Black voters have trouble supporting the Republican Party and Taft’s presidential campaign due to President Roosevelt’s “contemptuous disregard of the rights and privileges of the Negro.”
In his speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, Secretary William H. Taft “proves he will be a powerful and influential asset to the Afro-American Republican orators.”
The National Prohibition convention meets in Columbus, Ohio, in which the temporary chairman, Robert. H. Patton, delivers a speech denouncing the old political parties and making the delegates “almost wild.”
The Democratic party declares that they are “willing and ready” to welcome black immigration and pledges to “insist upon the just and lawful protection of our citizens at home and abroad.”
J. Milton Waldron, the president of the National Negro League, congratulates William J. Bryan on his presidential nomination, and predicts his election with the support of the black population by “a handsome majority.”
The Planet criticizes President Roosevelt for “butting in” to the affairs of Harvard University. Its president, C.W. Eliot claims that if President Roosevelt disagrees with their response to two students’ violations, then he is “upholding…