Iron County register., 1883-06-07
Preparing for the Next Campaign.

The Republicans are already begin
ming to prepare for the Presidential
campaign of 1884. 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 State where. there are not less
than ten thousand negroes, and one for
every other State 1t has been esti-
mated that this will make a Conven-
ton composed of about three hundred
delegates. 1t is understood that this
Convention will be an organized ex-
preston of discomfort, and the call,
which is signed by those who claim to
be representatives of the negro race,
is made with this object in view.
These negroes bring the following spe-
cific charges against the white people:
l. Negro labor at the South is not
fairly remunerated. The Southern ne
gro is not protected 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. -
3. The negro is not protected in his
civil rights, Notwithstanding the laws
passed by Congress.
4. 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 a matter
which would demand attention. We re-
fer to it not for the 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 a 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 of
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 to
learn by experience, it would seem that
the lessons taught time and again are
amply sufficient to show them that
the Republican party only desires to
use them for party and partisan pur-
poses. They have been the subjects
of all kinds of promises from the Re-
publican party, none of which have
been kept. They have been cheated
and swindled and kept in turmoil to
their own detrimont. They certainly
will not longer permit themselves to be
allied against the white people of the
South. If such should be the case they
alone will be the sufferers. We do not
write this to insist upon their ignoring
this Convention, as it is a matter of in
difference SO far as politics is concerned.
They can have no voice in the Electoral
College if they do this, and we speak
only for their own good. The day has
not yet arrived when this Government
is to be turned over to the negro race,
and they can depend upon it the white
men will shape their own affairs.-Co-
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