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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. FRANK J. CANNON. EDITOR. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET For Praident ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vlce-PtaMe- nt HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia. THE IMPORTANT QUESTION. Senator Thomas Kearns spoke very eloquently and almost pathetically to the Black Hawk war veterans at Fillmore last week. lie talked about blazing trails, about bringing water on the desert to make it blossom, and about the school houses and sich. It was a good speech as those fine buncombe speeches always are. But what the Black Hawk veterans want to know and what a good many other people in this state want to know is this: Did the bill to grant a pension to the Indian war veterans of Utah fail to become a law because of the testimony given at the Smoot investigation in Washington? The Salt Lake Herald published a dispatch from the capital to that effect. This paper thrice requested Senator Smoot to answer whether the telegram was reliable or not. He failed to make reply. Was it delicacy for the feelings of his colleague that prompted Senator Kearns to remain silent on this, the most important question to the Black Ilawk veterans? It is all well enough to praise them for blazing and building, for chasing snakes out of their tents, and for managing .to escape with d their scalps from the hunting knife of the lousy old native in the moccasins; but what the veterans want to know is. Where are we at on this pension matter? And why?" If Senator Smoot will not answer the question a demand may be made on Senator Kearns to waive his delicacies long enough to tell the facts. keen-edge- BIDDING FOR THE NEGROES. The Republicans are making an extraordinary effort to solidify the vote of the colored people of the United States. There were sentimental reasons why the negro allied himself with the party of Lincoln and Grant; and he remained true to that sentiment through many years, notwithstanding the fact that the Republican party defaulted on many of its obligations to him and upon much of the sympathy that it had expressed for him, In the South, where the Republican party cannot win, the colored man continues to vote the ticket. But in the North some slight recession has been witnessed, in recent years, from the devotion of the colored men to the word Republican. Some of them have begun to think and reason and not all of them have been willing to follow after the pretensions of friendship made in words and not fulfilled in deeds. They have found that in the Republican states of the North they are not treated with any more consideration politically and with not nearly so much kindness personally as in Democratic states of the South. ' Noting this, the Republican party of today, headed by the president, has determined to create a renaissance of sympathy and attention for the colored race. There are enough negro votes in Indiana, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois to have substantial effect upon the election returns: and the politicians of the Roosevelt cult have estimated that they can hold all the white strength and can solidify the negro vote in addition for the Republican ticket. That their efforts are bearing some kind of fruit is evinced by many circumstances, one of the most notable being a letter sent by an educated negro to the Washington Post. That letter is as follows: self-assum- ed UTAH STATE mand that Professor Booker T. Washington shall be the Republican candidate for in 1908. Let not my colored brethen forget that scene in the Republican convention when a beautiful white girl was placed upon the stage, and by her side a negro boy. They then placed flags in their hands and allowed them to lead the cheering, thus making the first and grandest example of the equality of the races that history records. In the Democratic convention there was not a single colored man. It was in word andin deed a white mans convention of a white mans party. All hail to Roosevelt, who has given the poor negro so much to encourage him to persist in his political and social HENRY S. BAKER. rights. vice-preside- JULY TUESDAY, JOURNAL. 1904. 26, nt r Is It is certain that the letter will be widely quoted, and that the South will be indignant. Unquestionably whatever may have been gained in any of the doubtful states of the North will be lost in Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware, by the offensive efforts of the Republicans to establish a pretension of equality for the negro race. And we believe that election day will prove that they have sacrificed much more than they have won even in the doubtful states. For instance, Indiana, which has, as stated.a large negro population, is intensely aroused on the race question; and for every seceding negro that has been brought back to the Republican party by the favors extended to his race, it is probable that more than one white man has been alienated. And the same calculation is applicable to other states. Democrats welcome this kind of an issue. They have no war to make on the negro. He has his constitutionally guaranteed rights; and no good citizen should attempt to deny to him bis free enjoyment of these rights. He also has his place in the worlds social He makes life and in the worlds economy. his own station as other men make their station; and he is as generally protected as is the white man. But we have marched on since the date of the emancipation proclamation, and the white people of the land must now be fully aware that there are and must continue to be inextinguishable differences between the white people and the black people. Anything which tends to break down the great moral and physiological barrier which separates the two races is to be deplored. They' can never commingle as one people in society or in blood. The ablest and best of the ne- gro population, the most philosophical among them, not only admit this fact but some of them publicly proclaim it. They regret, as bitterly as do some of the white people, the injurious effect upon the negro mind of an assumption of equality between the races. They are aware that the most demoralzing thing with which they have to contend is the feeling on the part of the present generation particularly the younger negroes that they are as About the good now as the white people. time that a negro gets this for his guiding sentiment in life, he proceeds to demonstrate that he is not as good as the old colored man of slave times, for he becomes shiftless, improvident and usually altogether bad. Heretofore, the race issue has been confined in its promulugation to to the North and initseffects to the South; but the letter of Mr. Baker above quoted and the action of the Republicans this year indicate that the question is to be a living one in the Northern states where there are large negro populations. It is a safe prediction that if the issue shall be made in such states as Indiana, the Republicans will have occasion to regret it. They may get all the negro vote, although the ablest of that race will deplore the means by which it is obtained; but in getting all that vote they will lose incalculably with the white men. Without withdrawing THE PRESIDENT CORTEL, IF IF IT WASNT CAMPAIGN TIME8 ID LIKE TO HAVE ANOTHER NAVAL REVIEWS OUT IN OY8TER BAY TO AMUSE THE CHILDREN. T PERSONAL POINTERS Utahna Park Hot Weather! goods PROGRAM Week of July 25 George sinter of Chicago In In town CHARLE8 LEORA on business. High Trapeze and Horizontal C. J. Sprout of Salt Lake City la an Work. Ogden visitor. John Quigle and wife of Evanston J. W. CLIFFORD are visitors in the city. The Dutch Profeasor. L. Spears from the Ogden-Lucl- n cut8WOR AND WESTBROOK off is In the city for a few days. Frank Lloyd and wife of Salt Lake Comedy Sketch. City spent yesterday in the city. J. MURRAY 8MITH ' John L. Pierce, manager of the Baritone. Brigham City canning factory, was an Ogden visitor yesterday. AMALIA AND MANOLIA Mrs. Vic. Carbaugh and daughter Marvelous Acrobats. leave today for San Francisco, where they go to join Mr. Carbough. MISS VE8TA MONTROSA T. M. Schumacher, traffic manager Sry Illustrator. of the Oregon Short Line, returned from the Pacific coast yesterday afLaughable Farce Comedy Bar WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Tuesday, August 2d SALTAIR via. RIO GRANDE SPECIAL. LEAVE8 OGDEN 9:30 a. m, 2:15 p. m Returning LEAVE THE BEACH 8 and 11:15 p.m. one word of what FARE, $1.25 FOR THE ROUND TRIP All friends ars invited to get away from the hot weather corns with us. that the advertising has been restored to the News and it is indicated by one of its journalistic critics that the proprietors, of the News have bought stock in the big stores. Hereafter, therefore, if the foregoing statement is Editor Post: As a colored man I wish to correct, department stores will not boycott TO GET OUR PRICES ON call attention to the difference between the the News and the News will not proclaim LUMBER, 8HINGLE8, LATH Republican and the Democratic national con- against the business immorality of the great AND BUILDING MATERventions. At the Republican convention the mercantile combines. IALS OF ALL KINDS, AND colored man was treated as a companion, THEREBY friend, and brother. There he was made to The Sacramento Bee says that there is feel as if he were not only a political, but a social equal. The delegates followed the ad- no difficulty in getting all the money desired vice and example of our beloved President for the election of Parker. In New York, Theodore Roosevelt, who teaches that the to general report, it is easier to obcolored man deserves to be treated as a social according tain two for Parker than one dollar for dollars equal. To emphasize this fact, he had the courRoosevelt. The price on Parker may be a age to have at his table Professor Booker T. Washington. If Roosevelt is elected it will so little low, but unquestionably the price on Utah & Oregon Lumber Co encourage the colored men that we will de Roosevelt is altogether too high. 143 24th 8trsst Phone 561 It, Doesnt CostAnjthing To Save Yourself Money OXFORD FLAKE8 Per pkg $ 10c BROILED (Soused) MACKEREL per can 20c BROILED MACKEREL g 6 20c : HEINZS PORK AND BEANS (plain) can VAN CAMPS PORK AND "BEANS (plain) par can MAC VAN CAMPS RONI AND CHEESE 3 cans Edgar Jones Good Old 25c 20o 25c Co. 338 25th St Phone 124. The The Biggest j Summer Money-Savi- j ! ng Event in Time Now here, $ PORK AND BEANS (in chili sauce) 3 cans.25e . Students Reunion i BROILED MACKEREL (in mayonaise) can E Installation of officers Order of Washington Tuesday evening, July 26th. Refreshments. MALTA VITA 2 pkgs.... 25c CERO FRUITO 2 pkgs ,.25e (in tomato) per can....20o ternoon. Entitled John Meyers, who is handling the DEMONSTRATORS OF ANATOMY. Short Line for Scowcroft A Sons company, in the southern part of the state, E. R. GOURLEY8 UTAHNA-SCOPNew Pictures. left yesterday for a sixty days trip. Trains run through without change of cars. we said about the boycott by the department stores of the Denver News, it is fair to state ONE OF THOSE 8MASHING dont roast Ogden t WE WILL your- self over a hot kitchen stove buy ready to eat foods. No cook Ing. These this week special: f 8ELL X ANYTHING IN OUR X j Stock of Goods! Bayles lunch cheese, per Jar..15o Boyles Roquefort cheese. Jar - nut butter. Jar N. T. full cream cheese, lb..20o Veal lost per can Bayles- Every one will remember our Cost Mark 8alo In Mareh of this year. No article Is reserved. This offen applies to all goods in our largo stock and will Include all Fall Goods arriving during sals. All domestio Sheeting, Sheets and Pillow Cases bought sine the fall in price on these goode included. Chicken loaf, per can Melrose Pate, per can Saratoga chips, per pound... Ralston crisps, 3 pkgs. for...25o We carry all kinds of baker bread and cakes. Get the fresh every day. THE Cur fruits and vegetables noted for being the finest an freshest In the city. WILL POSITERMS TIVELY BE CASH. DONT - OPPOR- - X MISS THIS TUNITY. BARROWS GROCERY CO. Tel. 67-- x. 2456 Weshington Av C. J. A. Lindquist The management of the Journal will consider It a favor If subscribers win report promptly any papers Telephone 164. non-delive- ry of UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER Open AU Right Telr--,2020 Washington A vs. X n |