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.
Grimké posits that the Progressive Party offers a crucial element needed to solve the race problem in America.
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That colored men with the ballot should be rated in terms of the political game higher than other colored men who have it not, violates no rule of business ethics.
That the founder of the new political party, as a practical man, should discriminate between colored men with a vote and colored men without a vote seems to me to be altogether natural, to grow, in fact, out of the necessities of every…
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.
Such a proposition, the Republican Party is incapable of making for reasons already pointed out, and the Democratic Party for other and obvious reasons is precluded from offering.