Efforts were made to have a strong
equal rights plank adopted and sev
eral were offered but all missed fire,
principally because a Southern fire
eater, former Senator Marion Butler
of South Carolina, made a speech in
which he declared that the "South
rirn rr^'t
States are Americans, born on Ameri-.the law, without regard to race, color
can soil, the census of 1910 showing or creed. This being a basic prin-
that only 496 out of 12,000,000 werejciple of the founders, the party now
born in Africa. If the few who were,'pledges the immediate repeal of all
THE MAN WHO DARES
I honor the man who in the consci
entious discharge of his duty dares to
stand alone the world, with ignorant,
intolerant judgment, may condemn,
the countenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner.
^^L^JMK
1 T*tS
ern members of the committee and
"equal rights" were thrown into the
discard. A Chicago colored delegate
tried to bring up the matter in the
convention but he was promptly
squelched.
THE APPEAL was on hand with a
plank as follows:
"The Republican Party reaffirms its
belief in the absolute equality of all
citizens of the United States, before
national laws in conflict with this prin
ciple, and the abolition of all national
governmental rules and customs, in
th
negro. This frightened the North-
interest in urging its adoption by the
resolutions committee. But it failed.
THE REASON.
