The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-11

impression that IL ever a political
party deserved to be hanged, and if
q political party could be hanged,
the dominant party in Missouri ought
of that party has the new malady
in the most malignant form. According to
Messrs. Hilton, Jewett, and Filley," all men,
bers of the Radical State Central Committee,
il tells us 1921 negroes in st. Louis are en-
titled to as much weight in convention as LAT
white radicals" "and in the country S5 me-
groes get delegate, while in the city 147
white radicals get delegate, and in the coun-
try 1876 white radicals" But the disease
reaches its climax in this exhaustive state
ment:-"That is the final decision Of the
majority that S5 country negroes, 121 city
negroes, 1873 country radicals, and LAT city
radicals are equal, and are each entitled to one
delegate"
This is monstrous; the idea of making 85
negroes equal to 147 white radicals is abso-
lutely unendurable. 1t makes one negro
equal to one and three-quarters white radi-
Gals, or three-quarters over the recognized
radical standard. It gives to ''ffty-one thou
sand radicals and negroes in the populeus
counties only 36S delegates in conventions,
while less than fifty-one thousand radicals
and negroes in smaller counties can elect 42S
delegates" The Democrat is not disposed to
submit to any such Africanization of its party;
it. Submission to minority rule is all very
we'll when exacted of 'srebes" and Demo-
Gratis but it will not do for "white
radicals. The Democrat therefore ''calls
upon the honest radicals in all counties to
vote down this influence which seeks to defeat
enfranchisement through enabling minority
of the party to force its opinion upon a ma
iority." cit is time to tell those men that
they have gone far enough;" ''not content
lief chi oiy NH oil
chellizers now disfranchise white radicals"
''white radicals in Missouri still have some
rights which disfrapchisers are bound to re-
spect;" and ''the time has come to put down
the element which, confessing itself by this
outrage to be minority, still seeks to force
its will upon the ma jority by such devices as
we have exposed"
1t is pathetic story, and we are not sur
| prised that the leading organ loses its ancient
affection for the African, under the irritation
of the wrong and calls him ''negro" instead
of ''our colored citizen;" but, after all, it is
| only case in which the wicked have fallen
into the snare which they set for others. The
| Radical chickens are coming home to roost
These same 'white Radicals, who make an
outcry about being subjected to the rule of a
minority in party convention, have for five
years subjected an admitted maority of the
| people of this State "by Just such devices"
as they now complain of; and they declined
tomodify their registry law last winter because
they had resolved to use it to disfranchise the
majority, with it, at one more election. 1t is
pretty hard, we admit for "147 white Radi-
calls" to accept ''S5 negroes" as an equal poll
cal power with themselves; but Secretary
Rodman and the radical registry superinten-
dents know that there is way of making
white men submit to unpleasant things. It
was the Democrats own partisans who sifted
the 34O0 population of voting age in Boone
county down to less than one-third its num-
ber of adult negroes. 1t was the registry law
made by the Democrats 'white radicals that
permitted only 179 white men to vote for
Grant in 1868 in county which in 1S7Ostands
ready to cast some 800 negro votes for
McClurg. We commend to the outraged
organ diligent cultivation of that virtue
which Democrats have been forced to exhibit
in the last five years-patience. We used to
think that white Democrats in Missouri chad
some rights which disfranchisers were bound
to respect" but the Missouri Democrat,
Governor Fletcher, Monks, and Rodman
taught US that we were mistaken; and if
Governor MoOlurg and his negro friends
should now teach the "white radicals" the
same delightful lesson, the pupils would have
no right to complain.