Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1909 — NEGROES SCORE TAFT’S CONDUCT [ARTICLE]

NEGROES SCORE TAFT’S CONDUCT

Find Fault With Appointments Be Has Hade. SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION League Adopts Resolutions Condemning Alleged "Policy of Retrogress •Ion" and Declaring That the President's Utterances Have Been In Effect an Invitation to White Men to Make It Appear There Was Opposition to Putting Colored Men In Office. Columbus, 0., May 28.—After a prolonged debate the National Negro American league adopted resolutions condemning the alleged policy of retrogression adopted by President Taft and declaring it has no apology to offer for its stand against him previous to his election. The resolutions declare that Presi dent Taft’s utterances have been in effect an invitation to white men to make it appear that there was opposition to the appointment of colored men to office and have tended to justify the new constitutions adopted In southern states designed to eliminate the negro voters. Appointments made by the president, are criticised, especially of Democrats with alleged ante-bellum tendencies. The appointment of a federal Judge in North Carolina especially Is cited. - The attitude of the president has had an effect prejudicial to the negro In industrial life, It is declared, inasmuch as membership in labor unions which they have held for years now has been seriously objected to. The resolutions denounce the "executive color line policy” of Taft and demand that he square his policies with the Chicago platform so far as the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are concerned.