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"MAKE THE NEGRO VOTE A FACTOR"

HEADQUARTERS OF THE
NATIONAL
COLORED DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE

1022 U STREET, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D. C.

President
Alexander Walters
New York

First Vice President
John W. Ross
New York

Second Vice President
A. E. Manning
Indiana

Third Vice President
James L. Curtis
New York

Fourth Vice President
J. T. Green
Georgia

Corresponding Secretary
Charles L. Barnes
Pennsylvania

Recording Secretary
Peter J. Smith
Massachusetts

Treassurer
James T. Lloyd
Missouri

Assistant Treasurer
Jas. H. W. Howard
Pennsylvants

National Organizer
N. B. Marshall
New York

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jas. H. W. Howard, Pa
Chairman

Alexander Walters, N. Y.
Arthur W. Branham, Ia.
Francis H. Warren, Mich.
S. Douglass Russell, Okla.
George C. Clement, N.C.
Allan A. D'Honey, W. Va.
N.B. Clark, Va.
Sully Jaymes. O.
Alfred B. Cosey. N.J.
H. J. Brown, Md.
Leon H. Jordan, Mo.
Wesley L. Young, N.Y.
W. T. Scott, Ill.
R. W. Williams, Ky.
J.T. Green, Ga.
A. H. Underdown, Wash.D.C.
A. E. Manning, Ind.
John H. Slaughter, Wis.
Peter J. Smith, Mass.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL COLORED DEMOCRATIC LERGUE.

Adopted at Washington, D. C. ,March 5, 1913.

The National Colored Democratic League, in convention assembled in
the city of Washington, D.C., re-affirming its confidence in President Wil-
son, congratulates the nation upon his induction into office.

The problems of social reform, which have hung like a pall over the
nation for sixteen years, demand a man, broad of soul, and firm of purpose.
We believe that in President Wilson, the country has an executive who will
apply to all questions, the fundimental and eternal precepts of justice,
regardless of the arrogant assumptions of wealth, or the false traditions
of privilege.

We believe the President's address to be an inspiration, for it allays
the fears of all dependent peoples, engenders hope in the breasts of all de
oppressed citizens under our flag, and admonishes and reminds the dominent
race of its responsibilities as citizens of this great republic.

The tone of the inaugural address re-essures us as Negroes, that our
President will carry out all the prom[i]ses made before election, and we con-
fidently expect the Democratic Congress to answer the President's appeal
to carry out his humantarian program, by refusing to consider any legis-
lation tending to humiliate or insult any part of the nation's citizenship.

We re-affirm our declaration that the National Democratic party of-
fers to the colored citizens of the nation an opportunity to conserve
their politicel and civil rights and immunities comprised in that incon-
querable production of Thomas Jefferson, the Decleration of Independence.

WE HEREBY APPEAL TO THE COLORED VOTERS OF THE COUNTRY FOR THEIR
SUPPORT AND ESPOUSAL OF THE CAUSE OF DEMOCRACY IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR
FRANCHISE.

All great political and social movements must have leadership, and

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