The coloured delegates, or, as they are beginning to be called, the black troapr" of the allies, are especial active in the expression of their dissatisfaction; they are holding meetings in their churches decrying Taft men and threatening to start a new party Foraker as their presidential candidate. Their counsel has issued " statement ing out that one of the great principles of government is involved in the contests for delegates from the south. In two-thirds of the contests," he affirms, "the Taft managers are seeking to seat delegates who were selected by the exclusion of the coloured republican voters from the primaries and convention The negroes themselves say that they come to the convention asking justice, not favour, but that the republicans are disfranchising them as the democrats have done. Excitement is running high among them and onslaughts are being made on "stacked conventions" and "stuffed ballot boxes." Under white leaders the negroes have succeeded in making the most sensational attack on the administration and the Taft candidacy which has been delivered since the campaign began. Some of the coloured people are natural-born orators and they have learnt the art of politics from long study and under the goad of neglect.
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