Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-08-14
N BRUCE.
A Double Dish Of Crow which Com
stock Republican Shriek-
ed over.

From the Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle.]
Late Saturday night, some wicked
democrats spread the report that
Sherman had been nominated fol
president by the Chicago convention
Oh the second ballot,aud that Senator
Bruce had been given the second
place OH the ticket by acclamation.
There was some fearful kicking
among the republicans of the Com
stock. a.
"Great heavens - cried one we'll
known stalwart when the dreadful
news was communicated to him.
"Sherman and Brucel A chunk oi
ice and a niger! Why, any ticket
the democrats can put up will beat
That :"
s.It fell on ne like a cold brick
said another, almost in tears. "Sher-
man is pretty bad crow, bnt can
worry 1t down. AS for Bruce, I'll
be o -bad-blessed if I'll y vote
for \ niger for \ vice-president."
1t was good fun for the democrats
10 hear men who for long years have
been bowling l%ong-ramge sympathy
for the oppressed c0lored brother
shrieking out their determination
never to vOte tor a I'D nigger.".
a democrat said to a party OF dis
mayed stalwarts in a saloon "Whst's
the matter with Bruce? Pd rather
vote for him tor president than any
of b white men yet named by the
republicans. Nothing has Eel been
said against his character, public or
private, aud that's more than can be
said of any of the other men before
the convention"
Republican chorus-But he is a mig
ger!
Suppose he is" retorted the dem
ocrat. He's a smart fellow. looks
aud acts like a gentleman, aud has
always been a republican. He can't
help the color Of his skim"
1--WE don't want to live under a
uigger government I" cried Q leading
republican. r.
"What's the vice-president got to
do with governing the country 2" de-
manded a democrat. s.You've been
cursiug the south for fifteen years be-
u the people didn't like every
state and federal efics occupied by
ignorant Blacks and yet when you
get a real good chance to vote for q
colored, gentleman to fill what isprac-
tically all honorary office, you squeal
AS ii you had been jebbed with a red
bot poker"
Ii vas no use for the democrats to
argue. however. The republicans
simply declared that they'd be made
%eternally miserable before they'd vote
tor a snigger." .'It's all right for US
up north here 20 brag about how we
the niger in the south" said a
leading republican lawyer. "That's
politics. VIZ give the darkies taffy
because we want their votes, but the
time hasn't come yet when white
meu will vote to make a man vice.
president who has African blood in
his veins. What would the people of
Europe say if the people of America
should elect a nigger vice-president?"
Aud a democrat replied:
"They would probably say that the
republicans had proved that they
really meant what they had been say
ing for 30 many years about their
love for the~ colored brother. The
people of Europe don't share our
prejudice against q black or brown
skin. 1t is only in this glorious e
public, where all men are free and
equal, that this noble prejudice
against q man OH account of bis COM
~pleXion is found in its~ full force aud
beauty"
Not one republican was heard to
say that he would vote for Bruce.