The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-08
A VERY UGLY TRUTH.

A VHRY UGLY Truth,
The following may be very ugly and unpal-
atable, but it is bluntly true. 1t is part of an
utterance by the Atlanta Ga, Constitutions
Never has a blacker chicken come home to roost,
quickly surely, than has this thing of negro
voting come home to the Republicans. The enfran-
chsement of the negroes has simply added thirty
seven electoral votes to the Democratic half of the
college. Had the negroes never been enfranchised,
Blaine would have been President in spite Of the
thirty-sx Democratic electoral votes of New York"
This is fact and it is beyond the reach of
federal interference. 1t is a momentous fact
indicating as it does, that gravest problem of
all, perhaps, which confronts this country
the problem of the future of the negroes-a
problem that politics can never solve. 1t has
already passed beyond that narrow domain,
and entered the limitess field of social and
economic questions. indianapolis News
Dec. 6.
The above quotations from representative
newspaper of the South, and from so-called
Independent paper of the North, will probably
be accepted as the anti Republican statement
of the case, so far as the colored vote is con-
cerned. The Atlanta Constitution plainly
says that without the representation of the
colored vote in the South Mr.. Blaine would
L
or South, bold enough to say that, if left I'M
trammeled and free, this colored vote of the
Southern States would not have been cast for
Mr. Blaine9 The Thirteenth, Fourteent tn and
Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution,
taken together, freed the colored man of the
South, made him citizen, and gave him the
right of suffrage. These amendments are
part of the Constitution of the United States,
are equally good and powerful and as oper-
stitutional law, or power of the government.
The right of these colored men to vote is
given and guaranteed by the Constitution of the
United States. That they would have voted
for Mr.. Blaine if they had been left free no
one with common sense would doubt, and
the Atlanta Constitution admits that such
thing would have elected Mr.. Blaine. The In
dianapolis News says: This is fact, and it is
beyond the reach of federal interference
eral with little 'f" Why beyond federal
interference 1t is a remarkable stand, taken
by the News, that the government cannot ex-
tend to all citizens the necessary protection to
secure their political rights. What is citizen
ship worth if it do not carry with it the right
to exercise the same ii1munities and privi-
leges enjoyed by other citizens2 Suppose the
cause be transferred from Georgia to Indiana
What would the News and the Constitution
say to the Acknowledgement of Indiana Demo
crats2 Would not the federal gov
eminent, after March next, find
some way to remedy the eviR Would
Mr.. Hendricks party consent to having TO-.
900 to 10000 Indiana Democrats practically
disfranchisedY If it is not right in Indiana,
why right in Georgia, South Carolina and
other Southern StatesR Does the News, or
anybody else, believe that Democratic ad-
ministration would not be quick to interpose
federal authority in event of the
Acknowledgement of Democrats in
Indiana, whereby the State would
be given over to the minorityg The North
and the Republican party, controlling the ad
ninistration of affairs, has coddled and hui
m ored the South for years, hoping the conces-
sions made would eventually meet with gen
erous return. On the contrary, it has all
been wasted and despised, and representative
Southern papers and politicians impudently
declare that the very votes given the South
by the Republican party have been used as a
club to kill it, and to kill equality before the
law at the same time The Atlanta
Cons titution, the Charleston News and Cour-
ier and other representative papers of that
section, admit that the negro has had no voice
in elections. and plainly declare that he never
shall have; that white men must stand together
for ''a white mans government" The Indian
apolis News complacently swallows the out
rage, and blandly declares that the federal
government can do nothing. May it please
their imperial highnesses to allow Republicans
to humbly assert that which it and Southern
papers proclaimY For the Journal to do so is
to "wave the bloody shirt" In the name Of
common sense, what is it when Democratic
papers proclaim and glory in the very same
thingf
THE INSANE.
The report of the State Board of Health re-
veals things that we would gladly turn away