The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-10-12


mot talking to you to get your votes,
but to convince you of an error.
We are going to carry the election
anyhow. We've got the majority,
and will win as sure as two and two
make four. One great cause for
the continued political enmity be-
tween the whites and blacks has
been that we have held ourselves
aloof from you, and insisted that
you should make the first advance,
but we are going to be more liberal,
and now extend to you the hand
of friendship. Itremains with you
to accept or reject it. If you will
not come to us of your own free
will, l would not give you a cent
apiece for your votes. We can get
along without you. But Just so
long as the negroes make race
fight of politics, just that long will
the whites be found solid pha-
lanx in opposion.
The Democrats have given you
more rights and security than you
have had since the war. This is
true and you cannot dispute it.
You get justice in the courts; if
you are wronged you have redress;
if your teachers don't suit, all you
have to do is to say so and they
will be removed. The Democratic
party is as pure as it is possible for
party to be. When it becomes
dishonest and corrupt then 1 will
quit it.
The name of the Republican
party is dead, but the old party is
still aliye under the different names
of Nationals, Independents and
Greehbackers. The name makes
no difference. for the smell of the
skunk still clings to them. As 1
have before said, these Independ-
ent fellows are my speciality. Old
Kearson hit the nail on the head
when he said an Independent was
as gooda Republican as he wanted.
These assumed names remined me
of a story about an old negro man
whose master put pig in bag
and sent the old man over to his
neighbours to exchange it for fine
puppy. On the way the old man
was asked into a store by some mis-
chievous boys to take a drink, and
while he was taking his toddy the
boys stole the pig and put little
NANCY puppy in the bag. When
he got to the neighbours the pup
came to light and the old man was
sent back to his master without
the fine pup. On the way back the
boys treated the old man again,
and slipped the pig in the bag
while he was drinking. When he
got home he told his master about
the strange change that had taken
place. The master took peep in
the bag and found the same pig in
it that the old fellow first started
with. The old man exclaimed in
fright that he didn't want anything
to do with such o thing. forit could
be pup or apig just as it pleased
That is the way with these Inde-
pendent fellows. They can be
either pig or pup as the occasion
requires, but you will find them to
be mostly pup. As for the splits
and dissensions among the Demo
Gratis, it is represented by the old
Wing story. that when you heard |
fuss among the cats, it was o sure
sign there was going to be more
cats. All this fuss simply means
that there are going to be more
Democrats. White Radicals are
so mean that every Democrat feels
as though he could whip a dozen
OF them, and I feel as though I |
could whip hundred of them, be-
cause justice and right is on my
side. Are you going to submit to
be led BY the nose by these scoun-
drelsa If you are going to sup
port white men at all, then for de-
cency's sake support honest white
men, and not such pusillanimons
puppies as are afraid to come out
squarely and be on your side.
These white Republicans and Inde-
pendenss only court you for Office.
just you nominate q straight out
ticket of black men, and you will
soon see Willett. Tory, Mcknight
and the balance of his crew loose
all interest in the black man. Oh,
yes, they are willing to work for
you-that is, if You will give them
office. That the Independents, Ma
tlonals and Greenbackers of this