The Indianapolis leader., 1881-03-05


been characterized by sound judgment,
good common sense and fairness to an en-
inent degree, and his manly course has ele-.
waited the whole colored race IN the esti-
nation of all thinking men, There Is no
better representative in either House of
Congress of American middle life than is
Senator Bruce.
REPUBLICAN, ESTIMATE.
Senator Bruce has no more capacity for
high public Office than any one of dozen
head walters in the country" quoth this
stalwart editor of the Republic. Let colored
men everywhere remember that this is the
manner in which their representative is
spoken of by leading Republicans after the
election is 0yer-after the cOl0red voters of
Indiana and New York gave those pivotal
States to the Republican party and secured
the Presidency for Garfield.
Once upon time, in the British Parlia-
ment, member with more land and money
than brains attempted a similar thrust to
member who had come up from the
lowest walks of life as 'the former
drummer boy member" In his quiet, dig
nif1ed manner, the great Golden arose and
said: MY Lord, was not good drum
mer boyg' Can anyone tell why this un-
provoked insult to million of colored
voters? Is 1t not mean, cowardly way Of
lodging violated promises TO the colored
people made before the late and former
elections2
REPRESENTATIVE MAN.
The Republican leaders know that in
Senator Bruce the colOred voters in this
country have a representative in every way
competent to I'LL the highest position in the
power of the incoming Administration to
bestow, in the Cabinet or elsewhere, and
they have no reasonable excuse for not
properly recognizing the vast party services
rendered them by the solid colored vote at
the late election. They want the colored
mans vote, but not his presence in the Cab
met because he is a colored man. He has
the ability, the character, but Radi-
Gals don't want him in ''high
public Office" hence these villainous
} ISLANDERS. 1t takes no prophets ken to for
tell the future. predict that if this stall
wart editors attack on Senator Bruce is per-
mitted TO go unrebuked by the incoming
Administration the time has, or soon will
arrive when the Democratic party will
| secure as it should secure,
THE CoLoRED VOTE IN INDIANA
and elsewhere, and thereby gain control OF
the Government 1t is beginning to be ap
preciated by the intelligent colored leaders
that when Senator Garland was Governor oil
Arkansas few years ago he appointed, and
| the Democrats elected TO Office, over 30(
colored men in that State. They also re-
| member that to-day, in the entire North
there are not half dozen colored men III
| office through the votes of white Radicals
| They begin to realize, as never before, that
they have blindly voted for and trusted
Radical leaders about long enough; that Rad
| ical professions for the colored race are all
forgotten when his vote is polled.
= The Republic says that ''those who advo
| cate Mr.. Bruce's appointment to the Cabine
do just this thing-they put the negro abOv,
his white brother. If the editor of the Re
justified in doing lust this thing" for TIT
Creator of the Universe has set them th
| example. To mention Senator Bruce ans
this libelous white brother" on the sam,
day of the week, savors of blasphemy. Ii
honest and manly and intellectual attri
butes they are as far apart as the antipodes
and the good God has made them So
BRUCE IN INDIANA.
Indianians will not be slow to remembe
the sensible as well as effective course pur
sued by Senator Bruce in the last canvas
in that State. For some inscrutable reason
the Central Committee billed him for tn
Ohio River Counties, where he was almos
sure to have large numbers of Kentuckian
to hear him. Senator Bruce surprised hi
auditors--many of them prejudiced
perhaps as much as he SUI
prised the men who had sent him there
He had no bloody shirt to wave, and left tn
outrage mill for others to grind. As re
suit he ennobled his race and gained tn
respect of all who heard him. A white Rad
ical who had performed half the good fo
his party that Senator Bruce did in the In
diana canvass could have demanded almos
any reward he chose, and his demand woul,
have been acceded to. Senator Bruce de
serves
PROMINENT PLACE
at the hands of his party because OF hi
honesty and ability; because he represent
about 100000 voters, upon whom hi
party pretend to have an absolute qui
claim; because his voice and conduct hsv,
always been on the side of peace and bar
mony between the races, and because of tn
long line of unfulflled promises made to hi
race by the leaders of the Republican party
He should be appointed to a place consist
ent with the dignity of his present position
or the Radical editors and speakers shoul,
forever hush their criminal falsehoods il
regard to being greater friends TO his rae
than are the Democratic party. This is wha
Democrat thinks and one who claims n
position under the incoming Administrta
ton for members of his own party, but VIII
would be glad to see Radical President SUI
round himself with the most honest, capabl
and consistent men of his party, ''withou
servitude." INDEX.
Washington, d. c., February 2s, 1851.