mind the following would be an excellent summary of most of the many reasons why Roosevelt and Fairbanks should be elected President and First. They are the nominees of a party whose wisdom in the conduct of the affairs of our Republic is firmly, and irrevocably established." This party can be relied upon not only for soundness of government, under reasonable off-fence conditions, but also for a wise and whimming internals) policy—and, consequently promoting the greatest measure of internal prosperity and happiness, as well as the trust service in promoting civilization; but this party can be relied on to select a state and a platform of principles and faithfully execute its policies, or even to be its real representatives or exponents in any emergency on which the party through its representation in any association did not have occasion to express itself. Second, Roosevelt and Fairbanks are in every way competent and qualified from a personal view point to fill the offices to which they pred, and, pre-eminently so, for they are ideal Americans and able states- They have the courage of their convictions. Their party is broad and they are broad, and may be relied upon, if elected, to be the leader of our common country, to the exclusion of no class or race or section of American citizens. The principles for which they stand are the safest, broadest, more in accord with the nature of the evidence in toto, and more likely to conserve the best interests of all concerned in or by the government of our great country than those of any other candidates now aspiring to the exalted position of President and Vice President. E. C. Morrison, Helena, Ark. October, 1904. D. AUGUSTUS STRAKER, ESG. To the Editor of "the Appeal": Why Afro-Americans should support Israel. I will gladly say that President Roosevelt should receive the support of every Afro-American voter because he has shown himself to be the friend of the Afro-American and the advocate and protector of citizens, not only as president but as man regarding all other men as his equal in their civil rights because of his manly and courageous stand in defending the right of the Afro-American to enjoy the same rights for the same and his God like statement that "the door of hope should not be shut against any man because of color or race"; because in his election the Afro-American is sure to win. He just defender of his rights as a citizen. His defeat would be the greatest calamity that has happened to the negro since the assassination of Lincoln. God forend D. Augustus Straker. Detroit, Mich., October, 1904. DR. CHARLES E. BENTLEY Leading Dentist, Chicago—Secretary, Provident Hospital. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americanists should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Because they are the exponents of the principle of equality. Because they are obliged to give equality to all men before the law. Because their election means the public approval of the policy advocated by Roosevelt "that individual worth should be the proper test for men. Because the head of the ticket has a fully developed sense of justice, and the courage to stand for it, even at the expense of his political estates. Because if ever the Afro-American had a reason to vote the republican ticket he has it at this junction of the city. The crisis through which he is passing in his political life is largely due to the southern wing of the Democratic party against which the Republican has been a consistent opponent. JOHN L. THOMPSON, ESC. Editor the Iowa State Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Bystander? Every voter of the race should register his protest against the tyrannical acts and villainous utterances of the Democrats, and especially denounce their disfranchising laws. We of the North and West suffer whenever one of our race is wronged in the South. Every African-American should cast his vote for the Republican standard-bearers, Roosevelt and Fairbanks. John L. Thompson. Des Moine, Iowa, October, 1904. HON. EDWARD H. WRIGHT. Member Illinois State Republican Committee, Attorney at Law. Why Afro-Americans Should Support Roosevelt and Fafnkhs. Because they are the candidates of the Republican party—which stands for the equality of all citizens before the law, regardless of race, previous citizenship, or habitation within the United States. Because the Republican party, in its platform, favors the enforcement of the Constitution of the United States, it is required to prioritize one man's vote in the South to count for as much as three men's votes in the North and West in deciding the votes of States in the electoral college and in the election of members of the House of Representatives in Congress. Because Theodore Roosevelt is the most conspicuous representative of the ideal American citizen; he has faith in the future of his country for all its people; he enforces the laws impartially against the rich and the poor and he gives the protection of the laws to rich and poor alike. Because the Republican party has brought the country into its people and as wage earners the Afro-American can not be prosperous unless the country enjoys prosperity. Because the Democratic party stands for no principles that mean the progress and advancement of the American either politically or industrially. Because the past history of our country shows the Democratic party to be wholly incapable of legislating or executing the laws in such a way as to bring happiness to the citizen or prosperity to our country. Chicago, Ill., October, 1904. RT. REV. C. R. HARRIS, A. M., D. D Bishop of the A. M. E. Z. Church, Win ston-Salem, N. C. To the Editor of The Appeal: To the Editor Americans should support Roosevelt, and Falkins. 1. The reactionary influence of proslavery sentiments as evinced by the establishment of peonage in certain sections of the Southern States will only be stemmed by the election of the Republican candidate. It should be elected, the same Democratic party which at present nullifies the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States would seek to repeal them. 2. The firm and persistent stand which Roosevelt has made during the present administration in behalf of the equal civil and political rights of the Afro-American, especially in maintaining that the "door of hope" must not be closed to the intelligent, industrious and competent of the race, entitle him to the warmest gratitude and race in the South and North Alaska. 4. The fact that the fiercest abuse and denunciation of President Roosevelt is heaped upon him because he invited an Afro-American to join him in White House, should call forth the unanimous effort of the Afro-American to retain him in the presidential chair. The Afro-American has a share in the White Houseurchased by the older members of the race who lay down their lives to save the Union, which the fathers of the traductors of the President, sought to destroy. C. R. Harris. Winston-Salem, N. C., October, 1904. J. SILAS HARRIS Principal Penn School, President Afro-American State League. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Theodore Roosevelt represents the highest type of rugged American mankind. He has made the president of all of the people, making good every promise made by his party. The triumph of Republicanism at the polls on Nov. 8th means more to the Afro-American than it does to any other class of our citizenship. He fostered forty years of material growth, his rights under the law, the future happiness and prosperity of his children will depend upon the election of Roosevelt. Confronted by such a condition. I believe that every decent Afro-American will cast his vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. J. Silas Harris. Kansas City, Mo., October, 1904. RT. REV. G. W. CLINTON, A. M., D. D. Bishop of the A. M. E. Church, Charlotte, N. C. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-American should support Roosevelt and Falklands. 1. It is duty to every Afro-American voter to look well to the best interests of the country in general as well as his own interests in particular. 2. It is the duty of every Afro-American voter in the country to qualify and cast his vote for the party that has proven its ability to administer the Government for the best interests of the whole people. 3. It is the duty of every Afro-American voter, who believes that the best interests of the country be a part of the broad culture, thoroughly trained in statesmanship, in harmony with every article of the Constitution, willing to do his duty to all men according to the teachings of God's Word, to cast his vote for Theodore Roosevelt or Afro-American who is a Christian should make it one of the special burdens of his daily prayers that God may give divine help to bring about the triumph of the Republican party both in the election of Roosevelt and Falklands and in the Republic House of Representatives. As an American citizen, a resident of an Southern state, where the Afro American has been largely disfrain chised, not because he is in the major ability and able to dominate, but because of his race, I appeal to my brethren of the race everywhere, to think well pray earnestly and vote right on November 8, 1904. George W. Clinton, Charlotte, N. C., October, 1904. ALFRED B. COSEY, ESQ. Member of New Jersey State Republic Law-at-Law To the Bills of the APPLE Why Afro-Americans should support Booseyvelt, *Fairbanks* Rossevelt and Fairbanks. The Afro-Americans should support Rossevelt in the position for president and vice president of the Unite States, because they belong to, and are the standard bearers of, the party of liberty, progress, courage and equal opportunity for all humanity. Because President Roosevelt is a leader, of unflinching courage, a man of wisdom, a man of action, one who openly expresses national pride and open the door of hope and the door of opportunity, to all worthy American citizens, regardless of their race color or creed, and will never suffer it to be closed upon anyone, because of the color of his skin; but that character, merit and worth in their various communities shall be only recommendation for public office. Because the president has in every way shown his willingness and readiness to assist every worthy Afro-American. Because he has set a precedent, for the youth of this nation, that in future manhood he will be the requirements to fit one for any office in the gift of the people and not race or color. The Afro-Americans should support Senator Fairbanks for vice president of the United States because his every act has proven him a suitable person to assist President Roosevelt in conducting the affairs of a great nation such as ours, in a speech delivered in Freehold, New Jersey, June, 1903, said, "I seek to teach the lesson of fair dealings among all men, may the Republic of the United States ever stand majestic and powerful as the everlasting symbol of human liberty." Because they individually and collectively represent the best type of American citizenship. The Afro-Americans of New Jersey will to a man every year offer two advance agents of justice to all. Alfred B. Cosey, Kowark, N. J. Couch, HON, JUDSON W, LYONS. Register of the United States Treasury, Washington, D.C. To the Editor of The Appeal: The Republican ticket headed by Roosevelt and Fairbanks deserves and merits the support of the American people for many and various reasons —reasons which are so weighty, that reasons which are given by the position pales into insignificance when compared with them. 1st. The Republican party is a harmonious, united and cohesive national organization standing for the best under a Republican name; government ways. 2nd. It makes good its platform declarations, and acknowledged utterances, in the proper administration of affairs, wherever and whenever charged with government. Its ability to govern, and its best official administration, has been clearly shown on all occasions when in power. It stands for the greatest good possible to the American people first. It stands for human liberty, irrespective of race, color or condition; and for this, it has made many and large leaders today. Roosevelt and Fairbanks, are backed by records of which not only their friends and supporters are proud, but the world at large admits are among the best of the time. The above are some, although not the sum of the reasons why the Republican ticket should be elected this fall. J. W. Lyons. Washington, D. C., October, 1904. ROBERT J. NELSON. President of Afro-American Republican League of Pennsylvania. To the Editor of The Appeal: In response to your request I am pleased to briefly give a few words on 'Why Afro-American Should Support the Republican League of Pennsylvania' lean citizen is interested in a greater extent in the well being of this country than is the Afro-American. His patriotism is a safe indication of his national pride. When he considers the manliness of the Republican party he pays half century and the conspicuous part taken in its development by the Republican party this, if for no other reason would impel him to support that matchless leader, Theodore Roosevelt, and his running mate, Theodore Roosevelt, in addition to this the Afro-American considers the indisputable fact that since the emancipation proclamation became effective, and civil and political rights were accorded him through the persistent efforts of the Republic's political support pipelines to that party. The Republican party stands as the champion of the Afro-American; the Democratic party stands in an attitude inimical to his interests where an attempt to control the discharge of the highest duty of an American citizen—the right to cast a free and untrrained ballet—is denied him, which is virtually a nullification of the national constitution. There is but one course to the problem: Support the candidacy of a man who honestly believes in merit regardless of color; one who, deaf to the clamor of Negro-haters believes that his duty is to administer the laws for all races. Robert J. Nelson, Harrisburg, Pa., 1904. HON H. T. EUBANKS To the Editor of The Appeal: Why do Americans should support Ropesh and Kashmir? My views historically expressed are as follows: There has never been a time in all our history when the Ballot of the colored man so near approaches the often added expression "Sacredness"—Sacred because Theodore Roosevelt stands for the purity, protection and free exercise of the Ballot by all men regardless of class or nationality and because the Republic is a democratic society of equality of all men without reference to race or nationality, and this belief it has supported by the most costly and sanguinary war in our history. The Democratic party believes in restricting the privilege of citizenship to a particular class and has written her opinions into Statutes. Constitutions are written in a particular state where the party is dominant. The colored man ought to vote for Theodore Roosevelt because he stands for the equal rights of all men and for a Republican form of government that is more democratic than that of her citizens. The recognition of these facts at this time by voting the straight Republican ticket will be an incentive to those who come after Theodore Roosevelt to recognize more citizens of the uplifting and purifying of American citizenship. H. T. Eubanks. Cleveland, Ohio, October, 1904. "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." J. Charles W. Fairbanks, the Republican candidate for Vice President, was reared on a farm. The elder Fairbanks had an Afro-American working for him on the farm, and this man being clean and respectable, ate at the family board. On one occasion, Fairbanks was at the farm when a company employed by a neighboring farmer refused to sit down at the table with the Afro-American. "Ah. very well," said the head of the house, "I never require any man to eat with a colored man. Mother, please set a table over near the window for Mr., and the exclusive farm hand ate by himself, while the others the Afro-American held a table with a family thing. This is a story by Bishop Fairbanks told a few years ago at a meeting presided over by Bishop Grant, of the A. M. E. Church. HON. EDWARD H. MORRIS. Attorney at Law, Chicago, Member Illinois Legislature. To the Editor of The Appeal. Why Afro-Americans Should Support Housewife and Farbanks. Support Housewife and represent a higher type of true American citizenship than any of the other candidates for the two highest positions in the gift of the people. Please change to do the right as they see it. They can not be influenced by one section of the country to shut their eyes to the wrongs inflicted upon any citizen. The party whose vanguards they are, comes nearer making an honest effort to make all men equal before the law, than any other part. The party that inflicted them does not draw its life and vitality from race prejudice and hatred. Edward H. Morris. Chicago, Ill. October, 1904. JOHN W. THOMPSON Treasurer National Afro-American Council. To the Editor of The Appeal: To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Why the two national Republican candidates should receive the hearty support of every Afro-American voter. I cannot see how a member of the Afro-American race with any racial pride or self respect as a citizen could support the Democratic ticket this year—a vote for that party: a vote to put the halter of prejudice, disfranchisement and proscription about their necks in the face. Why should support Roosevelt because he stands on the safe and sane platform of the Republican party and because Charles W. F. was reared on working for him at the family Fairbanks' home, fused to sit down said the head of the man. Mother, pious and the exclusive American laughed Fairbanks told a Grant, of the A. M. the president has said he would not close the door of hope and opportunity against any man on account of race, creed or color and that is sufficient guarantee of a true American statesman. He believes that every man should have full protection of the law whether he be from the North or South, white or black. He is a brave defender of human rights and as honest and true as steel and therefore deserves the protection and patriotism of Afro-American citizen. No Afro-American with any degree of consistency would do otherwise when he thinks of Ben Tillman of Arkansas, who was Davis of Arkansas. The mentioning of these men ought to be sufficient to make every Afro-American Democrat if there be any, to hide his face. Rochester, N. Y., October 1904. Rochester, N. Y., October 1904. HON, R. HENRI HERBERT Member of New Jersey State Republi can Committee. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Racism? Theodore Roosevelt should be elected president of the United States to prevent the absolute nullification of the great war amendments to the Constitution, which cost billions of money and rivers of the patriotic red blood of immortal heroes, black and white to incorporate them into war. He should be elected president because of the enemies he has made; because the lynchers and the looters hate him—the traitors to the starry flag and their progeny who burn women at the stake, reinstitute slavery in the Cotton States and rob men of property, ballot and opportunity to run for the darkest and they vote for the party of Lincoln and Grant and Roosevelt, if they get the chance. He should be elected president because of the friends he has; because the patriots and the plodders, the doers and the darers, love him—those who hold above price the privilege of liberty and opportunity won by their fathers, who wrest from the bowels of the earth the wood of the forest and the vlurant forces of the ether the earth of the body who patiently and effectively toll for food and family and who dare to protest against wrong and injustice to the weak and unfortunate; against sham and evil; whether in high or low places. Theodore Roosevelt should be elected president, and Theodore Roosevelt will be elected president, because right wingers will come injustice, but will carb greed, liberty will conquer the not yet dead serpent of slavery and the preservation of the high ideals and manifest destiny of the greatest Republic on earth. Surveyor of the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Racism? The Democratic party opposed the freedom of the slave, it opposed the education of the race, it has disfranchised the Afro-American people in the "Solid South" it has deprived them of all civil and political rights, it has raised the race issue in this campaign, causing an uncalled for race feeling and Democratic success upon pennsylvania South. We have on the other hand, "The Grand Old Republican Party," the party of freedom, the friend of the oppressed, represented by that fearless leader, Theodore Roosevelt, who has the courage of his convictions. I believe that I sent the sentiment, the voice of the South. No seat respecting Afro-Americans, who has the least spark of manhood burning J. HON. CHARLES W. FAIRBANKS, fairbanks, the Republican candidate for a farm. The elder.Fairbanks had a on the farm, and this man being clean board: On one occasion, when harvests one of the hands employed by a neighbor at the house with the Afro-American house, "I never require any man to set a table over near the window farm hand ate by himself, while the otte and ate at the family table. This is new years ago at a meeting presided I. E. Church. in his breast can vote for any other than the National Republican ticket, "ROOSEVELT AND FAIRBANKS." James Lewis. New Orleans, La., October, 1904. "STAND BY THE PRESIDENT." Receiver of Public Moneys at Little Rock, Ark. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Racism? 1. Because Theodore Roosevelt, the nominee of the Republican party for President has shown himself to be the friend of the laboring man. Many years ago when he was a member of the New York legislature he introduced measures for the relief of the tolling classes which became law—legislative measures which deprived the spirit no less than his practical statemanship. 2. He has been an uncompromising enemy to fraud and corruption in both public and private life. 3. His experience in public life has been vast and unusually full of stirring events and trying ordeals before which he has never finched. He has seen the New York National departments of the Government, demonstrating remarkable efficiency wherever he has labored. 4. His filling out of the unexpired term of the lamented McKinley has been of great benefit to the Republic, and has been an important source of an Isthmian Route at Panama; laws enacted and enforced for the prevention of illegal mergers; and contracts in restraint of the United States abroad as the result of astute and sagacious diplomacy; and enhancement of the general prosperity of all classes of citizens; and has expressed himself in favor of a square deal than in the country white or black. J. E. Bush. J. E. Bush, Little Rock, Ark., October, 1904. VOTE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINEES. HON. HENRY A. BUCKER Collection of United States Internal Revenue, Atlanta, Georgia. To the Editor of The Appeal. Our Afro-American citizens do not wish to dominate other people, but they right guaranteed by the Constitution and exercised by other races—Justice! They are opposed to being ruled by ignorance, whether the color of the ruler is white or black—Reasonable! They are injured by injustice, whether the color of the white people or black ones—Wrong! They are opposed to one interpretation of the law for a white criminal and an other for a black criminal—Equity! They are opposed to paying for first class accommodations and then have second and third class fares forced on them. They believe that toll, education, industry and morality, whether in the black man or the white man should rank idleness, ignorance, sluggishness and 'deprivacy in either' Merit! They favor but one vote for each qualified elector and that one counted equal to any other vote—Fairness! They believe in the Federal Constitution and they have sacrificed their lives for its perpeturity—Patriotism! Roosevelt and Fairbanks and the Republican party endorse this code of principles and colored men should be allowed with their ballots November 8th. The Democratic party is controlled by its Southern wing—Hornors! This wing feeds and fattens on race prejudice—Deprivation! "It's 'Bible' contains but one text— 'Keep the nigger down!' It stands for white supremacy and Negro degradation—Absurd! Vice President, in Afro-American and respectable, letters were at the amboring farmer re- "Ah, very well," heat with a colored for Mr. _____ letters and the Afro- a story Senator over by Bishop It stands for control by the classes—White! It deprives the Afro-American of a ballot and leaves him no means of defense—Outrageous! It deprives the Afro-American and in every case of conflict between the races finds him at fault—Preposterous! When crime is committed and the perpetrator is unknown, it begins to be punished instead of a criminal—Unfairness! These are Democrats—These are Parker and Davis Democrats—These Democrats should be defeated by ballots cast by Afro-Americans. Atlanta, Ga, October 1904 Business Manager Colored Co-Operative Publishing and Printing Co. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Everybody should vote. Afro-American should vote. election of President Roosevelt. No Afro-American can afford at this time to think of voting the Democratic ticket. No good reason can be given for the justification of voting the Democratic party is opposed to us, does not give encouragement to us, and does everything against us. Theodore Roosevelt has shown himself broad of thought, and as the exponent of Reconstruction, he has united support. No Afro-American will vote to endorse Vardaman, Tillman and Gorman. They are the representative of their party and they represent "Jim Crow" cars, and disfranchise legislation. Fred R. Moore. New York, N. Y., October, 1904. Vice President of Wilberforce Univer city To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Because it is our only hope. In such an administration we know we have a friend who recognizes neither race, color nor creed where human liberty and human rights are concerned. It would be suicidal indeed to refuse such an assertion asserted by word and deed that a man is a man, and that no Afro-American shall find the door of opportunity shut in his face. Roosevelt fears nothing. He is a man with positive conjections and the courage to surrender himself to the unpleasant to no sentiment that would crush us because of color. As far as his power can extend we are assured of fair treatment, fair play, fair chance. No party but the Republican party has sought to accord list to us; to whom we have asked what we have achieved, and the logic of events should lead us to but one decision. If we want our rights, if we want opportunity, if we want protection by legal methods, if we want to live, if we want to vote, if we must vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks; for to vote against them is to antagonize our best interests as a race for power, and the success of the Republican party lies our hope for all we hold dearest and best—our lives, our freedom, our rights, our hqn and our happiness. 8, Scarborough, Wilberforce, Ohio, October, 1904; HON JOHN P. GREEN United States Postage Stamp Agent, Washington, D.C. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-American should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Because, as the most prominent Republican in the United States, if elected President, he would govern the Republic in accordance with Republican principles, as expressed by its platform of the land. Wherever the Republican party is in power, life is, generally, secure; and breaches of law for the protection of life, are vindicated—punished. The Afro-American exercises the privilege of casting his ballot and having it counted for the candidate of his choice, nowhere, in the United States, save where a robust Republican sentiment and active partisanship is found. Over the Democratic party dominates and sways popular sentiment, in the absence of an active Republican minority, the Afro-American is substantially disfranchised and the Fifteenth Amendment is denounced. Peonage, which is another name for the enslavement of the Afro-American, is found only in the states where the up-holders are prosecuted only by our Republican Administration. Lynchning cannot, in the absence from the spot, of Government troops, be prevented by the President; because he does not know where the next lynchning will take place; and the victim is lynched before orders could be given. The train even if he has apple authority. Our Protective Tariff, which is a Republican measure, by increasing the volume of business and the circus industry, and travel and aids the manufacturer and those working in factories; but, by increasing travel and money, it aids the merchant in his store, the barber in his shop, the cook in his kitchen, the cook and waiter in their respective places of business. As to the President, he is many, just, aggressive, resolute, and friend of the "under dog," whether white or black. Therefore, for the good of the Republic, every Afro-American should vote for him. John P. Green. Washington D. C., October 1904. HERSCHEL V. CASHIN Receiver of Public Monies at Huntsville, ville. Alo. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. What should be done to danger the duty of unity is imperative. This was the sense that impelled the Virginia patriot to warn his colleagues in the Virginia convention that they must handle the bodies of those body or hang separately outside. By a patient, persistent and insidious poisoning and embittering of the public mind with respect to the capacity of the Afro-American for the duties of freedom, citizenship and suffrage, southern demographics and years ingeniously exploiting every weakness and infirmity of the Afro-American; inherent with long years of slavery, whereby a predicted train of progression or consequences would render congenial the public mind for the final act in a national drama of disfranchisement that would appear too harsh for public apprehension. When the time was favorable for the purpose the sectional disfranchisement of the race was accomplished by constitutional provisions and today few Afro-American citizens, whatever their qualifications as to character, education' or property, are permitted to vote under the new constitutions of Let no Afro-American be deceived; to our enemies the times doubtlessly appear propitious to try the issue that overshadows all others of the class of Afro-American remain a citizen of this republic? For the affirmative of this proposition stand Roosevelt and Fairbanks like the twin pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar. The menace to the rights of the Afro-American is immediate, threatening and apparent that no further reason is necessary why they should support the Republican nominees. Huntsville, Alabama, October, 1904. E. P. McCABE Asst. Superintendent and Auditor to the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americans should support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Afro-Americans should support President Roosevelt because common sense suggests it. They should support him because any other course would be inimical to their best interest because over and above all other reasons he is Honest, Clean, Capable, and absolutely fearless, having all through his public career be right, what good and sufficient reason exists, that not only Afro-Americans should support him, but, that all Americans should hold one acclaim pronounce him President E. P. M.Cabe, Guthrie, Oklahoma, October, 1904. Prominent Historian, Author and Publisher. To the Editor of The Appeal: Why Afro-Americanists should support Roosevelt and Falkbanks. Not discounting in the least the fact that in many of the Afro-American hating sections of the country it is expected that the old might fly off" should Roosevelt be defeated, and lynching and the demand for a pastime, still the main and paramount argument from the Afro-American's standpoint for the election of Theodore Roosevelt as President lies in the fact that if he is defeated it will probably be because some of the dourish in his speech will balance the balance of power he will against him—in which case his defeat will be charged up to the Afro-American race. We will be denounced as ingrates and political roboons who failed to stand up for the man in the White House, who has laid down the rule of equality and squared up to it. And just here is where the shoe is pinching. If Roosevelt is defeated in such a manner as to leave open the possibility of charging his defeat up to the possibility of winning hereafter it will be useless and futile for any white man to take a bold and decided stand for equal treatment of Afro-Americans as other citizens of the country. We find those champions in the ranks of the white race which he so much needs, especially at this crucial period of his history this country. We would be nothing short of a calamity: A vote for Roosevelt is a chance to strike a blow for freedom. He represents the principles of the Golden Rule, he represents the spirit of the forefathers of the republic, and would restrict the blessings of liberty to neither white man nor the black man, standing by the declarations of independence, he would emphasize the words of that immortal document, "that all men are created free and equal and endowed by their creator with certain inallenable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Let no Afro-American or white man who believes in the fundamental principle of equality, make the fatal binder of his life of voting against this man in November next. E, A, JOHNSON. Raleigh, N. C., October 1994. POLITICAL POINTERS. The Afro-American cannot afford to break his seried forces, consecrated to liberty and equality before the law, until every man everywhere in this broad land has mastered the art of defending the. The Afro-American's mission is a soldier of liberty will not be ended until every Populist, Prohibitionist and Republican enjoys his civil and political rights as amply as a Democrat. To-day no Democrat can compete with a perfect quality before the law in any section of this country. He is as free in Vermont or Iowa as in Mississippi or Georgia, and wherever the opposite party rules he has naught to make him afraid. But this is not true as to Populists. In some cases, they can insureicans. In some sections of the country, in at least one-fourth of the States of the Union, if they would live unmolested, they must smother their convictions and vote with the ruling side since their business and be against the interest of the government. This is an corrected of right; it must be corrected. The men of opposite faith to this favored son of America must be enabled to stand upon the same plane as men in every section of this country. "I am opposed to the nigger's voting, it matters not what his advertised moral and mental qualifications may be. I am just as much opposed to him as Anglo-Saxon reinforcements, voting as I am to voting by the coconut headed, chocolate colored, typical little coon, Andy Dotson, who blacks my shoes every morning. Neither one is fit to perform the supreme functions of citizenship. Gov't oversees the Democratic Governor of Mississippi. Under the Roosevelt administration, there are in the civil service of the United States, in the city of New Orleans, in the city of New York, nearly $100,000 every year in salaries. No Afro-Americans are employed by the Democratic state and city governments. The spectacle of Parker weeping and walling over the Filipinos and demanding their independence, while his party disfranchises hundreds of thousands of American citizens, is a spectacle of hypocrisy which all history may be searched in vain to equal. Some woman's club has proposed separate cars for women. If the system were adopted in the Southern Democratic states, where the Jim Crow laws were enforced by law, four kinds, of course, would be necessary to transport the people. The old saying about consistency being a jewel is a proverb which does not apply to the African Americans. They continue to yell about their love for liberty in the Philippines, but refuse to grant civil and political rights to the Afro-Americans of the South. If the adoption of "social equality" which the Southern fire eaters claim is one of the important issues of the campaign, means that decent Afro-Americans would be compelled to associate with such thugs as Tillman, we certainly are opposed to it. The Hon. Mr. Davis ought to make his speeches chime in. It will not do to assert in one speech that certain states elect the President, in the next to claim that this is a white man's country. It cost a million lives and a billion dollars to rid this country of the curse of slavery. The Democratic party hopes to take away the manhood rights of the Afro-Americans and reduce them to a state of vassalage. Senator Fairbanks, Republican candidate for Vice President takes great pride in relating that his first employer was an Afro-American contractor and that his fellow workmen were all Afro-Americans. The bugles have sounded the charge, Up, boys, and rout them; chase them from the fence from the wood from the fence; corner from the colgne of vantage they may possess. COST OF THE PHILIPPINES Judge Parker's Statement an Amazingly Reckless Falsification of Facts and Figures. AN INFAMOUS AND RECKLESS CHARGE Which Has Been Repeated by Bryan, Olney, Hill and Other Democrats—Real Cost of Islands in Money and Life. It has been stated repeatedly during the campaign that Judge Parker, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, is a disciple of D. B. Hill, who is acknowledged to be the greatest trickster in his party, but few persons believe that Parker had proved to be such an apt pupil that he could give his mentor points and easily hit him in the art of falsification; yet such appears to be the case. Judge Parker has outilled Hill in a campaign that will pass in history and easily be remembered and representation. His recent speech, in which he distorted the facts as to the cost of the Philippines in money and life, is such a grotesque perversion of the facts that William E. Curtis, one of the most conservative and impartial writers in the country, calls Parker to account in the Chicago Record-Herald, an independent newspaper, which has not always been fair to Roosevelt. In a letter dated Washington, D. C., October 17th, Mr. Curtis says: "In order to please a few admirers (Parker) decided the destiny and imperiled the welfare of several millions of people without regard to the facts or considering the consequences. He accuses President Roosevelt of reckless speaking, but Roosevelt never made half as reckless a speech. Judge Parker demonstrates this by arguing that he could not exercise the authority and assume the responsibilities of the presidency. space. I will take some of them seri-tim: "No. 1. The officials of the government are dishonest, corrupt and despotic. The islands seem to have succeeded in getting the very deeds of our people." "No government in the world has a more intelligent, honest or industrious people than the government in the Philippines commission, and the assertion is an insult to the families and "He is either a demagogue without conscience or else the victim of malicious enemies or foolish advisers. The statements he utters are so false and insincere that they are more pity than blame. For example, he tells us that 'We have wasted over $50,000,000 of the people's money and sacrificed over 200,000 lives' in the Philippine Navy. Bryan Doyle, another gentleman, has asserted that the Philippines have cost the people of the United States $600,000,000. Mr. Oryn put the figure at $700,000,000. Judge Parker刺探 the difference. It would be interesting to know where he gets his figure. "A resolution was introduced in the Senate in the spring of 1902 inquiring of the War Department as to the exact amount of money expended for military purposes in the Philippine Islands from the United States. It was then submitted by the Secretary of War which foots up $170,326,586.11. The principal items are as follows: Quartermaster's department $74,344,935.00; Pay department $82,926,926.00; Medical department $8,387,758.00; Detail department $8,387,758.00; Signal service Amazing Exaggeration. "His assertion that 200,000 lives have been sacrificed is even more absurd and sensational, and it would not be true if every man, soldier, sailor and civilian, who has gone to the Philippine archipelago for any cause were buried there. The total number of soldiers, regulars and volunteers, that have served in the Philippines at any time does not exceed 150,000. I cannot get the exact figures since the islands were turf- over of authorities, but between June 1888, 1892, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 122,401 enlisted men were sent to the islands. Of these 2,185 officers and 47,587 enlisted men were volunteers, and 1,882 officers and 74,534 were regulars. "Of these the entire death list, including those killed in battle, those who died from wounds, disease, accidents, homicide, suicide, drowning and all other was 140 officers and 4,234 enlisted men. "The mortality for the year ending June 30, 1903 was thirteen officers and 457 men, and for the year ending June 30, 1904, it was two officers and seventy-five deaths in the army in the Philippines Islands during the six years of American occupation 155 officers and 4,769 enlisted men. "The number of pensions applied for by soldiers who were engaged in the Spanish war in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, those who died in battle or from wounds and disease up to date is 68,193. This includes men, women and children. "Hence you will perceive that Judge Parker has either been betrayed or is guilty of gross prevarication. You will agree that such absurd and reckless statements do not recommend the man for President of the United States. "Judge Parker quotes some anon- mous person who has been giving him information about conditions in the islands. If he would name his informant the public might judge of the value of equity statements to the court for them, and may therefore be held responsible. Some of them are infamous; some of them are ridiculous, and some are too postoperative to deny. They are quite as reckless as Judge Parker's own existence, and it would be difficult for anybody to crowd so many falsehoods into the same THREAT BY SOCIALISTS. Plan General Strike on Day of Dum- bert's Baptism. Rome, Nov. 1. It is stated here that the Socialists and Anarchists threaten that another general strike will be proclaimed on the day of the baptism of Prince Charles, the head of the throne, as the rest strike was inaugurated on the day of the prince's birth. It is believed that an attempt to inaugurate such a strike will fail if it be made. space. I will take some of them seriation: "No. 1. The officials of the government are dislissim, corrupt and despotic. The islands seem to have succeeded getting the very dregs of our people." "No government in the world has a more intelligent, honest or industrial corps of employees than is serving under the government. The seriation is an insult to the families and friends who remain in the United States. The records of the Philippine government to date will show a degree of efficiency, honesty and fidelity equal to the government in the world." "No. 2. 'Agriculturally the country is for the time ruined. Land is going out of cultivation, the population is ill-defined and in some places unable to get work." Properity New Reign: Prosperity Now Reigns. "Two years ago, age 10, the terrible drought brought the Philippines and the farmers lost their crops. Famine was averted by an appropriation from Congress which was expended for rice and other foods and distributed where it was needed among the people. But is it the government responsible for an act of Providence? Last year, however, prosperity was restored and at the present date there is no spot on earth where the agricultural population is in better condition. The only difficulty is the lack of labor. It is impossible for farmers or other employers to obtain the help needed, although wages are three, and in some cases four times as high as they were before American occupation. The people are clamoring for employment. The government has inhibited from seeking employment in the Philippine Islands under the same exclusion laws that prevail in the United States. "No. 3. The country is overburdened with no action; disease is prevalent and the farm animals are dead." "The rate of taxation will average 35 per cent. lower than under Spanish domination, but under American rule taxes are collected from everybody in the country, the "pull or were disposed to bribe the collectors evaded payment, while others were compelled to pay the last penny. The revenues, therefore, are three and nine per cent. the law says. Since the enforcement of sanitary laws, the construction of sewers and the purification of the water supply the death rate has been decreased 50 per cent. It is true that more than 70 per cent. of the dead died from the plague during the great drought of 1902, but is it honest for Judge Parker to charge that calamity to the administration? The latter districts are in the hands of lads." Ladronca Exterminated. "Ladrones are highwaymen, freebooters, who live in gangs in the woods, raid the settlements and blackmail the planters. In Spanish times they used to flourish, but the vigorous and vigilant operation of the native constabulary practically exterminated the Philippine Islands are now as safe as any part of the United States. "No 5. The price of products is poor and unremunerative." "Any person interested in the details on this point can obtain the quotations on Philippine stables, such as hemp, or any commission-house, where Judge Piera could have secured accurate information if he had placed any value upon his word. He ought to know that prices of agricultural products are not fixed in Manila, but in the great markets of the world." "6. Public opinion has no free expression; newspapers are bought up or are browbeaten into silence." "The editors of the Manila American, the Cable News, the Times, the Sunday Sun and others newspapers published in Manila will smile when they read that. The editors of the Times and the Sunday Sun of the men and the wisdom of the policy of the administration. Some of the papers support it and some oppose it, and the latter lambaste the officials with an energy that is unequaled in any other editorial room in the world. Before the editors of those papers assertion he should have examined a file of the Manila Times or the Sunday Sun. The editors of those papers have good ground for a libel against him. Hare Case of Inconciency. "The criticisms of the administration which often bitter and violent, are almost without exception based upon its liberality toward the natives; for doing exactly what Judge Parker says it has not done for giving the Filipinos too much self-government; for promising them independence and to office. Every governor of every province, every mayor of every town except Manila, and almost every provincial and municipal official is a Killed Wife and Self. Lowell, Mass., Nov. 1. — Everett Eaton of Queen street, shot and killed his wife and himself yesterday afternoon. The shooting occurred at Lowell Cheinsford, where Eaton and his wife, who separated two weeks ago, had met by appointment. Prentice, Wis., Nov. 1. — Owen Brost' store was, burglarized Friday night for the second time this year. Merchandise was taken. There is no clue. Defective Page native Filipino. More than 8,000 natives are on the pay rolls, and it is the opinion of the newspapers of Manila, both economistic and Republican, that 'our native' armenian, that 'our little brown brother' already has about as much independence and self-government as he can stand. It is a little provoking for the natives to be considered in this country for giving the natives too small a share in the government and in the Philippines for giving them too much. They have produced in the theaters are censors. "There is no censorship whatever in the Philippine Islands, and there has been none since civil government was established. Somebody has evidently judged that the press of the day haged upon incidents in the insurrection, in which the United States flag was pulled down by the actors in a very dramatic manner, torn into pieces and trampled upon. The play was presented but once. If the police were to arrest a man who staged the theater and the actors would have been torn in pieces by a mob of indigent soldiers and citizens who had organized for that purpose. To satisfy public clamor, Senior Tolentino, the mayor of Manila, under bonds, but jumped his ball and ran away. He afterward fell in with Ricarte, the supreme chief of the National Democratic Republic of the Philippine Islands, and prepared his proclamations and conducted his correspondence, for the sake of the people, these gentlemen are now in the penitentiary. Trials Are Fair. No. 8. 'Detectives appear in the guise of servants, and the oath of a single one is enough to destroy a man's republic, property, liberty or even life itself.' "When I left Manila last summer there had been four trials for sedition since the establishment of the civil government, the latest in which D. Gomez, editor of a native newspaper, was defendant, having lasted four months, and acquitted, having lasted six months, 160 people had been convicted of what may be termed political offences, including the deluded victims of the Hong Kong junta and other treasonable organizations, and thirty-three persons had suffered the capital penalty, each case having been carefully reviewed by the Supreme Court. Their crimes were solved by a lawway robbery. There are two detective organizations—one connected with the city police, which works within the municipal limits. The other, connected with the constabulary, works in the rural districts. American, Spanish and native detectives are working on the same case, the same and the weight of their testimony in court is similar to that of the police of New York or any other city. Bishop Brent, of the Episcopal church, in an interview with me published last June, said: Manila is comparatively free from crime, disorder and drunkenness. The police are not ordered or are so free from saloons or vicious classes. There is a surprisingly small amount of crime and vice." "No. 9. Judge Parke himself declares that 'the islands remain to-day utterly untouched for any good' that the United States might have done for them. He states that an American citizen to make it can only be accounted for by ignorance, malice or prejudice. Does Judge Parke see no good in the establishment of 4,000 schools and the education of 100,000 children? He realizes the value of the public improvements that have been made, the new harbors at Manila, which have cost $2,696,311 to date, and $674,536 at Indo-Pakistan, which have cost $1,296,311 to date, the parks, the sewers, the new water systems, the public highways that have been extended and improved at a cost of $500,000; the 1,200 school houses that have been built, and the various buildings that have been built; and the dollars have been expended, not from the treasury of the United States, but from the local treasures of the islands' it would require a page in a newspaper to tell what has been done in the way of dollars alone by the American government. "And, finally, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency asks: 'Are the Philippine Islands a self-supporting community? confess his ignorance upon this point in almost the same breath that he declares them fit for independence and self-government. If Judge Parker had made any preparation for his speech, if he had taken the trouble to inform him that he would have known that the customs revenues alone during the last three or four years have been seventeen, eighteen and nineteen million dollars a year, an increase from three, four or five million a year, and that the customs revenues have improved in a similar ratio. The islands are not only self-supporting; they not only pay every cent of the expenses of their government except the maintenance of the 11,000 regular troops now on duty there, but also the 10,000 million and a quarter at the St. Louis exposition, and are spending between three and five million dollars a year in the construction of harbors, railways, highways, water works, electric light installations and other public improvements. "If Judge Parker wishes accurate information and wise advice on these subjects he can obtain both by asking Bishop Brent, of Manila; Bishop Graves, of Shanghai; Bishop McKim, of Tokio, all of whom are attending the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic church, recently retired as chaplain in the army, who now lives at Wilmette, Ill. They have no political prejudices or affiliations, and if they had they would not allow themselves to be influenced thereby in their judgment or their statements. Or why will notudge Peter consult the Bishop of Philadelphia Democrat from Memphis. He has occupied an eminent position upon the bench and is regarded by all who know him with admiration, respect and confidence. "One of the most essential qualifications in a candidate for the Presidency LATEST FIGURES AS TO COST. Only $194,180,000 Expended on the Philippines Up to June 30. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune shows that the actual cost of the Philippines up to June 30. PREMIER BALFOUR IS ILL. Confined to His Bed Suffering From Varicose Vein. London, Nov. 3—It was announced yesterday that Premier Balfour is slightly indisposed and will as a precautionary measure be confined to the house for the following week, the house was issued last night: "The premier is suffering from an irritation of a small vein. By his doctor's orders he will remain in his room the next few days. Trials Are Fair. Self-Supporting. 1004. was only $194,180,000. He says "The avidity with which Judge Parker and ex-Secretary Oney availled the statement that the Philippines had cost this country $650,000,000, and the pertinency with which they clung to it, and the lack of respect and again are past the comprehension of persons in Washington who are familiar with the real conditions in the Philippines. "That the cost of the Philippines, including the $20,000,000 paid to Spain, amounted up to May 1, 1902, to $189,000,000, has been established beyond dispute. No Democratic member of either house of Congress dared to challenge Secretary Root's statement to that effect. The cost to this country for the war was $900,000,000, and for the year just closed $210,000, a total of $194,180,000. That has been the actual cost of the Philippines up to June 30, 1904. Due to Republican Policies The figures show conclusively that the great system of American manufactures and our increased exports of manufactured products which contribute so largely to the prosperity of the country are due to American policies and administrations. Buying from Abroad. The less the United States, through a protective tariff, imports of the things that its own labor at home can manufacture just as well as foreigners, the more it is able to import of necessities at home. The consumption of coffee per capita in the United States, which in 1800 was eight pounds, is now twelve pounds. Our imports of sugar, teas, spices, silks, laces, etc., have increased from $100 to $150. With the American workingman sure of a good home market for what he produces, it goes almost without saying that he will have enough money to buy for himself foreign luxuries that he could not dream of having in Democratic times. Day after day the New York Times, the New York World and the Brooklyn Eagle repeat the lie that Chairman Cortelyou has extorted contributions from wealthy business enterprises on pledges to the United States, the treasurer of President Roosevelt. They have been urged and challenged to name a single concrete and have replied by merely reiterating the slander. As a result the unfounded charge is reckoning upon its importance to the United States in presenting their credibility on every issue of the campaign. Don't fail to return a Republican Congress. The election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks will be almost a barren period of government in control of the opposition. If Republican policies are to be continued it is absolutely necessary that all branches of the government be in accord. If you wish a continuance of the present prosperous times, vote to retain the Republican party in control of national affairs. THE TIME FOR TALKING IS OVER. NOW VOTE! KILLED BY DYNAMITE. Fatal Accident Occurs in the Batson Oil Field. Houston, Tex. Nov. 3. — Two men are dead, three fatally injured and one seriously hurt as the result of a dynamite explosion in the Batson oil field. Dynamite had been placed in the Guffey company's well to loosen the casing. Today it was decided to pull the charge during the explosive up it collided with the casing. JUDGE ALTON B. PARKER DE-FAMES HIS COUNTRYMEN Quotes Unnamed Authorities and Misrepresents History in an Attack Upon the Honor and Honesty of His Own Nation. Once more the Sphinx of Esopus has spoken. This time, although the voice of the hired Parker was more those of the hired anti-imperialist of the New York World. Abandoning for this occasion his stand upon the archaic platform of Buchanan and a petrified interpretation of the Constitution, Judge Parker parrots the imperious views of Joseph Pulitzer, demanding the abstraction of ostagery and reaction from which American civilization has rescued them. There can be no doubt that the occasion for the sounding of this belated "keynote" of a flabby campaign was deliberate; planned and carried by the president of the United States by "Colonel" Charles R. Codman of Boston, and Henry W. Hardon, of New York, fervent scutters both, appeared before the judge on his porch at Rosemount, and bombarded him with a "extended address" to the United States of the Philippines. Then Judge Parker unrolled the speech that bears internal evidence in every line of having been written for him, and went them one better in falsifying the record and misrepresenting the beneficent aim of the president of the United States, rescued from the onnipression of Spain. To justify himself in his attack upon the American position in the Philippines, Judge Parker quoted from an anonymous "student of conditions there," whose phrases also bear a striking resemblance to those in which they were fittingly enbalmed. This unnamed-malignant, in the face of overwhelming testimony to the contrary, has the effrontery to say of our officials there, "At the best they have been inefficient; at the worst dishonest, corrupt and at despite. The islands seem to be the most dangerous of the dregs of our people." This would classify Secretary William H. Taft and his associates and successors in Manila as among the dregs of our people. Judge Parker further quotes from this anonymous defamer of American rule in the Philippines, describing the country is for the time ruined. Land is going out of cultivation; the population is ill-filled and in some places unable to get work. The country is over-burdened with taxation, disease is prevalent, the farm animals dead, the towns in many places in ruins, whose citizens in the country are poor and unremunerative." If this were a true or even an approximately true indictment of the conditions under which the occupation, what would be the verdict of mankind? Would it not be that the American nation was not fit to govern a nation with a semi- civilized dependent race. Affects the Whole People. In this matter it is impossible to distinguish between the Republican party and the American people. The former is merely the instrument of the latter in the Philippines, and if Judge Parker were elected President in November, it would not, could not change the character of the Philippines, and the Philippines pending the time even he would allow "the islanders to prepare themselves for self-government." During that period does Judge Parker think that he could find, in the ranks of Tammany, any men better to serve the American rule, liberty to American rule, than the men who have established peace, order, schools, and courts of justice in the islands? The question suggests its own answer—he could not, though he were to draft his own favorite counselors, David B. Hill, William F. Skeehan, Charles Hill, William P. Skeehan, Charles Hill, to assist in the difficult task. Upon such absolutely false and malignant premises Judge Parker proceeds to arrange the American administration in the Philippines in terms which from the dawn of history denrages have been in their attacks upon successful government. Here is a specimen passage: Not content with citing history to support notoriously false testimony against his countrymen in the Philippines, he has been accused of supplying the generalization that there is "no instance of a nation receiving from her colonies anything like an adequate return for the blood and treasure spent." "Engaged in the suppression of the ignorantly avered," was doubled by the revolt of the thirteen colonies it had cost so much to secure. The American expansionist, following European argument, alleges that annexation of the Philippines must promote progress, foster cooperation, and prevent the leaven of civilization into a backward and inferior race. The evidence of history is to the contrary. "However such appeals to history may have tickled the ears of the Avocat of Long Island," they must have made "Colonel Ceddian and Mr. Harlon wince." Truth of History. The evidence of history and of contemporaneous conditions afford incontrovertible proof that England's greatest today is the direct return for her colonizing efforts on this continent, in Asia, in Africa, and in the islands of every ocean. Good luck for her. The return to her a hundred fold for all the "blood and treasure spent" in the colonizing she has done in the four corpors of the earth. This republic, the highest and most successful development of self-govern- GUNBOAT SAILS AWAY. Trouble Threatened in San Domingo Is Once More Averted. Washington, Nov. 5. — A telegram was received at the navy department yesterday saying that the boat Bancroft, Puerto Platas, San Domingo, is accepted at the department to mean that affairs are quiet in San Domingo, and that there is at present no occasion for the presence of a United states warship. ment time has seen on "this earth" new inertity, the best possible proof that Judge Parker takes a purified view of the possibilities and benefits of colonisation. Although separated from the country that pushed "a backward and inferior race" from the scene of Judge Parker's speech to the Avon Beach碧海镇, he is not alone. He will be heck for a moment that England has not shared in what was conquered for mankind when the independence of her American colonies was achieved? But, beyond all the narrow, petty, and mistaken views Judge Parker takes of history and the onward and upward trajectory of the fact that the Democratic candidate for President of the United States is willing to believe everything evil the United States congeg of shades can use to America's sole benefit in the Philippines solely because there is a Republican administration in Washington. It seems almost incredible that a Presidential candidate should become the willing herald of the tumor bred in the purules of Manila. And to think that he has descended to this depth, not to force immediate abandonment of the Philippines to the tender mercies of their own corrupt and unjust government, their preparation for independence to the party of Tammany, Tweed and Millman! Never before has the candidate of a great political organization stood revealed before the American people in the role of the head of the government of his country. It sinks Judge Parker far below the level of his party. RACIAL GOOD WILL Continuation of Prosperity Will Do Much to Secure It. The Democratic platform accuses the Republican platform "attempted the disenewal the embers of radical and sectional strife." An incident at the recent American Bankers' convention in New York illustrates how, on the contrary, the Republican party, by policies which promote the business prosperity of the South, has promoted also a feeling of mutual good and better elements, at least, of the two races. When he had finished, Col. Robert Lowry, a Georgia banker, made an eloquent speech in which he said: "It is the leafing negro and the leafing white man that makes it hard"; and that "It gives me a great deal of pleasure to hear from Virginia. He has stated the facts, and I am glad to have him here." Republican prosperity, like the rays of the sun, dispels gloom wherever it goes, and without distinctions as to section, race, color or religion, makes men happier, better and more mindful of their rebellion against the tail W. J. Bryan's definition of a prosperity that "reaches the masses and then works up and through every class." THERE IS NO BETTER WAY TO HELP SETTLE THE RACE QUESTS TO TRY TO TRY TO TRY TRY FOUR MORE YEARS OF REPUBLICAN PROSPERTY. Bryan's Revelation. The People Know and Trust Roosevelt. It is fortunate for the Republican party that its candidate for the Presidency is so well known to the people of the United States that no story, no news, no public opinion affects the public mind in the eleventh degree. The American people have had their eyes on President Roosevelt for many years; they know him. They respect and trust him. The falsifications of the enemy against him are useless. Everybody profits by the growth of manufactures. Those who are engaged in the business either as capitalists or wage earners profit first of all, but in addition to these are the merchants who handle manufactured products, the railroads that distribute them, the farmers that produce them, the manufacturers products, and all other classes who share in general prosperity. In his speech before the Union League Club of New York, Secretary Taft said that when he asked Professor Vincent, of the University of Chicago, what he thought of Judge Parker's letter of acceptance, he said of a recommendation of a good old family horse which runs, "even ladies and children can drive it." PRINCE OF WALES ALL RIGHT. Alarmist Reports About His Health Unfounded. London, Nov. 5. — The alarmist reports circulated in the United States concerning the health of the prince of Wales are absolutely unconfirmed and discredited. Sir Francis Henry Watkin, King Edward's physician, who was seen by a representative of the Associated Press last night said the report was not worth noticing. Sacrificing Devotion. The following are reproduced as they were printed in a Japanese newspaper: Midshipman Shibuye saw his mother before his departure to the front, when the following conversation passed between them; "Mother, I shall not come back alive this time." "Why should you not?" "Mother, how can I live when I ought to die?" Kluchki was one of the sailors who went to block an Port Arthur. Just before his departure he wrote to his wife these few lines: "There is no doubt but that you are my wife and will behave accordingly." These few words show the spartan spirit of the Japanese, to suffer in silence and be strong. At the battle of the Yalu, Soldier Suzuki was shot through the stomach and fell down. But he cried out: "Yes, it is only a scratch." He bandaged his wound himself and told his friends to march on. The wound proved fatal and he died three days after. Soldier K. Suzuki in one of his letters to his home mentions a most popular song sung by the soldiers at the front, which runs as follows: He="When I go to the front, bring up this child as a good citizen. When I die, do not weep. When I should I should I weep? Am I not a soldier's wife? Fight for our emperor; the honor will abide with this child." Eddie Foy and the Baby Next to Eddie Foy on a street car a bit of an infant in his mother's arms was screaming with all its tiny might. The tiny might with which it screamed drowned the roar of a flat wheel. The mother tried to quiet the vocal cyclone with a bottle and by talking, but the mite was too busy making webs with its mouth to use it on the bottle and couldn't hear a word of the talk. Suddenly Foy waved his hand. The shiny, little, distorted red face relaxed. Two big, blue moons sailed out from a cloud. They shone lambently on Foy. "Goo!" People began to laugh, and the feminine contingent looked admiringly at Foy. In the midst of the laughter the infant was beginning again. "Hush!" exclaimed Foy, excited to, the passengers. "I've got it bluffed." Once more Foy executed his magic gesture. The squall got worse. Finally Foy desisted. He whispered: "It's tough to fall down on the encore."-New York Telegraph. Where Trees Grow Fast A tree which grew nearly twenty feet in a year and a half has been taken from the experiment station in Santa Monica canyon to the world's fair to show what California can do in a hurry for a place in the shade. It is a variety of the eucalyptus. A small grove of these trees was planted on a shaggy cliff back of the experiment station, where it seemed as though no tree could grow at all. This particular tree was about a year and a half old it measured four inches in diameter. In order to get it safely to the fair the whole tree was carefully packed in mosses and soaked cloths. One of the most interesting features of the work of the station is importing trees from foreign countries and trying them in California soil and climatic conditions. First one soil and then another is tried until a congenial one is found. One of the additions to the California family thus made is one of the most beautiful trees in the world—a jacaranda, covered with immense lilac flowers. The whole makes an effect of bewildering beauty. The Little Japanese. Once I knew a Japanese, With a little blue chemise, Socks and sandals and a pretty paper hat, Lady foot and dandy hand, Microscopically planned; And didn't seem at all a fighting man. He was neat and he was clean, Most delightful to be seen; He was cheerless, he was spike and he was spain. He was sugar, he was spice, Hunny tempered to a vice; And didn't seem at all a fighting man. He would greet you with a smile, Sweet as summer, and expansive in its plan. He wished and his beaming not, Like a polished little doll; And he didn't seem at all a fighting man. Which is why I'd give a lot, Could it happen upon the spot, Where he's winning bloody laurels for Just to watch him wading in, With that smile above his chin; For he didn't seem at all a fighting man. —Bertrand Shadwell in Chicago Post. German as She Is Spoke. Sir William Ramsey likes to tell about his first meeting with Prof. Ira Remsen, president of Johns Hopkins university, back in 1871. Both were students at Tubingen university, Germany, but they did not know each other. Sir William lost his way. Ringing for a long time at a door in the building, he answered by a man with dirty face and hands and dirtier overalls. "Konnen Sie mir sagen wo die Voresungszimmer?" queried Sir William. This was shocking German, but he had done the best he could with his phrase book. "Is it?" inquired the man of toil. The question was repeated. Finally a light broke upon Prof. Remsen. 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IN THE CIVIL WAR HE CAME 400,000 STRONG, AND I BELIEVE HE SAVED THE UNION."—President Roosevelt. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. PARKER NOT OUR FRIEND The wiser man can not assign a single reason for supposing that Parker's election would effect any good whatever the Afro-American race, for it can not be shown that in any case the Afro-American race ever hinted at any of the remotest plans for doing anything of the kind. He talks about the "consent of the governed," but has it carefully understood that he refers to the Philippine Islands, and not to South Carolina. He also refers to Alabama, Tillmanism in South Carolina, Vardamanism in Mississippi, or Tammanyism in New York. He is sorely grieved about alleged violations of the constitution, but never even whispers a word of censure for his friends in the Carolinas, Louisiana and Mississippi, who have openly and sharply criticized Fifteenth Amendments. He can not do so, for the Solid South nullifiers and lynchers and the New York THE DOOR OF HOPE I cannot con- position that the door of opportun- upon any man, worthy, purely up race or color.— PRESID I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color.— mobocrats are his warmest friends and most enthusiastic admirers. If, by any single incident, vote or saying, Parker has shown any interest in the welfare of the Afro-American population, he thereof, history has failed to record the time. Several attempts have been made to sound him upon his attitude toward the Afro-American people, without any other effect than to show his wonderful dexterity in dodging. He was afraid to say anything unfavorable, lest he offended him. Afro-American voters in states offer him the power, and equally afraid to say anything favorable, lest he offend his friends the Southern lynchers and the Northern mob. Parker represents no correct principle or sasuble policy whatever. Some of his friends totally idiotic, as for instance, that of importing Tillman to spout his doctrines into the faces of decent people. The single fact that the lynchers of the South, the Tammyites of New York, and the cranks of everywhere are supporting Parker, is sufficient evidence that he could not be trusted with a smaller office than that of a president. Afro-Americans have more to fear than any other class from the evils the election of Parker would produce. They now share the general prosperity of the country under a Republican administration. They would be the first to experience the inconvenience of evil times. There is nothing in Parker's policy for the Afro-American, nor does he pretend that there is. Remember the words of the immortal Douglass, "The Republican party is the ship; all else the sea," and vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. DEMOCRATIC PROMISES BROKEN. The Southern states were re-admitted to the Union in 1868 after the civil war and it was expressly provided that no state should ever abridge the right of any voter. That passed July 28, 1868, was as follows: "That each of the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida, shall be entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as a State of the Union, and shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the 39th Congress, known as Article 14, upon the following fundamental conditions: That the Constitution of neither of said States shall be so amended or changed as to abridge the right to vote of the United States of the right to vote in said State, who are entitled to vote by the Constitution thereof, herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been convicted under laws equally applicable to the inhabitants of all the States." Four of the states named have passed laws restricting the right of suffrage and in all of the Southern states the laws have allowed the thousand of men from exercising their rights as citizens, because their skins are black. The Southern states were re-admitted to the Union upon the fundamental condition that they would never have been allowed to fight so as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote. It was a sacred obligation. Have they kept it? Can the Democrats who have been allowed to work in their processes be trusted? Are they not a dishonest, deceitful lot? RALLY ON THE CENTER! The campaign is over. The long roll has sounded; the bugles have called boots and saddles; the boys have fallen into line, touched elbows, and wait with eager impatience to charge the enemy. The outposts have all been called in and from Maine to California they are rallying on the center with a courage that is invincible and a determination that presages victory. The outposts are in our ranks; not a living soul who does not feel that next Tuesday night the Parker-Hill - Tillman - Taggart - Vardaman-Graves-Helffin party will be routed, horse, foot and dragoon, and be scouring either and yon, utterly demoralizing. "It is a consummation devoutly to be wished," a deserved rebuke for a party which has dishonored our country and brought reproach upon the proud title of American citizen. "It is a consummation Helfin, Davis and their cohorts will pass out of public notice and will be remembered only as we recall some horrible dream that was filled with dire forebodings and impending disasters. God Almighty still reigns supreme, THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA. This Government fundamental idea matter what his ooc or his religious be treated on his neither favored against because of position.—President letter of acceptance This Government is based upon the fundamental idea that each man, no matter what his occupation, his race, or his religious belief, is entitled to be treated on his worth as a man, neither favored nor discriminated against because of any accident in his position.—President Rooesvelt in his letter of acceptance, Sept. 12, 1904. THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. sent to take the door of hope—the city—is to be shut no matter how on the grounds of ENT ROOSEVELT. and He will continue to guide and direct this country until its mission has been accomplished and mankind the world over are brothers indeed. VOTE YOUR TICKET STRAIGHT. We are on the eve of the most important election which has been held in this country since 1860. That election was followed by a bloody war in which the lives of thousands were sacrificed on the country's altar. In 1860, the United States invited cricket this year we believe that the injury to the country would equal that which followed the election of 1860, when war spread over our beautiful land and drenched the soil with the blood of the flower of the country. War should not be the result of the election of 1860, and would visit homes where now peace and comfort dwell. We wish to continue to enjoy the good times we have had since the election of McKinley in 1896 and the only way to be assured that prosperity will continue is to stand by the Republican party. We should not try any expert advice on how to win every vote is needed and where any one fails to vote for the Republican candidate, that is equivalent to a half vote for the opposition. This is an important matter especially in some of the close Congressional districts, for it is necessary to have a Republican Congress to uphold a Republican candidate. It is possible that some objectionable men may be on the ticket in certain localities, but there is so much at stake this time that they should be overlooked. Do not take any chances by voting a split ballot. VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICK ET STRAIGHT. NOT FIT TO GOVERN. From the way the Democrats are running the Southern states it would seem to be a very risky experiment to trust them to govern the United States. A few weeks ago, Mississippi had two quarters and two dimes, all dime and two cents, a treasury and had to borrow half a million for current expenses; Texas is suffering from boll and political weevils, one hundred bills passed by the last legislature were invalidated by carelessness and recklessness and recently Alabama came to the front with an unconstitutional act of her law unconstitutional with writing and counts by throwing the new judges and solicitors out of office. In all of the states law abiding citizens have been disfranchised without cause. The Southern Democracy should give better evidence of its ability to run a government, if it wishes to be trusted by the people. States Ohio, Southern brethren—tarry in Jericho until your beards are grown. SOCIAL EQUALITY "We do not hear much about "Negro Domination" nowadays, for the disfranchising constitutions, grandfather clauses and shot guns have allayed the fears of our Southern brethren in the United States, and its stead, the spectre of "social equality" is disturbing their equality. Many of the Southern Democrats believe or pretend that they believe that, in case of Roosevelt's election, he will at once have a law passed compelling all the white girls to marry black husbands, invite all the black women to the White House and fill all the Southern offices with Afro-Americans. That's what's the matter with Hefflin and Tillman and Jeff Davis and Vardam. Coming events cast their shadows before; and these people are battling for the right to be Don Quixote ever did with the windmills. But these antiquated warriors are battling with antiquated weapons. They know nothing of search lights, torpedo boats and wireless telegraphy. If Hefflin saw a bomb, he would think it was a cushion; and Vardam a bullet. But Constitution of the United States from a bill of lading. JEEF DAVIS OF ARKANSAS. Jeff Davis, the rip-antoring governor of Arkansas, in an address at Dallas, Texas, recently gave utterance to this classic sentiment: "Can you think of anything dirtier or naive that eating with a nigger? I would rather eat out of a trough with a hog than to eat with a nigger. I would have bounped pump than eat with a bounped pump than eat with a nigger." And, by the way, in a speech delivered only a few months ago, he declared that he had drank potioquil with the "niggers" until you could hear it slosh—so there you are. The Dallas News failed to appreciate the above-quoted and admirable sentiment and went for Jeff in great style, but the whole argument of the News to its that is based upon the that each man, no occupation, his race, helief, is entitled to worth as a man, nor discriminated any accident in his at Rooesvelt in his e, Sept. 12, 1904. Jeff Davies and Helfina, is based upon considerations of policy. It would, we are satisfied, highly applaud just such addresses, if only a state election were pending. But it is shrewd to see that it would be better to impose the requirement of the national elections, will lose votes for its party in the North and furnish ammunition for its opponents. It is, however, a fact that Jeff Davis is not a favorite of the interstate Democrat for the primaries and tried to impeach him in the last legislature. But both Jeff and Helfin know that what are called the "hill-billies" and "red necks" of their respective states are so ignorant about the tariff, Panama, trusts or gold standards. They have the old Horace Greeley idea of the great principles of the Democratic party which are: "To love whiskey and to hate whiskey." They should not be admitted to Congress, he would run for Governor of Alabama and be elected, and probably fold the truth. It is a fact that the South is now ruled by its ignorant "hill-billies" and the most reckless and shameless man in the country. Such fellows have sent the sensible, decent and conservative men to the rear—the South is solid and stolid, solely upon national issues. In reference to internal concerns, the South is simply an aggregation of the most immensely vote against a Republican Presidential candidate; but a very small one in other elections. MR. ELLIS. FORMERLY OF TEXAS. William H. Ellis, who went to Abysinia in a diplomatic mission to King Menelek, has returned to the United States. He states that he has secured a concession of all the diamond mines in Abysinia, two hundred thousand acres of land on the Nile river and a commission to establish the Royal Bank of Abysinia, which to use his language, "will give me control of the finances of the banks." Mr. Ellis is an Afro-American born in Texas, who has developed an unusual capacity for handling large enterprises successfully. Physically, he is a striking figure, standing over six feet in height and giving one the impression that he possesses great musculature of remarkable nerve, his adventures, both in this country and abroad stamp him as being bold, resolute and capable. Mr. Ellis has already amassed a fortune in New York City and if his concessions from King Menelek are matters of fact they may live to be more powerful of the world’s most powerful figures in the financial and in dustrial world. Abyssina is said to be inhabited by about five million people. The king is a progressive monarch, under whose reign, telephones, telegraphs and STANDS FOR HUMAN LIBERTY. If I could be absolute as President by the principles of human libr Abraham Lincoln, I woeing it, and unfit for place of doing it. I do not President by those who of hope against the citizen, if I am elected to be on my record as the out favors or discrimin If I could be absolutely assured of my election as President by turning my back on the principles of human liberty as enunciated by Abraham Lincoln, I would be incapable of doing it, and unfit for place if I could be capable of doing it. I do not expect to be elected President by those who would close the door of hope against the Afro-Americans. As a citizen, if I am elected to this high office it must be on my record as the executor of the law without favors or discriminations—President Roosevelt. manufacturing enterprises have we sprung into existence. The people are thrifty and shrewd traders who have become known as the "African king." They welcome progress, and so does the king, and in such a country, Mr. Ellis, who would have had no chance to rise above his group, in Texas, may become to Abyssinia what Cecil Rhodes was to South Africa. A committable determination should be an inspiration to the Afro-American people. UNACCOUNTABLE TASTES. By virtue of being the balance of power in several Northern states, the Afro-American is exercising a very great influence upon the course of political events; and this is the greatest leverage he has. Upon this, and this alone, he must depend to secure for himself any special consideration in congress, in Washington. Would it not, then, be absolutely sullied for him to recklessly throw this advantage away? Yet, that is just what some of the race are doing when they coquet with the Democratic party. How can any Afro-American prefer Parker and his coquet and and therefore Roosevelt has shown himself to be a decided, unwavering defender of the rights of the Afro-American, and so has Fairbanks. Parker is "speechless," and Davis is an old plantation overseer. The political associates of Roosevelt are the old and tried friends of the race. Who are the most intimate associates of Roosevelt? Gorman, who has just Jim Crowed the railway trains of Maryland; Hefflin, the bomb-thrower; Jeff Davis and Vardaman, the schooltax segregaters; Tillman, the hell-fi scatterer, and all the rest of the unclean animals of the outfit of the Afro-American to choose for his political companions such an outfit of political mauraders is the most unaccountable tastes. Thank God there are but few who have these strange tastes. Of course such things as Tillman, Vardaman and Jeff Davis would not be admitted to decent society in Chicago, but if these worthies could have peeped in the window of the residence of Mrs. McClosse of University avenue last Thursday night they would have thrown up their hands in holy horror, and perhaps dropped dead when they saw tea being served to Afro-American and Caucasian ladies who occupied alternate seats in the palatial residence of the lady. Mrs. Frederick is member of the Frederick Douglass social center, which has been organized to combat race prejudice against the Afro-American. Mrs. Cella Parker. Wooley is president, and the club counts among its members such noted women as Jane Addams, Mrs. Julia Rosenthal, Dr. Lucy Watte, Helen M. Henrotin and others. These ladies believe that intelligent and refined Afro-Americans should not be excluded from the society of Caucasians of culture. The status of those United States Officers who during their sojourn in the islands, especially in "religion" relations" with Filipino women, as did Lieutenant Burbank, is now under investigation. The gay lieutenant, it seems lied with the Filipino aforesaid, during his sojourn in the islands and after returning home, became engaged in a relationship that management was interrupted by the appearance of the Filipino lady who had been acting as Mrs. Burbank; and now the question whether she was such in reality, or merely pro forma comes up for investigation. This pre-incident equality issue raised in this campaign by Gorman, Helfin and Tillman. We are not acquainted with Lieutenant Burbank and have never learned his opinion of the Booker Washington incident; they are perfect candidates he regarded with horror and indignation; for it is precisely his class of men who do so. Should anyone accuse the Democratic party of anarchistic tendencies, the accusation would be resented with much indignation, and the counter argument would be the easily made reference to the many eminent Democratic addresses which show no trace of such tendency. But that does not prove that the party does not prove the non-existence of the virus; but simply shows that it has not yet permeated the whole body. So long as Hefin "jokes" about blowing up the president with bombs, and Tillman boasts of scattering hell-fire, the party must be held responsible, and the party are far off official representatives. The fact that some efforts have been made to muzzle these imprudent marplots proves nothing; for it is easily seen that it is done simply upon grounds of policy for their standing in the party is not affected in the slightest degree. According to Mr. Bryan, the methods used to secure Judge Parker's nomination were crooked, infenefible and burglarious; the platform is straddling, meaningless, vague and purposefully so; the party is under the control of the president, the governor, the trusts, and the candidate is speechless. This is certainly a very curious aggregate of reasons why Mr. Bryan should support, and the American people endorse, such a conglomeration. We are of the opinion that on the 8th of November Mr. Bryan's reputation as a prophet will be firmly established. We will begin with a footrace and end with a rout." Now the question arises: Are the plutocrats and trusts manipulating Mr. Bryan, or is he merely maintaining his eely assured of my elec- merning my back on the property as enunciated by would be incapable of do- e if I could be capable expect to be elected would close the door Afro-Americans. As a to this high office it must executor of the law with- tations.—President Roosevelt. Compare the methods of the two great political parties. We have as yet seen no instance of a Republican orator delivering an address in which he made a direct appeal to the worst class of hearers, as Tillman does. We have not heard of a Republican speaker "joking" about throwing, a bomb under the President's table, after the manner of Helfin the Alabama statesman, who was the majority of the Democratic orators do not resort to such methods; but so long as the Tillmans, the Heffins and the Vardamans are its official representatives, the Democratic party must be held responsible for such utter- PitchFork Tillman tells us that Democracy means white supremacy. Does he think he is telling something new? Every one knows that, yet he seems to take pride in belching out of his black heart and foul mouth the most common fact in history. If all Democracy were like Tillman and would tell the truth about the party—let the world know its principles damnable as they are, the party long since would have been not in a dying condition, as at present, but dead. There are two sides to the question, Roseveelt, Fairbanks, Cannon, Shaw, Hay, Foraker, Moody, Allison, Cullom, Hopkins, Gallinger and those who stand for law and order are on one side. On the other side are: Parker, Davis, Tillman, Vardam, Graves, Hamm, Ferr Most, Thomas Nelson Page, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and those who have queer ideas of law where the Afro-American is concerned. ON WHICH SIDE DO YOU STAND? John Alexander Dowle, the apostle, in a recent discourse thus lit into Parker: "Parker is a prodigal son. He comes here because he has the number of free silveries, and because of his return he immediately wants to be made boss of the whole nation. It is worth noting that Dowle's speech means 5,000 votes for Rosevelt. Dowle's religious eccentricities do not prevent him from being very level-headed when it comes to financial matters and his followers do what he tells them to do. Gen. Jackson said that he had sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States, AS HE UNDERSTOOD IT, Perhaps Mr. Parker would, if he enforced his laws of the United States, has understated them; or as Tillman, Vardaman, Heflin and Gorman would interpret them; and that is just --- JUSTICE TO ALL MEN. We have shown in fact that our policy is to do Justice to all Men, paying no heed to whether a man is rich or poor, or to his race, creed or birthplace.—President Roosevelt. what worries the people. They do not want that kind of enforcement. Augustus Octavius Bacon, who represents Georgia in the United States Senate, emits a piteous wail because the Nation does not entrust its government to the Democratic party and falls to see any reason for such a course. The Democratic party has been worked in the balance and found wanting. It seems to me that it is a good thing from every standpoint to let the Afro-American know that if he shows in marked degree the qualities of good citizenship, the qualities which white men we feel are entitled to reward, he must not be cut off from all hope of similar reward.—President Roosevelt. "President Roosevelt has won the respect of the American people because he is honest, because he is brave, because he possesses much common sense, and Charles S. Deneen will be elected governor because he possesses the same qualifications." — Governor Richard Yates. The Supreme Court of Kansas has issued a mandatory order requiring the Board of Education of Coffeyville to admit to the public schools the children of Bud Cartwright, an Afro-American. The children have been denied admission on account of color. First came Anarchist Tillman, now Herr Most, the high priest of anarchy, is in Chicago preaching his revolutionary doctrines, and it is possible that Hefflin, the leading anarchist of Alabama, will be requested by Herr Most to assist in the propaganda. The Republicans rely upon intelligent discussion in order to convince electors that their principles are the better for all our people. Anarchists like Hefflin, Tillman, Vardaman et al, rely upon bull dozing in order to intimidate voters. The lowest temperature ever recorded was on December 30, 1871, by Professor, Werchojank at Corchoon, Silberia, 83 degrees below zero. The temperature will fall lower than that for Parker next Tuesday. Bring out the halt, the same and the blind, the sound and the lusty of limb, the young men who cast their first votes and blast anarchistic hope by piling up a great majority for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mr. Parker ought to inform the people of the United States as to whether he is in favor of the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of the United States. It is the highest duty of every American citizen to maintain against all enemies the paramount authority of the United States. For we would pull down the flag; is he a good citizen? As the boys in '61 buckled on the knapsack and clutched the gun, resolved that the government should be preserved, so to-day the same spirit animates them and their progeny. Hurrah for Roosevelt and Fairbanks too. We're going to see both of them through. It's all over the shouting. "The Republican party has done more for humanity, for human liberty, and more for human progress than any other party since the stars first sang together."-Senator Fairbanks. James K. Jones, former chairman of the Democratic rational committee, says that the outlook is promising. It will be recalled that James K. said a few things four years ago. The Southern nullifiers know that there is no truth in the "social equality" how they are making. "Social equality does not exist among any class of people. Be sure to make a vigorous fight for the Republican candidates for congress in every district. A Republican congress is needed to uphold the president. The opinion of the white people in the South that we for the African-Americans are concerned, the theory of the "consent of the governed" does not apply. THE PROPER TEST. It is an infa our American mentally treache stitutions to appl ual any test save worth.—Presiden It is an infamous thing in our American life and fundamentally treacherous to our institutions to apply to any individual any test save that of personal worth.—President Roosevelt. When the glorious sun beams on the smiling earth on the morning of November 8, be at the polls ready to vote and work for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Heltin the Alabama rabble-rouser, who "died about thirteen" a bomb at the president, must have been sorely at a loss to find a fit subject for mirth. If you desire the election of Roosevelt and Fairbanks you must not only vote for them but you must see that your friends cast their votes right. Protection to our wives, our sweet-hearts, our children, our merchants, our manufacturers, our ship builders, our country, and the old flag. Some one neatly says of Ex-chairman Jones: Jones moves in a mysterious way. His blunders to perform. When business is booming, everybody is happy and contented. Elect Roosevelt, business will boom and you will be contented and happy. By the way, why do not the Democratic orators say something about the way their party treated Mexico when it cobbled up Texas. Get a hustle upon yourself; see your neighbors and your neighbors' neighbors, and induce them to vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. The election of Parker would mean the adoption by the national administration of the creed of Tillman, Vardaman, Graves & Co. The 219 Afro-Americans employed in the Interior Department at Washington. D. C., draw salaries aggregating $167,260 every year. Take off your coat and work for Roosevelt until the evening of November 8; then we can shout and yell until we are hoarse. "If we can't get the Negro out of politics peacefully and legally, by the eternal gods we'll do it anyway."—Senator Tillman. The Republican party recognizes ability and rewards it accordingly. All Afro-Americans look alike to Democrats. See to it that every voter who favors the right, puts his ballot where it will count one for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Weary, windy, wandering Willie is still rushing around trying to trade off his empty platitudes for votes for Parker. A vote for Parker is a vote for an empty market basket; hard times come when the Democratic party is in power. If you do not wish to be at the mercy of such men as Tillman, Vardaman and Graves, vote for Roosevelt. With glee we'll sing: "My Country 'tis of Thee, Land of the Noble Free," when Roosevelt is elected. Get up early in the morning and stay up late at night, working for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Let us see what a big majority we can give for Roosevelt, Fairbanks and the Old Flag. Work, work, work night and day until the election and Roosevelt will be President. If you wish to see "Old Glory" wave in proud triumph, vote for Roosevelt. Wake up; come out; shout and hurrah for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Get out the votes and there'll be no doubt of Roosevelt's election. It's all over with Parker; it's no use for him to kep trying. Oh how sad Parker will be when the returns come in. Go to the polls next Tuesday and do your full duty. Fall, in and forward to victory. amous thing in life and funda-rous to our in-try to any individ-that of personal Roosevelt. RAILROAD COMMISSION Ira B. Mills.....Moorhead W. E. Young.....Mankato PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, Thomas Lowry.....Hennepin A. W. Wright.....Olmsted Thomas Simpson.....Winona Basil Snout.....Fairbault B. B. Sheffield.....Rice John G. Nelson.....Washington G. W. Backus.....Hennepin G. W. Peterson.....Todd Frank Cliff.....Big Stone J. H. Harding.....St. Louis Peter E. Holen.....Marshall SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1904. VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT AND DUNN Mr. John Allison of Minneapolis was in the city yesterday. Half soles, sewed, 75c; rubber heels, 40c; Phone 1556-J2. Jarvis, 83 E. 4th. The Ladies Only entertainment at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Nov. 15th, will be great. The Elk Express Company now has its office at 102 E. Fourth street. Telephone, Main 1572-J. Remember the "Ladies Only" musical festival at Pilgrim Baptist church Thursday, Nov. 17. It will be another corker. Coal $4.50 Per Ton. Preferred by many to hard coal for furnaces, ranges and stoves; lasts nearly as long. Costs only half. Holmes & McCaughey Co. Seven Corners. The Tuesday Assembly will be closed until the regular monthly soiree Tuesday, Nov. 15. Admission by invitation only. The invitations for the monthly soiree and prize waltz of the Tuesday Assembly to be held Tuesday, Nov. 15th, have been issued. The Golden Rule has received a large shipment of the Howard shoe polish, where it may be purchased by those desiring the same. When you wish a fine shine, call at Walter Porter's up-to-date shoe shining parlors. No. 108 E. Fourth street. Shines 5 cents. First-class work. Is your hair straight? If not, send 50 cents to Ozonized Cx Marrow Co., 76 Wabasha avenue, Chicago, Ill., for a bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow and you can easily straighten it. Invitations have been issued for the wedding of Mr. George A. Green to Miss Anna Shepard Tuesday evening, Nov. 15, at the residence of the bride's parents, 434 Rondo. When you are hungry—as all folks are— And wish something nice to eat, Just go to Mrs. Garner's, on Wabasha, Her cooking and meals can't be Mr. Charles W. Batchman and Miss Estella Green were united in marriage Tuesday by Rev. R. Seymour of St. James A. M. E. Church at the parsonage, 380 Louis street. Only a few intimate friends were present. The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Philips' Mission have issued invitations to their first Halloween'en Party Oct. 31. All present may expect a pleasant evening. Mrs. H. B. Houston, president, Mrs. C. Sherwood, secretary. The State Savings Bank, corner Fourth and Minnesota streets, is open Monday evenings from 6 to 8. Accounts can be started with $1. A little amount saved every week may some day stand between you and want. ELK EXPRESS CO., G. D. and G. J. Charleston proprietors, No. 132 Fourth store, near Robert. Packing shipping and storing of furniture and household goods. Piano moving a specialty. House renting, real estate handled. Telephone Main 1572 J. Jarvis, the heeler and saver of soles, at $3 E. Fourth street, says, in one of his street car signs: "I can mend shoes better than I can write," and, if the sign is a fair specimen of his work as a writer, he's right, as he can mend shoes all right if he cannot write all right. Thursday evening a large crowd greeted J. Madison Vance of Kansas City at Gardners Hall on 5th street STATE SAVINGS BANK Germania Life Bldg., Fourth and Minnesota Sts. A Safety Depository For the Savings of the Wage Earner. The only institution in St. Paul doing business strictly according to the savings laws of the state is amended to date, and thereby avoids the dangers of commercial banking and trust business. Accounts opened of $ 6 and managed daily from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m., except Saturdays, from 9 a. m. to 12.30 p. m. On Sunday Evenings from 6 to 8. Germania. C. G. Lawrence. John B. Ferdinand Willus, Kenneth Clark. John D. Ludden, Thomas Maintapart, Harris Richardson, Guillaume Willing, John P. O'Brien, William Constans, W. B. Dean, Julius M. Goldsmith. ```markdown ``` and listened to a very eloquent and forceful speech. The meeting was under the auspices of the Third and Fourth Ward Republican Clubs and was an unqualified success. Oscar Hallam and James E. Markham, Republican candidates for the district bench, are making friends on every hand. The candidates have made a thorough canvass and both are well known to the citizens. Their legal abilities make them admirably fitted for the district bench. The Colonade Dancing School had its usual good crowd present last Wednesday evening. The usual good time may be counted on for next Wednesday evening. Come early and stay late. Arthur Winstead, principal, Colonade Hall, corner Farrington and University, Lessons, 25 cents. HOWELL & DAVIS. No. 156 E. Sixth street, fashionable tailors. Gentlemen wishing suits or overcoats of the latest suits and patterns should call on them. ladies' work also done. Clothing cleaned, repaired, sponged and pressed on short notice. Moderate prices. Goods called for and delivered. SAFE DEPOSIT AND STORAGE VAULTS.—We invite your inspection. It costs little to place your papers, cash securities and valuables in absolute safety. Boxes in our vaults can be had for $4 per year. Store your boxes, trunks, etc., with us. North western Trust Co., 138 Endicott Arcade. A large and representative company of young people greeted the ladies of St. Philip Mission at their first Halloween party, and all seemed highly delighted with the privileges of the evening. The management of Messrs. Le 'Coste and Godette was very much appreciated by the ladies of the Guild. Anything the matter with your stove, range or furnace? If there is, just call at the St. Paul Stove Repair Works, 126 West Seventh street, between Fifth and Exchange streets, and they can make the repairs on short notice. Any part of any make of stove or range supplied. Telephone, N. W. 1206 L 1: T. C. 424. Mrs. J. C. Hutt, 238 Granite street, who was shot by her husband Sunday, because she refused to accom- JOHN T. ROSENTHAL. Republican Candidate for the Legislature 34th District. pany him to St. Louis, is progressing favorably at St. Joseph's hospital, and unless complications ensue, she will recover. It is considered remarkable that the bullet could have entered her body as it did and miss all of the vital organs. Messrs. Nelson C. Crews of Kansas City, Mo, and J. Madison Vance, who are speaking under the auspices of the national Republican committee, were in the city this week the guests of Mr. J. Q. Adams of 527 St. Anthony Ave. An informal reception was tendered to the gentlemen Monday afternoon and quite a number of the citizens called. There was a fair attendance at Wynne's Dancing Academy in Litt's Hall Sunday evening and all had a good time. The next assembly will be held next Thursday night. Nov. 10th. Don't forget the grand special soirée will be held on Thursday evening. Nov. 17 Special attention is given to children. Classes for instruction are held from 8 to 9. Come early for instruction. The Colonnade Dancing Academy had a splendid crowd on last Wednesday evening and all enjoyed themselves. The splendid music by Prof. Lafayette Mason and Armant's orchestra gave the usual satisfaction Armant's orchestra will be present at all the assemblies of the Colonnade Dancing Academy, corner of University and Farrington Aves. Be sure to attend next Wednesday evening Arthur Winstead, principal. Miss Mayme B. Berry and Mr. Edmond E. Thomas were united in the holy bonds of matrimony Wednesday Oct. 26, at the home of the bride, 910 Edmond St. St. Paul. Rector E. Daniel, Mrs. James Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Amos Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. E. Daliads, Mrs. Gamble, Mr. and Mrs. J. Louis Ervin. The bride and groom received many valuable and useful presents. They will be at home at 810 Edmond St. after Nov. 1st. The Republican rally at Pilgrim Baptist church last Monday evening, which was held under the auspices of the Roosevelt-Dunn Marching Club, was the finest meeting of the kind the citizens of St. Paul ever held. Dr. W. T. Francis presided. Congressman Steyens made a fine speech. The principal speaker was Mr. Nelson C. Crews of Kansas City, and the general consensue was the finest ever delivered. Mr W. R. Morris of Minneapolis made an excellent speech. There was a very large crowd present and much enthusiasm was evinced. MILLS' SANDWICH ROOM is the place to get to your favorite sandwich. We make all kinds of sandwiches. We have the best grade of coffee and the cooks know how to prepare it; therefore we can serve very excellent coffee. We also have THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. PHIL. C. JUSTUS FOR SHERIFF soups, stews and oysters in every style. We constantly carry such sandwiches as: "New York," "Denver," "St. Paul," chicken, hammer, ham and egc, etc. We make a specialty of the genuine Mexican "Chili Stew" and "Chili Mack." If you try us once you will call again. Open day and night from 6:00 a. m. to 2:30 a. m. No. 444 Robert street, bet. 7th and 8th streets. John S. Mills, proprietor. Mesdames Pettis and Terrill of Fuller street on last Tuesday evening gave a progressive whist party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Harris of Chicago. There were six tables and all had a very enjoyable time. Mrs. Terrill kept the "tab." Refreshments were served at midnight. Mrs. Harris, the guest of honor, made the best score and was awarded the first prize, a beautiful little picture in a gilt frame. Mrs. Ed Green won second prize, a pretty picture in green frame. Mrs. W. T. Francis won third prize, a handsome stein. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. H. F. McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. James, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Francis, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Adams, Mesdames V. Jas. Henley, Allen French, E. H. Blackwell, Luu King, O. D. Howard, M. J. Brown, Ed Green, Miss Lula Howard, Messrs. H. Shepherd, W. Jenkins, W. Moore, I. Williams, F. B. Silsby, R. Chapman, W. French, Jasper Taylor. JESSE FOOT. Republican Candidate for County Treasurer. The Republican candidate for county treasurer, looks, like, a winner, from 1 start to finish. In the primary election contest he carried every precinct in every ward in the city of St. Paul, with one exception, and every election district in the county outside of St. Paul by a vote of three to one, receiving more than 6,000 votes at the primaries, a record that no candidate appearing before the voters of Ramsey county for the first time has ever equaled. Mr. Foot is a young man 31 years of age, was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, and has lived in this city during all his life. He is a good business man, an expert accountant, and thoroughly fitted in every way to take personal charge of the office to which he aspires. He is a nephew of S. B. Foot, senior member of the well-known manufacturer of Foot. Schmidt of this city. The office of county treasurer is one of the most important in Ramsey county, and the law requires that any person holding the same shall furnish to the county of Ramsey indemnify bonds in the sum of $500,000. No better recommendation as to Mr. Foot's integrity and personal standing in the community can be given than to point to the fact that the St. Paul representatives' of two of the leading bonding companies of the United States stand ready to furnish that bond the very instant Mr. Foot qualifies as treasurer of Ramsey county. Vote for him. Republican Candidate for County CommisSIONER Mr. Seng is a candidate for re-election, his record on the board has been entirely satisfactory to the voters and there is no question about his election. Mr. Seng has held officials position before, was county assessor and filled that place as well as it was ever filled. Mr. Seng is all right. Vote for him. Mr. Nash is a candidate for re-election, claiming that he is asking the vote of no man who is not satisfied with his record on the board. Mr. Nash says he will continue to look after the interests of small taxpayers in his second term. Roosevelt and Dunn are the leaders all delight to follow. If you claim to be a Republican be one and work and vote for Dunn and Roosevelt. All good Republicans are going to vote for R. C. Dunn for governor of Minnesota. Once a party cried, "Hard cider." Now the winner is "Rough Rider." Roosevelt's in the saddle. M. B. EDWARD G. KRAHMER. Republican Candidate for County Auditor. What can be gained for Republicans by voting for Democrats? Democrats only take care of their own. Put Republicans in office and they can help you. The women of St. Paul will have an opportunity to vote at the next city election on the proposition to furnish free text books for the school children. The proposition is passed now. Fol de rol de ra. He'll made the Parkerites skedaddle, Fol de rol de ra. PHIL. C. JUSTUS FOR SHERIFF Have no fears but we'll succeed, Fol de ro de ra. Could we do less with "Ted" to lead? Fol de ro de ra. Mr. Markham who is a candidate for Judge of the District Court, needs no introduction to the voters of St. Paul, as he has been active in public affairs for many years. He was City Attorney from 1897 to 1903, and has since been active as a member of the Chancery Commission. Which he is now president. Mr. Markham as a public man has served alike, all classes of people, and the Republican party has shown its appreciation of his services by choosing him as a candidate for the District bench of Ramsey County. He doubtless will be elected. Vote for him. M. NIC. POTTGIESER. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner. Oscar Hallam, Republican candidate for District Judge of Ramsey County is one of the most popular young attorneys of St. Paul as was shown by his run in the primaries. Judges of District Court OSCAR HALLAM, Republican X Votes for Two. JAMES E. MARKHAM, Republican X VOTE FOR BOTH OF THEM He has been a prominent member of the Ramsey county bar for many years. He has been an active Republican worker in every campaign. He was prominently mentioned for attorney general during the recent state campaign, but refused to make the run. Mr. Hallam, by reason of his wide acquaintance, personal popularity and high standing as a lawyer, will make a formidable candidate for the bench. Vote for him. ROBT. C. DUNN. Republican Candidate for Governor of Minnesota. Robert C. Dunn, the Republican candidate for governor, occupied the office of auditor of the state for eight years. He assumed office in January, 1895, and retired on Jan. 3d, 1903. The record which he made during his incumbency of that office stamps him as one of the most efficient and intelligent officers that has ever served the state. He brought to the administration of the state's business a shrewd, clear intelligence and sound judgment, which in every instance was used to promote the state's interest. He did undertaking many notable reforms he did not pose as a reformer, and his every act was governed by a wise conservatism which dealt justly with all, the rich and the poor being treated alike. The magnificent public school fund of Minnesota, which now exceeds fifteen million dollars, was carefully protected by Mr. Dunn, and, he used every effort to increase it. By judicious land sales and careful management, this fund, during his administration, was increased by four and a The image provided does not contain any text or graphics. It appears to be a blank or empty space with decorative borders. half million dollars. This fact is of vital interest to every tax payer and every citizen in the state of Minnesota. Mr. Dunn was also instrumental, while he, was state auditor, in bringing about the creation of the state board of control, but it should be noted that at no time did he favor placing the educational institutions on the board. His idea then was, and is now, that the jurisdiction of the board of control should be limited to the charitable and correctional institutions of the state. Every act of Mr. Dunn during the eight years of his administration as state auditor was guided by a strong desire to protect the interests of the people of the state and of the school fund and other trust funds. Errors of judgment he may have made, but it must truly be said that he gave to the state a clean, honest and intelligent business administration, and fully justified the praise given to him by the Hon. H. W. Childs, former attorney general of the state of Minnesota, when he said: "Mr. Dunn is a man who will fearlessly perform his duty at all times, in all places, and under all circumstances." There is everything to gain and nothing to use by voting for Mr. Dunn. Vote for him sure. The best recommendation for Hon. E. W. Bazille, the present Judge of the Probate Court, who seeks a reelection is his former excellent record in that trying and important position. Judge Bazille has made one of the most fair and impartial Judges who ever sat upon the Probate bench. He is painstaking and careful in the most unimportant cases and has brought to the position most remarkable judicial wisdom. The Republicans of Ramsey County cannot well do otherwise than to elect Judge Bazille. Vote for him. VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT AND DUNN DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY" Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and Are to Happen Among the People of the City. VOTE FOR ROOSEVELT AND DUNN The election of Sheriff Dregger means the retention of Mr. John M. Allison as Deputy Sheriff. The Junior choir of St. Peter's church under the direction of Mrs. Regan will give a concert at St. Petter's in the near future. Rev. Wilson of St. Peter's church will organize a young men's Sunday club, the first Sunday in November. All are invited to attend. Have your tailoring and repairing done by ANTHONY THE TAILOR, Suits, $15 and upward. Repairing done at reasonable rates. 212 Washington Ave. N. Piano lessons taught, also instructsewing. Plain sewing done at the Goodrich-Russell Afro-American Industrial Home, 2404-2408 17th Ave. So. Miss Lydia Walker, instructor. The Thursday Whist Club met Thursday evening at the home of Miss Ollie Ward and played 15 games of whist, the number decided by the club to be played at each meeting. Miss Ada Mason and Miss Sadie Marshall won first prize. Ten couples were present at the Halloween party given last Monday evening, by Mrs. Minnie Flummer, Dancing and cards furnished the amusements for the evening. Mr. Ralph Grey and Miss Maud Mason won the prize that was not the first prize. Two prizes were given. Mr. J. Madison Vance of New Orleans, La., addressed a large crowd of enthusiastic Afro-American voters at Union Temple Hall Tuesday evening, under the auspices of the Afro-American Central Republican Club.. Mr. Vance is a forcible and eloquent speaker. After the meeting twenty members of the club tendered Mr. Vance a banquet at the Open Cafe. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner. James Erwin, 25 years old, was found dead in his bed at 723 Washington avenue south, Minneapolis, early Wednesday. Coroner Williams was summoned, and pronounced death due to heart failure. Erwin came home Tuesday night and was apparently in good health, and members of his family heard no groaning or signs of sickness in the night. He was employed as a porter and was a man of good habits. VOTE. FOR ROOSEVELT AND DUNN PHIL C. JUSTUS Republican Candidate for Sheriff. The best recommendation for the re-election of an officer is his record re-election of an officer is his record. The present sheriff of Ramsey county has made a most excellent officer for the past four years and there is every reason to believe he will continue to hold the office. Don't fail to vote for him. MATT JENSEN. Republican Candidate for County Commissioner. Mr. Jensen is one of the best and most favorably known men in the city and before the people for the office of county commissioner. He served two terms as city clerk, and in the insurance business. He ran second on his party ticket at the recent primary election and his friends and supporters believe his election is one of the certainties of the present campaign. EDWARD G., KRAHMER. Republican Candidate for County Auditor During his first term Edward G. Krahmer has made a notable record as county auditor. The distinguishing features thereof have been a perfected system, an orderly administration and a marked efficiency in all departments. His acts have squared with his promises and justly entitle him to the reward of a re-election. The best guarantee of the future are the performances of the past; and, judged by this standard, Mr. Krahmer is the most competent. He has instituted a thorough revision of the business and methods of his office, and has inaugurated certain reforms which the public interests require shall be continued uninterruptedly, to a successful conclusion. In the truest sense of the term he has been a conscientious, obliging and efficient public servant, and the flattering support which was accorded him in so generous a way at the recent primaries will be appreciated. In the fuller measure at the general election on next November 8th. Vote for him. No Sales No Discounts We want Your Business in Suits, Overcoats, Trousers, Raincoats and Fancy Waistcoats To get it we are willing to give you the BEST at Lower Prices than anyone in America. "Our goods are worth what we ask for them 385 days in the year." THE WELLS CLOTHES SHOP SIXTH AND CEDAR STS. C. I. 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An examination of the files of the Democratic newspapers for the past few weeks and of the recently issued Democratic Campaign Text Book discloses a disposition on the part of the managers of the Democratic campaign to disclose the information being made by the Bureau of Labor in its July Bulletin (No. 53). In view of the reputation of Commissioner Wright for absolute fairness in the collection and presentation of statistics it is of some interest at this time to review his report on the campaign, which it has brought forth, and it may be said at the outset that a careful examination of the report reveals the somewhat remarkable fact that practically every criticism made has been answered in the Bulletin itself. Indeed, it would be difficult to believe that the Democratic Text Book either did not make use of the Bulletin or had no desire to be convinced of the truth of the figures published therein, and that their instinations and clumsy misstatements of fact were made for the purpose of misleading the public by the specific of the somewhat vague charges that are made. It is first charged that the report published in the Bulletin was (quoting the Text Book) "prepared ostensibly as an official document, but in reality, it seems, to be a political campaign Committee." The "well-nigh conclusive" evidence submitted in support of this charge consists of a statement by Secretary Shaw in June last that such a report would be published. The report is then to be to the public for several years that the Bureau of Labor was engaged in collecting data for such a report and the portion of the report relating to cost of living was actually published in Bulletin eight early in November. 1963—nearly eight months to Secretary Shaw's statement. Not What Democrats Wanted. Not What Democrats Wanted It clearly stated in the letter itself that the bureau began in the winter of 1900-1901, and without doubt the records of the bureau and the testimony of hundreds of manufacturers, whose payrolls were examined would have proved the truth of the statement, had the truth been desired in Democracy. In the same reasons, the facts disclosed were not pleasing, and it seemed necessary to adopt some method, apparently any method that would detract from an explanation of the statistical depression was desired. Conclusive evidence is at hand that the gathering of these statistics was begun in the winter of 1900-1901, and that they were not "cooked up" or the occasion as such was intended, that this absurd charge will be with HON. JOSEPH G. CANNON. Speaker National House of Representatives. drawn, although as a matter of fact the figures as to wages and cost of living referred to have been corroborated by independent investigations which have been concluded by the State bureaus of several important States. A Ludicrous Complaint. The further complaint that the figures for cost of living are based on retail prices instead of wholesale can only be understood by assuming that the use of the latter would have given the Democratic campaign managers the advantage of being clearly explaining the reasons for the use of retail prices as a basis for cost of living in preference to the wholesale. It is true that wholesale prices have been used at times to indicate the cost of living, but the ability of the period had ever been collected, owing to the very great expense of making a collection. It is, however, obvious that the workingman does therefore clearly wrong to compare the workingman's wages with wholesale prices. The Democratic Text Book learns disclosures on the stability of wholesale prices, as a matter of fact, because that wholesale prices are exceedingly sensitive and that retail prices are more stable, never reaching relatively as high or as low levels as the former. But, leaving aside the question of the ordinary consumer is compelled to pay, and which, therefore, discloses the more accurately the cost of living. Further, it is stated in this Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor that these retail prices are based on the sales of over 300 retail merchants; these prices represent actual sales to consumers ex- cunning over each month of the fourteen-year period covered—that they represent every important center of industry in the country—and that the stores contributing the data are such as are largely patronized by the working classes. It is understood that these prices will be published in the greatest detail for each city covered in the Eighteenth Amendment in press—an evidence that the bureau have no doubt as to the integrity of their data. As the final court, the Democratic managers suggest that the whole 'matter of cost of living be left to the housewives of the country. They do not perhaps recall the statement made in the criticized Bulletin that over 25,000 theiles contributed to that the bureau has already done already what the department—left the matter to the wives of over 25,000 representative workmen. Full of Mistreatments. The criticism of the wage data appears to be quite as illusory as it is. It is full of mistreatments of fact, as may be seen by reference to the Bulletin itself. The method of averaging imputed to the bureau was not used. Even the most cursory examination of the data, to disclose the falsity of the premises upon which the entire criticism as to method is based. It has been charged in some quarters that the increase of 18.8 per cent. in wages shown by the bureau is greater than is actually the basis of the report represent highly unionized centers, where wages have been increased most rapidly. This charge is readily refuted by comparing the Bulletin wages with the average of the miniature occupations, as compiled by the Secretary of the Building Contractors' Coun- THE NEW YORK TIMES M. B. HON. ELMER DOVER. Secretary Republican National Com mittee of Chicago, TI., and published by the Building Employees' Association of New York City. Bearing in mind that the union wages quoted are minimum wages and that the actual wages are higher, the comparisons in few occupations are as follows: Minimum union wages of mason in 29 cities average 54 cents per hour, while the average of the bureau is not quite 45 cents; minimum union wages of structural iron workers are 54 cents per hour, while the average of the bureau is $54\%$ cents; minimum union wages of structural iron workers are 46\% cents per hour, while the average of the bureau is $43\%$ cents. These examples might be multiplied, but those given are sufficient to show that the averages of the bureau are considerably lower than the average of the bureau and are therefore fairly representative of both union and non-union labor in the occupations covered. The charge that an unjustifiable increase in wages is secured by the bureau is the collection of its figures from strongly unionized factories is readily refuted by the above facts. The principal charges have been mentioned—the minor ones are equally unwarranted and unsupported by the facts. The report of the bureau represents the sum of a patient and painstaking investigation of the nature of the manant value cannot be lessened or obscured by partisan attacks. Its value as a scientific study of economic conditions and as a contribution to the some of the problems of living has already been recognized both at home and abroad. The accuracy and excellence of the reports of this bureau of the government have never been seriously questioned during its eight years of operation. The conservative management of Commissioner Wright, it has always merited its reputation of being a non-partisan office for the collection and presentation of facts, and so far as can be seen from the report, charges made for partisan effect will not warrant the withdrawal of the confidence of the public. Olney and Cleveland's Monumental Bran The Democratic donkey is trying to dance into power over the graves of United States soldiers who died for the freedom of Cuba. The result is already apparent. Trump impersonator could go no further. Richard昂威ent in his recent speech. Grover Cleveland's laudation of the "experienced, undramatic Buchanan" was a record-breaker in the way of dull imperviousness to the feelings of national pride, but Olin, insulting the soldier dead, went beyond his chief. The Trump Card. "When in doubt, trump trumps." Thus says Mr. Hoyle. Parker's chance still slumps. Spite of his toll. Why will Parker get Such terrific bumps? In this game, you bet. Roosvelt is trumps. Bryan's Long Look Acad. Bryan declares that he is still "in the ring," and that his "heart is to Poll." As David Bennett Hill has promised to retire from politics next January, there may be a chance that the Bryan case in 1988. But does he believe Hill? ```markdown ``` DEMOCRATIC CRY OF "IMPERIALISM" AN INSULT. Parker's Expressed Alarm Over the Power of the President and Fear of What Republicans Will Do In Mercy Anming Twaddle. Of all the absurd bugaboos in politics the most ridiculous one is that produced by the Democrat and labeled "imperialism," which, as applied at present, is designed to carry the idea of a Republican being "Dictator" instead of President, to "dictate" the actions of his self; still, when uttered through human megaphones of the Democratic party, it acquires a hearing if not an importance. Judge Parker, in his letter of acceptance, declares imperialism "a vital issue" and of "overwhelming importance," under successful Republic administration under successful Republic administration has been so vast and rapid as to require system in its management—business-like conceptions and executions of purposes. This is an inexempt condition for success in national as well as local government. A person cannot or will not submit to it. Centralization of power does not mean usurpation, but does show the Republicans are not leaving "lose ends" around in their sagacious management of public matters. No State can truthfully complain that their rights or dignities have suffered from usurpation or be instantiated by usurpation to be instantly resented by each and every State in the Union as a matter of self-preservation. 1920 Why Democrat Are Wealth Why Democrats are Wrong. Because a Republican Congress and a Republican President, managing the Republican people, conducted the government as a business proposition of the vastest magnitude, using no means except good common sense and the powers delegated by the national constitution, and because the Democrats never have and will never do the same, however much they may promise, is the plain reason for their continued use of utilities for public good and employed by the nation's business managers maddens the Democrats, because they have been impotent with their opportunities. Judge Parker is alarmed at the power of the President. "It almost equals the number of many men," he deserves. Why? Because constitutional limitations, and coraled by a cordon of States and the will of the people. If a Democratic President were up-to-date and regarded the welfare of the nation as more important than that of his party, would he not be likely to do as the Republicans have done? If he would not be likely to trust, but not, nerchus, to his party. But Judge Parker goes farther in his fear of what Republicanism may do for the country. In doing this he deliberately insults that majority of the people who have believed in the Republican party, whose principles and practice are different from those made the United States what it is today. He writes: "The magnitude of the country and its diversity of interests and population"—diversity of population applies to honest-ideal foreigners who have come here to be rid of dictators and tyrannical leaders, and to attack the polls this imputation against their patriotism—"would enable a determined, ambitions, and able executive (that does not mean a Democrat, but Mr. Roosevelt) unmindful of constitutional limitations, and fired with the list of power, to the aggrandizement of the aggrandizement of personal power before the situation could be fully appreciated or the people be aroused." Such an utterance is twaddle; there is not a sign of statesmanship about it. It is a wormout Democratic echo from Gen. Grant's political campaigns. It might be a sign of statesmanship by the chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Connecticut brought out the same sentiment in saying of the Connecticut Democrats—"they fear he (Roosevelt) may become ambitious to carve out for himself a place in history, and foreign nations." This indicates unity of echo; but no one is scared—but the Democrats. But they insult those of our citizens of alien descent by intimating that Mr. Roosevelt might steal the government without their suspecting anything of the kind—asserting that the United States is made up of foreign-born and native voters, a "beneficial despotism." Mr. Roosevelt does not agree with this view of the situation. He has written: "We have striven both for civic right-ness and for national greatness; and we will be uphid by all who feel love of country and trust in the uplifting of mankind." Mr. Roosevelt's sentiments are, all of them, those of a patriot; against him are those of political tricksters and demagogues. PARKER AND BUCHANAN. Mr. Cleveland's Comparison Cause a Nation-Wide Smile. When a ponderous person plants his feet in a shallow puddle there is likely M. H. HON. HARRY S. NEW. Member Republican National Executive Committee. to an muggy spish. This is precisely what has happened as the result of President Cleveland's discovery of the candidates between the candidates in 1856 and 1904. The comparison of Roosevelt with Freemont because of their 'fancied resemblance as appealing to romantic sentiment and popular love for the spectacle, and the surface of political thought. But the likeness of Judge Parker to James Buchanan as the model of what a "mature, undramatic and experienced" candidate Presidency should be, has provoked scornful laughter clear across the continent. If ex-President Cleveland had searched the roll of prominent Americans for a names less likely to arouse popular attention, he would have had to look among those records were positively odious to find it. There was nothing actively vicious or, what Mr. Cleveland would call, "pernicious active" about President Buchanan in not only the state, but the sage of Bunceau, it would be called an "offensive parson." But in the vital emergency that lowered above the Republic during his administration he was tried in the balance and found wanting. Where a man 'man of the people' sent a man grasped the nettle of secession with the firm hand of American patriotism and crushed it in its incipiency, Mr. Buchman dallied with the question. He held Congress was not competent to deal with secession, was a question for the individual States, and that it was better for all parties, including the slaves themselves, that it should remain so. As resuscitent neeer entered to pro-survival leaders and quailed before their secession of secession, he then temporally suspended it, perfected Instead of meeting their threats with the words and measures of an Andrew Jackson he took the illogical and impotent position that, while the States had to secede the nation, with a little n, and no power to prevent them doing so. and is one man or nature, undramatic experience," who, in Mr. Cleveland's judgment, is the prototype of Judge Parker. Irresolute and ineffective but injustice is done him in composing him with Judge Parker. He was certainly a man of greater maturity than the man from Esopus, not only in years but in experience with affairs and in knowledge of men. Everything that expert in the field possessed as a craft Buchanan knew—only the intrinsic capacity to master them was, lacking. Judge Parker has had absolutely none of the experience and training that seemed to fit Mr. Buchanan for the Presidency. In fact, he was elected surrogate of Ustler County, New York, and under the winging of David B. Hill he has vegetated in some judicial position ever since. That, there is a certain parallelism between his weak, undramatic and the strong, undramatic of Buchanan cannot be denied. Their views upon the unconstitutionality of the power of the self-penetration in the union and of the folly of an army and navy commensurate to the dignity and necessities of a greatly false, barren and reactionary. Buchanan lived to repent the "underratic" moderation that warmed secession into life. He supported Lincoln's administration and lent all his influence to the war effort. He does not appear that either Judge Parker or Henry Gassaway Davis, who also HON. HAR Member Republican Nati arms back to the days of Buchanan, follow his precept and example when, in the fierce flame of civil war, he saw a bright light that taught him that the Union must be saved at all hazards. The country was more to him than his own interpretation of its constitution, Judge Parker and Mr. Davis quit his company and continue to steer his courses by the chart that ran his administration on the bench. The American people will never elect a counterfeit replica of James Buchanan to the Presidency, if they are warned in time; and, thanks to ex-President Cleveland, they recognize that Judge Parker has been the use case in redeeming qualities of President Buchanan. Inventions of the Enemy. Lacking, material from which to create issues upon the past and present conduct of the Republican party, the Democrats have been taking a long and soulful look into the future, this fall, and their recollection of the past in the dim time to come are fearsome. But nobody is scared. The dreamer alone is disturbed by his nightmare, except for a chance neighbor who may hear and wonder at the awakening shrieks of the wretching of indignation. The visions of delirium portend nothing outside of the sufferer's personality. The conjured wrath of the trance medium are visible only to the contortionist, and perhaps a few dupes at the contrived seance. The country is not going to the commissariat. The people of the United States have no desire to start an empire upon the ruins of their republic. They will not even listen seriously to the suggestion of such a thing. The Philippine Islands are going to be taken care of. They will be free in the M. H. COL. FRANK D. LOWDEN. Illinois Member Republican National Committee. "Intuition ought to lead a young man to know that those who have usually been right on public questions are far more likely to be right in the future than those who have always best sense or the word. The Panama canal has been started by honorable manners and has been infused." "God rules and the government at Washington still lives." While the election of Roosevelt and Palibunku on November 5, the Republican branch of Congress may be uncomfortably close. No Republican should be induced, because of local or other influence, to vote for any Democratic nominee for Congress, because he will assist the President in carrying out Republican policies. The thing for Republicans to do this year is to VOTE. The Democrats have the money of the trusts and can bring out to the polls all the ignorant, purchasable element. But they cannot bring out any conditions to beat Roosevelt, if Republicans VOTE. A vote for Judge Parker is a vote of censure on President Roosevelt. In any patriotic American willing to take that position towards one of the best Presidents and best administrations the country has ever had? If you hitch up your horses to drive to the voting place on election day you may as well take along with you one or more Republican voters who might not care to walk to the polls. We now look to Judge Parker to take up the cry against government by injunction to which his David B. Hill has given voiciferous utterance. Be sure to cast your vote November 8th. You'll never be sorry if you do you may be sorry if you don't. been wrong."—Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury. That means that the first voter should ally himself with the Republican party. LINCOLN TO SCHURZ. Letter Written Thirty-Eight Years are that In Appropriate Now. Mr. Carl Schurz made a long speech at Cooper Union in October, 1900, in which he assailed President McKinley and denounced the policy of his administration. It is appropriate, therefore, that this letter of Abraham Lincoln to this same Mr. Carl Schurz should be read. It was written thirty-seven years ago, having been dated Nov. 24, 1862, or in the second year of the war for the Union: I have just received and read your letter of acceptance, and that we lost the late elections and the administration is failing because the war is unsuccessful. I am not justly to blame for it. I certainly know that if the war fails, I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed if I could do better. I will be blamed for it, whether I blame you for blaming me. I understand you now to be willing to accept your proposal, provided they have "heart in it." Agreed, "want no others." I understand you have "heart in it" if I must discard my own judgment and take yours. I must also have "heart in it" if I must discard my reject all I should be advised to reject. I should have none left. Republicans or others—not even your For be assured, my dear sir, there are men who have your part as poorly as you think I am performing mine. But this has been printed before, but it bears reading many times as the spirit of the patient, humorous Lynchon under the jabbing of a chronic fault-finder who owed to him only gratitude and profound respect. Besides, it has a special application to the long speech, of Mr. Carl Schurz. Edward Atkinson, one of the so-called anti-imperialists, recently prepared a newspaper article in which he attempted to show directly, over a billion dollars. The letter probably was prepared for the benefit of Judge Parker, for the Democratic candidate gives Atkinson as authority for the statement that the taxpayers have paid nearly a billion a quarter dollars for the his misleading article? What kind of a President would Parker make if he should not prove more accurate and reliable as a chief executive than he does as a campaign talker? Parker makes the Philippines cost $1.2 billion to pay for the campaign, the total amount paid for the islands is only $180,000,000. It is becoming apparent that "Ananias," instead of "Alton" should be the first name of the Democratic candidate. "If a tariff law is passed under which the country prospers, as the country has prospered under the present tariff law, then the country will share in the prosperity. If a tariff law is passed among at preventing the prosperity of some of our people, it is as certain as anything can be that this aim will be achieved. The prosperity of all of our people," Roosevelt's letter of acceptance Judge Parker's says he in favor of the Panama canal, but opposed to the methods by which its construction was secured. No method that a Republican administration could have adopted would have met the same objective method employed by the Democratic party was one of trifling and delay. Don't nullify your vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks by failing to support the Republican candidate for Congress. 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