Although the policy enunciated at the Convention gives evidence having been the subject of much careful consideration, what is generally regarded as a most serious mistake was committed at the very outset. In order to gain the support of Southern whites, who are nearly all Democrats, Mr. Roosevelt denounced negro political activity in the South, where negro votes would do him no good, while at the same time he approved of it in the North, where they count for a great deal. This attitude was at once earnestly protested against by the delegates from some of the northern States thet have large negro vote, particularly by those from Maryland, a State that is 60,000 negro voters. But Mr. Rooevelt was obdurate, and now prominent negro leaders in the North who have hitherto been supporting him are one by one going over to Mr.
Mr. Roosevelt's statement that he felt like a bull moose (not @ moose bull, as 2 Yokohama paper has it) has definitely fixed upon his followers the name of the "Bull Moose Party." Any woman supporter of the party is a "'moo-moose." This and the doxology! Such are the in. congruities of American political life.
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