Archibald Henry Grimké: “Does anyone suppose that they would be allowed to say publicly what they think about the un-Christian and undemocratic…”

Not at all, for they are most important, but without the ballot they are impotent to give the relief so much needed in the South.

White and black party following with white leadership is therefore the only feasible proposition, which stands any show of success as a party of opposition in that section under existing conditions.

Colonel Roosevelt, as the leader of the new party, recognized at his full political value the Negro in states where his vote is counted, and perceived the very slight value, potential and actual, as a party asset of the Negro in states…

And this one thing needful, I believe, the Progressive Party brings to the solution of the problem, and that it formed the underlying motive and the statesmanlike purpose of the action at Chicago last August of Theodore Roosevelt.