(CIVIL RIGHTS) POLITICS Taft Denounces Lynching Tells Afro A

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) POLITICS. Taft Denounces Lynching, Tells Afro-American Audience it is Cowardly Murder. President Advocates the Rope for Lynchers. Four-page flyer. 7 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches; paper evenly toned. [Washington], 1912

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a rare piece of political dissimulation. Taft, noted for carrying on the hateful "Brownsville" policies of Theodore Roosevelt, was anything but the colored man's friend. This flyer would seem to make a claim for the endorsement of Colored leaders, with Taft supporting the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. However, in private meetings with Southern leaders, Taft endeavored to assure the white South that it could have a free hand in holding down black advancement, insisting that the "strict enforcement" of the 15th amendment need not "involve the amalgamation of the races--nor involve social association or equality" under conditions of "negro domination."