Archibald Henry Grimké: “But they themselves have not escaped the consequences of their egregious blunder, for a new class of whites have in turn…”

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.

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.

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.

And yet if relief is ever to come to the Negro in the South, it must come to him by the way of an opposition party, which will put an end to the political solidity of that section by introducing into it bi-party in place of its one-party…