. Crisis. THE DEMOCRATS ^he New York Globe in ANDTHEKEGEO. ^^^ ^°^^« «^ ^ ^^^^ editorial says: At the election, as a result of the treat-ment of the Southern NegTo delegates bythe Bull Moose convention and of NegTodissatisfaction with the Taft administra-tions policy, a large percentage of Negroesvoted for Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat anda man of Southern birth, whose father wasa violent clerical upholder of slavery and abitter opponent of emancipation. Approxi-mately 20 per cent., according to acceptedestimates, of the total Negro vote wentDemocratic. No party is now character--istically the pa

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. Crisis. THE DEMOCRATS ^he New York Globe in ANDTHEKEGEO. ^^^ ^°^^« «^ ^ ^^^^ editorial says: At the election, as a result of the treat-ment of the Southern NegTo delegates bythe Bull Moose convention and of NegTodissatisfaction with the Taft administra-tions policy, a large percentage of Negroesvoted for Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat anda man of Southern birth, whose father wasa violent clerical upholder of slavery and abitter opponent of emancipation. Approxi-mately 20 per cent., according to acceptedestimates, of the total Negro vote wentDemocratic. No party is now character--istically the party of the Negro. The editor goes on to say: So the great army of Democratic Negroesare looking with keen interest to see whatwill be the policy of the ? can hardly do much worse in an officeway than its predecessor, for of 9,876 presi-dential appointments but thirty have beenallotted to Negroes. But it is not the officesin which the more intelligent members ofthe race are intere

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