The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-29
COLORED DEMOCRAT SPEAKS.

Editor BULLETIN
The editor of the News affects to make
light of the accusation of T. Ii. C. that the
"tony club" lately organized here have by
their especial publication of it's being
composed exclusively Of white men," and
the assertion Of some Of its members that
''negroes should not march with them" Of
fered gratuitous and uncalled for insult
to the colored race of Cairo. AS one of
them l admit freely the perfect right to or
ganize club based upon white man
| foundation, and in the absence of the espec-
lal publication in the News to that effect,
the matter would have passed by without
| particular notice. The industrious publ.
cation, however, that only white men were
expected to become members, was simply
a skirmish line thrown forward which
would have the effect to debar the intelli-
gent colored man from making an appl-
cation for admittance, and which would
save the club from being placed in the en-
barrassing attitude of being obliged to re-
fuse the colored brother his share of the
glory which always attends the career of
DeGolyer clubs.
The News" man claims to have circu-
lated among few colored men, who are
perfectly satisfied in the matter, and do
not feel hurt over the published exclusive
ness of the club. Evidently his inter-
views have been with few of the well
paid ones who. having lined their pockets
with Republican campaign money, are will
ing to submit O. TO the insults offered to
those less fortunate, and he will find before
November that the coored people who have
heretofore been the main stay of his party
in this district, have mind of their own,
and to very great extent will cut them
selves loose and vote with the party who
have treated them as men among men, and
who have shown their sincerity by the be-
stowal upon them of lucrative offices in al
most every parish in Louisiana and through
out the south.
was born and raised IN Louisiana, and
can speak from personal experience regard
ing the honest and impartial manner in
which the offices are distributed there If
the black man has friend on earth, out
side his own color, he will find him among
the people with whom he was raised,
and from whom lie always received the
kindest treatment.
And | would farther ask, what would
the colored men do to-day in the city of
Cairo, for the actual necessities of life,
were his only source of revenue derived
from work given them by the Republi-
cansl
They would either have to emigrate or
starve--eight out OF every ten colored men
who are living in this city to-day, are earn
| ing Democratic money, and eating Dem
ocratic bread, and they we'll know in the
| luueruluSl TcScsScs VI tllSlT tudt
their very existence, while living in this
place, depends upon the work given
them by those white men, whose
principles are Democratic, and who
are daily dubbed by the Radical press, as
being "traltors to the government, and the
enemies Of the workingman.' I defy the
News to successfully refute this charge,
and if 1t were necessary, list Of those who
employ negro labor, and their politics can
be published, and if the result don't prove
triumphantly that the Democrats are fur
nshing the laboring man the bread and
butter, and the Radicals the "wnd and res
buttons will agree to vote the Radi-
cal ticket, repulsive though it is to me.
The height of the ambition of an average
J Radical is to obtain the negros vote, and to
refer him to Democrat for work.
A CoIoREB DEMOCRAT.