Warns Against Roosevelt.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 20, 1912:
Southern Methodist Bishop Tells Negroes to Vote Straight Party Ticket.
Special to The New York Times.
    NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 19.— Bishop Joshua H. Jones, former head of Wilberforce University and at present in charge of the ninth district of the African Methodist Church in Tennessee, advises all negroes to steer clear of Roosevelt and his third party movement, declaring that personally he would rather vote for the late Jefferson Davis, as he, at least, was sincere in what he attempted.
    "Mr. Roosevelt, instead of being a great, conscientious statesman, with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington as his patron saints." said the Bishop, "is merely a politician with a boundless greed for office and glory; swapping horses in any stream that promises to allow him to ride to his goal. He is neither a Republican after the manner of Lincoln, a Democrat after the manner of Champ Clark, nor a Progressive after the manner of La Follette.
    "His political inconsistencies and political catch-all profession of faith delivered in Chicago will neither fool the negroes of the North nor the white Democrats or the South.
    "I believe it is the religious duty every negro who votes to teach Mr. Roosevelt once for all that he cannot slap them in the face with one hand and pat them on the back with the other, by voting straight either for Taft or Wilson,"