The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1883-07-14

The Republicans are already begin
ming to prepare for the Presidential
campaign OF 1894. A call has been
made for National Convention of the
colored people. to be held in WASH
ington next September. The basis of
representation will be one delegate for
every twenty-five thousand of the col
ored population, three delegates for
every Stats where there are not less
than ten thousand negroes, and one for
every other State 1t has been esti-
mated that this will make Conven-
ton composed of about three hundred
DELEGATES. 1t is understood that this
Contention will be an organized ex-
precision of discomfort, and the call,
which is signed by those who claim to
be representatives of the negro race,
is made with this objeet in view.
These negroes bring the following spe-
cific charges against the white people:
/. Negro labor at the South is not
fairly remunerated. The Southern ne
gro Is not projected by law in the col
lection Of money due him.
2. In most parts of the country the
negro does not have fair show in the
public schools.
8. The negro is not protected in his
civil rights. Notwithstanding the laws
passed by Congress.
A. His political rights are ignored.
Six and a half millions of people are
without representation in Congress.
5. The negro does not get his share Of
executive protection and encourage
ment.
Now. if there was any truth in the
above statements. it would be q matter
which would demand attention. We re-
fer to it not for tie purpose of entering
into any defense of the white people OF
the South in their treatment of the
negro, but to show to what
straits the Republicans are put to
manufacture material for . political
campaign. Those who have signed
the call and the negroes from one end
to the other of the country are well
aware that the statement of grievances
is diabolically false, yet the !" forty
acres and mule" is no longer effect
i've and they must look to another
source for the purpose of creating dis
satisfaction among the negroes who are
disposed to make an honest living by
cooperating with the white people o.
the South. The Republicans have be
come very much alarmed by the small
interest the negro has manifested in
| political affairs within the last few
years. But if the negro race is ever t.
learn by experience, it would seem thai
the lessons taught time and again ara
amply sufficient to show them that
the Republican party only desires t.
use them for party and partisan pur
poses. They have been the subject
of all kinds of promises from the Re
publican party, none of which hav'
been kept. They have been cheatet
and swindled and Kept in q turmoil Il
their own detrimcnt. They certainl,
will not longer permit themselves to b
allied against the white people Of tn
South. If such should be the case the,
alone will be the sufferers. We do no
write this to insist upon their ignoring
this Convention, as it is matter of in
difference SO far as politics is concerned
They can have no voice in the ElectOra
College if they do this, and we speal
only for their own good. The day ha
not vet arrived when this Government
is to be turned over to the negro race
and they can depend upon it the whit
men will shape their own affairs. -Ce
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