Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-18
HE NEW ATTITUDE OF TIE COL.
ORED MAN

ORED MAN.
The change from a Republican to Dem
ocratic administration would not be espe
ciallyremarkable if some remarkable events
did not occur. There is no doubt but
strange things viii happen. There is one
in particular that is bound to happen. But
if the Democracy can help it, it will no,
happen in the way few Republican politi,
clans and newspapers are predicting; but
quite the contrary. The eolored man
benceforth viii be in position to Judge
for himself who is his friend. If he has
, not intelligence he has common sense and
he can decide upon such simple points as
vitally interest him as readily as can his
white uneducated brother. Hereafter the
blacks inthe South will know what they
never properly knew before to-wit, that the
Republican party is not the Federal gov
ernment. This will be clearly demonstrated
to them BY the present change, and they,
(the blacks), will quickly discover the dEer-
ence.
Probably little would have been said or
thought on this matter if Republican dems-
gogues had not begun the agitation. But
since they have it has bursted hornets,
nest wide open, and as a result there is a
general scatterment.
Senator Vance, Of North Carolina, in his
recent speech at the joli6cation at Dan
vile, Virginia, struck it rich on this sub
ject. The REGsrEB quotes below the Dan
vile Registers account Of his words and
its comments. 1t says:
He told them they would find them
selves better protected in all their rights un-
der Democratic administration than they
had been by the Republicans and assured
them that though the Democrats are op-
posed to being ruled by negroes, because they
are not competent to govern, still they are
the best friends of the colored race and
would see that they are protected in every
right which pertains TO them.
He said no man was worthy the name of
Democrat who would impose upon the weak
and inferior, or endesvor to deprive them of
any rights guaranteed to them by the laws,
and be advised all Democrats to act toward
the colored race as to convince them that
they have nothing to fear from Democratic
sscendancy, and that the charges made by
the Republicans that the negroes would be
badly treated under q Democratic admins
trstiou are false.
These sentiments, coming from repre-
sentative Democrat Of the South, we regard
as vastly important, and we hope they will
be well considered BY the colored people.
Below is another important opinion on
the same subject frem Governor THOMAS j.
JARVIS Of North Carolina. The comments
of so we'll versed gentleman on the situa-
ton carries conviction with it. Indeed It
would not sstonish the REGISTER bit to
see, as the Governor says, The entire color
line wiped out" But hear the Governor:
A Raleigh, n. c., special ofthe 18th says:
| Governor Thomas j. Jarvis Was to-day
asked what effect Cleveland election wonld
! have upon the colored vote In the South
| He replied that the negroes had been con
vinced during the last eight years that their
| rights we're secure under Il. b. Vance and
| Himself as Governors Of the State, and
they now felt no apprehension because o
the election of Scales as Governor. ~
| soon as the workings Of the national admin
| istra;ion under Cleveland deyeloped the
4 same fact the colOred vote would go tC
pieces. in his opinion, and could not be
! polled solid any more by the Republicans
! He thought that al least One-third Of the
negroes would vote with the Demo
| Gratis in this State in 1856. The
| Governor further said that as soon as 1t l:
clearly demonstrated that the negroes art
no longer solid for the Republicans, tht
white vote will also divide, and the contests
will then be upon some issue and not upor
the color line, and, in his opinion, the tariff
win probably be the controlling question II
the South, as great number of Democrats
are in favor OF q protective tariff. The
Governor said that the division Of parties
, according to color was a standing menact
10 the people of the State, and especially 81
| during the election campaigns, and tina
eyery man who wished for his States anC
the general welfare should be glad to SCI
the color line disappear from the politics o
the Southern States.
The situation on this matter which ha
been perplexirs Northern Statesmen for 10
this many years ana causing all e'rts
radical and utopian thinkers to woti thei
brains into a sort of noodleis-1 because the
could not plan successful WAv out OF IT,
Quagmire into which they had fallen, look
Ms iEit were going to Unexpectedly settl'
itself The removal Of the color line a
once cuts the bottom from under the thread
bare and well worn wall about the blood
shirt and shotgun policy of the South
Blacks and whites will now unite and di
vide on real issues, something that wa
impossible heretofore.
The disposition of this difficult problem
is not unlike the way in which some dashins
general makes a comp ds grace, thereb.
unexpectedly a. one, fell swool
overthrowing the plan Of abe enem.
and demolishiug the army while th'
secretary of war, with his consulting
wiseacres and all his confeers are mapping
and plotting devious ways and methods b.
which the enemy may at least be dislOdged
If not brought to terms.
The Intelligencer Of yesterday gives tn
National Republican Executive COMMITTEE
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