The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-06

Tlle Republican Party and the
In one of his recent letters from
and about the South to the Phila-
delphia Times, Colonel Mcclure
says.
Here every channel of industry is
open TO him the black mani. The
white and black mechanic are on
equal footing; the prejudices of race.
have no existence except when there
is a struggle for the domination of
the spoiler over property, aud he leg
islates and fills positions for which he
is fitted not only with the sympathy
but often by the votes of the whites.
| saw a score of colored policemen
on the streets of New Orleans serving
under q Democratic Mayor, but it
would cost Mayor Stokley his last
hope of election if he we're to put the
sable policemen OH Chestnut str eet.
| saw black men sitting on the Dem
~ccratic side of southern legislatures,
but no Republican district in Phila-
delphia or Pennsylvania has ventured
to nominate one of the seventy-five
hundred colored voters of the city, or
one of the thrice that number in the
State, for any position, either state or
municipal | saw the colored man
mingled with the Democratic organi-
zalions in the South, but n o one could
sit in the councils of the League or the
Union Club or march in the mixed
ranks with the ~invino.bles or Young
Republicans in Philadelphia. Isaw
him have free access to every channel
of mechanical industry in the South,
but he is relentlessly excluded from
the organized mechanical pursuits OF
Republican Philadelphia. 4 x x II
the North must assume the task OF
~eIevating the black man to equal pow
err regardless of fitness, let it begin by
giving him in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
Vania, New York and other Republi-
can States, the same industrial equal
lily and political promotion that the
less educated blacks of the South now
enjoy with the cordial sympathy ol
the Southern whites. | see the same
colored leader Ex-senator Revels,
who was excluded from the forum OF
the Academy o fMusic. when a Repub.
lican Senator, solely because ofhis race
now at the head of the colered col
lege that is sustained entirely by the
Democratic state government Of Mis-.
sissippi, and he holds his high posi-,
ton from the same authority, while
Republican, Pennsylvania has no such
temple of learning for the black man
Republican hypocrisy towards the
black man has long been trite sub
ject for political discourse. We pre-.
sumo it is the fashion with the ranL
and file of the inculpated party tx
assume that the Democrats natural
ly charge this in the way of partisan
warfare, and that is all there is
to it. And yet can it be successfully
denied? Can the exhibit that Col
Mcclure makes be weakened or dis
credited in any way? The Republi
cans must be known by their works
Has not the negro, as a rule, beer
given the cold shoulder in the North
Our African brother is going
througha process of enlightment ant
is fast approaching al accurate
measurement of his elusive "friend.'
Oceans of Radical tears have beer
shed over the assumed sorrows o
the negro in the South; and nov
whenever the curtain is lifted in ar
adequate manner, as it is by Col
Mcclure, we see the sable either
living an existence as near to The
ideal of the most ultra Radica.
preacher, as can be conceived of, I'm.
der government of Jacksonian Dem
ocracy! Comment upon this state
of things is unnecessary.-Clece
land Plain Dealer.