Small broadside: From statement of President Taft made public, Wednesday, September 25th [1912] in the City of New York 3.5 x 6”. Unrecorded in WorldCat, possibly the only surviving copy. During the 1912 presidential campaign, a single paragraph taken from a long “exclusive interview” in the New York Evening World in which the incumbent President Taft discussed a wide range of issues. All of the presidential candidates – the Republican Taft, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt - were making a play for the support of black voters, but this Republican printing clearly intended to stress the significance for Negro citizens” of Taft’s ”unequivocal declaration”, being issued the week that Blacks throughout the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Taft made a dig at both the Democrats who supported Southern segregation and Black “humiliation”, and Roosevelt’s Progressives“ who had welcomed Black delegates at their national convention: “…The Republican party has always contended for the recognition of black Americans as citizens in the fullest sense and entitled to all the rights of citizens…Progress which does not take in progress for the black as well as the white is only a sham, a shallow imposition on the credulity of those weak enough to be deceived by it.
Small broadside: From statement of President Taft made public, Wednesday, September 25th [1912] in the City of New York 3.5 x 6”. Unrecorded in WorldCat, possibly the only surviving copy. During the 1912 presidential campaign, a single paragraph taken from a long “exclusive interview” in the New York Evening World in which the incumbent President Taft discussed a wide range of issues. All of the presidential candidates – the Republican Taft, Democrat Woodrow Wilson, and ex-President Theodore Roosevelt - were making a play for the support of black voters, but this Republican printing clearly intended to stress the significance for Negro citizens” of Taft’s ”unequivocal declaration”, being issued the week that Blacks throughout the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Taft made a dig at both the Democrats who supported Southern segregation and Black “humiliation”, and Roosevelt’s Progressives“ who had welcomed Black delegates at their national convention: “…The Republican party has always contended for the recognition of black Americans as citizens in the fullest sense and entitled to all the rights of citizens…Progress which does not take in progress for the black as well as the white is only a sham, a shallow imposition on the credulity of those weak enough to be deceived by it.
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