Archibald Henry Grimké: “Although the situation is depressing, it is far from hopeless, I think, since the rise of the new Progressive party.”

But to do this, to realize on their party promises and pledges to the people, they must have votes, not mere good will which can not translate itself into effective support on election day.

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…

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…

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.