Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-09-15 | Page 5 | President Taft Speaks a Word for the Negro

PRESIDENT TAFT SPEAKS A WORD FOR THE NEGRO Washington Sept Taft has placed himself on record In Ina ina a to a L local n us being opposed to i suffrage restrictions In I loaded to discriminate against the no ne nogIo i gIo In answer to lo a letter ask I jug illi his opInion the fran franchise chise amendment to lo the I which Is proposed by the Democratic part laty In Maryland the tho says n s sIt It Ss Is deliberately drawn to Impose educational and other qualifications for the hue suffrage upon negroes and to exempt everybody else from such ions Is gross injustice and Ilia I say a viola vIolation Lion o of the tho spirit of the fifteenth amendment It ought to he 10 voted vold down h I everyone vor one Democrat Domorat or 01 Republican who Is In iii favor of u a square deal