Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1906 — NEGRO BAPTISTS PROTEST [ARTICLE]

NEGRO BAPTISTS PROTEST

They Denounce the Discharge Diahon* orably ot Soldiers—Action of New York Republicans. Salisbury, N. C., Nov. 16.—At a meeting of the negro Baptist association of North Carolina resolutions denouncing President Roosevelt for discharging three cougKinles of the Twen-ty-fifth infantry w re adopted. The body repri -scuts a constituency of 100,000. Tlie r\solntlor < unanimously protest agiiust the “uispre edented and arbitrary ■leti 'm" of Pre sclent Roosevelt hi “punl'diiug Di? Innocent and guilty n’lkr.” f.a- on? moment,’* the- nsolrPmm re.--It"do we believe that these companies would have keen dishonorably ilise’.mrg l had they been composed of white soldiers.” New York. Nov. 16.—8 y a unanimous vote the Republican county committee, nt its regular monthly mooting, aesolved to ask President Roosevelt to rescind his order, dlscharclpg dlshonor-

ably a battalion of the Twenty-fifth regiment. United States infantry.