Daily Republican., 1880-07-30
v,e white p,.ck Party.

now danger Of the Republicans losing
half the oolored vote. We cannotspsak
for the News, but 30 far AZ tue RBPus
L1cAS is concerned We are glad OF 1t
We do not mean that We are glad thai
the Republican, will lose half the COL
orsd vote, nor any part OF it, because
1t will take more than one colored
Democratic evangelist to convert any
sensible colored man TO Democracy
We have already said in other articles
that colorsd man has q right to be q
Democrat il he wishes TO be one, but
protesting TO be one does not prove
at he ia not either a kravo or q fool.
A man who deliberately votes against a
party that delivered him from the gall
ing chains of slavery and in favor
of the party that held him
in slavery and would very soon
enslave him again is not only guilty o!
base ingratitude, but he is certainly
crazy, and we are not slow in applying
this term to the ebony idol OF the Will
mington Democracy. These remarks OF
course do not apply to those colored
voters down Souta who are marched
up to the polls in platoons, and com
pelled 10 vote the Democratic ticke! at
the mouth Of the shot gun. Oh no 4!
We are not opposed to Mr.. John Il.
Harris coming to Wilmington to con-
vert the colored Republi cans from the
dark errors Of Republicanism to the
transcendent beauties Of Democra cy.
The Democrats will be fully vel
come to all the votes they can get
through that source. Ifthey can prove to
the salts faction OF the colored voters thst
they have all along been their devoted
friends, they are entitled to their votes,
and we do no! regret that they are
making an effort 10 get them. We lave
all along told the people that the cry
of "whits man. porty" was delu.
sion and cheat AID time would prove
it. A vote in the ballot box Is vote,
and well do our Democratic friends
know it. II IL axes no difference
whether the vote is cast ly white hands
or by black hands, 1t counts one and it
IA nothing strange that the Democrats
should try TO make the vote cast by
black hands count as much on their
side as the vote cast by white hand
We are glad to see CUR neighbor tn g
Gazette come out openly in favor CT
what it has all along insincerely con-
demned--negrces voting the white
mans ticket. II must have seen this
joyful cay several months or SO ago
when it proclaimed that negroes
who voted the Democratic ticket should
be protected. Why Of course they
shall Who would molest them This
new departure, however, having been
made We shall now have 2 general de-
NAL from the Democracy that they ever
favored white mans party in Della
ware. 1t is now in order for such bright
and shining lights Of Democracy as
Chancellor Salisbury, the father of the
white mans party plan, Samuel Town.
send, ex editor JohR F. Salisbury, his
uncles Ell and Cove, to cay nothing Of
his cousins and his aunts, James L.
W Wolcott, Constable Pritohstt, Archie
Given, ex-Mayor Whiteley, Charles
JsGeFiS, Senator Bsyar and q host OF
others whom we might name, to arise
and tell the people that they were never
sincere in their opposition to colored
people voting the Democratic ticket,
bat that they in fact have always
been their most devoted friends
We are just little anxious to know
how the rank and file OF the Democracy
who have implicitly believed in the
Of white mans party as
taught to them by their leaders, will
look upon this new movement. Under
rule no colored nan has
ever been employed by the city but
under this new departure, the organ
zed colored Democrats will be entitled
TO consideration and OF course many OF
the hard-fsted celtic laborers OF the
Democratic party who work upon the
streets and upon the water works, will
have to stand back and make room for
these Democratic "Sambos" What will
these bronBed sons Of toll, In blue
ovsrall5, have 10 say When they Fnd
that they have been deceived and that
the cry Of "White Mans party was
only 70 catch white votes and that as
soon as more votes could be made, the
cry of "blaek mans party" would be
substituteii
We are not alarmed at the appear
snce OF this ebony idol Of Democracy
that has appeared in Wilmington.
Backed by the money SO liberally given
by the leaders of the White Mans par
ty. Mr.. Harris will no doubt fare lax
rriously, and should he succeed in
coaxing some Of his own color 70 come
and drink of the pure waters Of Dem