The Morehouse clarion. [volume] (Bastrop, La.) 1874-1904, 1880-05-14
GRANT AND BRUCE.

digestion during these long, dull
days
"Those people-tbe country is
full of them-who for II number
Of years have been worrying
themselves with the idea that the
colored man isn't getting as many
political rights as he is entitled
to, will be tickled half to death
to hear that the colored men
have about concluded to take
things in their own hands. Mil
ton Turner, d leading colored man
and Munster to Liberia under
Grants admins tratlon, is author
ity for the statement that
movement has been on fooo for
months among the colored lead
ers OF all sections of the country,
but particularly in the South,
having for its object the nomina
ton at Chicago of United States
Senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
coIored man, for Vice President
on the Republican ticket. A
Bruce literary bureau will be
opeued at Washington within "a
few days and the Bruce boom
made as big as possible. The
colored people will endeavor to
strike bargain with the third
term managers, because they
profess 10 have the greatest
amount of interest in the welfare
OF the coIored people, and ticket
composed Of Grant and Bruce
would be just the thing. Mr..
Turner says the time has gone
by when The negro is simply the
political instrument of the white
man, and as the colored voter is
expe cted to pull through two or
three Southern States for the
Duke of America he cannot we'll
be overlooked. The impression
which Mr.. Turner conveys is that
if Bruce is rejected by the Re
publicans the colored people will
60 over to the Democrats. This
doesn't seem to come under the
head Of campaign humor.''
1t is not the kind OF Campaign
humor' that the Republicans
want. That class of people who
have been so anxious about the
political rights OF the negro, has
never dreamed that he had the
"cheek" to ask for the sc cond
position of honor in this great
uation. Ex-Minister Turner and
Senator Bruce are tresspassing
upon sacred ground when they
lay their wise and woody heads
together for the attainment OF
such covetous prize as the
Vice-Presidency of the American
Republic, and the Presidency OF
the American Senate. Such sub
lime impertinence will soon pro
yoke the anathemas of those |
dear people who are SO extremely
solicilous tor the negro's welfare,
and Messrs. Turner and Bruce
will be forthwith ex-communi-
Gated from the haliowed folds Of |
the Republican party.
Grant and Bruce aeould make,
in some respects, a very congo
NAL pair to lead the Republican
hosts in the coming contest, but
then there is "some other fell
low" whose skin is a little more
transparent than that of the am
bilious Bruce, who must be Ia
ken care of first. Mr.. Bruce must
not beeso forward when he wants
asposition of ease and afluence,
which affects and interests the
people OF the North. His ambi-
tons must be gratifed in the
South-among that people whom
the North is so anxious to have
surrender the Offices to--tbe OPP
pressed @ negro. aa
We should like very much to
knew that Mr.. Grant and Mr.
Bruce will be the choice of the
Chicago Convention. In that
case we should rest fully assured
ofthe success Of the Democracy
in November.
A new paper has been estab-
lished in Marksville called the