INDIANAPOLIS FREEMAN

The division of the vote is hardly to be considered at this time. It is the duty of the Negro to vote for the Republican party. It will be quite time to consider the advisability of dividing the vote … when shotguns are dropped from the assassins hands, when mob fires cease to be funeral pyres, when the accident of birth-nature ceases to amount to a crime, when color and oppression are no longer synonymous, when the laws of this fair land are administered to all alike. The Democratic party has spoken. It is not misunderstood.

The division of the vote is hardly to be considered at this time. It is the duty of the Negro to vote for the Republican party. It will be quite time to consider the advisability of dividing the vote … when shotguns are dropped from the assassins hands, when mob fires cease to be funeral pyres, when the accident of birth-nature ceases to amount to a crime, when color and oppression are no longer synonymous, when the laws of this fair land are administered to all alike. The Democratic party has spoken. It is not misunderstood.