The daily gazette., 1874-09-12
A COStlU Sham.


cious of all political parties, and mover
theless its greatest political feature is
all a sham.
1t boldly proclaims its alliance with
the negroes; and in justification OF that
alliance declares the negro rs good Us
the white man. It's devotecs went fur
ther, and have been known repeatedly
to assert that the negro was the coming
man. 'the stronger race" with whom,
according to some Of the fanatics, a
union was desirable. When Theodore
Tilton was high priest in the party,
and admitted as privileged character
to the floor of the Senate chamber, to
advise with such men as Morton, Wilson
and Conkling, he declared in an arti-
Gle through his paper that he hoped 10
Ire to see the day aehen negrcSs lcontd De
elected to the presidential chair. His polit-
ical ideas, or such like them, were adopt
ed or approved by such journals as the
Wilmington Commercial, and to this day
have never been recanted, and OF course
must still be entertained, and are only
held in allegiance to be expressed and
pressed when the next season of favora-
bic excitement shall permit OF their be-
ing exhumed and urged as one OF the
steps to political success.
In fact the negro has been the life OF
the Radical party. That party openly
boasts that it put the country to a cost
Of thousands of millions of dollars tc
make him a free man; and other thou
sands of millions of dollars have follow
ed from the pockets Of the millions oi
w.lites in experimenting with him as
r1ler and legislator in the place OF white
mon. This has proved an utter failure
and the loss to the country in money ane
in prosperity and in public credit cannot
b. summed up. Billions would not re
pay the cost and the sacrifice that has
been made in this effort by the Radica
party to show that part Of their owl
race was inferior to the negro. And the,
have failed signally
The negro is the elephant ON thei
hands, and they Enow it; but in thei
audaciousness they are endeavoring t
brave out another campaign before civ
ing him up entirely as unworthy to b
classed with the civilized Anglo-Saxo
man in the clements OF government an
of law and equity.
The great distinguishing feature {
the Ra 1ical party, upon which it reli'
most for its votes, VIC have said is all
sham. They have dared to place tt
negro with the white man eyerywhel
except before the white people for the
votes. This folly they have not dare
to do, and here they admit his utt,
unworthiness to be classed with tt
whites. In the South the negroes pla,
themselves on the party ticket, and
some States were especially while Il
poor whites were disfranchised) able
vote themselves in Office.
But we need no better proof that t
Radical party is Il sham than the ia
that it has not dared to put negroes
its ticket in any Of the great Midt
States. They delude the negroes wi
promises to get their votes. But tn
have not attempted to run him befc
their party for Office, and they fear to
so in Delaware, on even any Of the Stat
north of us.
They promise to give to his race su
Offices as magistrate, juror, constal
nnd collector of taxes; but they ha
not yet filled their promises except il
few instances where the negro has be
made letter carriers and bailiffs by U
ted States officers. If the party W,
not based upon plank that is sh
they would put the negro on their ticl
and test his qualities to contend W
white men for the votes of their pal
This they dare not do, and they
therefore compelled to admit that
Delaware one-half of the party is CO
posed of men that are beneath the st
dard of all other civilized men, and
terly incapable of approaching and
ercising correctly the great privileg
the elective franchise.