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Colored -Democrats.
- That there should be such
a thing as a colored democrat
is one of the curioukanomalies
of politics something of the
nature of a white
But it is a fact.
blackbird.
rThere
are
some American citizens of
African descent
the democratic tic
is an organization
who vote
et. There
calling' it-
self The United -Colored De
mocracy of Greater New
York, and on the evening of
Juljr 11 this organizations
neia a meetme an
d ratified
the Kansas Citj
nomina-
tiorisr Among t
he resoiu-
tions adopted at this meet
ing of the United Colored
Democracy of Greater New
York is one which protests
against " the open or
covert
efforts to disfranchise
our
race coming from
whatsoever'
any source
If intended as a joke, this
resolution will meet with
cordial acceptance and ere-
ate much merriment in cer-
tain parts of the
parts where there
country
is no pre-
tense of concealing: the "ef
forts to disfranchise our
race;"parts where: the color
ed vote is wiped out of ex
istence; parts where electo
ral votes for Bryan and
Stevenson are to come from
with such absolute certaintv
that the'- are reckoned as
already cast. In those parts
the disfranchisement reso
'"ItrJfl of the Unit id Colored
Democracy of Greater New
York will be re
'distinctly humoro
liciously funny.
tarded as
is and de-
Curiously coincident with
the date on which the Uni
ted 'Colored Democracy of
Greater New Yor
met and
: ratified and passed resolu
tions comes a story from
Nebraska which bears di
rectly upon the question of
the measure of support of
" the national democ ratic tick
'et naturally to be expected
from colored voters. B. N.
Jenkins of Thayer County,
a man of undisputed veraci
ty, asserts that- during the
civil war, 1861-'65; Adlai E.
Stevenson, democratic nomi
nee for Vice-President, was
at the head of an
orgamza-
tiqn in Illinois that had for
its purpose the prevention
of persons of African blood
being brought into that
State. Mr. Jenkins says:
During the wa: Lieuten
ant Phillip Jenkins, a Wood
ford (111.) County man, was
taken ill and had :o be sent
home from the f -ont. He
was unable to take care of
himself, and a young negro
was sent along to attend
him. "When he reached home
the so-called Copperhead el
ement maae a
'They found an ol
the statute books
big fuss.
d law on
making- it
a crime to bring a negro in-
to the State, and
under its
provisions the Union soldier,
tresh from the battlefield,
with his wounds stilt bleed
ing from the Confederate
bullets, was arrested. Ad
iai Stevenson then was a
young lawyer practicing in
that county, and volunteered
to prosecute the Union sol
dier. The trial came on and the
jury disagreed. A second
time Stevenson had the case
brought up. By this time
Jenkins had sufficiently re
covered to get back on the
firing line, and on the show
ing that the defendant was
at the front fighting for the
Union, the judge threw the
case out of court. I went
to Lincoln for the purpose
of seeing how the man look
ed who prosecuted my fath
er so many years ago. I do
not know whether he is as
narrow minded now as in
those days, but I thought I
would like to take a look at
him, even if he is Bryan's
running mate.
Much interest will doubt
less be felt regarding this
war reminiscence among
Afro-Americans living in lo
calities where their votes
are received and counted the
same as thouglt they were
the votes of white men. In
these localities, however,
colored democratic organiza
tions are not numerous, and
from them no electoral votes
for Bryan and Stevenson
are expected. American E
conomist. The Kansas City Platform.
The platform, the fram
ing of which cost so much
labor and awakened so much
contention, was read by that
populist from South Caroli
na, who only a few weeks a
go, addressing a graduating
class of whom a colored
youth was a member, de
clared that 44 if you scratch a
nigger, you will find a sav
age"; that same senator
who boasted in the Senate
of the United States last
spring that in South Caroli
na they hadflegislated a-
(rniticf tVi npfrrripc rnnntprl
them out and killed them,
and tried in every way to
annul ah amendment to the
Constitution of the United
States made in their behalf.
How most impressive must
have been his emphasis on
the iniquity of governments
being carried on without the
consent of the governed!
The plank against imperi
alism is but froth, but the
foam thrown up against the
piles of the wharf by the in
coming tide. It is on a par
ity with Tilden's "reform"
cry in 1876, when the records
showed that there were 70
per cent, less defalcations
under Grant than under
Washington. There was
not a man in the convention
that did not know that the
cry was but an empty slo
gan, intended for campaign
purposes only. Every man
there knew that the Philip
pines were acquired precise
ly as California was acquir
ed, and that what has been
done there has been in exact
accord with what Jefferson
3id in Louisiana; and that
the same spirit has govern
ed, though less harshlv,
that sent General Jackson
to govern Florida; that
what has been done has been
in exact accord with what
was done with California,
and is now being done in A
laska. The charges in the
resolution are a base slander
of President McKinley and a
direct snub offered to the o
pinions of Admiral Dewey
and every distinguished A
merican who has been famil
iar with affairs in the Phil
ippines. The only harm
which the resolution can
possibly do will be in caus
ing the deaths of more of
our soldiers in those islands.
Quite as contemptible is
the reference to Porto Rico.
There was an island that
had been war swept and
storm swept; the people
were starving, and objects
of charity ; the need of min
istering to them was imper
ative and imminent, and the
Congress of the United
States, under the express
direction of the Constitu
tion, levied a Tariff of about
one-fourth the Dingley Tar
iff schedule against certain
of her products, and in the
same bill directed that every
dollar thus collected should
be made a free gift to that
unhappy people. But all
that is treated as legislation
intended to build up monop
olies at home and destroy
forever the liberty of the
men and women of Porto
Rico.
And the resolution was
read by Tillman!
The denunciation of trusts
was expected. It was quite
as pronounced eight years a
go. The people became ex
cited, and on election day
turned over the executive
and legislative functions of
the Government to the De
mocracy. We all know what
followed. Monopolies are
furiouslv denounced, and
this was expected. The
trouble is that these monop
olies, as a rule, give a very
large proportion of the'skill
ed labor of the country em
ployment, and there is not
one of them that has not as
many democrats as republi
can's as stockholders, and
were Mr. Bryan President
to-morrow he could not in
terfere with one of them.
The denunciation of the
Protective Tariff is covert,
but it is pronounced. It
shows that the ancient
Bourbon spirit is still domi
nant that spirit that learns
nothing and forgets noth
ing. The whole instrument's a
patchwork of complaints
and repinings; it advocates
what it repudiates in prac
tice every day; much of it is
untrue in fact, and where a
remedy is prescribed the
programme is untenable. It
was shouted for by thous
ands of men in the conven
tion, who were secretly re
joicing that its provisions
can never be carried out.
In its framework it is
bungling and crude.- Salt
Lake Tribune. ,
How tlie Farmer Gets
"Even.
Democrats are trying to
make the farmers discontent
ed because they are paying a
a little more money this year
for their wire nails and wire
for fencing. Of course they
never point out to the farm
er that his extra profit this
year on two or three bushels
of corn will pay for any in
crease in the price of a keg
of nails, and that his profits
on all of his farm products
in this year alone will pay
for many times the cost of
his barbed wire, beside leav
ing him a handsome surplus
to put in bank or pay off his
mortgage. The Gazette al
ways likes to prove its state
ments. A neighbor in Carl
township called at this office
last week and stated that it
would be necessary 'to repair
a division fence that both
were interested in. To do
so this paper was called up
on to purchase a spool of
barbed wire. The merchant
asked just double what was
paid under the ITree Trade
policy of Cleveland. ; But
let the reader glance a mo
ment at the difference in the
condition of then and now.
When the Cleveland policy
prevailed there was sold out
of the pasture where the
wire was used, good cows at
$10 per head. Today such
stock commands $50 per.
head. Late one fall, in the
Cleveland reign, the'' very
thriftiest of high grade
spring calves were taken out
of the pasture indicated, and
luckily found a purchaser
who consented to take the
bunch at $4 per head. Last
fall buyers were anxious to
give $20 for calves that were
dropped in May and June
that ran in the same pasture.
The neighbor that came
for the wire, in the course
of his conversation, said that
last year he had disposed of
four calves raised on sepa
rator milk at $19 per head.
He thought he had done well
and he -had.
Now, where does all this
kick come in about the price
of wire? The men that mine
the iron, the men that trans
port it, the men" -who- take
the ore and make it into wire,
and those who barb it, as
well as the merchant who
sells, thanks to the tariff all
are busy. Being busy, they
have enormous appetites,
which they are satisfying in
part by paying the Adams
county farmer $50 for his
cow, $20 for his calf and $5
per hundred for his live hogs .
A little more Tariff on the
Gazette plate, please. Nev
er mind if wire has doubled
in price. Corning la. Gazette.
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