Ogden Sun | 1905-09-26 | Page 5 | Negroes Endorse Roosevelt

NEGROES ENDORSE ROOSEVELT greatest chief executive since the great Emanel pator lincoln muskogee Musko gec I 1 1 sept 22 the est arn negro press association in annual meeting here today adopted resolutions calling on the president and on congress to oppose statehood tor indian territory and oklahoma unless an absolute guarantee can be given that no jim crow coach laws and other laws discriminating between the races in public places will be passed the delegates endorse the administration of president roosevelt and he is spoken of as the greatest chief executive since the great emancipator lincoln negroes are urged to acquire lands lunching lynching lyn ching and the perpetration of crimes leading thereto are denounced be they by white or colored booker T industrial policy Is endorsed president roosevelt and secretary of the interior hitchcock are to be informed that the rights given the freed men in the territory to sell their lands without restrictions are being abused and it the evil Is not stopped they will soon dispose of their diomes and become haupers paupers and wards of the nation