"Such Lily Whites"

Ever since the Emancipation Proclamation the Republican Party has con- sidered the Negroes to be the especial wards of the G. O. P. Last week was instituted a determined move to swing the Negroes to the Democratic column. Various members* of the Executive National Negro Democratic Committee issued a call for a National Democratic Negro Convention in Baltimore, May 27. The announcement: "The Democratic Party is sure of victory this Fall because honesty will be the big issue, and the Republican Party certainly cannot boast of that "The Republican Party has never fulfilled its promises to the Negroes, who have been their faithful allies since 1872 . . . "The so-called grand old party is not the party of Grant, Sumner, Chandler and men of that class, but is today composed largely of the representatives of special privilege, and, so far as the Negro is concerned, composed of such lily whites as Bascom Slemp, the Sec- retary and mouthpiece of the President."

--Oscar H. Waters, publisher of The New York Democrat, "only Negro Democratic daily in America," Bishop R. B. Robinson of Vir- ginia, Percy A. Brown, John Banks, Charles Puleston, Walter Robinson.