Archibald Henry Grimké: “If one doubts this, let him go into the South and let him venture to incite the Negroes there to an assertion of their…”

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.

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.

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.

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.