Archibald Henry Grimké: “Poverty and experience were teaching the child what he never could have learned in a grammar-school, a certain…”

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.

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.

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.

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.