A Word About The Landslide
November 12, 1904
Summary
President Theodore Roosevelt receives an endorsation by the citizens of the United States which is a “tribute to sterling integrity and endorsation of merit” and his ability to “observe great principles rather than tolerate petty prejudices.”
Transcription
President Theodore Roosevelt has received an endorsation at the hands of the people of this country, the like of which has no parallel in the history of the nation.
It is a tribute to sterling integrity and endorsation of merit. The people believe that he means well and the mistakes, if there be any made by him, are “the errors of the head and not of the heart.”
The result of the election is especially significant to the colored people, indicating a return to the “great principles which Sumner preached and Philips advocated President Roosevelt had severely criticized for his expressed determination to regard his oath of office, observe great principles rather than tolerate petty prejudices.
His renomination of Hon. W.D Chum as Collector of the Port at Charleston, South Carolina, the observance of social amenities as was exemplified in the case of Prof. Booker t. Washington, the great educator, at the White House and his telling repulses to the demands of the Negro haters of the South-land which took the axiomatic form of all men up, rather than some men up, rather than some men down have made him the central figure before the American public in the advocacy of these great principles.
Couple this with the fact that he will receive the largest electoral vote of any candidate, who has ever entered the contest for the Presidency and it is evident that the heart of this great nation is all right and the thinking, conservative white people, both North, South, East and West are tired of this race prejudice in all of its annoying exhibitions.
Even as conservative and as justice- loving Democrat as Hon Grover Cleveland has always been, he was induced to frame a denial of the alleged social courtesies accorded colored men at the White House during his administration,
Taken all in all the result of this election is a “God-send” to the colored man and a blessing to the country,
Senator B.R. Tillman. Gov. James K. Varadan and others of like opinions will now be permitted to speak from the rear seats. They have had their day.
If we shall be able to hold in check our own intemperate speakers and convince them that this victory for Republicanism can be used greatly to our advantage by well matured, conservative action, we shall gain materially by this election and hold the respect and esteems of those white men, who have voted such a positive endorsation of president Roosevelt’s action on the race question.
It is a tribute to sterling integrity and endorsation of merit. The people believe that he means well and the mistakes, if there be any made by him, are “the errors of the head and not of the heart.”
The result of the election is especially significant to the colored people, indicating a return to the “great principles which Sumner preached and Philips advocated President Roosevelt had severely criticized for his expressed determination to regard his oath of office, observe great principles rather than tolerate petty prejudices.
His renomination of Hon. W.D Chum as Collector of the Port at Charleston, South Carolina, the observance of social amenities as was exemplified in the case of Prof. Booker t. Washington, the great educator, at the White House and his telling repulses to the demands of the Negro haters of the South-land which took the axiomatic form of all men up, rather than some men up, rather than some men down have made him the central figure before the American public in the advocacy of these great principles.
Couple this with the fact that he will receive the largest electoral vote of any candidate, who has ever entered the contest for the Presidency and it is evident that the heart of this great nation is all right and the thinking, conservative white people, both North, South, East and West are tired of this race prejudice in all of its annoying exhibitions.
Even as conservative and as justice- loving Democrat as Hon Grover Cleveland has always been, he was induced to frame a denial of the alleged social courtesies accorded colored men at the White House during his administration,
Taken all in all the result of this election is a “God-send” to the colored man and a blessing to the country,
Senator B.R. Tillman. Gov. James K. Varadan and others of like opinions will now be permitted to speak from the rear seats. They have had their day.
If we shall be able to hold in check our own intemperate speakers and convince them that this victory for Republicanism can be used greatly to our advantage by well matured, conservative action, we shall gain materially by this election and hold the respect and esteems of those white men, who have voted such a positive endorsation of president Roosevelt’s action on the race question.
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Megan Brooks
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“A Word About The Landslide,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/701.