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Nov. 6-1/4

COLORED VOTE
the World:

with much interest this
ing your splendid editorial on
the cause of the defeat of the Demo-
cratic party in this State, and write
to most heartily congratulate you on
the same.

However, it seems to me that too
little importance is attached to the
colored vote, not only that of New
York State but that of the county.

More than a half-million negroes
are voting to-day, and they too must
certainly be a factor in the defeat
of the Democratic party this year,
for nearly all of them voted the Re-
publican ticket.

In the election of 1912 the negroes
gave the largest vote ever given by
them to the Democratic party and
helped to elect the national ticket.
They were assured by Mr. Wilson
before election that in the event of
his election he would give to the
black men not "meagre but absolute
justice." The negro took him at his
word, rejoicing that it was the first
time since emancipation that a Demo-
cratic nominee had made so fair a
promise.

After the inanguration of this able,
learned and cultured gentleman, a
committee of colored Democrats called
upon him and reminded him of his
promise and were assured by him
that his pre-election promises were
made to be kept.

Influenced by certain radical ele-
ments of the South, one of the first
acts of his Administration was the
removal of W. H. Lewis, a colored
man, from the office of Assistant
Attorney-General, and his office was
finally filled by a white man. This
policy of the displacement of blacks
by whites has been steadily pursued.

Under this fair pre-election promise
the colored people have received but
two important places—the Liberian mis-
sion, which has been held by colored
men for ages, and one colored Judge
of the District of Columbia, whose con-
firmation was unanimously opposed by
the Democratic Senators from the South.

Is it not time that our Democratic
friends be awakened to the fact that
the black man is a factor in American
politics?

There are ten or twelve millions of
colored people in this country, and not
once in two years has the President
of this great Republic called in a com-
mittee of this vast host without repre-
sentation in Congress to consult with
them concerning their welfare.

Another thing which has caused us to
be discredited in the eyes of the world
is that out of this ten million colored
citizens not one is invited to a social
function at the White House, and in
this said to be greatest democ-
cracy in the world. No wonder that
America throughout the world is
branded as a nation of hypocrites.

ALEXANDER WALTERS,
President National Colored Democratic
League.

New York, Nov. 4.

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