Eureka Reporter | 1902-11-21 | Page 3 | The Negro in Politics

the negro n pol t cs the can politicians in fie the hern states and that means the t i S X federal officeholders have ost the degroes from being delegates ta to state conventions with the evident in of preventing them from tak ing part in the next national can convention president roosevelt seems to be helping the matter along by appointing white men to federal of flees in the southern states three bishops and some other colored nota als called on the pre president ident for an ex he explained to the satis faction of the bishops that he was not discriminating against the colored brother yet he is known to favor the tle building lp of a white republican party in the south and Is appointing renegade democrats to fill the offices in indiana and in some other states where the colored voters hold the bal ance of power how many state coun court ty or town offices are given to them to repay their devotion to the republican party f the negro will never get his fair share of the spoils until lit h shows his power by occasionally defeating the republican ticket